FYI

I have in my hand a CD of wedding proofs. YEA! As soon as I have a chance I will upload some of my faves. SO exciting!!

Thanks again to Renee Lewis for doing a fantabulous job - she ROCKS!

Big Eaters

At the ripe ages of 3 and 5, Yana and Zeke ate for dinner tonight (between the two of them) 5 hot dogs, 4 servings of mac n' cheese, 3 servings of fruit, 1 serving of jello, two cucumber slices, two banana popsicles and two cups of milk.

Yana is now reading a story with Miss Carole, Zeke is laying miserably on the couch, quite aware of the fact that he has eaten WAY too much.

Oh, to be young again ;)

Honeymoon: Part 1

For those of you who haven't yet seen photos from the wedding, you can check out a sampling here: reneelewisphotography.typepad.com/photos/mccarty

After the reception, we stayed the night at the Executive Inn. On the way to finding our room, several people commented at how dressed up we were and wondered where "they were going." Duh.

We went back to our house to get our luggage and drop off some items from the wedding and reception that we wanted to keep. We picked up Jeff's luggage and then went to my house to get my luggage and drop off my wedding dress. Mom and Dad were going to drop us back off at the hotel since we planned to take the complimentary shuttle to the airport the next morning. When we pulled into the parking lot, Jeff realized that he had left our room keys on the table at the house. He ran in and had some more made for us.

In the room, we had taken 3 boxes of leftover reception food (yum) for dinner. One problem - no microwave. We headed to the hotel restaurant to find that it was closed. No microwave, no restaurant - no car. Back to the room and we ordered pizza.

The next morning we headed to the airport about 5:30 am. We had no problems checking in, went through security, got to the gate and boarded our plane. Our first stop was Atlanta. In Atlanta we switched planes for Miami. In front of us sat a couple who were obviously honeymooners as well. The woman still had her hair in a disheveled updo from the night before, and she and her husband were wearing matching Corona t-shirts, tapered leg jeans and identical K-Swiss tennis shoes. We later found out that we would be enjoying the wonderful privelege of cruising for the next 7 days with them.

Upon arriving in Miami, we immediately decided that it was a place we probably never wanted to be again. Between finding few people who spoke English, almost not having all of our baggage and seeing a woman riding a very large tricycle I soon realized that I was in the largest circus freak show ever. We stood in line for what seemed like 3 hours to take a Greyhound transfer to the pier and had our tickets taken by a very unhappy woman with very bad hair. Frightening.

At the pier, we made it through security, felt like that was smooth sailing (no pun intended), only to come into a very large room with about 3000 other people who were trying to do the same thing that we were. At that point, I had begun to feel very sick with a fever coming on.

From that point on, it took us about 2.5 hours to get on the ship, into our room, only to be called down for an insanely disorganized drill 15 minutes later. It was very long. Jeff refused to participate and put his life vest on and a woman in front of us had a major throw down with one of the Carnival crew members. The remainder of the evening consisted of a lot of eating, a lot of tylenol and a lot of sleep. This would continue through Tuesday morning when my fever finally broke and we arrived in Cozumel.

Here a couple of photos of the in between when I actually felt like walking around amongst the public:

Jeff on the top deck of the boat, after he figured out where the door was.

The cabin steward left a little "sculpture" for us after he found out that we were honeymooners.

Operation Christmas Child 2007

We're in Atlanta serving for Operation Christmas Child. We arrived last night and today was our first actual day to work in the warehouse. I will post some pictures of that in the near future, but more of the fun began AFTER the work day was done.

We left the warehouse and went to Long Horn Steakhouse. Shannon managed to freak out most of the restaurant employees and a small child by having Feipe at the table with us.


As we were leaving, Jeff mentioned that his face was itching. When we got in the car, he turned the light on and had hives on his face. We headed back to the hotel for Benadryl.

In the girls room, Jess cut Cynthia's hair. Katrina decided that she wanted hers cut as well. Fortunately enough, she had enough for Locks for Love. (Cynthia mentioned that she would never send it, because her own had been sitting in a closet in a ponytail holder for the past several months.)

Before:

Meanwhile, Jeff was highly effected by the drowsy side effects of his Benadryl.

After:

And the ponytail:

"How Quirky..." Jeff's Results

Your Quirk Factor: 64%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal. No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

How Quirky Are You?

Turkey Day

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

How Quirky Are You?

Your Quirk Factor: 49%

You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it. Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!

How Quirky Are You?

This is Jess' quirk factor. I have a feeling that Jeff's will be much higher. Check back for his results later. Just for fun, take the quiz and leave us your results in the comment field!

The McQuirkys

Welcome to our blog! We are the McQuirkys. For those of you who know is, I don't believe that name needs any further explanation. For those of you who don't, continue checking our blog and you will begin to understand ;)

Hopefully we can use this to update our friends and family about all our latest news and well, quirks!