This is the play set my grandpa made

This play set was built by my father when I was in middle school. My younger brothers and I had endless hours of play on it. When I met Dave and Codie and Keagan, his boys from his first marriage, started coming over for weekend visitations renovations began on the climber. It has been a slow process with a little more being done each year. New platforms being put into place... the swinging bridge replaced ( and revamped because it was learned by myself and several other people of my generation that though the swinging bridge was totally cool in concept if you ran over it barefoot it often pinched the bottom of the foot... and if the foot was small enough could pinch a toe! So it is now a fixed bridge and much better for it!) This has been a labor of love from once again all of the men in our family. Dave and Dad put in footings and leveled the climber part of it. Shawn and Dad revamped the bridge and several platforms. Brenden and Dad this week have been placing landscaping timbers around it and next week will be putting three inches of mulch so that the girls are safe from any falls. There will also be mulch put around the playhouse that my men have built for the girls. By the end of it all we are going to have a park in our front yard that any child in the area would envy. These are labors of love for the men as can be seen by the time and energy that they have freely given and the care that has been taken to make sure that safety is the number one priority. Any girl would be lucky to have them as Daddy and uncles and Grandpa.... and Ash and Ariah and soon to be Ainne will I'm sure realize that as they get older! And while we don't see Codie and Keagan any more... while they were an active part of our life.... they played on that climber every weekend! I would say that those bits of wood have more than had a good life.



Ash loves to play with the swings... but as of yet does not LIKE to swing. She isn't a real fan of the motion of the swing. So she just plays with the swing. She comes by it naturally enough her Gramps has serious motion sickness issues so she may never get into swinging!









The boys loved playing on the climber. Keagan is only a few months older than Ash is right now in this photo... As a matter of fact this photo was taken the labor day weekend before Keagan turned two.










The platform for the slide is still being worked on... but that doesn't keep a curious girl from playing in what ever way her imagination can come up with!













Dave is manning the camera... If the picture were a little clearer you could see just how much Ash and her brother look like each other!













Playing with the swing again.... but we won't push it.... Gramps gets sick on a swing. So if she isn't into it there might be a reason!