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

WOW! We had such a fun Halloween this year. We had a Halloween party the night before Halloween and it was so much fun. We played Halloween surviver, where we had to play 10 different games. We played one game where we tied balloons do our ankles and we had to keep our from getting popped. Well there was me and one guy left and I went to go stomp on his balloon and I kicked him right in the shin. It hurt so bad that I ended up going to urgent care and I ended up breaking my toe. Ha Ha Ha no joke but what makes it all worth it is we won Halloween Surviver and Eli won best costume. On Halloween it pretty much rained all day so when we took Ezra Trick-Or-Treating it rained on us. So we only went to a few houses but he didn't mind, he had funnier answering the door and seeing all the costumes. We had such a fun Halloween and we hope all of you did too.

So we made another trip to California in October. Of course we had to make a Disneyland trip. This time we took just Ezra, so he could have his day to just himself and choose everything he wanted to do. Oh boy was it fun. Matt and I felt like a kid again, just running around with Ezra and watching him get so excited about everything. He was not even scared of any of the characters. He took his first roller coaster ride, He met Mickey Mouse 3 times, and he had a complete blast. Eli got to stay home with Grandma and Grandpa Q. He had so much fun with being Grandpa's assistant and showing off for Grandma at Tyler's game. Thank you Cheryl and Gary for watching Eli. That ment so much to us to spend time with just Ezra.

I am just so grateful for my family. After watching conference this last weekend I just have realized how blessed I am with such a beautiful and healthy grown boys. So here are a few pictures of the greatest blessings of my life that I am very grateful for.

So Matt has been really busy at work and school lately. So Ezra has had a rough time getting used to Matt's new schedule cause he has been working nights and does not get home until 11 o'clock on some nights. So Ezra especially misses him a lot on those nights cause his daddy usually tells him bed time stories. Well every night when I get up with Eli I check on Ezra. Well Eli woke up at 4am this morning and I noticed Ezra's door was opened and he was not in his room. So I rushed into our room to go wake up Matt and as I went to Matt side of the bed I saw Ezra laying on the floor on Matt's side of the bed. It was the sweetest thing. He loves his daddy so much! I am so lucky to have such and amazing husband who is just such an outstanding father to my kids.

Eli loves to chew on his thumb he also talks a lot now. He is so cute we loves this video.He also really loves his bouncer he goes crazy in it. He kicks like a mad man, he's got some thunder thighs on him so he can kick pretty hard. So you got to make sure your not sitting in front of him when he is in his bouncer. We thought that all of you who are so far away would enjoy these videos. So enjoy!!! he

So Matt has been working a lot lately and has school as well. So the kids and I have not seen him as much as usual and it has been a little hard on Ezra. He will always ask when daddy is coming home to play with him. So on one of the activities Matt was doing with the boys from his work was going to hike the Y. So he invited us to go with him. Well lets just say a 3 year old does not really want to hike a mile long hill and Matt had to keep up with his boys. So Matt went on with his boys and I just told him we will go as far as we can get well Ezra made it like 500 yrds and was already tired but I wanted to keep going. So I put Ezra on my shoulders while I have Eli strapped to the front of me and start hiking the rest of the hike. Oh boy can I tell you that was a work out. Thank goodness Matt saw me about almost half the way up and came down and grabbed Ezra and put him on his shoulder. Then we made him walk the whole way down. It was such a pretty view though and we had so much fun wi...

This is our newest addition Eli Joseph Quackenbush. He is such a blessing to our family and we love him so much. We are so lucky to have him in our lives. Ezra loves him so much and loves to feed him and tries to make him smile all the time. He is such an awesome big brother. We love that our family keeps growing and we can't wait for the memories we are going to make with this new addition to our family.

We are so excited to announce that Ryan (my Brother-In-law) will be serving an LDS mission in Argentina Buenos Buenos Aires West Mission. He will be leaving June 2 2010 and we could not be anymore excited for him then we are. For those of you who don't know my husband (Ryan's Brother) and Brianne my Sister-In-Law (Ryan's Sister) both went to Argentina. So when they heard the word Argentina they just freaked out with excitement. Ryan we are so proud of you and we really can't wait to hear about all the great spiritual experience you go through. Also to hear about all the people you are going to help. You are going to be such an amazing missionary and can't wait to see all the things you accomplish. We love you and are going to miss you!!!

I am so sorry that I have not been staying up to date on my blog. I just have been super busy with life. So here are a few updated pics of our family... We love you all and miss you! Hope you have a Happy Valentines Day!!! XOXO