Tires, Tempers, and such...

So, it is a little after 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning and I am trying to stay busy until the sunrise gives me an energy boost (I hope). Yesterday started out like a super Saturday. We have some good friends in town visiting and we all got ready and went to Bojangles for a nice Saturday morning biscuit, of course, when we got there we were greeted with stares and pointing since we had a group of 9 adults (two pregnant) and 5 kids, and we reconfigured the dining room to meet our needs. Upon the successful completion of phase one of the Saturday plan without incident, it was on to shopping quickly followed by a transition to more shopping for the women and a father/child afternoon for the men and kids, this happened at about 11:45 a.m.. This afternoon was AWESOME, even though the men were outnumbered by the kids. We started with ICEE's and then over to Deer Park for swinging, running, jumping, sliding, etc. After about an hour at the Park, we took the kids to swim and had a blast throwing, splashing, jumping, dunking, etc. for a couple of hours. Since the women were still enjoying their "girl time", we went straight from the pool to Chick-Fil-A, were we proceeded to hydrate and feed the kids before putting them into the soundproof glass enclosed play area (One of the best ideas EVER), where they continued to run, jump, slide, climb, etc. By about 5:30, we decided it was time to take the kids to the house in preparation for the trade off...

An Aside, Alexander will be three at the end of September and still takes a nap most days, by the time we got home, he was visibly tired and within a few minutes I found him kicking everyone out of his room so that he could sleep, since it was now about 6 p.m., I wouldn't let him and this started a spirited exchange with my 2 year old ending in his emphatic "I'm GOING TO SLEEP, GET OUT OF HERE!" He thankfully caught a second wind during that screaming which caused him to get out of bed and run around some more.

By the time "the wives" returned from their 7 hour shopping spree, three dads and five kids were pretty whipped, but...now it was our turn.

The agreement was that we would be given a "boys night out" to go watch some football and get into a little mischief. It started well enough at CBC, watching the Alabama vs Clemson football game and playing some pool, after a few hours of this and with an increasingly angry Clemson fan in our group, we decided it was time to find some karaoke or create our own! While driving down Brainerd Rd, we started to notice that the road felt like it suddenly had a lot of potholes, but we couldn't see them...it wasn't the road, it was our flat tire...

So there we were, after a FULL day of fun, pulled over on the side of the road changing a tire around midnight, no problem for three big strong men right... Turns out many German car companies think its helpful to put anti theft keyed lug nuts on your car and then hide the key! After an hour of raising and lowering the jack, kicking the tire, beating it with feet, hands, crowbars, etc., all while being occasionally reminded of our inability to change a tire by our "concerned" wives via phone and text, we give up to go get some "tools" and regroup. Several more hours and dollars later, we finally give up on trying to change the tire, roll the car into a parking lot, and call a cab to get home (which we wait on for an hour and when he finally arrives then proceeds to stop for gas and drive well under the speed limit on our $60, 22 mile, 52 minute ride home).

So, I've been home for a little over an hour now, I'm going to take a shower before the kids wake up and we do it all again...well hopefully not ALL AGAIN!