Happy Birthday To Him

(2009, Summer)

Sunday night we went out to dinner with Tim and Anne to celebrate Tim's 17th birthday and Quinn's 26th. We had too much fun. The Applebee's crew sang "Happy happy birthday, from Applebee's to you!" in the classic "Emperor's New Groove style and gave them free shot glass desserts. We had more shrimp than we could eat and laughed until our throats hurt.

(2010, First Wedding Anniversary, AR)

Monday morning Quinn was out the door early for work, but I made a mini chocolate cake and put 6 candles on it for his lunch break and we (Quinn helped) sang  Happy Birthday again. Last night when he got home from work I had his gifts for him; a new programmable coffee pot for his early winter mornings when he has to head to work in the cold, a coffee grinder, a bag of Starbucks coffee beans and Rocky 6. (I looked for 4 so he'd have the complete set but havent' been able to get my hands on it yet. I'll just have to order it off of Amazon when I get a chance.)

(2010, July, Quinn and Tim)

After that we went to Buckle in the mall and he picked out a new cross necklace. The one he wore for years broke a couple months ago and he's been wanting a replacement. On the way home we drove by numerous car lots and peeked in the windows of SUVs and mini vans that fit our price range. We found a beautiful Toyota Sienna with gorgeous leather that had the windows down the and the moon roof open in the slow winter drizzle that was coming down. Sad. They'll have to take $1000 off the price when they get the snow cleaned out of it.

(2010, Fall)

From there we stopped by KFC for some hot wings to sample (nothing special there, sadly) and came home to watch RED. Originally we had planned on dropping the little man out at my Mom's and going to a movie, but the forecast made us chicken out of that. RED was very cute and we got a big kick out of it. Maybe a 7.5 out of 10ish...would have been more if there had been less language, but I don't think Willis can do a movie without a few foul lines.

(2010, Timberlake Wedding reception, OK)

This morning we kept celebrating by diving out into the 6 inches of snow that was on the ground and driving to Hemingway's for their breakfast buffet. They have some seriously kick-butt french toast casserole that I will kill for, and their fried catfish was absolutely spot on this morning. On the way home we were having a hard time driving so we figured we'd be thoroughly stuck once we made it home, so we stopped for a few movies to get us through the next three days.

(2007, Quinn and Cory)

I *was* going to make a huge lasagna and have my three brothers and their wives, Quinn's sister and his husband and his best friend and his wife over for dnner and cake tonight (I have a massive, 4 layer chocolate cake and a gallon of ice cream here) but nobody's willing to venture out, so we've postponed until Friday night.

I'll have to make a new cake....



Happy  Birthday Quinton- My darling hero. I love you.