Make a Wish - Destination Florida Part 1

Words cannot describe how wonderful this vacation was!

Karin, River, Colt, Silver, Summer

Our favorite part of the entire trip was Give the Kids the World Pool!

It was wonderfully warm and everyone felt so good in the water we just swam and swam and swam.

Make-A-Wish took care of us every step of the way.  

The only decisions we needed to make were 

1) Date to go

2) How many of us were going.

I agonized over both decisions - we hadn't received our new chemo plan when we needed to schedule the trip.  We had finished the set course of chemo, gone to the end of the known path on our map and the future was unknown.  So...we picked a date and moved forward.  

From the moment we arrived at the airport, for the entire trip we were directed, guided, and taken care of every step of the journey.    

It was SO nice!

It reminded me of the scripture D&C 112:10 

Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand

River with Captain

Preflight checklist

Silver in the cockpit

At Give the Kids the World pool.

I was pretty bummed when we got close to our vacation and the weather called for every day of rain... thunderstorms every day.   Every day.  What!  While in Florida we realized this is totally normal!  It rains and thunders most every day and then blows over and is beautiful and sunny again.  

Give the kids the World had an Ice Cream Parlor that we just loved!  We had ice cream sundaes by the pool - how cool is that :)  Ice cream for breakfast is such a sweet memory~!

jumping into the pool!

All of the families at Give the Kids the World are Make a Wish recipients - it was so fun to make new friends and be able to understand in a small way what other families have gone through.  It makes me so grateful for friends we have made and to God for helping our paths cross.  

Mermaids!

L-R Summer, Silver and River

We even had a butterfly friend - special memories.

The very simple things of life are most often the most precious.

After fluttering away :(

Make a Wish!

And Let it Fly :)