Saturday, April 3, 2010

Grandma and Grandpa VS Visit

A few weeks ago Dan, Quinn and I went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Von Stetten. Dad and Annette and Rich were there too. We had the best dinner around. We had a GREAT VISIT!

Here is the family photo for the day.

Quinn and Grandma VS are such good buddies!

Quinn sure is lucky to have some many wonderful Grandparents

Uncle Rich LOVES Quinn's headband. I think the flowers are a good look for him!

Quinn loved seeing Grandma's flashy "Bling Ring"


Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Have you ever seen a cuter kid?
Me either.

You know... them all

Quinn still loves everything Christmas. She still plays with all of her reindeer.
She has Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. Oh, and she also has "Clairy" (Clarice) but she isn't quite to scale. Yes, and she has 2 Rudolphs too. One in this set and one that sings clips from the movie and lights up his nose when you press his ear. Too bad his battery is dead...

I adore my girl and her love of all things Christmas.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Family Visit

When Mom came up we all went to visit the Temple clan.



Quinn sure love Gavin. He is so cute!



We took so many fun family pictures!





Mom (DeeDee) Came Up!



Thursday, March 25, 2010

Where's Gilbert?

Yes, Quinn and Gilbert have a love/hate relationship. Either they are best friends or mortal enemies. It is ironic that Quinn calls Gilbert her brother as I seem to remember the same type of relationship with Rich when we were little.

Some of Our Snow Days

This winter we got a ridiculous amount of snow. Over 40 inches in about a week from two storms. Since we live at the end of a dead end street, we were not high on the priority list for the city to plow. Dan and some of our neighbors actually shoveled the whole road! It was very impressive. I took many pictures of the snow drifts and banks yet they do not really convey the towering height appropriately. I think that it is because the lack of scale.
Anyway...
This is our back yard. The picture does not do it justice. It was so pretty with all of the trees covered in snow.
That lump that you see in the above picture on the left is actually our old boxwood that didn't make it. It was around 50 years old and over 6 feet tall. (well, at least taller than me at 5ft 7in.) The poor bush has lost all of its shape from the snow weighing the branches down. SO SAD. It did sort of cut the yard in half and we did want to move it somewhere but still...
I fell in love with so many different pictures. This girl loves the snow and just looks so happy and relaxed when out in it. I would wager a pretty penny that I will be the only one in the family that doesn't love riding the slopes :) I am ok with that. I wish that I was good, or well at least ok at snowboarding. But, it is just not in the stars for me.