The Play set is Finished!

We are all so thrilled! Hubby worked on the play set yesterday from 9-5 and finished it. Doesn't it look beautiful? The girls were thrilled to play on it. Their favorite part was the third story look out tower with the telescope. Our yard is now a park! The only thing we are missing is a paved bike path. No, I do not want to make a paved bike path, imagine how much work that would be for hubby!

I do still need to purchase a trapeze bar. I just need to shop around. I know I want a green one with the chain guard and the rings, I just need to find the best deal...you know me! Don't want to pay extra if I don't have to!

Thanks Daddy for working so hard to make us the best play set ever!!!!

Playset Day 9..almost done!

Hubby started on the play set shortly after 9 in the morning. He built the ladder, rock climbing wall, monkey bars, swing bar, and started on the third level deck. He worked until 8 p.m. last night. He had a lot of trouble with the third level deck.

Today he is hoping to finish. He needs to finish the third level deck, a small portion of the roof, attach the ladder, rock climbing wall, slide, and swings. Let us hope it all goes smoothly. We are all ready for it to be finished! I think he would like to spend Monday gardening. I need to order a truck load of tan bark and I told him I would work on getting the tan bark from the front yard to the play set during the week.

Playset Day 8!

Hubby made a lot of progress today. He got an early headstart shortly after 8 this morning and worked all day through to 3 this afternoon. He built the roof, windows, and the porch. It looks great and the girls had a great time playing around in the playhouse part. Did you know that the roof is soo tall that I can stand up in it without ducking? Even hubby can stand up without ducking. Gives you an idea just how big this thing is!

Next weekend hubby will build a ladder for the backside, build the swing bar, build the monkey bars, build a third level deck, build a rock climbing wall, and build the slide. That will complete it. O.k., that may be too much for one weekend, but a girl can hope!

Playset Day 7

Hubby worked on the play set all day today. Check out the walls, windows, and roof line for the second level. He still has the roof to build, the swing set bar, and the monkey bars, and a third level deck, I am wondering if he just may have that completed by the end of next weekend!

Playset Day 6 we hit a problem

Check out the progress on the play set today! Hubby worked on it from about 9-2. He is at a point where he can no longer finish until we get some missing parts. Apparently they gave us the wrong L brackets and we need to call them tomorrow to get the correct ones. I sure do hope they will have them to us by Friday so he can continue to work on it next weekend! I bet he is going to be so tired of working on this thing by the time he is finished!

Playset Day 5 good progress

Hubby worked on our play set today. It is official he only has three more weekends to work on the play set to have it finished by their birthday party. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will get done. I am thinking he is about 1/3 of the way done. He still has two more levels to build plus the bar for the swings and the bar for the monkey bars.

The progress he made today has made it fun for the girls to use already! Today he anchored the play set down, put the seat benches for the sandbox, built the picnic table, and built all the side rails for the bottom of the play set plus one bar at the top. His play set is still perfectly level and he is very proud of it. That is what has made for slow progress but the good news is it will last for many years. If I built it I wouldn't have done a careful job and the wood would have started splitting early, etc., etc.

I can't wait to see the play set progress, it is getting fun now!

Playset Day 4

On Saturday hubby managed to get the playset in the permanent spot he wanted it in. Amazingly enough he did it all by himself while I had the girls at dance class! He worked the rest of the day on digging and leveling the playset. He put concrete blocks underneath it so it would have a firm area to rest on. This is his progress for the entire weekend. Sunday he spent the day working on the chicken coop, cleaning it out, and fixing the door. After many, many complaints, hubby moved the chickens from our bathroom to the coop on Sunday. Mommy is so thrilled!

Playset Day 3

Well a week ago Sunday hubby worked on the playset. Sorry I am just now getting the pictures uploaded, it has been a busy week! On Sunday he was able to get the floor built for both the ground level and the second level. While he was building the playset we spent the day at the Folsom Zoo and a local park. The girls had a great time and got very tired from all of the play.

Playset Day 2

Well last weekend hubby spent a day organizing the wood for the play set. So today, he started building it. He was able to get most of the main structure built. He still has to put the floor in on the bottom level and the second level but I am sure that part will go quick. He spent a lot of time drilling some of the wood and making sure he was putting it together nice and level. After he gets the floor in he wants me to help him move it to the backyard. I am not very optimistic that I am strong enough to lift half of that but I told him I would do my best to try! Tomorrow I will be taking the girls for a day out while he continues to work on it. He is hoping to finish the floors, move it to the backyard, and begin working the ground to get it level. He may also make an early morning trip to Home Depot to see what can help aide him in the leveling of it.

I am going to continue to take daily pictures of his progress. We want to show just what a big job it is and how long it can take to build such a large play set.

Play set, get your votes in!

About a month ago we bought a play set for the girls from Sam's Club. My friends started making bets about when hubby would get the play set completed. Our friend Brian and I bet the end of May, Annette bet the end of April, and Kristi bet the middle of May.

Today hubby took the wood out of the four boxes to consider building the base. We were shocked at how much wood there was to build the play set! Hubby organized it by size so that when he begins building he can read the directions and pull the wood needed for each piece of the directions. For today that is how far he got. He took pictures of all the wood and told me to post it and take a poll to see how long it will take him to finish! Let us hope good weather is on his side! So, please help motivate hubby by leaving a comment with how long it will take him to complete it!