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4th of July Weekend

Look who finally came to visit! Uncle Ethan got to meet Maddy this weekend. About time!!


At the fireworks in Lewisville. Unbeknownst to us, there were aunts in the grass and Maddy got three ant bites on her had. They are all pussy and gross looking. She never fussed so I didn't know it happened until this morning at church.
This is the 4th of July dessert I concocted for our cookout. Very patriotic looking and pretty tasty too!
Forth worth at night.



Maddy playing with the pony we bought her in San Antonio. She is mesmerized by this toy. She likes punching at it with her hand and making it fall over.

Maddy with another toy she loves.

We had the most fun 4th of July weekend I can remember in several years. First of all Jessica came to visit for the weekend so that automatically made it awesome! She arrived Thursday evening and we stayed up way too late talking. The next day we had donuts for breakfast, went to Maddy's PT appointment and then took Jessica to DBU for a tour (0f course we stopped at Sonic for Happy hour on the way over!), and then went to Ft. Worth. In Fort Worth we went to the Kimbell Museum which is always free. We spent maybe an hour and a half there. Then we got hungry and went to Sundance Square. We found a yummy bbq place there called Rizcky's. They had all you can eat ribs for 9.95. After that we walked down to a water garden place where they had all different kinds of fountains.

So much fun! The next day we did a cookout with some friends at our house. We had burgers, deviled eggs, potato salad, fruit, jello dessert, chips...basically way too much food. That night we went up to Lewisville to see fireworks. Today Ethan, Nat and Rob came by on their way home from a friends wedding and we went to lunch with them at Arby's. It was good to see them. The people in there probably thought we were crazy cause we got to reminicing about Guy Lee and Ethan got up and did his Guy Leading Singing impression for Rob because he'd never told Rob about Guy Lee before. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
Anyway it was a great weekend. It flew by fast, I didn't get enough sleep, and I am so tired now, but it was great.

Comments

Chrissy Cross said…
Sounds like a great time, I can't wait to see Maddy again!
Ms. Embry said…
I'm so sad I missed out on all the fun!!! Can we re-create this weekend next week just for me?? :-)

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