Playground Project (background)

Another ongoing project we have is the kids' play area in the front yard.  Our house sits on a very interesting lot.  The backyard is a concrete patio with a little bit of dirt area behind it where Josh has planted fruit trees and an almond tree.  From the backyard, there are stone stairs leading to the side yard where Josh is working on a bunny hutch area.  The side yard is huge.  Another house could probably fit on it.  A little hill leads from the side yard to the front yard, which is where we are building a playground area.

The front yard when we bought the house

The front yard in 2014: Geodome, tetherball, and wooden play structure

Josh and his dad recently built monkey bars and a rock climbing wall to attach to the wooden play structure.  I will update this post with pictures of that later because I can't seem to find any!   I'm sure Josh will want to add pictures of the rock climbing wall building phase.  That was quite a lot of work!  

We eventually want to put in artificial turf and remove all the ivy to make the play area larger.  The concrete patio also needs to be replaced and the porch roof removed eventually.  There has been so much settling underneath the patio that it is causing the porch roof to sag.