Field Trip to a Friend's house

This morning I told the kids that as soon as they were done with breakfast they were going to do something special.  They were excited and were even more excited when they realized where we were going.  Kaomi realized it first, just by looking out the window of the car as I drove.  I took them to a friend's home from our Life Group.  I dropped all four of them off and left pretty quickly to go back home and work on a project that I need to finish for Kaomi's birthday next week and I don't really want anyone to see what it is beforehand.  They were there for almost 2 hours and had a blast.  They spent a lot of time outside running around since it was nice a cool this morning.  They came home with ziplock bags of acorns from our friend's yard.  They played Play-Doh and watched part of a movie.  I got a good start on the project I wanted to work on.  They had a fun change of pace.  God sure knew what He was doing when He gave us some new friends about 1 1/2 years ago, who live close by.