The Big Day

The big day went off smoothly and was so worth keeping the secret. I got them off to school, which was a half day due to parent teacher conferences, and then verified with Adam what the plan was. He was going to come home and change clothes, do some running around, then go pick Papa up and bring him home. But the tricky part was coming home and changing before the kids got home. Adam didn't know that Austin knew about Papa visiting, so he was trying to sneak into the house and get some clothes and then go change at the gym. But then Austin came out and asked what time the plane came in... As Adam was leaving Austin and I went to go run Betty through the car wash and then came home to meet the bus. I had told the kids that if they came home and finished getting their rooms clean that I would have a treat for them. I knew Adam would be back soon with the "package". I tried stringing out the room cleaning as long as possible and it worked out perfectly. Adam had went and got a new TV for our room, so we moved our old one down to Aydens room. It doesn't have cable hooked up to it, but he has the DVD player and he can hook up his plug-n-play games to it. Right after we finished that, Adam got home. I had the kids up stairs and was trying to distract them with what we were going to order for dinner when Papa came up the stairs asking "yeah, whats for dinner?" The look of shock and happiness was so worth it... it was truly priceless!!! We have a few appointments today so we won't go do much, but we are planning a big day tomorrow. We have the zoo, ice skating, and dinner planned for tomorrow, and I plan on taking the camera... that way I can share with all of you. Don't expect me to be skating though I prefer to sit on the sidelines with a coffee and cheer them on. ;O)