awww yeeeah!

yes, quinn had to open up a can last weekend.

on friday night we hung out at a friend's house until about 11:30, and as we pulled into our driveway we saw two guys jump out our back window! (ok, i won't use exclamation points throughout my whole story...but just know that i am writing it with a fast pacing heart and wide eyes). i have never seen anyone run so fast and hop fences with so much ease as i did quinn that night. he chased them down and eventually caught one of them while i called 911 and stayed with my sleeping baby.

now here's the fun part. after quinn has hopped a few fences, ripped his shorts, and landed in the mud, he caught the guy and got him in a choke hold. the loser then has the audacity to grab my man's jewels...yep, the family jewels. oh boy, that was not the right thing to do. now if you know quinn, i'm sure this will be hard (and fun) for you to imagine. he proceeds to deck the guy as hard as he can, oh, and woops...he still has the keys in his hand. the dude tells quinn that he won't run and they come up to the side of the road to wait for the cops. in the meantime, the idiot (lets see how many adjectives i can use for this imbecile) tries to smoke but quinn is like, "get that corn outta my face", pulls it from his lips and chucks it. even at a time like that i couldn't help but think how hot the protective side of quinn is.

i could make this story even longer, but to shorten it, we caught both jack a's and got all of our stuff back. they are still in jail and we are going to press charges to keep them in there for as long as we can.

bastards.

(sorry, mom, for the vulgarity. you know i never cuss...but there's something about someone stealing from you that brings it out in me).

catching up

we had a great time when my parents and older brother and sister-in-law came into town for my brother's graduation from dental school. seeing how i have to catch up for all those weeks that i didn't blog, once again, i post a blog that is mainly pictures. sorry.

oh dad dad daddy-o, you and that blue tooth crack me up.

the louisville zoo is gorgeous and quinn bought me a year pass for mother's day, so i took mom and dad and we made it a day. i usually don't like zoo's, but other than the gorillas looking sad, i don't have any complaints.

congratulations joe! we are going to miss you like crazy!!! especially quinn. who in the world is he going to play ball with now?!

my oldest brother sam, an orthodontist in boise that also graduated from UofL, came to the graduation and had the honors of cloaking joe. quinn and i realized that if i get into the dental hygiene program, we will graduate on the same day and quinn will be able to cloak me. awwww.

jayden is also going to miss joe immensely. he gets so excited and flaps his arms like a bird whenever joe walks in our door.

proud parents.

joe also received an award earlier that day for being exceptional at implants. some of the awards gave money, so quinn took note of which awards those were and will now work towards achieving them. :)

we loved having grandma and grandpa here and can't wait to see them again.

thank you sam and hollie for taking us to all of your favorite restaurants, and for all the graeter's ice cream, and for making me gain 5 lbs over the weekend.

oh boy, jayden's becoming a cheeser. we didn't even try to make him look or smile at the camera in this picture.

i have to buy these sunglasses...

i just HAVE to!

you're the only ten i see

ok ok, please don't be hatin'. i have a great excuse for not blogging for the last month or so. no internet is a great excuse right? a lot has happened and i don't even know where to start. so how about i fill you in on our fantastic, wet vacation to tennessee. it rained the entire time, but we still happened to enjoy ourselves quite a bit, and spend some quality time with our friends. as far as the title goes, that is what quinn said probably 21 times while we were in tennessee. as old as it got, i guess i'm glad he thinks i'm a ten.

let me warn you, i am going to post a gazillion pictures, which are mainly for karen (who has very discretely let me know that she wants to see pictures of her grand baby. if you call messages on my phone and facebook discrete). we love you karen.

at first we held jayden, trying to keep him clean, but after a while we decided what the heeyo, let the boy live. he played in the cold water, built a sand castle with daddy, and ate as much sand as his mouth would hold.

that says BROWN OHANA if you couldn't tell. brown family in hawaiian.

he was SO dirty! and look at that mouth full of sand! i think this is the moment where he decided that he didn't exactly care for it. too bad we didn't get a picture of quinn stripping jayden naked and washing him off in the cold lake water. i think that the people next to us thought we were abusing our child, but i wasn't about to put that dirty boy in our clean car. poor cute kid.

i love jayden's smile in this picture.

i had to put this picture in just to show how big my baby boy is getting. actually, he looks older than he is in this picture because of the way he is sitting, but it still makes me sad.

there was a gorgeous hike down to the waterfalls where it took you to "the wet zone".

we were completely soaked and dripping wet. once again, jayden was a trooper.

this background was so pretty that we....i mean quinn, wanted a family picture, so after this picture quinn set the camera on the little bridge, pushed the timer button, and ran up to meet me. he reached jayden and i, we smiled, but to no camera. yes, i told him this would happen, our camera fell in the water. a few choice words came out (of me, i guess i should say) and i see quinn run as fast as he can down the hill, luckily to find that the camera hadn't been swept away in the river. we let it air out and it works fine now, but we didn't get any pictures of this waterfall, which was way cooler than the first. oh well, maybe next year. and maybe quinn will learn his lesson......who are we kidding.

at the timeshare's pool, livin' the life.

he was so tired and cold, but so dang cute.

i love how miserable jayden looks in this picture.

and that was our fun little trip to tennessee. i promise i won't go so long without posting....karen. joe's graduation pictures are up next. (how impressive is that, i even know what i'm posting next!)

gosh dangit all to heck!!!

i want to post a funny video of quinn and jayden and it still says error! HELP!!!

surprise!

i can't surprise quinn for the life of me! just the other day he found out what he is getting for his birthday and i just about lost it! he, on the other hand, surprises me about once a day. easter morning wasn't any different.

so, a few days ago i asked quinn if i could get jayden an easter basket, his reply was no, saying that he was too young and we shouldn't spend money on easter anyways. easter morning rolls around and i wake up to quinn and jayden's shining faces, quinn's eyes wide with a huge smile, saying, "did the easter bunny come?!"
i shot him a glance of "oh no you din't!" and ran out the bedroom door to find a trail of chocolate easter eggs leading from our bedroom to the living room, where i found a gorgeous daffodil plant, lots of candy, and a few other presents just waiting for me! he must have done this in the middle of the night! i jumped up and down and squealed like a little girl, with tears coming to my eyes thinking of how sweet and thoughtful my husband is. growing up with 10 kids in my family, we never got easter baskets, so this was so exciting for me.

seeing how quinn made me think that we weren't doing anything for easter, i didn't get him anything, and felt stupid right away, to which his reply was, "you give me something every day". awwwwwww. or in quinn's words, "how did a girl like me get a guy like you?"

the trail

jayden finding the trail

jayden eating the trail

oh no he din't!

oh how i wish those were just tootsie rolls in jayden's bath water. ah, the joys of motherhood.

rain rain go away

i want to be here

or here

or here

or here.....



just not here.

i was told that it rains nonstop here in the spring, so i wasn't shocked to wake up to the sound of pitter pattering on the roof. the weatherman was wrong yesterday so i was hoping he'd be wrong again today. we had a gorgeous palm sunday, full of warm, sunny weather, in which we spent at our friends house getting our fill of food and the good lord's word. but once again, it is a dark, drizzly day where i just want to stay inside and cuddle with my little baby cuddle bug (who is learning how to walk as we speak!) after enduring months of this weather, i find myself dreaming of walking on the beach barefoot in hawaii, or on the lake with our good friends, or in cabo san lucas walking the streets looking for souvenirs, or in sunny las vegas riding the scooter with my man. but i guess that is why i gave our bedroom an island theme, for moments like these, where i can just lay on our beautiful handmade quilt covered in hawaiian plumeria flowers, or stare at the framed island picture that i tore from a hawaiian calendar, and dream of a beautiful, sunny day, sitting on the beach with a flower in my hair and not a care in the world. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.