Disney Souvenir

When Leah was 1 years old, we loaded up our van and headed to Florida again. This time we decided to spend our first week at DisneyWorld and our second week of vacation at the beach with my parents.
A little "vacation" after our "vacation."
We met Tom's sister and her four children in Disney.
We had a lot of fun - lots of wonderful memories were made.
It was the first of the New Year, so there were Christmas decorations still up all over the parks. At night there were itty bitty bubbles floating down from the sky - it looked like snow.
We had breakfast in Cinderella's castle. Very special for our children. Noah loved meeting Jasmine. Leah was not so thrilled to meet Snow White. Rachel loved meeting them all. Our boys each got a sword and our girls received wands. We also did a different meal with Mickey and another one with Winnie the Pooh.
Our family stood out a little bit. We all had on Incredible t-shirts a couple of the days we were there. It was nice to be able to quickly see each other in the crowds.
Meeting the Power Rangers was a huge highlight for Noah.
They make quite an entrance.
Near where we met them there was a huge scene of Baby Jesus in the Manger. It was beautiful and I was so happy to see something about the true meaning of Christmas at Disney.
We stayed in one of their new family suites - in the least expensive hotel.
We never feel the need for anything fancy when it comes to the hotel. We don't spend enough time in the room. Besides, every place in Disney is special. One thing we found funny was when we came home one evening from the parks. From one of our windows we could see a light on in our room.
We walked in and the tv was on. Our children's stuffed animals and dolls that they had brought to sleep with were on the couch watching the tv with a bowl of popcorn. Everything is a little magical in Disney.
After a week, we were ready to relax at the beach with my mom and dad.
We drove to Panama City. We spent a lot of time on the beach. One cooler afternoon we went to the bowling center, and another at the theater. Lots of wonderful, special family time. It was a great vacation.
Soon after we got home, Tom came home to find me sitting on the couch eating ice cream. Peanut butter ice cream.
I don't like peanut butter ice cream.
He asked me why I was eating it. I told him I didn't know, but I was really craving it. He said he was going out and buying me a pregnancy test.
Tom went out and came home with a test and a bag of dill pickle flavored potato chips.
The next morning, Tom left for work and told me to let him know how my test goes. When I got up, I took my test then emailed to Tom how good the dill pickle chips tasted.
We were expecting our 6th child.
An amazing "note" to this day...
I went through a special weekend at our church soon after Leah was born.
The weekend was so powerful.
At the end of the weekend, we were supposed to write ourselves a letter.
One of the women collected the letters and told us that they would be mailed back to us in the near future.
This was the day I received my letter.
At the end of my letter I wrote "May I accept all the blessings God has planned for me." I love how God reminded me of my own words.
The day I found out we were expecting our 6th child, I received a letter I had written myself about accepting more children from God.