David's Birthday

The family got together again to celebrate all the January/February birthdays which included Mom, Ross, Claire & David. We had a great time just being able to spend time with the family and letting the kids play. With everyone's busy life it's nice to take some time and catch up with everyone once in awhile.

Of course Ross was happy to be getting gifts again, his favorite had to be the fishing pole he received from Papa & Grandma, he can't wait to go fishing and try it out.

Todd and Ella had more fun with the boxes and wrapping paper. They played great together all except for the pushing, hair pulling & biting. Of course there was some hugging and kissing going on too. Just the normal kids stuff!

I decided that instead of having the normal birthday cake we would do something different and have Chocolate Fondue with lots of different fruits, cakes and even strawberry marshmellows. As you can see it was a big hit!

Papa & Grandma getting hugs for Claire!




The end of the night and it looks like Chanele is ready for bed.

Can't wait for next time!

Our 19th Anniversary

For our anniversary we decided to get away without the kids for a couple of days so we headed to one of our favorite B&B's in Lady Lake and totally enjoyed just relaxing and spending time together. It was wonderful and I wish we could have stayed longer but of course we had to get back to work and we missed the kids.

San Antonio Summit 2008

I went on my first business trip this week and what a great time I had. The picture below is of my co-workers we decided to go to San Antonio 2 days early before our meetings started so we could do some sight seeing.

Everything was beautiful, we could walk right out of the hotel on to the River Walk which was full of shops and restaurants.

We even did the tourtist thing and took the boat ride.

ROSS TURNS 14

Ross finally got that cell phone he has been asking for, I do believe he had a huge smile on his face all day. He decided to have dinner at home so we let him make the menu which consisted of King crab and Asian Coleslaw and of course a ice cream cake from Diary Queen.

Here's daddy having some fun with Ross

It's amazing how much they look alike!

They are both so handsome!

Christmas Day

No matter how old the kids get they still love Christmas morning. Every year we tell them they have to wait until atleast 7:00 before getting us up. Of course they have already been looking a gifts since early morning. The best surprise of all was opening the Wii, the whole family is hooked it's so much fun!

We really surprised Ross this year, he had no ideal that he was getting the skateboard he has been asking for.

Amanda got her Guitar Hero that she wanted and lots of Tim Burton movies

Even though Todd really didn't know what was going on he loved his new Diego jeep, he's still working on pushing the petal and steering but I'm sure he will figure it out before long.

Christmas with the Quackenbush side

We had a blast with Richard and his new family, it was great to meet my soon to be new sister-in-law Katrina. Richard asked Katrina to marry him while they were here on vacation and we are so excited, looks like we will be taking a trip to Seattle this year.

A little compition between brothers

We went to Busch Gardens for a day so the kids could get to know each other, they loved the rides.

Christmas with my family

What a great time we had this Christmas Season!! We first started out by celebrating with my family at Ed & Kristy's home. My parents were so happy for have all their kids together to be with them on this special time of year! Pam & Ron came in for a few days, and we added a couple of new babies to our growing family!

ELLA

TODD

This is David helping Todd open his pressents, he liked the paper and bows alot!

You can see by my dad's face how happy he was! I think he liked his gift too!

Big kids like gifts too!