Matt~Brindy~Ezra~Eli~Liam~Layla Jo

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! So I know it is a little late posting our Halloween but we have been super busy in this Quackenbush house. So this year we decided to be QUACK-EN-BUSH. So Ezra was a duck and Matt and I were bushes. (LOL) We had an amazing Halloween this year. The weather especially was so mice and warm. Matt and Ezra started the day off with a Halloween breakfast, which was so yummy. Then we went over to Gigi's house in the later afternoon and ate yummy taco soup. Then we headed out on our Halloween adventure. Ezra got the concept down after two houses and then just kept running ahead of us and saying "notha house notha house mor canny." He was so fun to watch, he had us laughing all night. then we took him back home and he just went to town not eating every candy just tasting them all. Then whatever one he liked the most he ate. We all hope you had a fun and safe Halloween, we can't wait until next year.

BEFORE AFTER Yes we actually decided to cut Ezra's hair. Trust me it was not an easy decision, it took a month of debating between Matt and I. SO one night while Matt was working I was hanging out with my best friend Kim and she is a cosmetologist. We were really board so we decided to just trim Ezra's hair but then we got a little excited and just chopped it off. I think he looks so cute we have been hiding his beautiful face for to long. He looks so much older it is crazy. Ezra's loves it so much he think he looks just like his dad. Tell me what you think Matt want to grow it back out.

WOW! It has been a long time. We have been so busy this summer with so many vacations, camping, work and getting ready for school. So here are a few pics to show you what we have been up to.

We went to Family Fun Center with some friends and had such a blast. Ezra has never learned how to skate yet so we were so excited to teach him. At first he did not like it was getting mad because he could not stay standing up. After awhile he got a hang of it and it was so cute to watch him skate. He had so much with his friends and loved all the cotton candy, pizza, and ski ball. He could play ski ball all day he loves, it is so much fun to watch him. I can't believe how big he is getting and all the things he can do now.

Ezra loves when we watch movies as a family. So we try and watch a movie and get treats about once a month. We let Ezra pick the movie and he always picks Finding Nemo. He loves that movie so much he knows all the creatures in the movie. The reaso why we only do it once a month is because Matt and I can only handle so much Nemo.

I can't believe my baby boy is 2. He has grown up so much now. We had a swimming birthday party for Ezra. We invited all of his friends and family. He had such a blast with everyone and especially the slip N slide with dad and the boys. We are so blessed to have Ezra in our lives, he brings us such joy and happiness. We thank everyone for coming especially Grandma and Grandpa Shurtz and Grandma and Grandpa Dayley for making the drive down hear. We love you and thank you for everything.

So Matt has been wanting to make S'mores for the longest time but every time we went to my parents house to make s'mores in there fire pit, it rained. So finally on mothers day it was such a nice day we were able to make s'mores and we did get messy. It was so much fun though. I love watching Ezra do new things cause he gets so excited.

So the same weekend that we went to Jessica's wedding in San Diego. Adam Lambert was going to his High school to perform for American Idol. Matt and Adam went to the same school together. So we decided to go to the Mt. Carmel High and go see Adam perform. While we were waiting Ezra made a new friend, he hung out with her the whole time.He was holding her hand and sitting right next to her, it was so cute. It was so crazy for Matt to see Adam Lambert perform and all the kids just go crazy screaming. Specially the girl who took off her shirt and try to run on stage and tackle him. Going from the lead role of every play in school and now on American Idol becoming a rock star.It was awesome to be a part of it. We wish him the best of luck and we know that he has made it now. We are so sad though that Danny Gokey went home. He was my favorite and I totally thought he was going to win it. I know that will not be the last of him though, can't wait for his album to come out!

So my friend Jessica got married in San Diego this last week. So Matt, Ezra and I flew down to San Diego to be there for the wedding. She got married on Coronado Island and it was such a beautiful ceremony. I am so happy for you Jessica and Ben, congratulations! You both deserve each other!!!

So for those of you who live far away Ezra has been taking a gymnastics class. He loves it so much. We decided that we would take video of it so our family that is not close can see how Ezra is doing in the classes. He was a little grumpy this week but he still enjoyed himself. There are three different videos cause they do three different routines. I hope you enjoy them and we love and miss all of you!

We had such a fun Easter. Ezra got to go to two different Easter Egg Hunts. The first one was at a park in American fork. It was fun because they had games and fun activities for the kids to do. Ezra got a Easter bunny tattoo on his arm, he thought that was so cool. Then after the activities they had the hunt. Ezra was in the 0-3 year hunt but it did not seem like that when the horn went off! All the parents ran in there and grabbed all the eggs for the kids. A mother even took and egg from Ezra as he was getting ready to pick it up. So we will never be doing that again. It is kind of sad how competitive parents get for there kids. Ezra was just happy he got some candy. Then after that we drove to my Grandma and Grandpa Caldwells house in Gunnison to have another Easter egg hunt and to eat. Ezra had so much fun with his cousins looking for Easter eggs. He did not have a problem with not finding enough cause my Aunt Shelly and Grandma had over a 100 eggs. Just for the kids it was so a...

Ezra has been having skin problems ever since he was born. Right before Easter Ezra had to get what they call molluscum surgically removed. We have been taking him to the doctors to get them scraped off but it was just to hard on him and especially on Matt and I. So our doctor and I decided it would be better if we put him to sleep and he could get all of them off because he was just covered. They looked like little white heads all over his body it was just so sad. Our nurse was so amazing, Ezra got to bring his favorite bear which was his batman bear and his blanket. She got him batman stickers for him and bandages for his bear so Ezra could put them on the bear. That made him less nervous to leave us, he got distracted by putting the bandages on the bear as they were wheeling him out. After he woke up he was a little sad and a little in pain. So he got some pain killers and after that he was a loopy boy. He is all good now and they have pretty much cleared and went away.