Swingers

So the girls have one of the best dad's ever as evidenced by what he accomplished this past weekend.   Clark Griswald Grant has wanted to hang a tire swing off one of the tallest trees in our backyard since pretty much the day we moved in.  A while back we spotted a tire swing out by the curb of one of our neighbors awaiting it's death via trash man.  Grant went to talk to the folks to make sure of the real reason it was curbside and yayyy for us, it still worked great, his kids had just outgrown it.  Fast forward a few months and this amazing weather and Grant got to work with two of our neighbors.  I should have documented the trial and error of the three grown men trying to get a rope over the branch which we all grossly underestimated at 'oh that's probably 40 feet up there'.....And when I say 'rope' it was actually a much more thought out system of which I got a little lost in the intricacies.  When all was said and done you would have thought an amusement park had opened up in the backyard by the screams of excitement at each push.  Even I gave it the good old college try and holy sh*t balls, it is fun!  Without further adieu:
Ryan's inaugural push (ignore the 5 foot tall grass - shortly after Grant spend the better part of the day mowing the backyard jungle)
PS - before we get hate mail, the swing is most certainly NOT off the skinny little guy on the right of this picture...the actual tree has about a 4-5 foot diameter.  
The next few are not for the faint of heart (aka Grandma) - while it would appear we are trying to catapult our first born across the back fence and into a tree, we would never. We'll save that for our cousins:)
Screams of delight people. I swear. (And before my mother calls me freaking out, with a little tweaking of the tire swing height, you really can't be 'one with nature' anymore).
Reeser's turn!
She, naturally, didn't disappoint by raising our blood pressure a bit when on her second swing or so, she starts leaning backyards and bringing her feet up. Awesome. Reese was quickly reprimanded.
It didn't take long to become the hit attraction around these parts.....little girls gathered far and wide for a shot to ride
One even screamed with delight "this is just like Six Flags" ---- I will start charging admission pronto.
The faces were priceless
Well done Grant!