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Posting this picture proves two things.

1. We made it back alive from Dallas.
   
2. Madeline is still rocking the smile.

While I was so excited for the wedding weekend, I was dreading the road trip with Madeline. Since she can get cranky after a morning that includes the grocery and Target, I was a little afraid 12 continuous hours might cause insanity for both of us. Because whether she liked it or not, we would have to do it all over again.

But she did wonderful. She found a good pattern of napping, watching a DVD, McDonald's playground stop, napping, DVD, etc. Madeline might disagree but I would do another trip in a heartbeat.

Have I mentioned before how much I love road trips? Yes, my kids are sure to have vacation horror stories that include hours in the car with their mom who insisted on listening to books on CD.

But I can guarantee that they will be loaded up on junk food because that's the only way I roll.

For this trip, Bill Bryson on CD nourished our souls and peanut M&M's filled our stomachs.

But let me take this time to talk about McDonald's. Before this trip, I never fully appreciated McDonald's playgrounds and Happy Meal toys. I do now.

I could never and will never get tired of their sweet tea. It keeps me coming back.

However, a general rule of the universe must be that the filthiest McDonald's has great service while the cleanest McDonald's has the worst, slowest service ever. (McDonald's just outside Memphis? I'm talking to you.)

I waited so long for my $1.29 double cheeseburger that by the time I got my sandwich (and I quote Bill here), I realized it was August and all my library books were overdue.

But enough rambling without saying anything. Here are my favorite pictures from the weekend.

P.S. I'm finally giving up on myself. I didn't even bring my own camera because I'm tired of lugging it around without taking a single shot. So thanks to Jen for the pictures.

Madeline swimming with her aunt while Joe and I power-napped to recover from driving through the night.

We were all pretty excited to wear flip-flops and actually see the sun. Oh, Indiana, you're killing me here.

I've mentioned before that Madeline can work a room to maximize her food intake. This is Exhibit A. (And yes, that is a Jonas brother on the left.)

If you look closely at the bottom, you can see that Madeline is wearing Janna's heels. She is a girly-girl. I love it.

I brought Madeline to the hair salon on the morning of the wedding and was a little worried she might not do well. But that's because I forgot people would be there.

This girl + an audience = a good time.

Some pretty gorgeous people went to the wedding. (And this is the prettiest church I've ever been in. And the most gorgeous wedding flowers. And the guy to the right of the groom is pretty hunky.)

And finally these two got hitched. It was perfect.

And for those of you who faithfully read my blog, yes, all the frozen cookies are already gone. Was it really an option to leave them in there?