I was skeptical...

Now I'm so impressed!

Stephen and I wanted to give the boys a swing set for Christmas. When we started investigating, we were a little shocked at how expensive the things are. Stephen decided that he was going to build the swing set. I was hesitant (to say the least) but it has all finally come together and the kids LOVE it!

Stephen still has to put a roof on the fort. He used an existing platform that was here when we moved in the house (it was just sort of a little tiny tree house type thing). He put on new sides, build stairs, and added the slide.

I don't know if you can see it over there on the left of the above picture, but we put the sand/water table out with the "play ground" (as Henderson calls it) which is a great place for it.

He even put a little boat wheel up in the fort which Henderson has loved.

The view from up in the fort looking down the slide at the swings. We have also purchased the "big boy" swings which we change out when older kids (or adults) want to swing.

I love how Stephen marked the area off with landscape timbers and filled in with mulch! It looks great! He had to bring in loads of fill dirt in order to build the ground up. There was definitely some back breaking work involved. On that note, I also want to thank those who came over and gave a helping hand at one point or another!