Taco Truck

This morning we continued our trips to Lowe's, this time creating a food trucks.  Daddy has been slightly obsessed with the idea of eating from a food truck, probably based on a video he saw with Dr. Doofenshmirtz last year.  There are ice cream trucks, but then food trucks are another matter altogether.  There are plenty at Downtown Disney, but we weren't sure about the gluten cross contamination, so we avoided those for the time being.  Eventually, we will have our food truck entry here on the blog with a highly detailed entry and photos!

Sadly, this taco truck did not serve food.  It was pretty fun to build, however.  Madison was doing most of the hammering, and putting stickers on for this one.  And of course collecting the patch at the end of the thing, part of a growing collection that is starting to completely cover her apron.  She proudly wears it each time, and of course gets a lot of commentary.  The same girl works there each time, and recognizes Madison as she walks up the aisle.  It's been a great little get-a-way for Madison and Daddy, where she's been learning some pretty basic carpentry skills - and it's all fun and free!

We were spending some time today prepping for service tomorrow, after being thrown a small curve ball about which animals could be here - suddenly tomorrow is all about the chihuahua, which is funny because it was a bonus message to begin with, now suddenly what our Sunday is all about.  Tiny, but mighty!

It's because of this that we watched the movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" tonight, one that Madison enjoyed a lot more this time around.  Certain things were cracking her up throughout the flick, to the point that she's looking forward to meeting Scrappy tomorrow. Scrappy is a chihuahua that belongs to one of our volunteers, last seen here in the jousting video we did a few years ago.

Madison actually wants to watch both of the sequels to the movie, starting with "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2" tomorrow afternoon.  I'm not entirely sure why we're obsessed with chihuahuas all of the sudden, but there it is!

Today Daddy was at work for a good part of the day, while Mommy was busy at home with prepping of her own, getting the house all nice and clean for Nana and Ba-Ba, who are driving up tomorrow from Florida.  It'll be another great week for Madison, who is looking forward to visits to the pool, and visits to the tennis court just as much.  We've got one more week of summer vacation for Madison, which is ridiculous to we as parents.  Sure, we're glad to have her in the educational process longer - but we are so adjusted to our own childhood's schedule, going to school AFTER Labor Day.  Labor Day is over a month away though!  

School is so associated with the fall season, that here we are in July, thinking "fall" thoughts, about apples, the change in weather, October activities and so forth.  And we're not even in August yet!  It's still July, with actually another week to go.  And yet, even the weather outside seems to think it is almost fall:  next week we're due for a temperature drop, believe it or not.  And overall, it's been a cooler summer, or at least it seems that way.  The frequent rainstorms have kept the sun blocked out a bit, with overcast skies and less direct blazing sun.  

But it has been a great summer for us, hasn't it?  The vacation was ideal, and we've certainly kept Madison busy with four different camps this summer - tennis, ballet, art, and Summer Xtreme.  We'll start up with the classes again soon, with a different schedule (hopefully determined soon), but we feel like Madison has had a balanced summer, with scheduled activities, and plenty of down time as well.

If only we could find a food truck... then things would be beyond awesome.  They'd be be-awesome!