In almost all the movies where parents leave their children alone at home, a house-party is hosted by the children. The Home Alone movie series has been another big example of what it can lead to.

But in South Carolina, when Mr. and Mrs. Schoonover left their four daughters at home for one week and went on a vacation alone, they had no idea as to what were they going to come back home to.

It is a story like no other, with a plan that no other group of siblings would have thought of.

The Schoonovers

Residing in South Carolina, Karen and Chip Schoonover have a very loving and blessed family with four daughters. They had a cozy little house near North Myrtle Beach and all of them had been living together under the same roof. Chip and Karen had decided that they would name each of their daughters starting with the letter ‘H’. Heather is the eldest daughter of the couple, Hollie being the second eldest, then Halice and Haley. The girls had been desperately waiting for their parents to go on a vacation so that they could start working on their plan, which was an unimaginable one. Even though the Schoonovers lived near the North Myrtle Beach, which has been an ultimate holiday spot for tourists, the family always planned vacations to other places. They always liked getting some time away from the usual life every now and then.

The Mastermind

The sisters had agreed upon a plan which was going to change everything. And the person to have devised this plan was Hollie, the second elder sister of the four. She had convinced all the other sisters to be a part of this life-changing-plan.The camera had been set up, and the girls were then unaware that their decision of setting up the camera and recording their plan would make them famous. They had planned something huge which had many layers to it, making it one of the biggest things of their lives. Heather had moved inland with her husband after marriage, but she had come back home for seven days, just so they could work on the plan. It was something that they had dreamed of since their school days and that is why it meant a lot to all four of them.

A Gift

The girls had decided to give their parents a Christmas gift by doing a makeover of the whole house while the parents were away on a vacation. It was not just cleaning and shifting of furniture that the girls had decided upon. They had planned a step ahead of all this. The daughters had really taken a big task in their pocket to be completed. None of them had ever been a part of the renovation of a house before and therefore, it was really uncertain and dicey if they would be able to pull out the task until Christmas or not. The first step of the plan was to start cleaning up and take out all the extra stuff that was not needed at home, or to say, was actually junk. They had thought that it was a task of a few hours, but the work took them almost the whole day..and so one day had gone by.

The Big Day

It was finally the day that Karen and Chip were going to return from their vacation. The girls had done all that they had planned of, from painting to new carpets, to new furniture. They were all very excited to give the best present to their parents. Hollie held the camera in her hands and had already started recording the morning their parents were supposed to arrive. “We are so nervous!”, she whispered into the camera. They wanted to make sure that every little detail of their parents’ expressions was caught on the camera. The daughters planned that they could give their parents not one but two presents. The first one could be not the newly decorated house, but Heather. Her visit to the house would be the first surprise that their parents would get.

Reaction

The sisters asked their parents to take a deep breath before opening the door of the house. Karen and Chip looked at each other and held hands before walking any further. Proceeding towards the house, both went ahead, to get their minds completely blown. As soon as Karen looked at the house, her first word was, “What!” She couldn’t believe what she was seeing and felt like she had come to some other world. “What did you do!” she shouted in excitement and disbelief that the girls could do so much on their own.