Road Trip

Jerry has an Army reunion coming up at the end of March in Las Vegas.  Our original plan was to make it a 'mommy and daddy only' trip and leave the boys home with one of their grandmas.  Well, that isn't panning out too well.  For one reason or another neither grandma can stay the full week so Zachary can stay in school for the week (he doesn't have school on Friday of the week we'll be gone) and there isn't another person we know who can stay with the boys at our house that we trust enough to stay in our house.  One grandma is willing to watch the boys at her house but I'm not willing to leave the boys a mere hour from home to play video games all day for a week while missing school.
So, our 'mommy and daddy only' trip has morphed into a family trip.  If I can get Jerry on board, which let's face it, I usually get what I want so it won't be hard, we will all pile into the car after school on a Friday in March and drive to California and stay with my parents. On either Monday or Tuesday we will take the boys to Disneyland (their 2nd and with the $303 it will cost us to get in including parking probably the last trip).  On Wednesday Jerry and I will go to Las Vegas for his reunion where we will stay and this will be the 'mommy and daddy only' portion of the trip.  On Friday my parents will bring the boys to Las Vegas and we will do some sightseeing on our way back to Oklahoma and arrive back sometime either Saturday or Sunday in plenty of time for Jerry to return to work and Zachary to return to school on Monday morning.
Pulling Zachary out of school for a week goes against every single grain of my being; but to allow Jerry to go to his reunion we really don't have another choice, he'd either have to go alone (and really, that's not going to happen since I'd never get an equivalent no kids trip - yes, that's selfish, petty, whatever you want to call it but that's what it is! Besides he'd have to fly since we only have 1 car and for him to fly and the Hotel would cost him the same for us to take the full California/Las Vegas trip as a family) or we have to make it a family trip.  Since he's only in school for 2 hours a day he's only missing 6 hours of school so we can easily make that up in the car or at my parent's house without a problem. If this was next year when he's in 1st grade, we would not be doing this.
Now we just need to figure out when to have Kaleb's birthday party since we'll be gone the weekend we were going to have his party...luckily we have a couple of months to get everything ironed out.