Dad, this could be the best day of my life...

We took these on New Year's Eve, which was a few days before Corey left. They all wore plaid shirts to dinner.

And we have to throw one picture of our schmoopie in here. He wanted a picture with Dad before he left!

When Corey was home on his four-day pass this past week, we surprised the boys at the bus stop and took them to dinner that night at our favorite Mexican restaurant, which Jake claims has the freshest burgers anywhere.

We kept the boys out of school for two of those days, and treated Landen to lunch at Chuck E. Cheese, where the pizza isn't terrible. 100 tokens = two plastic roaches, a snake, two Tootsie Rolls and something else I don't even remember and I'm sure no one could find if they were asked. They have this machine there where you recline on these benches and watch a roller coaster on a big screen in front of you, and the benches tilt and vibrate with the coaster. It's not dangerous in any way. However, when we put Landen on it, he made such a frigging commotion. You would think we'd put him on the Tower of Terror.

We asked Jake if he wanted to get on it, and his face clearly communicated a hell-to-the-no.