after all our hard work...

okay, this might make you laugh or it might make you think chris and i are out of control....for Christmas, keller got a swing for the back yard.  we don't have any trees or anything so we were going to just hang the swing on our porch.  the problem was the back of our house faces the north so there is no sun on the porch.  we wanted to get a "little swing set" to hang the swing from so it would be in the sun.  well, you know how it goes, you start looking at sets and before you know it you've gone from a "little swing set" to "a-fort-with-monkey-bars-a-slide-a-club-house-glider-picnic-table-and-swings"  long story short....keller is one lucky man with a SU-WEET new playset.  it took chris and i 2 afternoons to put this beast together (with a little help from granddad rusty).  i know the pictures make it look like it wouldn't be a big deal but that is just not true.  the play set got in on a friday morning, granddad rusty picked it up in 3 BIG BOXES.  i spent about an hour and half opening them and laying all the pieces out and labeling them so the putting together would be easier.  saturday morning (while chris and my dad golfed) i put together the slide, the monkey bars and the ladder.  well i botched the slide so it had to be redone once the muscles showed up :)  by the end of saturday we had the fort up and built, but no walls or attachments.  after church on sunday chris and i were back at it and finished the entire thing by sunday evening.  keller didn't get to play on it because he was napping and then it was bed time but tomorrow he will get to play on it in all its glory!  this is going to be such a fun new thing for cousins, play dates and every day play in the sun!!

the monkey bars....

the picnic table...

the clubhouse...

the entire thing in all it's beauty....

so proud of all our hard work!!  we may look rough, but we earned it :)