Our Backyard

So a friend of mine posted about her new swing/playard for her little one who is just a few weeks younger than our Maddy and since I had been putting off blogging about that I thought I'd share ours too. :)

Last weekend hubby was busy busy between putting this together and mowing/weeding the yard and getting it all summer ready! He did a gorgeous job and as always worked his buns off heehee. He's a keeper for sure! (Love ya hun!)

We wanted a swing set for Maddy and walmart was out of theirs and we couldn't afford the ones that are over 1,000 bucks so when we saw this in the Canadian Tire Flyer we thought it would be perfect and it was on sale! We also don't have a lot of room since Kelsey still has her trampoline that she got last summer so we needed a set on the smaller side. I do have to say that this is a bit smaller than we were thinking it was but it will work perfect for our little ones (2 who have yet to be born and 1 who isn't even 1 yet LOL!) until they are older and we have more room for a bigger one. We also got Maddy a sandbox because she really loved playing at the beach and then in the gravel at the park (yeah that was dad's doing! LOL!). Since we have 2 dogs and endless neighborhood cats we decided instead of using the space provided under the ladder/climbing wall and slide that we would get a good one with a lid. Don't ask how much this silly red crab was! But these are all Maddy's b-day presents along with a few other small things we will get her so hey it all works out right?!

So here is our lovely backyard!

Here is a pic of the whole back and side. I just love how it looks! Good job Daddy! (Don't even get me started on all the neighbors that have yet to do anything to their weedpatches oops I think they call them yards, they have been here longer than us since our house was one of the last to be built and have done nothing, oh wait I thought I wasn't gonna get started LOL!)

Here is a close up of Maddy's new swingset/playard. Yes the slide faces into the bark where the tress/plants are hahaha, but the slide isn't bolted on yet. ;) Maddy's not so sure about her swing, she definitely prefers the ones at the park since the blue one is kind of more restrictive in her movements so dad went looking for one of those and couldn't find one but came home with the cute orange car. We haven't tried it yet but figured she may like that one better since she will sit up higher and can flail her hands and arms around...remember she is our very own “wacky inflatable arm flailing tube man” roflmbo!!! See this post if you don't remember.

And just a little picture of her ridiculously expensive little red crab sandbox (again walmart was out of theirs so we got this at Canadian Tire too, apparently you have to buy your summer toys from walmart in January if you want to be sure to have any for June haha!) It's worth it though! Daddy is going to get some black rubber mats to go around and under this for us. :)

So there you have it, our backyard all ready for the summer! (Just in case mommy can't waddle to the park ROFLMBO!!!!! Seriously that WAS one of our justifications!)