After snapping his book bag off and plopping a black binder onto the table, Kaleb Dial prepares for the beginning of his 6th grade Social Studies class, just like any other day.

Despite the crew of cameramen that had crammed into his classroom at Summit Parkway Middle School Oct. 20, nothing seemed unusual to him.

Kaleb opened up his binder, like always, and started working on his warm up assignment. Nothing seemed abnormal or out of place about this particular day.

"They have no clue what's really going on," said Christian Brown, Kaleb's teacher. "I told the class that we were going to be filmed for a TV show."

But pretty soon they all would know what was going on.

Ten minutes into the class, the side door swings open and in walks a tall brown haired man sporting green camouflage.

It took Kaleb a few seconds to process who the visitor was before quickly jumping up out of his seat to greet him with a big hug.

It was his dad.

"I didn't want to cry," said Kaleb. "I was trying hard to hold back tears and not crying."

Unknowingly to his two children, 1st Sgt. Matthew Dial requested mid tour leave from Korea to come back and surprise his kids at school. He will be here for two weeks before having to go back.

"It's been eight long months since I've seen them," he said. "It was just time to see them and I really missed them."

After completing four previous overseas tours -- two in Korea, one in Iraq and another in Africa -- and with plans to retire next year, Matthew thought this was a good enough time to do it.

"This is my fifth and final tour and I didn't do a surprise visit for any of my other deployments," he said. "They deserved this."

Matthew's wife, Kristina Dial, said that the kids thought she was out of town at a conference.

"They spent the night at a friend's house and didn't know I was really going to go pick up their dad at 1 a.m. this morning," she said.

Kristina got the the idea to surprise the kids because their daughter Kaycee Dial mentioned how she always wanted that to happen to her. Matthew went on his first tour when Kaycee was about two years old and Kaleb one week old.

"The plan is when I retired to have more time with the family. That's what it's all about," said Matthew.

After surprising Kaleb at his school, the group went to Spring Valley High School to surprise Kaycee.

They hid within her drama class. Matthew sat in a desk while Kristina and Kaleb sat on the floor behind some students.

It took Kaycee a couple of minutes to noticed her father within the crowd of high school students.

"It took everything in me not to run up to her and hug her," said Matthew. When she finally did noticed him, she ran into his arms.

"I am just shocked. Wow!" she said.

This was not any old regular day.