Mother's Day

As I sit here, spending the last few hours of my day in solitude, catching up on Army Wives and drinking a coconut cream pie shake, I am overwhelmingly humbled. So completely humbled by the fact that God chose me...me to be the earthly mom of my sweet babies. He hand picked me. Inspite of the fact that I fail Him daily, and don't deserve it, he trusted me to be their mom.

Wow.

 

 

I feel like I need an enternity to let that sink in. I'm not sure I'll ever really wrap my mind around it. It is so comforting to know I serve a God who isn't petty, and doesn't hold grudges. I serve a God who blesses me daily and forgives me constantly so that I can be made new. I serve a God whose mercies are new every.single.day.

Isn't that comforting as a mom?

 

I feel even more humbled knowing there are women, some I even know personally, that are struggling with infertility. I can only pray that they can find comfort in the God of Hope, the God of Peace.

 

I can't imagine life without my girls. Sure, it's not all rainbows and butterflies. I mean, come on, I've got a toddler and a tween. For anyone who says having kids 10 years apart is easier...I've got news:

It's not :)

But it's life and they are mine, at least for this short period of time while we are here on this earth. And I am forever changed by them.

 

Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's, especially mine :)!

 

Disney days 4 & 5

Hayden wanted to try on Mommy's shoes

before heading out to Animal Kingdom.

*Paris scarf*

 First up: Safari ride.

 Hayden watching the 'raffs'.

 Then we headed up to Affection Section to pet some goats.

 Clearly Abby was not impressed, ha!

Then off to meet Rafiki.

 Unfortunately that concluded our day at Animal Kingdom.

(Insert long story):

We had Fast Passes to ride the Kali River Rapids.  Since we had Hayden, we had

to go in groups. Eric and I were going first. We were two people from loading a raft

when a woman who had just boared her raft had a grand mal seizure!

Skip a head about 15 minutes and they closed the ride down to get her taken care of.

Crazy scary!

So we headed to the resort for some pool time.

After we got cleaned up we headed to the Grand Floridian

for dinner at 1900 Park Fare.

There we got to meet the wicked step mother (who was super-duper funny)...

 and Prince Charming...

 and Cinderella again.

 Hayden was so happy, thrilled, ecstatic, over-joyed!

 But then Cinderella had to leave :(.

We went back to Magic Kingdom to watch the parade since it wasn't raining that night!

And for your viewing pleasure some more pics from our resort.

*Paris scarf*

Sunday moring we had breakfast at Chef Mickey's

where we got to meet Donald Duck...

 

 Goofy...

 Minnie...

 Pluto...

 and Mickey!

We had a couple of hours to kill before our bus came to take us to the airport

so we went to check out downtown Disney.

Me and Jenny (said in my best Forrest Gump voice) the shrimping boat.

If there is anything you need to know about me, it's that my favorite movie

EVER is Forrest Gump!

 One last pic at the resort before we boarded the bus to the airport.

Oh my gosh, what a blast! So many sweet and awesome memories.

I will never plan my own vacation again after Shay, at Mix and Match Travel made it so easy!

All we did was show up and have fun. I strongly suggest using her to plan your next

vacation. I know we'll be asking her to plan for us time and time again.

So, what's next for the Vaughan family?

Our annual road trip to Illinois to see Eric's family and of course see our Cardinals in action.

Then, Atlantis!!



Disney World day 3

Little Miss ready to head back to Magic Kingdom.

 *Paris scarf*

 Splash Mountain!

Jungle Cruise

 Rapunzel's Tower

CHEESE!



 Swiss Family Robinson Tree House

 A ride on the carousel

 We headed back to Epcot to have dinner at Akershus in Norway.

 We got to meet Belle...

 

 and Sleeping Beauty...

 and Cinderella -aka- Rella...

 and Ariel...

...and Snow White!

 *Paris scarf*

 About to board the Nemo ride for the second time!

 We stayed late at Epcot and watched the fireworks show

despite the fact that it was pouring the whole time.

Needless to say, I have no pics of that.

Next up days 4 & 5 Animal Kingdom and Downtown Disney.