Funning up the backyard

At our old house, we had a super fun backyard, and all the neighborhood kids congregated there.  There was a tree swing, tree house, and big sandbox.  When we moved here, there was nothing fun, so we've been working on funning it up.

We found parts of an old trampoline that someone put out for trash, and Mike turned it into a gymnastics bar.

We thought maybe our kids were too old to enjoy a sandbox, but they insisted they wanted one.  The minute Mike finished building it, neighbor kids appeared, and they all spent a long time making villages, volcanoes, etc.