Saturday, April 24, 2010

Swing set/ Mother's day gift

A friend of mine and I went and picked up 3 large boxes of wood, screws and plastic. I felt very overwhelmed but deteremined to build this thing.

Day 1: I spent a couple hours seperating screws, bolts, washers etc into ziploc bags by page/phase.

Day 2: I meassured and labeled all the wood.
Day 3: I organized all the wood by page/phase     (all of this was done during the girls nap time so about an hour or so a day)

Sarah was entertained in the driveway with her chalk. Rachel was still sleeping

Day 4: I started building.... mostly little things like the ladder (which they sent the wrong size wood for... took 2 weeks to get the right parts) and monkey bars.

Day 5: My neighbor Gloria (she has an 18 month old and I had my two) spent several hours helping. We got the tower built.
It's on its side due to the high winds

Day 6: Gloria and I built the rest. (Amy and Dawn stopped by to help for an hour or so also)

Noon (lunch break)
End of the day (around 3:00)

Day 7: I added the tarps, slide, swings and glider. We're still waiting for the wood to rebuild the ladder.

 All done and ready for play!!! The girls are loving it!

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