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The second day of our trip was also our actual anniversary! Monday May 28th which was neat because we did also get married on a Monday :) My big gift from Zach for my birthday was getting to do the Keys to the Kingdom Tour. It's a behind the scenes tour at Magic Kingdom. I've been SO PUMPED for this experience and we booked it on our actual anniversary to make it extra-special :) It's so much easier rolling into the parks when you're kid free haha! No strollers, coolers, a billion kid items. EASY!
Zach and I have always put traveling together as a top priority in our marriage. We use our trips as a time to really reconnect and to keep our marriage strong. Over the years we've had to switch up when and how we go as the more kids we have...the more difficult it is for someone to keep 'em! Zach works with Aflac and earns MANY free trips through the company so we try to stick to those as our "trips together" and do smaller, quicker trips other times of the year. We typically do a little getaway at Christmas as well as our Anniversary. This past year for my birthday Zach gave me the gift of an EPIC Disney trip ...but with us not knowing when Spear would be born we decided to hold off on it. Obviously we also didn't do anything for Christmas with Spear being born on December first. So we combined my birthday gift trip with our Christmas trip AND our Anniversary trip! It really worked out so well because the kids got out of school right before ...
When Zach and I added baby #3 to our crew we had a big talk about our traveling and agreed that if we go on Aflac trips without the kids then we have to cut out other kid-free trips. Aflac Presidents Club is always in April so if we go on that then we don't do an anniversary trip in May. Aflac National Convention is in October so if we go on that then we don't do a little Christmas getaway together. We LOVE our solo time together, but also know asking people to take care of THREE kids while we're away is just too much to ask very often! This year Presidents Club got canceled but we still went to California so that counted as our Anniversary trip! Even though we had an AMAZING time and were super connected, we needed some quality time together by the time our anniversary came around at the end of May. After Zach was in bed in pain for 10 days and then had back surgery and then was in recovery...we both just needed a day to BREATHE and be together and reconnect! Mrs....
As I just hit "post" on this entry I then went and scrolled through my favorite blogs to read and saw this post, written today, by Ashleigh's husband Brad . Both of us today sat and wrote about our 8th wedding anniversaries. While my reflections on our recent celebration is filled with little jokes and restaurant recommendations, Brad's reflection is on the thankfulness of each day, each sunrise, each moment. I am brought to tears by his post and by the thought of how he must be feeling and how they have both so beautifully honored their vows to each other. My prayer for my marriage is that we can love each other and care for each other and appreciate each other as Brad and Ashleigh have done. I'm so thankful for their example to us. Please continue to pray for Ashleigh. ***** Every year Zach and I make sure to go on some type of solo trip to celebrate our anniversary. On the years when Zach makes the Aflac President's Club trip we consider that our anni...
