Surprise for Ryan

 3rd new post of the day-Last year for Ashley's birthday we had a surprise party for her.  I asked the boys if they would enjoy surprise parties-Scott's answer was a resounding NO but Ryan surprised me by saying yes!  He is often the quiet homebody that doesn't like attention drawn to him (like Greg-I threw him a surprise party once and don't think I would live to tell about it if I ever did it again-I didn't know better then, he was turning 21 and had told me that he had not had a birthday party at McDonald's and I thought that needed to be changed!)

So I had been trying to figure out a way to get Ryan's closest in age cousin Ian to our house to celebrate with Ryan.  Sadly they live in Chattanooga and there is no quick way to get to our house from there.  I was bemoaning this fact with my sister in law on the phone recently.  Then she was telling me about their kids being out of school unexpectedly for two days because of the extreme amounts of sickness.  I seized the opportunity and picked up the kids last Friday in the middle of the morning-we drove to Atlanta to see the Lego Batman movie and have an ice cream treat with these cousins!!!

The cousins were out of school, it was exactly 1 month before Ryan's birthday, and it was the day the movie came out-too many good things all fell on the same day made it too fun to pass up.

Here Ryan is sad because I wouldn't tell exactly what the fun surprise was going to involve.  I had typed up clues for him to open and read along the way of our road trip to drag out the surprise!

 Here are our 3 waiting outside the theater!

 Here are the 6 kids playing with this fun thing where you could build your own lego mini figure in the movie theater!

 It took quite a while to get them all to stop playing and actually look!

 Then we went for ice cream!

 This is a SILLY CRAZY bunch!!!!!!  Hopefully Ryan had fun and felt celebrated-the only sadness was that Greg couldn't join us for our crazy road trip!