IT'S A BOY!!!!!

We had our ultra sound this week and found out that we are going to have a boy! More importantly it is a healthy boy! Most importantly he's due JUNE 21st!!!!! I knew that we were always meant for a 21 baby. We are not quite revealing names yet but... let us know how you like the middle name "21" or even "twenty-one" we don't want to make it too hard for him to spell so we are leaning more towards the first one but we'll see. Now for the good stuff here are the first pictures of our baby boy. Any guesses on what this last picture is of?!?

sexy santa

so every tuesday and thursday quinn plays basketball at the church, well, when he came home tuesday night from ball he had a little smirk on his face. they had just asked him to be santa at the ward christmas party that saturday night and he wanted my permission to do it. after the shock set in i could not stop laughing. when i was finally able to speak the first words out of my mouth were, "but...you're brown!" we had a good laugh seeing how santa is white, fat, and old, and quinn is brown, skinny, and young. the only reasons we could think that they would pick him to be santa clause is because he is jolly and it was a christmas luau. he did such a good job though as you can see in the video. the kids absolutely loved him. even i got to sit on his lap and tell him what i wanted for christmas....except i was the only lucky one that got to give him a kiss. i was such a proud mrs. clause!

after the luau quinn and i had my nieces and nephews over to spend the night. we watched a movie (luckily we had a kid movie in the house) and made them comfy little beds on our couches. in the morning quinn made them a yummy breakfast and saved my life by playing with them for the afternoon while i was able to stay in the bedroom and finish up my talk. he is such a sweetheart! sunday was our ward christmas program and the bishop asked me to speak in sacrament meeting. i was also asked by the relief society teacher to help her out in her lesson and speak, and on top of all that we teach sunday school. i loved the subject i was asked to talk on in relief society though. it was about choosing your eternal companion and how to prepare for an eternal marriage. i started out by saying that if you've seen my husband you know why it wasn't a hard decision. i then went into talking about all of the good advice we were given before our marriage to serve each other and just try to make each other happy. it has worked for quinn and i. we hear all the time that your first year is the hardest.....well, if this year is the hardest, then the 20th year must be like disneyland all year long. i can't wait!

louisville baby!

after a lot of hard work and studying AND stress....we got into louisville dental school!!!! here is quinn reading his acceptance email. (this picture was of course taken the day after because the day of we were jumping up and down, screaming, and weren't able to concentrate enough to take a picture). i'm so proud of quinn; he has worked his bootie off and now he gets to relax...at least for a few months. thank you all so much for all of your prayers and support. we love you all!

playing with cassi

so quinn and i went home for thanksgiving and had a blast (of course after the 12 hour drive there). we have the coolest families ever and love to just hang out with them. we kinda forgot our camera so i don't have any cute pictures of our thanksgiving trip to boise, but cassi (my sister) and i took some pictures with my brother's really cool new computer. i know...lame...but hey i feel like i have nothing exciting to blog lately so this will have to do. quinn is taking the dat on wednesday and is studying like crazy to prepare himself, but i think that he is ready and will do great. we'll be happy when it's over.

feliz halloween!

last night quinn and i went to our ward's trunk or treat party and our non-member friends that we invited actually came! quinn made friends with todd, the dad, playing ghetto ball at the park (quinn said they were the only two white guys there). since then we have had dinner together and become good friends with him, his wife and their 3 kids. anyways, seeing how i had to dress up for this party and for my work, i quickly realized that all of my costumes were at my parent's house. so quinn and i decided to use just what we had in the house so that we didn't have to buy anything. well, is all we had was a sombrero. we worked with it...and quinn turned out to be the best juan valdez i've ever seen. (for those of you who don't know, juan valdez is the columbian coffee guy). i had to say to the girls at my work, who are all mexican, that he was dressed up as juan valdez, i couldn't just say that he was a mexican for halloween...that sounds a little racist. but he really did look like a mexican after he put on the wig and i drew the mustache on him. i was cracking up all night. to say the least, we had a great time at the party with our friends and even won a cake at the cake walk and danced at the dance party. olay!

ren fair

this last weekend quinn and i went to the renaissance fair with our friends the endrizzi's and met some of las vegas' finest wackos. we couldn't believe how infatuated these people are with the renaissance era. almost every person there was dressed up, and many were just dressed up...no meaning to their outfit at all. i think they just wanted an excuse to wear nothing and paint their face. we decided that if you are going to dress up, go all out or go home. we saw a man in jeans, a new york nets jersey, and a feather coming out of his baseball hat. we met the actual queen, king, fair maiden of the fair, whose picture is at the top, although we didn't even know that it was them until we went to watch jousting and they were being bowed down to and sitting on a stage in front of everyone while the crowd was chanting, "long live the queen!!!" and just to let you know, the jousting was REAL! no joke! we even saw a guy get thrown of his horse and another guy...i mean knight...broke his stick just like on "a knight's tale". i also have to mention quinn's outfit. before we left, i heard him in the closet saying, "what should i wear? i don't have anything renaissance." he came out in a hawaiian shirt. we didn't stick out at all. good times in sin city.

#21's fan club

so quinn went from this....

to this.

in high school quinn grew out his fro during basketball season and his family decided that they were going to cheer him on with fro's of their own. quinn was on the news and in the newspapers, along with his friends and family cheering him on. everyone looks great...but there is just something about jim and a fro that go together.
notice quinn's little sister colleen in the bottom right. have you ever seen a more gorgeous little girl?! you know you're hot when even a fro wig looks great on you.