Quincy Special Week

Father's Day and Quincy's birthday usually fall in the same week. That means it's a one stop party around here for Daddy.

We made our daddy a waffle for breakfast and then headed to our old, old ward to hear a missionary farewell. So good to see everyone. Then we hit our regular ward too. Father's day isn't as celebrated as Mother's day in our new ward. We only had sacrament on Mother's day. Super nice! Daddy collected cookies from both wards. Then after church we made daddy use his new grill to cook us some yummy steaks. 

Quincy likes lots of fuss on his birthday so I tried to give him what he wanted. Not really. He is a minimalist. Maybe one of these birthdays I will throw him a surprise birthday just so he can't fight me on anything. 

Quincy wanted to go out to lunch and last minute he picked Cheesecake Factory. Win-win for everyone! The kids all wanted to go there for their birthdays too. We told the waiter that it was his birthday and they brought him the smallest scoop of ice cream I have ever seen (I guess they want you to buy the $9 cheesecake). They did sing to him and gave him lots of fuss. 

After, we headed home to gear up for our next activity. Bowling! It turned out to be cosmic bowling and Hawaii night at Sunset Station. We haven't taken the kids bowling for a long time and we had a blast singing along with the good music. The ladies next to us really got decked out in Hawaii gear and ended up giving it to Lucy when they were done. I wasn't nice to the birthday boy since I took back the bowling crown. 

We sure love our Daddy! 

Daddy Daughter Campout

 

Our new ward had a Daddy Daughter Campout on September 20th. We actually had to talk Lucy into going on this trip. She wasn't too sure if she would like camping in a tent or being away from her mama, but she went. Daddy and her took Little Caesars Pizza up to Camp Stimpson on Mount Charleston. This is where our old ward goes to girls camp. I guess our new ward doesn't because none of them knew it was even there.

 

When they got there Lucy was a little sad. Quincy said she was missing home but after awhile she warmed up and had fun. Quincy got to meet some dads up there while Lucy was shy and hung around daddy.

 

The highlight for Lucy was painting daddy's fingernails on Saturday morning.  Of course she picked bright pink.

 

These are the pictures daddy took of the overnighter.

 

 

 

Lucy did a silly face all by herself.

 

 

My tongue trick twins.

 

 

Jensen was a little sad that he had to stay home with his mom while they went camping. I did take Jensen on a few errands but made a stop at Circle K for Root Beer and picked ourselves up a pizza from Little Caesars. He was a happy boy for being left home.

Boys Go Camping

 Quincy took Jensen to Father and Sons a weekend or two ago up at Mack's Canyon at Mount Charleston. Jensen had a great time. He loves being outside and he enjoyed playing with the other kids from our ward. There was a dog up there that he wasn't too sure about but he loved that someone had brought a potato gun and a catapult.

 

I sent my camera with Quincy and was surprised to see that he actually used it.

 

The Walker Tent - It was warm that night so they didn't even have to put on the rain fly/protector.

 

 

Quincy said by the end of the night he was pretty much on the ground. I guess our air bed has a hole in it. Jensen didn't stir but Quincy didn't get too much sleep. The ward served breakfast burritos and then the boys headed home. They were home before ten the next morning.

 

 

Quincy asked Lucy what we did while they were gone. She looked at me and giggled and told him it was a secret. She didn't want me to get in trouble. We had actually went shopping and Lucy out shopped me. She kept saying one more store mom. I was so worn out and hungry but kept pressing on because I didn't want to let Lucy down. After Lucy and I got home I put Lucy to bed and started Downtown Abby. I was hooked and couldn't stop watching for a week or two until I had watched all three seasons.

Are You a Sports Fan?

 

The Kanets got brave and said that they wanted to do a babysitting trade. Obviously we didn't turn them down. Since working at home full-time, a night out with my one and only always sounds like a wonderful idea. I thought I would let Quincy pick something that he wanted to do on our date night since I have dragged him shopping a time or two.

 

There is a new sports fan museum that opened in the Luxor that Quincy wanted to check out. They told us that we couldn't take any pictures in here. Quincy wasn't too happy about this rule. So these are all totally illegal shots taken from my purse. I was trying to be so sly but I am sure they were watching me take them and luckily they looked the other way.

 

Anyway we saw some really cool sports memorabilia. They had game used uniforms of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, and Larry Bird, etc... Also, Marcus Allen's Heisman trophy, Superbowl rings, old footballs and basketballs, shoes from Shaq, you name it, it was there. So some of the stuff we have pictures of, the others we don't since our tour guide was too close to us to snap a picture.

 

 

 

 

After every sport they let you have a hands on activity with that sport. Quincy and I weren't too interested in the hockey section but we did try to see if we could complete a hockey relay. Hockey is so not my sport I couldn't even complete it in normal shoes let alone hockey skates.

 

 

Another hands on but with Nascar, we thought Jensen would of loved this!

 

 

Shaq's shoe was almost two of mine.

 

I totally could of played in the NBA I have a inch on Muggsy.

 

 

We didn't get kicked out of the museum like I thought we might of. Yay for us and yay for date night!

 

5th Anniversary

On the tenth of this month Quincy and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. That went crazy fast! Quincy surprised me with an overnighter without the kids (the first time in three and a half years that both of us have been away from them together) at Lake Las Vegas. That's where it all went down five short years ago. Well sort of. The Las Vegas Temple was the most important part of the day, but we had our wedding reception/dinner at the Hyatt, which is now owned by Loews. We have been back to Lake Las Vegas since but this was our first time back to the beautiful patio where we celebrated getting married with family and friends. After a peaceful dinner at Cheesecake Factory we took our cheesecake to go eat it on the patio. We had the whole place to ourselves. So while we were eating our cheesecake we reminisced a little bit of all the memories from our wedding. Since we were toasted with a top ten, here is our top ten memories of that day.

#10. Beautiful Places. Can't get any prettier than the Las Vegas Temple. Then the reception to follow at Lake Las Vegas. I am so glad my cousin found this place to have it.

#9. Our crazy and dramatic D.J. with a deep voice that thought she ran the show. She kept counting down the bouquet toss but my photographer wasn't ready. So I wouldn't toss it. She would start over again with the same results like five times.

#8. All our friends and family that came both to the temple and the reception. We made almost everyone travel for us.

#7. We actually got married that day! When we showed up at the temple the temple recorder which happened to be my Stake President (and still is) informed Quincy that he didn't have all the right recommends which wasn't his fault. That is what we were told by my singles ward bishop. The Stake President said don't worry we'll get you married it just might not be today. That was not reassuring at all. They said they would call Quincy's bishop. He was out of town. Thankfully they called his Stake President and he was able to come to the temple minutes before our ceremony and get that settled. Whew!

#6. Dancing. Quincy and I got to dance to Come What May. We both got to dance with our parents and even my grandparents. I remember Jerry was trying to be all fancy which left me getting my toes and his stepped on.  Even the little girls that are now wearing make-up, shook their stuff.

#5. Really good food. We had a delicious Italian buffet. So good! 

#4. Funny quotes during the actual ceremony. The sealer said as the wife I wouldn't have to do much. I asked if I could get that in writing. Another one was when the sealer said he has had success in marriage doing three things; Lunch at noon. Dinner at six. Then he couldn't remember the third one. My Uncle yelled out "It's called breakfast". Later, I dropped Quincy's ring. Someone said I was nervous. I just said it was a slippery little sucker (from a famous movie).

#3.  Gondola ride. This was our big exit from the party. Quincy and I both got a surprise when the gondola driver started singing like he just got off Broadway during our ride around the lake.

#2.  Our brothers, T.J. and Kevin toasted each of us. Embarrassing both of us but Quincy got the worst of it. T.J. brought up some fun and one fake stories as he told a story with every letter from my name. Kev had a top ten list with "Why it's good Quincy is getting married." He almost got disowned by his whole family after this.

 

#1. Quincy and I differ on our top ones. But let's just say the whole day. It was perfect!

Here we are five years later.

This was our view from our room at the Monte Lago. I woke up feeling like I was in Florence, Italy.

 Big thanks to Quincy's parents for watching our kids so we could enjoy almost a whole 24 hours with just the two of us. Great anniversary! Quincy is in charge every year now!