Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Chucky Cheese and Lefferpecans

Chucky Cheese

It had been awhile since we had a fun family night out, so Brendon and I decided to take the kids to Chucky Cheese. They had a blast and Mommy and Daddy Q had a blast watching the kids have so much fun!  We even had an appearance by Mr. Cheese himself, and Brooklyn's eyes were as big as saucers (Carson just wanted his food)... Here are some pictures of our night...

Carson DEVOURED two slices of pizza! He ate more than his big sister!

Such a dainty eater

I think they were having too much fun pretending to run over Mommy Q

Brooklyn wanted to steer, so Dooder's hanging on for dear life!


Lefferpecans

No... I'm not talking about a new hybrid of nut ... Brooklyn came home from school last week and was talking about a little animal they learned about in preschool that "likes to wear green" and "likes shiny things" ... Searching my brain, I asked her "do you mean Leprechauns?" and she replied "yeah, Lefferpecans"... Since then they have been called Leffercans, Lefferfecans and Lefferbecans .... Is it wrong that I haven't corrected her because I think it's soooo dang cute the way she says it???  I saved a couple shoe-boxes so we could make a Lefferpecan trap and told her we would try to catch one on St. Patricks Day... Well, she couldn't wait that long, she had traps set this morning and I decided Lefferpecans could visit her a day early.  While she was in watching TV with Carson they visited!

This was her trap (she came up with it all on her own, a dime in a shoe-box)

I just told her that I think Lefferpecans were in the trap!

They made her bed! 

 Be veeerrry careful!

Dang! she didn't catch a Lefferpecan, but they left her some rainbow colored candy and stole her dime! Those tricky Lefferpecans!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Britney enters the blogging world!

Hey family and friends!

There are too many times when the kids say something cute, or funny, or I just want to shout to the world how amazing my husband is, so I decided to try my hand at blogging.  I'm hoping that I'll post pretty regularly.  

Yesterday I happened upon a link to a blog called Nie Nie Dialogues and was amazed at the courage and faith of this woman. Her name is Stephanie Nielson and she is LDS.  She and her husband, Christian, were in a private plane crash in August of 2008 near Page, AZ. Stephanie had burns covering 80% of her body and was in the ICU for several months, and she is still going through recovery.  I don't remember ever hearing about this happening, but I spent about an hour last night just reading posts from her blog. This morning I was thinking about it, and I thought "if she can do it, so can I".  So I guess you can say I was inspired.

Fun in the Spring Sun!

Brooklyn has been freaking out that it's Spring, so I thought I'd better take the munchkins outside on such a beautiful day!  I should have been inside doing laundry, but I just couldn't resist the sunshine! Here are some pictures of the kids having a blast.

Gorgeous girl!!!

 Dooder's smile has been a bit of a rarity lately beause he's getting his two year molars, ouch!

 So carefree!

So happy!

The only thing that's missing is Daddy!!! Hurry home from work my love!
 Thanks for reading my first post! I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!