Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A Set of Swings

My wonderfully strong and innovative husband and his equally creative, generous and strong family built us a swing set! It's made out of 2 1/2 inch metal pipe and it fits 3 swings plus a tire swing. It's somewhere around 10 feet tall after cutting off about 2 feet off of each pole when we realized how humongous it was going to be! :D The tire swing isn't up yet, but with a small bean bag, that will make a perfect place for Becca to be and we may still make an inside out tire swing that would hold her kind of like a banana seat. For now, we jerry-rigged the baby swing into the third spot.

Geoff, his Dad and Josh working on the holes for the swing bolts.


The girls drew with chalk to distract them during the wait.


Daddy sat in the chalk while working on the swing set! :D


The first trial run! It rained most of the morning that we put this all up. Brudder's face says it all! :D

Thank You, Grandma and Grandpa for the awesome swings!!!


Apparently, Mama had the camera set to "blurry," but here they are in all their glory!

2 comments:

The Crider Clan said...

looks like you are having a great summer! Glad you are having fun!

Grandma Turtle said...

Wow, those swings are going to last a very long time. They are sturdy, AND they allow for longer-legged kids. Enjoy!