Finally...the swing set is DONE!!!!

Okay, there are more pictures here than anyone probably cares to see, but too bad! Consider it a photo documentary of our 12-hour labor of love for Ethan (and Cade and Keira). That's right - 12 hours! Here we go...


"Alright Ethan, enjoy your new swing set!!!"

Sunday afternoon - the plan was to put a clear protective coat on top of all the wood. Then we opened the box and sorted all the pieces and said "YEAH, RIGHT!!!!" We threw that idea out the window and just started to put it together while Ethan napped.

The Grubbs came over to "help" us:

Keira was very helpful - she handed me all the screws as I needed them:

And that's about all we got done before Ethan woke up. We bought a little time by letting him have his milk and snack outside while we did a little more work. Thank goodness for beautiful weather!

Ethan enjoyed playing with what we did get done:

And even helped Daddy with some very important stuff. (I LOVE these pictures - you can't beat pictures of a boy and his dad)

So that was it for Sunday. Our plan was to finish it on Wednesday, since Lonnie had the day off (and the rest of the week!) Our plan did NOT include it being so stinkin' cold! We were keeping Keira for the day, so we huddled by Mr. Heater as we got started. (Ethan went to daycare for the morning so we could work.)

Getting a little loopy...

I went and got Ethan from daycare before his afternoon nap. He got to see the progress and play for a few minutes before the kiddos went down for a nap.

"Looks good, Dad!"

Okay, skip to the good part - IT'S DONE!!!! Excuse Keira's crazy hair - she had just woken up and we were trying to squeeze in a little playtime before we needed to go in and feed Ethan his milk. (And it was cold again!)

Excuse the mess, too. It may be done, but we didn't have time to clean everything up.

I think we'll enjoy many picnic lunches outside this summer!