Happy Easter

First, let me apologize for not getting these pictures up earlier. And secondly, I will apologize for the poor quality of the pictures. Unfortunately my camera had low batteries.... so any picture I took was between the camera turning off and on. Yes, Quincy's eyes are closed in half of them, Tyler's head is chopped off, and half of them are delayed behind the actual action moments, BUT you get the idea right?

Saturday morning we headed over to the church for our Ward's Pancake Breakfast/ Easter Egg Hunt. After we ate some pancakes, eggs, and fresh fruit we started the Easter Egg Hunt. Before hunting for the eggs, we colored an Easter egg picture and made an Easter egg bag. Quincy obviously had more fun looking and licking he stickers than actually decorating his bag, but at least I had fun, right? When we finished making our Easter bag we were told that the younger kids ages 0-3 were to "hunt" in the back of the church.


At this point Quincy really didn't know what was going on. When we were walking out the doors he heard a bunch of the older kids yelling (who were already outside scrambling to grab all the eggs they could, despite being told they were only allowed to get 10 eggs each). I guess since he heard everyone else yelling with excitement he thought he should yell too. It was funny because I know he didn't really have a clue what all the yelling was about, but of course he wasn't about to be the only one NOT yelling, so he joined in.



When we got outside to the designated area for the little kids to hunt eggs, a bunch of older kids were scooping them up as fast as they could. I had to yell at some of them to remind them, as they must have forgot, that these were for the little nursery kids. They apologized and put the eggs back. It wasn't much of a hunt, as the eggs were scattered all over the grass, but Quincy seemed to get the hang of it.


I thought it was interesting that all the older kids were hogging all the eggs, since the eggs didn't have candy in them. The original instruction was to get 10 empty plastic eggs, and then you went inside the church to receive your candy/goody bag. It didn't really matter how many eggs you got, as long as you had a few you still received a candy bag. I think Quincy ended up getting 12 eggs since the older kids starting throwing their eggs back on the grass. All in all, we had fun. I'm sure next year will be even more fun.

Sunday we invited our friends, Kim and Tyler, over for Easter dinner. I didn't feel up to making a ham or the usual Easter trimmings so I opted for Mediterranean Chicken, Twice baked Potatoes, and a Greek green salad. Everything turned out really yummy.

We are so thankful for good food, great friends, and our dear Savior who sacrificed his life for us so that we may live with our Father in Heaven again. Here's hoping that all of you had a wonderful Easter!

Side note:

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I forgot to tell you all what Quincy did for my birthday. He said his first sentence.

For a while now he's been putting two or three words together like, "Help Me" or "More Please", but on my birthday while we were eating our yummy burgers and fries he clearly said "Dad, I need choc milk".



A whole 5 words clearly stated as a sentence. Tyler and I thought it was hilarious that he said I *NEED* choc milk... Not to be mistaken for simply *WANTING* chocolate milk.



This kid is so smart.

Oh, and did I mention he officially knows all the letters in the alphabet. He can also say almost the majority of them when we point to a letter and ask him what it is.


He's not even 2 for crying out loud!?! Looks like we've done something right as parents, which of course would make anyone happy on their birthday. So thank you Quincy for such a wonderful birthday present to your mama.

It's that time of the year.... the weather is warming up...

...And we decided to plant a garden. Luckily the place I work at also has a greenhouse and so I have quite the selection of vegetables to choose from at a discounted price. So far we have planted:

Romaine Lettuce (green and red)
Spinach
Celery
Arugula
Tomatoes
Shallots
Cilantro
and Onions

We are planning on planting some potatoes and strawberries this year too. It will, hopefully, be quite the garden. Last years was a disappointment because the weather was so cold until May, we couldn't plant things in time. Our hope and prayer this year is that we will have a fruitful garden.


In addition to planting our vegetables and herbs, I also planted some tulip, daffodil, and hyacinth bulbs. They won't flower next year because they were forced in a greenhouse, but they will the following year. I don't care, the foliage is still nice.

And lastly, to complete our little garden we planted some ground moss to grow between the rocks. I think it looks nice... or rather, it will look nice in a year when it fills out more.

And as a nice surprise..... today Quincy received an Easter package from Grammie and Grandpa Loren. He got:

A Sesame street coloring book
Some summer shorts
Hersey's chocolate eggs (which were Quincy's favorite)
A little Curious George
and A smiley hackey sack



He loved all of it... especially the treats and coloring book. Thanks mom and dad. I'm sure we'll get great use out of the coloring book at church and such. Love you guys!

Saving the big bucks!

We got some smoking good coupons this last week. We got one coupon for margerine at Albertsons for .49 cents a box, with a limit of 8..... so of course we purchased 8. Afterall, who can have too much butter? Then we had a coupon for spices at Walgreens 2 for a $1.00. I got 6 spices for $3.16! And lastly, but not least we got some Colgate toothpast at Rite Aid for .99 cents.

I love good coupons... which make for great deals.

More fun with animals.

The funniest part about our trip to the Julia Davis park were the geese. This time around we brought some stale popcorn. The geese at this park are far more courageous and daring. They came right up to us, practically eating the food right out of our hands. We gave Quincy a few pieces of popcorn to feed to the goose and this is what happened:

Here the goose is sitting nicely, as if he's trying to communicate... please give me some of that popcorn... PLEASE!

Quincy still didn't quite get it, so Tyler had to show him how.

And here Quincy is tricking the goose. He would hold out his hand as if he was going to throw it and as soon as the goose would get closer to get it he would shove it in his mouth and laugh out loud. It must have been a funny game because he did this over and over until this goose came along:

This goose (the one of the right) was mean, notice how his head is in a low position and it looks like he's about to attack his prey, Quincy. He was hissing and making nasty noises. I quickly had to tell Tyler to get Quincy further back. Quincy obviously doesn't understand the concept of a 'mean goose'.

Here Quincy was trying to make amends with the mean goose by waving his hand while saying "HI". Unfortunately the gooses' heart was not softened. Perhaps next time Quincy will break him down.

The adventurous side of our son!

Monday we decided to head out to the Julia Davis parks. It's one of my favorite parks in Boise. Quincy had so much fun playing on the playground. This year he's actually big enough to understand the concept of a playground's equipment.

In the picture below Quincy is working up the nerve to go down the "big kid slide". Look at his face!

Doesn't it just scream.... what will happen if I get in?

Here is he taking the plunge, or should I say dive. Literately he ended up going down on his tummy, feet first.

Ahhhh... but look at the exhilarated look on his face afterwards. It says: SUCCESS!

Here was one of the first pictures when we got to the playground. He, for some odd reason, was a little freaked about walking up this ramp. I don't know why. He was clinging to this 'hand rail' the whole way up.

Scared of a little ramp, but not fearless of slides and tunnels that lead to who knows where.

The hardest part of these tunnels was getting his feet out first, which he was insistent on doing.

Taking a little breather after a lot of playing.

"So Quincy are you gonna go down this slide by yourself?" YUP.

And of course if he can go down the slide by himself, than surely he can climb up it by himself too, right?

All in all, we will be back for more fun and adventures at the parks.

Sunday was a sunny day indeed.

Sunday afternoon after conference was over we decided to take a family walk down the street to the cemetery. I know what you're thinking..... a cemetery? But the reason we walked down there was because they have ducks, geese, and best of all swans!

The weather was perfect for a Sunday walk, and Quincy couldn't be happier getting out of the house.

He really loved feeding the ducks. I, personally was a big fan of the swans. They were so graceful reaching out their long white necks for the little cheerios and pieces of stale bread we were throwing into the pond.

The Cloverdale Cemetery also has reindeer. Weird, I know, but Quincy seemed to enjoy them. He kept calling the cows... I guess we have yet to discover what a reindeer is.

After we finished our lovely time at the "park" we were walking home and discovered this:

How sad. I felt so bad for this poor little duck who didn't make it to the pond to eat our treats. Of course I didn't feel bad enough because, like the good blogger that I am, I pulled out my camera to take a picture.

Mr. Jabber Jaws

I thought I would share a funny story that happened last week. On Wednesday afternoon we headed to the Meridian Library to make our usual movie trip.

Quincy has recently been obsessed with his pockets. He walks around frequently with one hand in his pant pocket, or one in his shirt pocket, or two hands in both pockets. When we got to the library Tyler went to the movie section to pick out some DVDs. Quincy and I headed to the kids section to play with the toys. While he was running to the kids corner, with two hands in his pocket he suddenly stopped and turned to the library lady at the desk and said, "I have a pocket." She said... "Oh, you have two pockets?" to which he replied, "Two" and ran off. It was so funny. He has become quite social these days. Telling complete strangers everything he knows.

Our little pocket man!

Quincy is officially big enough to....

... ride his four wheeler.

Which is ironic because he got this for his 1st Birthday. At the time he didn't really know what to do with it and we spent quite some time with out backs hunched over running behind him with it. But no more!

Now he is big enough to ride by himself!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well, I have officially turned 23.

I don't really think there is anything special about the number 23, however, I had a great day. The only downside to my birthday was that I had to work. It wasn't horrible, in fact I was actually happy about getting in some hours for work, since I haven't worked since Valentines Day!

When I finished working Tyler and Quincy picked me up. Tyler bought some balloons and blew them up for Quincy. Then he took care of dinner, which was hamburgers and home made steak fries.

I have to admit that I was especially tired from work so we ended up watching and movie and heading to bed fairly early, but overall the day was great.

I want to thank everyone for the nice Birthday wishes and gifts to me.

My in laws bought me an apron, which I got lots of compliments on at work.

My mom and dad bought me a new dress and some hair serum.

Tyler spent the day taking care of Quincy for me.

My RS presidency dropped by to give me some cookies.

And I received lots of love from family and friends wishing me happiness on my special day.

Thank you everyone!

A visit from Grandpa Loren:

Grandpa's little helper.

Tuesday morning Grandpa Loren flew into Boise. We were so excited that he would get to see us at our house. Quincy was especially excited to see Grandpa. He wasn't quite sure where we were going the morning we went to pick Grandpa up at the airport, but he was enthusiastic none the less. Grandpa Loren had some work to do at the Boise Mall. We headed straight over there after we picked him up at the airport. Then we headed back home to take naps and play.

Obviously Quincy was in need of a nap!

Tyler had to work a little on Tuesday, but when he got home we went out to dinner for my birthday, even though my Birthday wasn't until Thursday! Since I was the soon-to-be birthday girl, I got to pick the place for dinner. I thought we should try somewhere new so we went to Good Wood Barbecue. It was yummy. I ordered a Salmon Fillet and Garlic Smashed potatoes with a Cesar salad and corn bread. Quincy helped eat my corn bread though. It was so nice of Grandpa to take us out to dinner.

After dinner we stopped at the Nike Outlet so the boys could browse for shoes and then we picked up some ice cream at Walmart for dessert.

Tyler and my dad played basketball than night while I stayed home with Quincy. I watched a movie called "What happens in Vegas" and it was HILARIOUS! I felt dumb laughing so hard out loud because I was the only one watching it.

Wednesday morning Grandpa was really nice and bought us some groceries and even made us French Toast for breakfast. That grandpa is very very sneaky, he even filled our gas tank!

Before long it was time for Grandpa to fly home. We drove him to the airport and said our goodbyes. We can't wait to see him again!

"Baby" BOB:

Since visiting Quincy's cousin Jakoby, he has taken to pretend holding "babies". For instance, he has a mega bloks dump truck man to ride in the dump truck, who we have named BOB. He picked up his blanky and wrapped up BOB and wealked around the house saying, "Baby sleeping." It was pretty cute.