E.M.A. - Friday & Sunday

Fri - picnic shopping, visit dad, plan change, played with friends, stormy, Will at Kaleb's house
Sat - splash kingdom and picnic

Well, we almost had a major adventure "FAIL," but it all worked out in the end.
Yesterday, Friday, the surprise plan was to shop for and prepare a picnic lunch, "kidnap" Allen from work (it was prearranged with him), then spend the day at Splash Kingdom using the tickets Santa put in our stockings. So... we prepared the lunch and went to the refinery to get Allen. While we were waiting for him, Barbie texted me asking if the kids could come play with her kids. I replied that we were on our way out of town, but maybe we could later this weekend. Allen came out to the car, told us one of his units was down, and said he would have to be on his phone the whole time if he came with us. He gave the kids the option of postponing until Saturday so that he could come with us or the kids could go today without him.

Major.
Disappointment.
TIMES SIX!

I convinced the kids we should wait for Allen (I wasn't crazy about the idea of trying to keep up with all of them on my own in a really crowded place). I called Barbie to ask if the invitation to play was still open and we arranged for some kids to be at the Brown's and some to come to our home to play. The kids played with friends all day, so it was a successful Friday. It turned out to be a great way to go because it started storming around 2:00 pm -- so we would've had disappointment even if we had made it to the water park.

Yesterday was still stormy, but today (Sunday) was supposed to be beautiful. We spent yesterday getting ready for school -- grocery shopping, making school lunches, packing backpacks (for two kids). Today went to early church service, as usual, and then headed to the water park. We ate our picnic lunch and spent several hours at the park. We stopped in Canton for dinner, then headed home and got ready for the first day of school.