Make-A-Wish

Last night we got to use this key and Christopher got to make his wish! It was so much fun, and a lot more emotional than I thought it would be.

 We started out by throwing tokens in the wish pond and each of us got to make our own wish. Then we took a tour of the beautiful garden.

 Inside we sat down with the wish makers and talked about our family so that they could get to know us. They asked what our favorite vacation spot was and Matt and I laughed. Shannon said "Idaho!" and Leah said "The river." Yeah, we're pretty exotic. Truth is, we've only taken two vacations as a family. Once to Colorado for a family reunion, and once to Idaho for Thanksgiving.

The actual wish wasn't hard to choose. As soon as we walked in the building, Chris saw this cutout of Mickey and got very excited and started doing the Hot Dog dance. The wish makers all knew that he would love a Disney wish.

We wrote down the top three choices and put them in a capsule. Then it was time to enter the Wishing Place. Here he is using his key!

 This was a really neat round room in a tower with glass tiles on the floor, a water fountain, and color-changing lights. In here we all read our wishes for Christopher (this is where it got emotional) and the kids followed the lights on the floor to place the capsule in a small cone.

 Then they put the small cone on the bigger cone and sent the wishes to the wizard (The cone is the top of the wizard's hat)

 Wish made! The girls were disappointed that they didn't get to actually see the wizard, but they got over it.

 Obviously, the top wish was to go to Disney World to meet Mickey. I can't think of anything Christopher would enjoy more. They are booked for the summer, but we will probably go in December or next summer. We are excited and had such a fun, magical evening. Thank you, Make-a-Wish Utah!