Swingset and misc.

So this weekend Chuck put together the kids' new swingset. I tried to help, aka: stay out of the way as much as possible and hand him tools and things as he needed them. The boxes on those things always give you so much hope, "You and several of your friends can build and play in one day! Approximate building time: 6-8 hours." Well, it took us (meaning, again, mostly Chuck) about 16 hours total, but we did have a few mishaps. For instance, when your drill bit breaks off halfway into a 4x4, it's not a particularly good thing, lol.

Chuck also built the playhouse last week, which matches the swingset. The kids absolutely LOVE the set and the house. Aiden loves climbing the pirate's ladder and the rock wall and Ava loves swinging (no surprise there). Ignore the lack of grass on the ground in the pictures--that's the main reason we put them where we did, no grass is growing under our pear trees because of all the shade.

I did include one picture for you of what happens when you have three pear trees in your backyard. It's sort of like living in your very own real-life Minesweeper game! Except add in about 100 bees and thousands of ants! Awesome...right? Not so much. We're seriously debating taking them out before next spring. I thought having the pears would be so cool, but you have to pick pears before they ripen on the tree--once they've fallen they are already bad. And these trees are TALL--like hundreds of pears 30-40 feet in the air. They are falling all over the yard and it's terrible. I did, however, pick a bunch of them yesterday so we will see if they ripen and end up tasting ok. That might sway me to keep ONE tree...maybe, lol.

I also included a few pics of the kids in their "tent" from yesterday. While Chuck was finishing up the swingset we set up our beach cabana tent in Ava's room and had a pajama party. The kids didn't get changed out of their pj's the entire weekend long. They were so devastated to hear that actual clothes were required this morning:)

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to my amazing husband. For all that you do, for all that you give us, but most importantly for all that you ARE, I love you.