plans and preparations

We leave on Tuesday for vacation. Rachel will be with Grandma and Grandpa for the week while my husband and I are in Arizona. It's been planned forever, and my husband's been training for a year to realize his lifelong dream to hike the Grand Canyon, all the way down and up, in a day. I get to relax at the top that day, but mostly I'm sure I'll be worried about him. It's not recommended that you do it in a day, and rangers will try to stop him when they hear his plans, but he's determined to do it. He even made us dinner reservations at El Tovar, the lodge there, to encourage himself to get back in time for dinner!!

So anyway, I've been busy this week getting ready for that, but also planning the newest trip we've been talking about, taking Rachel to Disney World this fall. Last week my husband mentioned something about taking a family vacation in the fall. I suggested maybe we should take her to Disney, because of her love for Cinderella and all things Disney, and ever since it came out of my mouth, my mind has been on little else. I don't know why, but for some reason I'm thrilled about it, and it's nice to be excited about something again. I've had to restrain myself from reading all of the books and info I've found about it because I need to spend my time thinking about next week's trip! I'm taking the books with me and plan to work on it while I'm gone.

So that's what's been going on in my world this week. Rachel continues to be Rachel....dressing up in her princess garb every single hour of every single day. Now she reinacts scenes from the various princess movies she's seen. She still talks about getting married a lot, too, and I showed her the rest of our wedding pictures the other day--she had only seen the one on our piano, but I got out the whole album. She was in heaven. We have a book from the library in which a little girl is a flower girl in a wedding. She asks me to read it all the time and now she tells me she's going to be a flower girl in her Cinderella dress. Too bad I don't think anyone in our family needs a flower girl anytime soon!!! She's ready and willing!

I'll have wifi some of the nights that we're gone--we'll be in a different hotel almost every night, and some have it and some don't (sometimes we'll be in the desert, in indian reservations....wifi doesn't seem to be available there for some reason!!), but I'll update when I can.