Our Disney Cruise! : )

Randal & I are leaving for our 15th Anniversary Disney cruise to the Bahamas tonight! I'm sure anyone who knows me has heard that we are going but in case you haven't heard, for our Anniversary & Randal's college graduation (in July), my amazingly kind & generous family is sending us on a cruise!!!!!!! We are all packed & ready to go so we can spend the whole day with our girlies today! Since we will be gone for Mother's Day tomorrow, my babies want to do some special things for me today : ) & have a special lunch together! I can't wait to be with my favorite little girls all day long! We will drop off our girls at the Kryger's house around 6 pm & leave to drive through the night to Florida where we will board our ship, the DISNEY WONDER! OOOOOOOOO! : )

Brian & Amy Kryger are some of our very best friends & they are some of the most kind, caring & generous people we have ever known! They are a gift to our family & we love them! I have to say that the second they heard that we were going on a cruise, they offered & practically begged to keep our FOUR little girls for us! WOW!!!!!!! They are awesomely amazing! They have FOUR children the exact same ages as our girls so they will have 8 children 9 & under (two 9 year olds, two 7 year olds, two 5 year old & two 1 year olds!) for an entire week! I told you they were amazing! : ) THANK YOU BRIAN & AMY!!!!!!! We love you & we are so grateful for you! Thank you for taking such amazing care of our precious girlies while we are away! You make it easy for us to relax knowing they are having fun & being loved on by you! : )

We will get to Port Canaveral in Florida some time on Sunday (Mother's Day (without my most precious gifts that MADE me a Mommy! : ( !) & we'll just have lunch & hang out until we can "embark" as they call it sometime between 1-4 pm. We will set sail around 7 pm & arrive in Nassau, Bahamas on Monday morning. We will spend all day Monday in the Bahamas & return to our ship around 7 pm. We will sail through the night to Castaway Cay, Disney's private island & we will spend all day Tuesday there. We will spend all day Wednesday at sea & just doing fun things on the ship. I don't know personally but I've heard there is tons of fun stuff to do! We will return to port & leave the ship early Thursday morning. We are going to drive to Orlando & spend some time with some of our close & very sweet friends, Chris & Stephanie Jessee! We will leave Thursday night after hanging out with Chris & Steph & drive through the night to get home on Friday. After all that fun & amazing romantic time with my awesome Hubby we will get to be with our sweet precious little girlies again! : ) So, that's how our week will look & we are so excited!

I get very seasick & I've gotten advice & suggestions from many people about how to not get sick. One of my friends encouraged me to find out where our room is on the ship & get it changed if possible to a low deck in the middle of the ship where we will feel less movement. I decided to check it out & discovered that God had already taken care of that for us & we didn't even know it! When we booked our crusie we didn't ask for anything specific but God knew what we needed! We are on the SECOND deck (counting from the bottom!) at the very CENTER of the ship! WOW, God is so good! : )

Also, I have to say how ridiculously excited I am about the yummy food! Anyone who talks about a cruise talks about the food which I think is so funny! I am just hoping & praying that I feel well enough (general pregnancy nausea & motion nausea) to enjoy it all! : ) It will also be strange to be pampered all week but I think we might be able to get used to that! hee hee! : )

My heart is already aching for how much I will miss our Amy, Ashley, Abby & Ava! I know this will be an amazing trip & I am so excited but it is a little tempered by the thought of being away from my babies for almost a week. Our Amy is 9 1/2 & we haven't been away as a couple, even for one overnight, without our girls since then! I know we need this time & I am ready for it but please pray for me & our girlies! I know I will miss them very much but I want to & need to focus on my Hubby this week! My girlies will have so much fun at the Kryger's! I'm sure & I'm hoping that I'll miss them more than they'll miss me!

Most of all I want to say how grateful I am that God has blessed me with my amazing & wonderful Husband & best friend, Randal! He is the absolute love of my life & I am just still amazed that he asked me to be his! : ) I am so excited to have this romantic getaway with my Hubby! He is the most wonderful Husband & Daddy & he works tirelessly to provide for all of his girls! I hope this week is relaxing & a huge blessing to my sweet Randal! : )

WE'RE GOING ON A CRUISE!!!!!!! (Sorry, I'm just a little excited & I still can't believe it!) : )

We'll have lots of pictures to share when we get back!