QT Family Picnic

Every year QT has a family picnic, and for the past few years it has been at Incredible Pizza. It's pretty fun, they rent out the whole place for just QT employees, give everyone $15 game cards, there is face painting, balloons, and of course the buffet... Last year Chase was still pretty small, but this year, he really enjoyed himself!!!

Double fistin' the ham from the salad bar...


Who me?


This is one of those simulator rides... Chase loved it, he probably rode it 6 or more times and never took his eyes off the screen!!!




Chase is really getting into the skee ball game too... probably because it involves balls...




And he drove a train, he just looks so big riding this!!!


He even took the time to wave to mom... how sweet :)



They also had this padded "toddler" area, but some older kids invaded it... that sure didn't scare Chase off though, he was determined to hold his own on the slide and get down it...

Fun firsts for Chase

This month has FLOWN by!!! I can't believe we are already to September, it seems like it was just yesterday we were celebrating Chase turning one, now he is almost one and a HALF! These last few weeks have been full of fun firsts for Chase!

Chase's first trip to the aquarium:









First time on the carousel at the zoo:







First time this close to a large snake:



First time in the kids petting area:



And first time to pose for a picture and last time to let Daddy be in charge of the camera since he missed the shot... he seriously sat there for at least a minute c'mon dad! :)



And the final first.... First time to the Chandler Park sunset concert. This was a lot of fun for a little while. Even Lulu got to come out with us! We brought a picnic dinner and all ate outside and listened to the music, Chase socialized and walked around and danced and was having a great time. But when the band stopped and we were waiting for the next one to start up... Chase decided that he wanted to play in the street and threw a HUGE tantrum when we wouldn't let him... so we had to leave.

2nd Anniversary Weekend Fun!!!!

This past weekend Danny and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary!! We had a full weekend of activities planned. We started out Saturday morning and headed to Claremore to go to a pancake breakfast and the Gatesway Balloon Festival. This was a total disappointment, we got there a little after 9, and they had already shut the breakfast down, which was suppose to last until 10. There were not any balloons out, due to the slight chance of rain I guess(it never rained it was just super humid). We walked around a bit anyway, and played at the playground, and I even ran into one of my old high school friends.

Swinging


Chase just started sliding on his own, he gets the gist of it, but sometimes he well... just watch. You may not think it's funny, but I couldn't help but laugh... (he didn't get hurt so don't worry DeeDee)


Despite the morning being a dud, we had a super nice evening out that night with just the two of us. It was so nice to go out and have a nice dinner without feeling rushed and having food thrown everywhere. We went to McGills on the 19th floor at the Hard Rock Casino. It was really neat, and the food was soooo good.

Our view from the table...



After dinner we went downstairs to the casino, but had no luck. Oh well, we hit the jackpot when we found eachother, and no amount of money could be better than that!

Sunday was our actual anniversary, and we had a fun day planned. We went to church and then brought Chase over to DeeDee and Bobo's so he could eat some lunch and play for a little bit before he took his nap. While Chase was doing that, Danny and I went to a movie... yes a movie at the REAL movie theater!!! It was such a treat, we had popcorn and all. We saw The Other Guys, and I highly recommend it was sooo funny!

After the movie we headed back to get Chase, who was still napping, after he woke up, we had plans for a family outing to Chuck E Cheese!!! We had a blast, Chase is just so much fun... well Danny is too, but Chase is a bonus for sure...haha

First we had some dinner... Chase had two plates of cottage cheese, one plate was on his face and outfit, and the other plate he may have actually got in his mouth...



Dancing and eating


After dinner it was time to PLAY!!!

Making an effort to slide again...


Chase driving a car... thank goodness for the seat belt!!!


Chase loved watching this remote control train zoom around...



Playing some basketball...


Skee ball...


Riding Clifford the Big Red Dog...


Playing throw a ping pong in a bucket...


He was doing good, and then Daddy ping pong ball hogged and Chase decided the only way he could play is to take off with a ball as soon as he could get to one...



When all was said and done we had a great weekend. What a way to start off year number 3!!!!

Where's Chase?