Finally Done!

After two and a half months......two swingsets....140 bags of rubber mulch....some sweat....some tears....we finally have a swingset!

As many of you know, we purchased a swingset...that arrived in 5 large boxes, and 10,001 pieces to put together. Dustin was on day 4+ of working on it, when a storm came through and carried our partially put together swingset over our fence and into the neighbors yard! So, we were back at square one. After working with the insurance company, toys r us, and my extended warantee we re-couped our initial money and actually picked out a better swingset. After we started to put together our original one, we realized it was not the best quality for the price we paid. So, since we had to start over we went with one that we could see and test out prior to buying. It was on sale, and they had $99 installation deal going on. Totally worth it. The set was delivered and installed in about a half a day.

We then decided to put down rubber mulch to ease Dustin's mowing process, and also as a softer covering to land on if someone was to fall!

So, tonight we finished putting out the final 40 bags of rubber mulch. We were told we won't have to replace rubber mulch year after year like regular mulch! Let's hope that is true!

So, finally we have a swingset! Maddie loves it...and has already spent many hours swinging and sliding like a monkey!

We also discovered Maddie loved jumping on a trampoline....not a big suprise since she is always removing the couch cushions to bounce on the springs of the couch. So, we also added a trampoline to our backyard of fun! We now love spending our evenings out back watching & playing with Maddie! Hopefully we have many years of fun to come!