Swinging...her favorite

Daddy and Vaughnie watching the parade from the shelter of an auning

My Miss America

Madelyn and Vaughn

my whole world

love this face. she loved that goat, until it tried to eat her shirt.

on the train.

"Red White Boom" kinda lame but it killed some time.

Fireworks.
















































RECAP:

The Long weekend was great. We went to the quad cities and it was so nice to just have some quality us time....no jobs to go to, not errands to run, nothing to clean or do....just hanign out. Thursday we just hung out as we didnt get there til around 4 (but I got to sleep the ENTIRE way there...seriously I was out before we hit the inters tate) and then Friday we hung out during the day and then went to visit some of Rudy's friends, went to the park with his niece and great neice Madelyn and then to the "Red, White, Boom" festival and the fireworks over the river. That was alot of fun.
Saturday was HAPPY WET COLD 4TH OF JULY. We got up early to hit the parade..in the pouring rain and had dressed Vaughnie up in her little miss america dress and she looked so beautiful and then we stepped outside and it was F.R.E.E.Z.I.N.G....like 50 some degrees. WE were the only duffusses who were in summer clothes with no umbrellas or jackets but we just werent prepared for November weather. Ooops. We went home dripping wet and put on some dry clothes. There was a festival that we wanted to go to so we made a mad dash to wal mart to get V some warm clothes (hoping they would either have rain gear or long sleeves for toddlers....WRONG....but they had some sweat suits for regular girls so we bought extra small and made it work for her. She actually looked super cute. They were supposed to be capris but worked as sweat pants for her. Okay, sorry, im being boring....
Anyways, festival, fireworks and hanging out...it was great. Vaughn stayed up both nights for the fireworks. Good Girl. Actually on the 4th Rudy had to wake up both Vaughn and I to go to them cause we were fast asleep by 8. Its nice to be home.

Went to IC today and found out I have more fractures in my foot. Great. They dont know whats going on or why my foot bones are breaking so readily but i had more tests and we'll see. The bone scan techs think there might be 4 different fractures in my foot. GRR. Im just annoyed and want to cry and throw in the towel...will I ever be crutches, wheelchair, brace free for even a full year? SOOO frustrating! I know I should be counting my blessings and thankful that its only fractures but its just difficult. I dont want to wear a huge freaking sweaty, itchy, ugly, clunky boot that makes it impossible to walk without looking like a complete gay wad. Embarassing.

Thats my update. Nothing thrilling. Oh funny story...we were going through downtown davenport on the 4th and discussing how trashy the area was and how rudy used to be scared to deliver pizzas there and clear as day vaughn said from the backseat. "Ghetto!" We could not stop laughing. I am REALLY going to have to start watching it. The other day in the car she threw up her hands in the back seat and yelled angrily "GO lady Go! MOOOVE" oops. I think i might have a road rage issue! Haha.