Wow!!  You all helped me raise over $12,000!  That’s awesome, thanks! I got envelopes from over 450 fabulous people! I’m going to go to Johns Hopkins on May 11^th for appointments and I’m going to give Dr. Dietz a check to help find a cure for Loeys Dietz Syndrome.  Then, when I get back I’m going to go and give Make-A-Wish and All Children’s Hospital a check too!   I can’t wait to give out all the money everyone sent me.  My brothers helped me make a HUGE scrapbook of all the letters, cards, etc that you sent me and I’ll take that with me to show the people I give the checks to.  I’ll also have dad help me put pictures on the site too, so you can see me giving away all your money.  Thank you all so very much!

I have been asked A LOT if I was going to let Quentin’s Quest just come to an end.  I know I didn’t quite get to my million dollars and I didn’t quite get to every state either.  However, I got some really cool countries and I never even thought about getting to different countries.  Well, the answer is……  Quentin’s Quest part 1 has come to an end, but there is a Quentin’s Quest part 2.  You all know I love to cook, even if I can’t eat right now - (Dr. Guerrerio is working on fixing that problem for me).  Well, I’m going to make a cookbook!  I even have a name and an idea for the front cover.  The name will be, “Quentin’s Friends – A Cookbook to Help Others”.  Tyler, my big brother actually came up with the name, and I really liked it.  I want to put pictures of all my friends that have LDS.  I get to go to Boston this summer for a conference where my mom and I are going to learn more about Loeys Dietz Syndrome. While I’m there,  I’m hoping to meet some of the other kids with LDS that I have talked with by e-mail.  I want to take pictures of my friends and use that for the front of the book.

So, I guess I’m asking for your help AGAIN!  I thought if all my friends could send me their favorite recipe, then I would maybe get a ton of recipes for my book.  What do you think???  I’m going to need some pictures for my cookbook too, so if you can take a picture of the item after you have made it, then some of my recipes will have pictures to go with it.  You can send the picture and recipe to my mom on e-mail or to me in a letter.  My mom says, she thinks she’s going to be busy over the summer while she is off from teaching, getting this book together.  I can’t type very fast so she’s going to have to help me.

I want to keep track of where the recipes come from again like before, so please let me know that when you send me your recipe.  Also, if you don’t want me to include your name with the recipe then let me know, because I thought it would be neat to include places and names with the recipes in my book. When I was looking at some of my cookbooks, they also had things like what went good with the dish. Anything like that would be cool too.

So here we go, another project for me to work on and I can’t wait to start hearing from all those cooks and chefs out there! Remember, you can send me your favorite recipes in the mail or to my mom’s email, whatever works best for you.

 

Quentin Waid

14711 1^st Avenue East

Bradenton, FL  34212

 

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srwaid@tampabay.rr.com