Recently, our family was connected to a wonderful organization called Dreams Come True of Louisiana. Bart and I have had a small link to the organization for a few years now because we cook in the jambalaya competition at the South Louisiana Crawfish Festival. However, never did we think that our relationship with the organization would expand further than that. You just never realize when you meet people what those relationships may hold. Years ago Bart and I became friends with Ms. Shelby and her granddaughter Cassidy. We have remained friends with them over the years and they have followed Gabby’s journey as we have followed Cassidy’s all these years. Shelby and Cassidy have been affiliated with DCT for many years and this year they introduced our family to Mrs. Freddye and the DCT organization. We can not begin to express our gratefulness for this introduction. Dreams Come True gifted Gabrielle and our family with a dream vacation. Gabrielle’s dream vacation was to stay at a Great Wolf Lodge and she wanted to see real snow. The ladies at DCT got right to work and planned us a vacation to Great Wolf Lodge in Colorado Springs, Co. We took our trip last week from Wednesday to Sunday. This is our first true family vacation EVER! If you have followed Gabby’s story over the years then you know we take trips out of town for her to see a urological specialist. These trips have taken our family from Cincinnati to New York City to Charleston. We always try to make the best of these trips with visiting local attractions, zoos, baseball games, and family. But regardless of what you do while you are in that city, there is always a surgery, a MRI or a follow up appointment scheduled and lots and lots of time is waiting rooms to dampen the spirit of the trip. This Dreams Come True trip was so far from our past trips. We had almost a full 5 days of nothing but snow, swimming and fun!
Our family want to say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to the Dreams Come True organization for a wonderful trip. Gabby and Avery loved every minute of it. When I asked last night what their favorite part was, they listed off almost every thing we did… the water park, mini golf, the arcade, the SNOW; the list goes on and on! If you are ever looking to support and donate to a local organization please consider Dreams Come True. They have gifted our little girls with something that Bart and myself have been trying to accomplish for years… a few days of joy that didn’t revolve around Gabby’s birth condition. We look forward to many more fun times with this organization.
We also want to thank Ms. Shelby and Cassidy again for thinking of our family and helping make this connection.
