Quillen Home Rule #14

When we got married, we were given a framed copy of "Home Rules". It mentioned about 12 things like love one another, don't tease, be friends etc. I have a few of my own I'd like to add.

Home Rule # 14

Computer games are to be seen and not heard.

I love my husband enough to buy Star Craft 3 on opening day. But it must either be turned off when I am at home, or muted. I don't need to hear "Fenrir with the Gear!" "Sounds like plan - What's the plan?" all evening.

Yes, Im a Gamer, and Yes, I've Waited for 11 Years...

Please see the below link. It explains it all quite nicely.

http://www.foxtrot.com/2010/07/07252010/

More about the dog

I have decided my dog's kennel is too big for him.
He obviously doesn't have the same opinion, and hey, who wouldn't want a room they could chill so easily in?

The Forest-Blog Conundrum

If someone is alone in a forest and reads a blog, and doesn't comment on said blog, do they read the blog?

Devil's Head

So we went on this hike a while ago... when we had first gotten Teo actually. I think it was Memorial Day Weekend, and we went with our new friends from the ward, the Ross family. Devil's Head is a historic wildfire lookout that is actually a very easy hike. It overlooks hundreds of miles in every direction. It's a great day hike that's offered a gorgeous setting, an easy hike, and a lot of fun. Here are some pics.

Here's the sign on the actual lookout itself.

This is one of the views along the trail

What beautiful scenery

Here is the Ross and Quillen Family

Family Picture Time

Family pictures on top at the fire lookout

Here's Teo looking over the vast wilderness

We had a really great time getting out and enjoying the beautiful mountains of Colorado with our friends the Rosses. It was especially a lot of fun taking our new (at the time) dog out, getting him out of our little condo. I love Colorado.

More Fun Posts

So the fun in our lives continues! As you may know, we had LOTS of family over during the last couple of weeks, and so it was really fun to be able to spend time with them, especially our niece and nephews. (ESPECIALLY Liam, whom we've never met). So we went to Garden of the Gods, which was a lot of fun. It was especially fun to see how happy Logan and Ali were. They certainly loved climbing.

Heres a pic at the beginning of the trip when the kids weren't too happy to be there. That's just because they had no idea what was waiting for them!

Heres a pic of me and Ali walking:

Just look at that cute boy!

And his cute sister too!

One of the few times she could be distracted from climbing and playing in the dirt long enough to look at the camera:

What a cute family photo. Too bad only 50% of the subjects are looking. But Katie looks great!
And here is adorable Liam. You can see it in his eyes... saying "One of these days Im gonna bust outta here and go climb those rocks by my self too!

And here we are back at home, on one of the days. It was so nice to be together.

Overall, we had lots of fun with our families, and grateful that we can be together forever.

Flurry of Posts, Part 4: Let the 4th of July Weekend Begin!

So Lianna and I were planning on going to hike a 14er (mountain with a summit of over 14000 feet) at the beginning of the July 4th weekend. Unfortunately Lianna got called into work and was not able to go. However, since it was already planned with many of my classmates, I decided to go without Lianna in order to have a good time, see what it was like so I could tell if others could go, and to learn where to go when Lianna could come another time.

It as a beautiful Colorado summer day: Sunshine, slight, ocassional breeze to keep you cool, clean air, and blue sky. We hiked up to Grays Peak, rated 1 out of 5 for difficulty. Its one of the easiest 14ers to do. So I thought that I'd have no problem doing it. Dad said its one of the 14ers that they take 12-year-old scouts on all the time. So I thought Im a pretty health guy right? Boy was I wrong!

Heres a view from the top:This is a picture from the top looking down at the entire trail that we did. Most of it was pretty easy, but once you hit the switch backs on the rocks, that's when it got hard.

So here is a pretty picture along the way... What a beautiful place and day!

Flurry of Posts, Part 3: Date Night (day) Round 2

So because Denver is so awesome, we have a little bit of everything. Part of everything includes various cultures from around the world. Because of this, Lianna and I had the opportunity to go to the annual Cherry Blossom festival downtown. This is a relatively small festival celebrating Japanese art, food, dance, and well, culture! We met up with some of Lianna's family/childhood friends and we had a great time. We even took Teo, who did remarkably well around so many people, dogs, kids, and food.

Heres a little video of one of the dances by a young Japanese dance class

On a side note, we found out that Teo is an absolute chick magnet. Anytime Lianna would go into a store, Buddhist temple, or tent, I'd stay outside. Invariably, within seconds Teo and I would be surrounded by various assortments of women of all ages, commenting on how cute Teo was. They'd pet him, hug him, play with him etc... When Lianna was with me and Teo, no one ever stopped to pet him. We'd occasionally get a "OH! You're dog is so cute!" But no one would ever stop. But once Lianna was more than 10 feet away, it was like open season! I mean, common, wouldn't you want this body?
Overall, we had a great time, and really enjoyed each other company and environment.

A Flurry of Posts, Part 2: Date Night, Round 1

Even though Lianna and I have been quite busy, we've still managed to spend some good, quality time together. One of which times was when we went to the Rockies game. Neither of us are hard core Rockies fans like the majority of my family, but we still enjoyed ourselves quite a bit. We even partook more fully in the experience by buying the ridiculously expensive food that the game, but boy was it good (and unhealthy)!

We also had GREAT seats, which significantly added to the fun of the experience. We were sitting 15 rows behind the 3rd base dug out, which made it seem like we were really in the game. Here are a few pics that we got, using a simple point-and-shoot camera:

So, with that said, we had a great time! Thanks Love, for the great memory.

A flurry of Blog Posts: Teo's First Bath

So recently Lianna and I have been doing blog-worth things a lot, but neither of us have had the time to blog about them. As a result, our list of things about which we need to blog has been growing at an alarming rate. So, now that things have calmed down for me a bit, I'm going to start. Be ready for lots of posts in rapid succession!

Teo's First Bath:
Now, we've had Teo for nearly two months, but please don't think we haven't bathed him until now. This picture was quite some time ago! Over all, he handled it quite nicely. There was the occasional shake-drying that dogs do which thoroughly soaked everything around him. Luckily I was able to contain most of it with the shower curtain. Isn't he cute?