The Tower ...

Matt and I have been hoping and dreaming about some kind of play tower for our backyard most of the winter and spring.  Thanks to Matt's amazing engineering skills, his thoughtful planning, and my dad's building experience, we have one!  Well, almost ... there's a few more details before we're opening it up for anyone other than our family (mainly for safety reasons), but the girls are having a great time already on what there is.

Matt got most of the necessary materials a few weeks back and my dad stayed with us from Friday through Monday morning to get the main part of the structure up.  A bit of rain set things back on Saturday morning, but Matt and my dad worked so hard when the weather cooperated.

The tower is awesome.  The girls have played on it several times every day this week, and in a different way each time.  We still have ideas and dreams for little things we can add on, but right now we're just happy with what we have.  In fact, the girls are up there watching a movie right now, while Ethan is sleeping, which is why I have some time to do an update :)

In addition to the tower, we are finally able to play in the pool!  The girls and I have done it each day since Sunday, with Ethan joining us most days, too.

With being able to harvest veggies from the garden and Anna done with her summer school class, we may never have to leave our home :)