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I know I haven't posted any pictures of Quentin for a long time so here's a whole bunch of our camera loving boy. I'll post some stories later

Update

I know it really has been too long since I've done a post, but here's a little recap of what's been happening. We finally sold all 8 of the puppies. They were so cute before they all left, but I was extremely happy that they all sold. Chance's job has been going well for him and so far they aren't feeling any effects of this crappy economy...hopefully it stays that way. I only have 3 weeks left of school and I am excited and ready to be done and working again (I never thought I would say I was excited to be working). Quentin is getting to be so much fun for us! He's such a happy little boy and I can't believe he's almost 1. He started walking about a month ago and now he cruises along. His first official word, besides Dada and Mama, was puppy (Hmm, who can guess why that was). Well that's a pretty brief overview of our lives, but at least it's a little something.

All the puppies before they sold


Q passed out on the floor


Q's first ride in our friend's Barbie jeep


Chance and Q are so handsome!


Q's favorite food is mac and cheese!

Puppy Update & Weekend fun

Well the puppies are 3 weeks old now and they have already changed so much. They all now have their eyes open and are starting to be a lot more mobile. It's pretty fun when you walk in the room and they're all crawling all over each other, then you say something and they look at you. Then when I put my hands in their cage they all come over to get turns at being pet and loved on. Now, with them growing they're also finding their vocal cords, it's hilarious to hear them growl and make all of their little noises. We've been pretty lucky, because they aren't too noisy at night (yet). I think I get a new favorite one every day, but as of right now it's one of the three boys, he's white with light brown spots, he's adorable!
My favorite...as of right now.


This last weekend was a ton of fun, because we actually got out and did something. The weather was amazing, 82 degrees and sunny! Sunday we went to the Florida Strawberry Festival, it's just like a big fair. We walked around and looked at all the vendors booths, had yummy strawberry shortcake, then tried to decide what deep fried thing we were going to eat (they literally had anything you could think of available deep fried, oh, and they even had chocolate dipped bacon!), I decided on an onion blossom and Chance had a corn dog that was a mile long! After about four hours and Quentin not having a nap, we decided to call it a day.

Monday we got to go deep sea fishing with Jim and Julie (Chance's Dad and his wife). This was the third attempt at going, because the first two times had to be cancelled, due to poor weather. The saying 'third times a charm' proved to be true for us. The weather was amazing again (84 degrees) and the water was literally like glass. Now, we're talking about the ocean here and for it to be like that, we were very lucky! There were a couple people on our boat that said they usually get sea sick, but this was the first time that they didn't. Now, I have to say in the morning I was thinking it might be a little boring because it was like an old folks convention on the boat or something, seriously, everyone on the boat had me and Chance by at least 30 years. It turned out to be a blast! I seriously will do it again in a heart beat! We not only got a killer deal, but the crew on the 'Miss Virginia' were awesome! I caught way more fish than Chance did and I have to say, it feels pretty good to brag about that. Although, it doesn't have anything to do with skill, but we'll pretend. We let Jim and Julie keep all the fish we caught, because we're not big seafood eaters. After Jim got home he battered some of the fish (they're called Grunt) and fried them. I tried some and I have to say it was pretty tasty!
My first catch, Chance didn't have the camera out in time to get a pic before we had the hook out of its mouth

Chance's first catch

The blowfish that Jim caught

On our way back to the dock

Visitors

We had my parents come visit us last weekend and it was so much fun! We went to Kennedy Space Center one day then the next day we were going to do something else fun, but Lola had her puppies! Yep, she had them right on schedule. She had a total of 14 puppies! Unfortunately 5 were dead right when they were born and one more passed two days ago because it had a bad heart. Even still, we have 8 puppies left in our house. They are adorable already! I was a little surprised that all of them got Dozer's coloring, not one came out looking like Lola. As for the rest of my parents visit, I took them to the beach the next day. It appeared to be a great beach day, but once we got there the wind was blowing and it was too cold to just lay out. We walked around a little bit, then headed back home. It was so nice having them here and would love for anyone else to come visit!!!

It's a rough life

Aah, the life of being an active little boy...

All over

Well, I can't believe the Holidays are over! It was kind of strange not having snow on Christmas, but I'm definitely not complaining! I had a week and a half off school, which was a much needed break, and very nice to spend at home relaxing. We had Chance's Dad and his wife Julie at our house for Christmas, and it was really nice to spend the Holiday with some family! On Christmas Eve I made Grandma's cheese soup and Malibu Chicken, not to toot my own horn, but toot toot! I think they both turned out very well! On Christmas morning we woke up and Chance and I decided to keep all our gifts low key this year and of course Quentin didn't really care about presents, so we got him what he needed...a highchair and some clothes. That evening, we made a Ham (we're still eating leftovers) and cheesy potatoes, yum! Then, on Saturday we drove to the beach and it was a beautiful day lounging around, Quentin loved playing (actually not playing, I mean eating) the sand!

Last night for New Year's Eve we wanted to keep it low key and be able to hangout with Quentin, so we went to one of our friend's house. They cooked a delicious steak dinner and we watched the ball drop. We had tons of fun and lots of laughs! Here's a few pics of the last week...

Quentin on Christmas Morning


His face in this pic doesn't look like he's enjoying himself, but he loved the beach


Enjoying his Christmas present


This is our family on New Year's Eve, I thought Quentin looked hilarious in this pic, because he can barely hold his eyes open

What a night...

Yesterday turned out to be quite interesting for me. I had school until 5 and had to hurry home to get ready to head to Chance's company Christmas party at 7:30. Now, keep in mind that with no traffic (luckily it was Saturday, so there wasn't any) my drive home from school takes about 50 minutes and then the drive from our house to the restaurant where the party was is about 25 minutes, so that gave me just enough time to come home and get ready. HA! That's in a perfect world!!! I wasn't able to leave school until about 5:15 and as we (I carpool with a girl from school that only lives about 5 miles from me) were driving on the freeway we heard this strange noise, I knew it wasn't right and I had a feeling it was my tire. We pulled off an exit in the shoulder to check it out, low and behold my front right tire wasn't just flat it was coming apart at the seams! Great! I drove slowly to a gas station and called Chance for instructions on how exactly to change my tire. That took about twenty minutes and let me tell I don't think I did too bad for my first time changing a tire! Well we got back on the freeway and of course with my spare on I didn't want to go over 60 MPH. It was a long drive home! Once I got home, I only had a few minutes to throw myself together, and luckily Chance had gotten all of Quentin's stuff ready (or so I thought). Phew, we made it to the restaurant only a few minutes late and were finally seated. I was holding Quentin and I handed him to Chance when I noticed I had two huge wet spots on my lap. Crap! Quentin leaked through his diaper, luckily it was only pee! I took him to the bathroom to change him with all the stuff Chance had gotten ready... yep, no extra clothes! I went out and asked Chance to check in the car to see if we were lucky enough that we had an extra onsie in there, we did! Aaah, now it's time to relax and enjoy ourselves! Right, it wasn't 30 minutes later and Chances boss was playing with Quentin and said something about leaking and we both figured he was just talking about earlier. Nope, Quentin leaked again! Only this time, not pee! We had to make do with what we had and use his other clothes that he had on before that had dried for him to wear! We ended up having a great time at dinner after that and no other crazy things happened to us.