Coming Soon....

A NEW PLAYSET!
I bet some of you thought I was going to say a baby or a dog, right. Ha! I got you. We are undertaking project #2 as project #1. Here's the story. We were planning on building a storage shed and a playset this summer. Instead of looking at one thing at a time we decided to merge both of them together. The poor guy at menards had no clue whether I was referring to the shed or playset at different times. Anyways we decided it might be better to do the playset first to let the kids get a summer of enjoyment out of it. The garage is crowded, but a shed could wait till later in the summer or fall (definately before the snow). So with that decided we set out to find which playset we wanted. So many options! We finally decided on a precut, predrilled, prestained unit from Toys R US. It was last years models, but with the same features as this years but less money. I figured with all the predone things it would be easy for David to put together... ha! The directions say 2 people it will take 8-12 hours. Reviews we were reading on the website give it much longer. David did learn some valuable tips though about organizing the pieces. Thursday night we picked up the 4 boxes and unloaded them in the garage. By the way the above playset you see in the background is the neigbors.

Unloading the boxes... doesn't look that hard, right. One of the boxes weighed 200lbs

David set right to work organizing the boards. He was like a kid in a candy store. I'm always amazed by his ability to do projects. I don't give him enough credit. He works fast and sometimes that makes me nervous but he is so good at reading and following directions and the end result is always good. I give him a lot of credit for taking on this big project. He has some help available next weekend but he is working hard to get as much done as he can by himself.
After coming home from work on Saturday he had most of the frame for the tower section put together and needed my help to lift them up. By saturday night he was to step 4a of 30 some!
Stay tuned for further pictures and updates!! The end result will be amazing