Fun at Grammie and Grandpa's House!

Grammie and Grandpa like to have Quincy over about once a week. Usually he gets to stay the night in his very own room, but since it's finally warmed up enough outside Grammie had to have Quincy over for a 'camp out'.

Quincy got to do lots of fun things on his 'camp out' like toasting marshmallows to make smores. (Grandpa Loren said Quincy didn't have the patience to sit there and toast the marshmallow, he was more content to eat them out of the bag.) Still, he enjoyed the smore making activity, though Grammie says he ate more un-toasted marshmallows than toasted ones.

Later when it got dark they set up the tent in the backyard and put their cots and blankets in it to sleep on. They read books in the dark tent with flashlights. Quincy even got to wear a special headlamp. They had lots of fun 'camping', but eventually came inside to sleep since Quincy was distracted by all the noise of cars driving by on the street and other outside noises.

Also, while at Grammie and Grandpa's Quincy got to go to the Clark County Fair. Uncle Scott and Uncle Karter were working there... so they got to go for free.

Quincy saw lots of animals... he was a little tired and crabby from having so much fun the night before that I heard he didn't get to enjoy the animals as much as the previous petting zoo he went to, but I think that he liked it overall. They saw lots of carnival rides, the Ferris wheel, animal exhibits, a rodeo show, and ate yummy 'fair food'.

By the time Quincy came back home to us... he was exhausted!

He can't wait for his next adventure there, maybe next year he will be able to camp through the whole night.....

Happy Birthday Quincy!

I can't believe that little Quincy is 3 years old already! It's crazy how much has happened since he joined our family:

Tyler and I have both graduated from college and moved in with his parents temporarily. Tyler got a job working for Combined Insurance. I had 3 doctors through my pregnancy with Quincy. We moved into an apartment in west Boise where we celebrated his 1st birthday. Tyler got a calling as an Elder's Quorum teacher, then primary teacher. I got a calling as primary teacher than Activity days Leader. I started working on-call as a designer at the florist I interned with. Tyler's job took him out of town for weeks at a time at least once a month-- hated that! We planted our own little garden in the small space outside our front window. Tyler's job at Combined got crazier and eventually unbearable as the economy got worse. Tyler made the decision to quit his job-- scary. I started working full time at Edward's Florist. I got pregnant-- again, scary! Tyler job hunted like crazy. Celebrated Quincy's 2nd Birthday during the big move. Eventually ended up with two solid job offers. We moved from Idaho into my parents place while apartment hunting. Found a great place to live and moved in. Tyler got called to teach Elder's Quorum again. I lucked out in a calling for a while until recently I was asked to Activity days, again. Some things never change. We had Braxton..... and here we are once again celebrating the birth of our firstborn.

Another Birthday.

Life with Quincy has been interesting to say the least.

He is such a good boy. He's smart, kind, funny, energetic, imaginative, loving, curious, a great helper, and the cute. We are so happy to be his parents. We love having the privilege to watch him grow. This birthday was a fun one, since he's now old enough to know what to be able to look forward to. He requested a cupcake birthday cake this year-- which I thought wouldn't be too difficult, but really given the circumstances of not having a kitchen available proved to make it harder than I anticipated.

Regardless, he loved his cake (even though Tyler made fun of it) which made me feel good about the effort I put into making it.

Let me back up and say that we spent Quincy's birthday at my parent's house. We figured it would be easier for everyone to gather at their house rather than our little apartment. Also, the weather was supposed to be HOT and our little apartment, with no AC, would be much warmer than their cool basement. We decided this BEFORE we discovered that they were going to be enduring a major overhaul of their kitchen. Due to some water damage, their whole kitchen was basically unavailable to use. Luckily we planned on doing a casual BBQ for Quincy's birthday dinner, but as for the cake I had to get a little creative using the bathroom counter for decorating. It wasn't the most convenient in that respect, but overall we didn't let the lack of a kitchen spoil our birthday plans.

Quincy was so excited for his cake and presents. Since his birthday was on Sunday we told him that we'd open presents and have cake after their naps when church was done. Tyler thought this wasn't going to work, but I think it went well. When both the boys finished their naps we did presents.

Quincy got PLENTY of goodies this year!

*We got him a big wheels bike...which he was really excited to open. (Tyler loved putting it together ) LOL

* Grandma Rena sent some money which we used to get him some golf clubs.

* Nanny and Pappy got him a bunch of various bunny books.

* Grandma Teesy and Grandpa Kent sent a package with some treats, safari animals, some cool trucks and cars, and a slinky.

* Grammie and Grandpa Loren got him a big monster truck, a drum-- thanks guys, a kids laptop, and 3 movies.

We had lots of fun eating hot dogs, fresh fruit and veggies, chips, and drinks, not to mentiont that awesome cupcake birthday cake and icecream. :o) Quincy has had so much new stuff he's still excited about his new things and plays with them all daily. I wonder what this year's Christmas will be like.

Happy Birthday Quincy!

Day In Damascus

You'll have to excuse the fact that these pictures are a few weeks old....

Due to an extremely old laptop with maxed out space, the minor details of leaving my camera at my parents house for a week, and that what blogging I do online is from 'borrowed' internet.... my blogging has been slowed down tremendoursly. Oh, and add on the fact that August is ALWAYS the busiest month for us with wedding season, birthdays, and vacations-- My excuses could go on and on. BUT here goes the start of playing August Blog catch up.

Two weekends ago we went as a family to the event called 'Day In Damascus'. It was sort of like a small carnival of sorts put on by various vendors in the park. Key Bank had a booth for "fishing". The kids got to throw a stick with a string attached over a tarp to "fish" for goodies. Tyler had to work the booth for a couple of hours and so I took the boys around to see what we could find. Most booths cost 2 tickets or less to take part in (the tickets were only .50) so it was a really great inexpensive event. There were lots of different booths: waterguns and supersoakers, a petting zoo, hair styling by the local salon, clowns, ramote control racecar tracks, rock climbing, a pony ride, a blow up bounce house, rides on a backhoe where you could dig up dirt, a big sand box with lots of toys, and various free booths like fire and safety stuff.

Quincy LOVED the petting zoo! Which is funny, cuz I thought he would have liked the pony ride or the blow up bounce house better.... but he liked the zoo so much we went back again. We definitey got our $2.00 worth of enterntainment petting the animals. He especially like the llama, which was recently shaven so it's fur was clean and soft. Quincy also petted miniature donkeys, a minaiature horse, bunnies, goats, a sheep, and of course that llama.

There was so much to do and the boys had lots of fun. The weather was a little cold in the morning, but what lacked in the weather department was made up for by the Day In Damascus event.

If we are still in this area next year I think we might go back again.