Okay, so how many days do we need for Frankenmuth? Just 1 night/2 days or more like 2 nights/3 day?
Is there anything for the kids? Keep in mind that I have 2 boys who do not enjoy shopping all that much.
Would the hotel with a waterpark cure the possibly of child-boredom syndrome!!!!
I'm sure Ethan and Em would have it too....
You're a good Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My kids are so spoiled rotten it makes me sick when they start in on the "I never get to...", or, "I don't have x-y-z like peter down the street..."
I'm like.... take a look around. You've never known one second of your life of being deprived of one thing. I just get very irritated when mine start that, too.
Jo
We'll see!
Sea~any word on what Jeremy bought with his b-day giftcard???
A shirt for his brother?
KB (and Sea) - I expect to see that video! With some sweet dance moves again!!!
again for Lena, and your whole family.
Interested to hear what he gets with his gift card. My son Mike who'll be with me on this trip is also 23. We didn't get to meet Jeremy in December, but Chris was a lot of fun 
Does Saturday 9/19 work for you guys for the DCA meet up? Thanks Jo and Shelly...I don't think we'll be camping for a while!
Next up is our trip to Chicago to see the Harry Potter exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry.I need to get working on that!!!
And I'd love to see a TR on the Harry Potter exhibition. When will that be added to Universal in FL? We might at a Universal day next time we go to WDW just to see that...Ummm, the twins birthday.Well, lets just say that I have never seen adults act quite so much like children as those two.
Except at Disney. But those kind of grown up's are awesome... LOL. Bob and I are the act like kids grown ups! But, if these were the grown up's acting like kids they would be the ones throwing the tantrums.
Earlier that day before I bought their crazy ice cream cake that they had to have I asked Bob to send a text and see if they wanted a traditional one (1/2 vanilla 1/2 chocolate) or if they wanted a Chocolate extreme blizzard cake (which may or may not be what I wanted that night...
They said they didn't care either way. So I bought chocolate.
After I run around and buy drinks and the cake and stuff for that night I show up at home and find out that their mother (who BTW invited everyone to my house) didn't show up and she sent sloppy joe mix and buns for dinner....Which the 'twins' promptly rolled their eyes at and were like 'Sloppy Joes for any other dinner is fine, but for our birthday dinner' . Really mom?
I swear I am not making this up.
And then later that night they complained about the cake and said that (AND I QUOTE
"Next time, we'll just have to go with the regular one"
Next time. LOL.
Some people, I tell ya...that's just unbelievable. If I come visit you, you can serve me sloppy joes and chocolate ice cream cake anytime...and I'll even clear the table afterwards! Wow RF. My biggest pet peeve - Ungrateful people.
I try so hard to teach my kids not to be like that. It doesn't always work. The other day DS10 was whining that he didn't have a BB-gun like one of his friends. Then he started - I don't have anything. . . Boy did I let him have it!! I chewed him out for a good 15 minutes. I told him to take a good look around him and look at ALL the things he had. And that he should be thankful to be healthy and to have a brother and a mom & dad that love him and that he gets to go to Disney almost every year and things like that. I told him just what I thought of his ungratefulness and sent him to his room!
He came out with a whole different attitude and apologized.
Apparently "the twins" mom never tried to teach them this!
Hey, I know a lot of grownups that could use that lecture!
It's only about a 14 hour drive from Arkansas. So I don't know. 
Hey, maybe MAY would be good! But that's right in the middle of soccer season for us. Not that we couldn't miss a weekend, but still. We'll see. . . 
"It's the most wonderful tiiiiiiiime....of the yeaaaaaarrrrrrrr."
