A Happy Little Girl!

Do you remember this picture?!  This was Mike's truck on April 17th, the day befor Lila's 2nd birthday!  We went and picked up her playset at Menards! 

His overall goal was to have the playset completed before we left for Italy in June.  He pulled all the boards out and was going to begin working on the tower in the garage.  After mapping everything out he realized that we didn't receive the first 4 boards he needed in order to get started...so the playset quickly got pushed to the back burner with all the preparations for leaving town.

This weekend was the first weekend that we had a whole Saturday free to concentrate on getting the playset up so Lila can still enjoy it for a few months before the cold sets in!

Our yard before!

Mike's good friends Brad and Brandon were up for the builders challenge, off to work they went for the better part of the morning all the way through the afternoon.  Not one complaint out of these guys and it was HOT!!!  Lila spent the better part of her day admiring the progress from the window, just waiting to get out there and give the swings a test drive!

The final product!

The building crew + one very happy little girl!

Testing out the swings!



All play!

We were so thankful for the guys and their hardwork that we invited the ladies and kids to come and join us for playtime and dinner!  The kids always have so much fun together and tonight was no exception!  They were bouncing off the walls!  It is so much fun to watch!

 Lila had swimming lessons yesterday and they used kickboards for the first time!  She did great, caught right on and really enjoyed it.  She is getting to be pretty confident in the water!  She is growing up so quickly! 

The video below is of "Ring Around the Rosie" during swim lessons.  The parents take the kids around in a circle and on the "we all fall down!" they decide whether or not to take the kid all the way under the water.  Lila has been going under the water since we started lessons and I finally got it on tape!

We are trying to take advantage of every last bit of summer we have left!  We are looking forward to a few more exciting things yet to come, but you can bet any bit of downtime we have will be spent on our new playset!