Free Time = Time to Cook!

So, I'm a gamer. Lianna, bless her, is quite patient with it. I try, and most of the time do very well, at limiting the time I spend on games, especially lately. However, Starcraft 2 came out recently, and I have literally been waiting for that game for 10 years! Seriously. 10 years. No joke. Anyway, I played it, and played it a lot. I got my money's worth. But I was becoming addicted, and therefore I uninstalled it. Well, that leaves me with lots of free time, especially this semester. So I've been filling that time with cooking. I love to cook, and love trying new recipes. So I've been craving hamburgers lately, and I decided to make me and Lianna some darn good ones. I found a delicious recipe at epicurious.com at this link here. It's called Dominican Chimichurri Burgers. Doesn't that just SOUND good? Well, it was. Here is a pic of the long-gone food.

I know French, but am I speaking a foreign language?

So, I decided, much to the dismay of my wife, to make chocolate chip cookie dough truffles. Great idea hu? (shes not a fan of cookie dough). So I go to King Soopers to get some of the more odd ingredients I don't have. I find the candy coating chocolate bark stuff... now for sweetened condensed milk. I look up and down the bakery isle, THREE TIMES. Nope, not there. Ok, I'm a man, but I can ask directions. Employee #1 gets asked, "where is your sweetened condensed milk?" "Uhhhh, I dunno... lemme ask." So he asks employee #2 who's bagging. "Baking isle." So I say to myself that I might as well go look again. Nope. So I ask employee #3, who happens to be the head check out person. "Wow... I have no idea. I've never been asked that." He then turns to employee #4 and employee #5, one says I dunno, and the other says, "Evaporated milk?" So I say sure in hopes to get closer... he sends me down the baked BEANS isle. Wow. So I meander around trying to find another unoccupied, not-already-asked person and finally I ask employee #6, and she looks at me like a just spat out alien larva on the ground and proceeded to eat it up again... So I continue my already finished sentence with an awkward pause, "err, or someone else who might know." She points me to the day stocker walking towards me. "Great" I think to myself..."Someone who might actually know!" So I ask him, and he says, "Sure, follow me!" Hallelujah! I follow him, he takes me to an isle, and says, "at the end, and on the left." I go down... its THE MILK ILSE! I guess he just heard milk. WTFreak? So I decided I'm done. I throw the chocolate candy coating I've been carrying around right in with the milk. That way, when someone asks for it, the employees will know since they'll have to put it back. Wow... nice shopping experience King Soopers.

Cutest Primary Kids Ever!

So for those of you who don't know, Lianna and I got called to the Primary in our ward. We teach the CTR 4 group, and let me tell you, they're one wild bunch of coconuts! Here are some pictures of our beautiful kids.

This is Mya, who is quite shy.

This is Jace, who is by far our most active CTR 4

This is Jace making his silly face.

Here is Grant with Mr. Reverent Frog.

This is Darius.

Of course, even Mr. Reverent Frog can be silly for a silly picture.

This is George, who also is quite active.

Here is Erin.
Our class silly face time.

Here we are walking to the lesson outside!

Long Overdue

Ok, so its been a while since I've looked at my blog other than to throw out a random post here and there. In fact, its been so long that half the blogs I follow on my blog list I'm not even invited to! I know right? Another gross evidence of my lack of blog upkeep is the simple fact that we have friends out there, friends with blogs, that aren't on my "list." What a terrible friend. So, if you're reading this, and you have a blog that I don't have on my list to the left of this post, TELL ME, pretty please? You can leave a comment, shoot me an email or text, anything. Much mahalo. I also finally realized that the gmail account that I always use wasn't even the administrator of my blog. In fact, the admin account is an account that I haven't used for nearly two years. Anyway, I'm repenting, the end.

So I just watched a movie via Netflix streaming that I absolutely loved. It is now one of my favorites. It's an indie film, and it was amazing. The actors in it are very, very beautiful people, yet quite unknown. Not only are they beautiful, but the acting was phenomenal. Despite it being about the age-old conflict of good and evil, dark and light, the storyline seemed completely original as if I was watching a revolutionary idea. Though all of what I've mentioned was great and all, the cinematography was unbelievable. It was like the director had never watched a movie in his life and created his own unique, visionary way of depicting the story. If you have Netflix, watch it. The name: Ink.

Fun Times

So I had a week long break this week, and it was SO nice to be able to relax and spend some time with my wife. So we tried to take advantage and went out to Golden Gate State Park. It was a lot of fun. We went up on Friday night to camp...we tried to meet up with some friends but alas, no cell phone reception. Having become accustomed to always having a cell phone, I was suddenly lost without it... and we didn't end up meeting our friends. (Im surprised people even met each other EVER pre-cell phone age... its a miracle people still got married.) Anyway, the next day we went hiking. It was a lot of fun, especially for Teo. We also got to baptize our new camera. We got it about a week or two ago, and its a lot of fun. Here are some pics of the day:

Quillen Home Rule #15

Home Rule # 15

Vacuum cleaner attachments are only fun to lick while the vacuum is on.

Teo thinks loud machinery are his friends. He especially thinks its surprising and fun to lick the end of the vacuum attachment and feel his tongue get sucked in. I tried this while it was off to see if he just liked the shape, or if it was really the suction. Totally disinterested. Next step: vacuum the dog to get the hair off before it drops to the floor.

Castlewood Canyon

So Lianna and I decided we needed to get out and enjoy summer. Its pretty hard for us to have coinciding days off, but twice a month, it so happens that we have a day off on Saturday together. So we packed up Teo and some water, and off we went to a place called Castlewood Canyon. It isn't in the mountains, but its near Elizabeth and Franktown, a beautiful part of Colorado. It wasn't much of a hike per se. It was more like a nature walk, but we loved it and so did Teo. Teo especially loved the water.

Heres a picture at the bottom of the canyon.

Isn't Lianna and Teo SO cute!
Tree. Neat.

Teo must have gotten quite hot because toward the end of the walk, whenever we'd pass a shady spot, he'd plop right down and rest.

And here is Teo frolicking in the water. He was so hot he even decided he'd just lay in the water for a bit.