It is in the early morning hour and Ty walks into his and Amy's house that they had brought just a few years earlier, he had been on call the night and had been up all night with a sick horse, as he sets his bag down and keys on the table by the door the phone rings

Ty goes over and picks up the phone to hear Jacks voice on the other end sounding rather excited

"Hey jack how ya doing?" he said hoping this would be a quick phone call so he could go to sleep

"Pretty good, now listen, Mallory is coming home from University next weekend and she has some type of big news, and Lou and Peter are coming in for the weekend with the twins and I was wondering if you, Amy and the little ones would be interested in coming up and we could have a family get together"

"Well I'll run it by Amy, I'm sure she would love to come"

"Well good well I'll be planning on seeing y'all then, oh and tell my little princess happy birthday from her great grandpa"

"Will do Jack"

"Oh and son, do you look as bad as you sound, cause ya sound like hell"

"It was a long night I'll talk to ya later"

"see ya soon"

Ty kicked himself as he hung up the phone, with everything going on in the past weeks he had completely forgot that today was his oldest daughter Marion's 6th birthday, he headed up the stairs looking in on the kids before making his final decent to his and Amy's bedroom, when he opened the bedroom door he stopped in the doorway and looked at the lump under the covers, he reminded himself everyday of how lucky he was to have such a beautiful wife and mother to his children and to think at one point he had almost let all of this slip away, he barely got out of his work clothes and into some pajama pants that were laying on the floor before he fell into his side of the bed as soon as he laid down Amy rolled over and opened her eyes

"It's about time you got home" she said jokingly

"It was a long night, oh and jack just called"

Amy looks at him intently "and what did he say? Ty?"

She hits Ty's arm from where he's been starting to dose off

Ty jolts awake and looks at her "huh?"

Amy gives him a look "you were going to tell me what grandpa said"

"oh yea, he said something about Mallory coming in having some big news and Lou and Peter are bringing the twins in and they were wondering if we wanted to come"

"I'd love that" Amy says excited

"Can I go to sleep now?" Ty says closing his eyes

"Yea" Amy says as she lays her head on his chest as she falls back asleep

A few hours later around 9 in the morning Ty and Amy's bedroom door cracks open and a little girl sticks her head in the door she looks over in Amy and Ty's direction "Mommy, Daddy"

Amy lifts her head off of Ty's chest, Ty lifts up "What's wrong honey?" he says half asleep

Amy looks at him "don't worry baby, get some sleep I'll handle it" Ty lays back down on the pillow and Amy looks in their little girls direction "What is it Marion?"

Marion looks at her "is it time for my party yet?"

Amy gives her a look "not yet honey, come on I'll fix y'all some breakfast though" She gets out of bed and chases Marion in a playful way out of their room

A few days later Ty brings some suitcases down from upstairs as Amy is trying to get the kids out the door and fusing at them as she's running them out the door "Come on guys lets go" the kids run out the door as she gives a frustrated look in their direction as they get in the back seat of the car Ty walks up behind her and gives her a kiss on the cheek "lets hit the road"