It's the best photo we've ever had with him!

While at my parents house a huge dream of the boys came true...a real fort/tree house of their own. My parents have a camp an hour away from their house and that is where it all went down. Here is an evolution of the build over 4 days time...

The 'foundation'.

Measuring for the walls.

Up goes the first wall!

Four walls and some siding.

Clean up crew. 

Nailing in the hard to reach spots.

A fort with finished inside walls? Pretty posh.

Kid-size door...watch your noggin Gramps.

"It's the best photo we've ever had with him!"

In those four days they managed to get all four walls up, 2/3 of the roof on and 80% of the inside finished. There are plans for stairs up to the top of this level and then building another layer on top that wraps around a few of the trees. They also want some sort of rope ladder or pole to slide/climb between the floors. Between now and the time they get to work on it again I'm sure they will come up with many elaborate ideas and plans...be warned, Dad!

As we said good-bye to the fort, we took one last photo op and Griffin was willing to join in. I captured the last photo posted and the boys love it! They really connected with Griffy over our time there and it was really difficult to say good-bye to him when the time came. Owen and Walter look at this picture quite a bit and always comment "It's the best photo we've ever had with him!" They love that they are all looking into the camera. x