My Dad is a great man and he has dedicated his life to service. He has been a pastor my entire life and has been in the National Guard for as long as I can remember. He spent this the past year as the state chaplain for Louisiana, and retired in May. To celebrate, we talked him into taking a trip to Disney! What better way to celebrate? A great perk for celebrating this way is the amazing deal Disney was giving to military families. We stayed at Shades of Green and visited Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Sea World. It was a whirlwind of a few days, but so much fun! My girls will definitely never forget this trip, and that they were able to ride scary roller coasters with Nana and Pops.
The hard part of the trip was that I am so pregnant! I was 26 weeks when we were there, and it was sooooooo HOT. Gabe and I wanted to celebrate my dad’s retirement, and also make a really special memory with the girls before our baby is born. We know it will be a while before we are able to do anything like this again.
The girls experienced the Bippity Boppity Boutique, or is it Bibbity Bobbity Boutique, not sure, but it was so much fun! The fairy godmother’s in training made each girl feel so special. How cute is Piper? My sister Heathers family was there and the kids always love being with their cousins. It was pretty funny to watch them interact. While the girls were at the boutique being transformed into princesses, the boys were being transformed into pirates at the Pirates of the Caribbean. They looked completely different, I wish I had some pictures of them in their pirate get-up. Throughout the day we would watch the girls, all decked out in the princess attire, battle the pirates with their swords and guns.
One thing that really sticks out as a great memory is that the girls were chosen to be part of the finale of the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom. They were sooooo excited. They marched around in a circle playing instruments to the Circle of Life. It was great.
We ended our day at Magic Kingdom with the parade, which was more crowded than anything we experienced that day. Then Gabe and I drove, wait, I should clarify that, Gabe drove us to Tifton where we spent the night so that we could get home at a decent time on Sunday to recooperate before school on Monday. We got to Tifton around 3am! My husband is THE man.
