Our own park!

It seems like we spend a whole lot of time thinking about and listening too and being hurt by the horrible things that people say and do to us.  Sometimes we forget that their amazing people out there doing amazing things.  And while this might not be up there with those curing cancer and feeding the hungry it sure means a whole lot to our little family.  Our neighbor, two houses down, finished his run by our house the other day while Bryce was putting up the gutters.  He stopped and said, "I know you have little kids and we were wondering if you would want our play structure?"  He has six kids by the way, all girls, and they have outgrown the toy and are ready to move it on down the road.  

Earlier in the spring I looked into buying one of these, although nearly impossible to find on craigslist, they still sell for at least $300, one this nice could probably go for more.  Brand new on sale at Costco my mom found one for $800, the point is they are expensive.  When Bryce told me the neighbor was going to give it to us I just stood there staring at him.  That can't be right.  But we went next door to check it out and it was true.  The kids jumped on it shouting, they have a park at their house!

So on Saturday morning we rounded up the troops (Brother and sister-in-law and cousin) to help us move it while Grammy and Papa took the kids on a fun outing downtown.

 The swings moved to our house first, then the slide.

 Rock wall down...

 stairs and ladder down...

 how will this fit...

 remove the gate!

 All the pieces are in our yard!  Now where to put it...

 I don't have any pictures of us carrying it down the street because Bekah and I did a lot of the moving of the smaller bits while the guys took it all apart and then we all had to help with the big pieces.  But I'm sure it looked awesome, this crew of people carrying a play structure down the sidewalk!

 All together in our yard!  The adults had to try it out first of course!

Lenorah was asleep during the big reveal but Dietrich said "oh wow!  We have a park now too?" They are both pretty excited to have our own park in the backyard.  I'm not sure if Dietrich thinks that means we can have anything in our backyard or what because that night he asked for a horse to keep back there too...

We could not be more grateful to our neighbors for passing their great toy on to us, we feel completely spoiled and so fortunate to have such nice people living next door.  I know our kids (and quite a few friends and nieces and nephews) will enjoy this toy for years to come!