A Swing Set for Grandma and Grandpa's

For the past little while when we go to Grandma and Grandpa's with Ben there is usually a comment about how rickety the swing set is. It is about ten years old and a metal swing set that when you pump enough with your legs you can lift it out of the ground.
A week ago I went to my parents house to visit and Katelynn loves to play outside so, my mom and I usually sit outside and chat while she plays. She commented that toys r us has a swing set on sale this week that she wants to buy. I turned to her and asked what are we waiting for let's go get it. So, we went and bought a wood swing set that my mom has wanted for years. All she was waiting for was someone to tell her to go get it. She had even shown my dad the swing set on Sunday and she had been thinking about it all week but hadn't done it.
We had to wait until Ben had some time to build it. Ben looked at the instructions on Tuesday and it said that it would take 10-14 hours to build. We thought that couldn't be. Thursday after Ben got off work we got started. We worked with Mike from 4-8:30 when it was getting dark.
Katelynn was there with us roaming from inside and outside. At about 6:30 when dinner hadn't been fixed she started foraging around and found some bread to eat. Which two slices ended up being eaten by the dogs since she was teasing them with the food. That was our clue to get dinner started.
We all went to bed tired.
We woke up at 8:30 and slowly made our way over to Grandma's at 10:30 to finish the swing set or bust! We were there from 10:30 until 5. It is finished.
11 hours, 4 sunburns, hundreds of screws, 50 pieces of wood, one little girl without a nap, 2 trips to Lowe's for missing screws, and we finished it. My mom called today and said that she would have called in sick if we had to work on the swing set any more. Every bone and joint was aching. We were all bushed and we are all happy that it is done. It looks really good and it is strong enough to hold Ben so it will be just fine for all the Grandkids.

Katelynn couldn't wait until the slide was screwed in to test out the slide.


This was about 4 o'clock on day two. I am glad that we didn't put it together when it was 100 degrees outside.


Katelynn playing peek-a-boo and enjoying the new fort.


The finished product.