Getting a few things done

Today I needed to get a few errands done. Guess who is sick of errands?
Yup. Poor kids. So this morning when I had to go call the dr's office to get them to send me a fax so that I could copy the fax, and sign the release and fax it back, so that they could fax my kids shot records to the army, so that I could put the kids in school, Liza opted out... She whined that she didn't want to come. I figured, she's nearly 11, she can stay home while Brent studies. We made a few pit stops while on our errands. She DIDN'T like that she missed the pit stops.
First of all, for some reason, the Kinkos near our house offers the BEST customer service on the planet, and this includes a little snack on your way out. Yup, both times I've been there, they've had little pre wrapped hostess products. This time all 3 of the little ones got a package of "zebra cakes". (2 cakes! each!) They were thrilled beyond words. We then drove out to the post to pick up the paper work that we were looking for. We found a lovely red/white/blue playground that the kids loved, while we waited for the lady in MD to get off lunch and send our fax. Then we ran over to hospital/clinic, to pick up our special forms. We waited an hour there too, but the kids were so good in the waiting room. (Shark Boy and Lava Girl on the TV didn't hurt either.) Then we went out in pursuit of a "Splash Park" that we had heard about. After asking only 2 people for directions we found it.
This is 1/2 of the park that is in front of the splash park. (WOW EH!?!?!)
This is the splash park. I guess 'they' have to do SOMETHING nice for all these little buggers who's daddies are active duty. It sure was a great day reaping the benefits of being Army. (Even if I did wait in a waiting room for 2 1/2 hours total to get 3 papers filled out.)
Good times. We will be going back for sure!!! It was SO incredibly fun!
I worried tho, as it didn't smell of chorine... Humm were they really pumping fresh water through that thing, or were they recycling water w/o cleaning it? I don't know.. But I tried not to think about it.
After the long day of playing. We went to "taco bell" for some lunch and headed home.

Tonight for Family Home Evening I did a little thing that Jeri and Christina told me about. Apparently credit goes to Amy Perish on this one... but the idea is... there are two families, the Rock family and the Feather family. The rock family treats each other nice and does good things, the feather family is unkind and makes back choices. Then when adversity strikes (a hair dryer) You get to see what happens to the families. The poor Feather Family ends up scattered all over the floor, no where near each other.... the rock family stays put. You get the picture anyway. So it was good, the kids liked it. And now I can say "ooh that sounds like a feather" and they change how they are acting. We'll see how long it lasts eh? :-)