The Newberry News: Building a Tree House....Part One

We have talked for quite some time about building the kids a "tree house" in the back yard. We had a large tree in the middle of our back yard that died and Todd cut it down to about 6 feet to build a tree house on top of it. On Friday we hooked up a trailer and headed to Lowe's to buy supplies. We worked our tails off all day Saturday and Sunday builing the "fort" it has now become. I think our family could live in it. Todd's dad spent Saturday (9-9) with us and his mom and dad both came down on Sunday to help. We truely could not have done it with out their help. We needed Dan there! I spent ALL day today painting and we will have it 100% finished tomorrow, but I want to share the pictures I took over the weekend. (There is alot!!)

This is what we started with. A dead, cut off tree.... (See Addyson holding the cat that wondered into our yard and adopted us for 3 days. She had a collar and must of returned home, but got lots of TLC from Addyson.)

A meeting of the minds... LOL
Grandear teaching the boys how to measure and use a square for straight lines. They wanted to use the saw, maybe next year. (I learned though!!)

The floor is finished!!!!!
Addyson doing what she does best....
Our first wall was up!
2nd wall, roof and the slide! Gotta have the slide to get down in one piece (for me!)
Building the 3rd wall..

Todd ON TOP of the roof like 14 feet above the ground. I did NOT like him being up there! The roof is green by the way, you can't see it, but it matches the slide!

And we have walls!

Still on the roof. I swear he was up there for an hour!!

See the GREEN roof!!
I learned to use the saw, and actually enjoyed it!

This is the "trap" door for the boys to climb through the tree and into the fort. We got the door installed today. It is AWESOME, as Addyson said!

Taken from the ground. We really built it high!