Beetles tree house slide project began early spring of 2013. We had been shopping for slides for about a month and when we saw how much brand new slides were we decided to look on ksl for a used one. Beetle called me and said he found a really good deal. "It's kinda big but its only one hundred bucks." "How big?" I asked. "Well I think we will need Palameno Thunder (Danny's truck) to transport it." I told him we should keep shopping around. He convinced me that we weren't going to get a better deal and he was on his way to pick it up.
I am really sad I didn't get a pic of Beetle pulling up in palameno with the slide hanging half way out of the bed of the truck. I couldn't believe he made it from Riverton to Orem on the FREEWAY with out getting pulled over. It did not look safe!
This slide would still be in the driveway if it weren't for Danny and Rangi.
And Myself(;
Beetle had worked so hard building our fence, I was worried they would have to take it apart to get the slide in the back yard.
Nope! These three lifted it over the fence, or should I say threw it over the fence! I was pretty impressed.
Beetle went to work building the tree house.
The next phase was another phase we couldn't believe worked out so well.
Beetle and I were both crossing our fingers this would work out. It wasn't looking good for a while.
Ricker, Roman and Danny were there to help for this phase. Ricker was so proud of the good deal Beetle got on this slide. "Can you believe you got a twelve hundred dollar slide for a hundred bucks?! Your kids are gonna have so much fun on this slide!"
Dang, we miss him! I hope he knows how much we miss him. He was so much fun to have around especially with projects like this. He knows so much about doing any project and any time Beetle starts one he is telling me he wishes his Dad was here to talk to him about it. Beetle is so handy and I know it is because of Ricker.
The slide is up!
Ricker was right, our kids do love it!
and so do our neighbor kids(:
and cute Pearl Girl