Things

 The front above.

The back below.

We wanted one that could accommodate all our kids plus some.

  This pic has eight kids playing on it.
Features: 

Large clubhouse

Look out balcony

Ladders

New 10 ft. wave slide

Monkey bars

Rock climbing wall

Multiple swings

New 2-person glider

Covered picnic table and bench

Crow's Nest w/ telescope

We got the new swing set ordered.  We have been saying every spring since Tristan was born that we were going to get a swing set for the kids.  Every year life got in the way and we just couldn't swing (pun intended) it!  Jeremy and I are both really excited and the kids are too.  They keep expecting it to be up and complete every time they come home from school, haha!  We haven't even got it delivered yet! :)  We are hoping we can get it up in between all the rain (and snow and cold!)we are getting.  It is going to be interesting for sure.  It is all cedar wood and all the holes are pre-drilled so we are hoping that helps with set up.  We have a guy (Tony Freeman) coming over sometime to help us get our deck all spiffy too.  Also, we are getting some extra swing set accessories to put on the deck too to better facilitate playtime(war).  That way they can have two bases and what not.  Our swing set instructions say that we need to allow 6 foot of clearance on all sides in case of falls and have 6-8 inches of padding (we are using mulch) underneath.  We ordered a crap ton of mulch and I am sure we are going to need more too.  It's hard to tell.

My brother, Mike, my sister, Ginny, and her husband, Matt are in town right now working on projects at my mom's house and Mike's house.  Actually they are not in town right at this minute because they drove to Indianapolis last night to see Leslie and the girls.  Jeremy got together a real nice used computer to send to Leslie.  She had been without one since the FBI had come to her home and taken her computers, phones, Ipads, everything.  She is also only living on her part-time income right now and money is tight.  Russ and her have helped the whole family out (including Jeremy and I) so many times throughout the years that it feels good to be able to help her out too.  This is a difficult time in all our lives.  No one understands unless they have been through it.  I want him back.  We all do.

We got our family pictures taken last Sunday.  I want to wait until I receive the disc to post them all though.  The sneak peek looked really good!  Eden was not in the mood to have pictures taken that is for sure.  Tristan and Cedric did awesome.  Liam was in a really silly, hyper mood and so was Asher.  Cullen was just Cullen as usual.  He gave Tessa(the photographer) a hug when we were all done.  Cute, right?