The playcentre

Our backyard is huge (if you didn't know that already) and it came with a rock-filled area, on which the previous owners had a trampoline. We didn't want the trampoline, but knew it would be the perfect place for a playcentre!

We started with the one we borrowed from Dare's sister (this photo is from September 2008, just after we moved in)

And in April 2009, we started by clearing out all the rocks...and by we, I mean Dare ; )

Then we unpacked the playcentre (which we bought from Costco).


And slowly started putting it together:





First swing:
It's built! At this point we still had to extend the landscape tie border, and fill with new pea gravel.

First slide:


Chloe was so excited to see the dumptruck!

That's a lot of gravel to shovel!
Markus (and Sabine, who didn't want to be in the photo) helped out:
And done!