The Fort/Playscape is Completed!

We had a great day yesterday. I give Tom a hard time, but he did a great job with the playscape. He did it all himself, no plans, just used the old one as a base and went for it. Pretty impressive, I think :)

These pictures were taken before he added some extra bracing underneath. I'm sure it was fine, but it's my job to worry so he added some more. I tried to push it. It's not going anywhere. And hey, if something starts to fall apart, it's pretty easy to fix it since he did it himself with real wood and not the crap we had before. I think he probably spent about $200 in lumber, not too bad!

The kids wanted to have dinner up there (see, a table and 3 chairs fits up there with enough for room a dance floor *laugh*, so we made kabobs, invited the neighbors over and had a great relaxing night. We ate outside, it was wonderful. There's no mosquitoes out yet so the only thing that bugged us was the leaves falling - entirely doable. The kids had a blast and I did too. As an added bonus, the little girl next door got to sleep over (which is, apparently, the ultimate in fun times).

So, now the pictures... did I mention that we hit 90 here in Austin the past couple of days? It's cooled off now, but the kids were hot, so we broke out the little pool...