One of the most awesome things to happen to you as a kid

Yesterday was a big day for the kids. First day back at school since having 3 weeks off. They were excited and ready to roll. They got their clothes on and ate breakfast at a break-neck pace. The sibling fighting was even held to a bare minimum.

Time to roll out the door came and out they went. They started waiting for the bus in the unusually cold weather. They continued to wait. And waited some more.

A high school girl eventually came by to give them some of the best news a kid could get...school was put off for another day!

Grandma called school and verified the good news. The schools must have added an extra day of vacation because they hadn't used any snow days. We didn't know about it because we took them out a 3 day early to go to Disney.

Needless to say, the kids were stoked. K. went to Chuck E. Cheese with a friend while B. and C. spent most of the day playing "High School Musical:Sing It!" on the Wii.

Looking at this turn of events with adult eyes, it seems to me to be like waking up on Saturday, thinking it's Friday, getting ready for work, and then finding out it's truly Saturday. What an awesome end to a great Christmas break!

The Picture of Happiness

This is happiness. This is it's Fourth of July, hot as heck but I don't care, don't have a thing to do today except do nothing, we're gonna see fireworks later happiness.

My wife recently made this picture our wallpaper. This was taken at Fort Macon this Fourth of July while the crew was on vacation at the Crystal Coast of North Carolina.

Thanks hon for helping me remember what the important things in life are.

1, 2, 3, Like a Burd I Swing...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I don't know if you've heard Tim McGraw's song "123 Like a Bird I Sing," BUT C. certainly has.

Every five minutes or so, he would "serenade" us with "1...2...3...Like a burd I thwing." Like any 4 year old, he hears something and lets EVERYONE know that he knows a new song.

The above picture is either him being wise to the fact that we were about to kill him if we heard another verse so he pretended to be out, or his inner country star had just plum played out.

Man, vacation was fun!

AHHHHHHH!!!! That feels great!!!!

AHHHH!!! Atlantic Beach, NC here we come!

My clan is headed with another family to the Crystal Coast for this week.

Posting will be limited, but will try to update the daily activities. Have a great Fourth everybody.