playset | our little fairy tale

Just want to say how frustrated I am with Blogger. It’s doing funky things to my pictures. 🙁

Anyway. Tis done! And we ALL LOVE IT so very much! The playset that is. It’s a bright and cheerful pop of color in our otherwise drab backyard.

This is a picture of the top deck and bench. This picture (well all of the pictures.) loosk fine on my computer, but Blogger is being icky and doing this to it.

Jon can stand upright in the tower. The roof is so tall. Well in the middle anyway.

Uncle Josh being an awesome Uncle to the children.

I really love that the children have something to do in the back yard now. They have been out there EVERY day since the Part 1 post.

Best Birthday present EVER!

I found some plans online for a play set HERE. I told Jon it’s what I wanted for my Birthday this year. And Christmas. AND Mother’s Day. He said o.k.

So we went a wood shopping and loaded Josh’s truck up while he watched the kiddos for us. And then we (Jon) read and re-read the plans.

Then we (again Jon) started cutting boards. We took our time. No rush. Laid back pain in the tukis project. Not really. We did take our time, but it wasn’t too terrible getting all the cuts done and boards labeled (that was my job. Labeling.)

Then came the horrendous task of sanding this gigantic puzzle and piecing it together. And of course the painting. (again. my job.)

Jon and Josh testing out the location to make sure the swings would have enough clearance.

Jon propped up the tower frame so I could thouroghly paint the underside of the wood. Rot prevention and all. And yes we did make sure to use the super duper supposedly impervious lifetime guarantee outdoor paint for this bad boy. We will see how the AZ sun does against it.

We started running low on our blue paint and needed more. Jon was all for changing up the color. He took Regan’s little camp lamp to Home Depot and got it color matched. I love it, but as soon as we started painting I was bummed. It needed to be Orange. But alas that realization came post purchase. So red it is.

The children were very excited/anxiously waiting for us to hang the swings.

So out came the flood lights and the boys got to measuring. They needed new measurements since I got different swings than in the plans. We also flipped the whole thing to face the opposite than in the plans. I sure am glad that the boys could figure all those numbers out and make everything work. IF it was up to me we’d still be staring at the miter saw in horror. Math and I are not on good terms.