Our First Family Visitor

At the end of March, Pierre's mom came to visit us for a long weekend.  She was the first visitor we have had since moving to Denver, so we were excited to be able to have someone to show our life to.  
We spent a day up at Estes Park, a day at the mall, went out to eat a couple times, and played games at night.  It was a great weekend, and we were definitely spoiled with food, candy and gifts.  It was good to get to know Pierre's mom, and for him to be able to spend time with her. 

A Week With Sarah
At the end of February, I went to Wichita for about 10 days to be Sarah's 'mom' while my parents were on a cruise. We had some quality bonding time for sure. I have never had that much alone time with Sarah before, and it was great!  I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did.
  
There was a foot of snow on the ground when I arrived there, and another storm on the way.  It worked out good to have snow though, because then she had 2 snow days while I was there; I didn't have to take her to early morning seminary for those two days, and we had more time together! 
 
We played in the snow, celebrated Nicole's birthday, watched movies, went out to eat, hung out with Brandon & Allison, played games, and had sister time. She is a responsible and fun girl, and I am lucky to have her as my sister.

Sarah's occasional afternoon snack- a plate of snow

Playing pin the tail on the donkey for Nicole's birthday- the kids loved spinning everyone around.

Cake time!

My sis

I can't go to Wichita and not eat at Freddy's!

    Reading books to my cute nieces.

Breckenridge - Our ski adventure, minus the skiing

For the President's Day weekend, we went up to Breckenridge.  We wanted to see what the ski resort area was like.  It was a farther drive up the mountain then I thought it would be.
It was a very busy place for the three day weekend.   There were ski people all over the place. 
We were surprised how much snow was up there.  I didn't know the sidewalks would be covered in snow, so I am sure we looked out of place with only jackets and no boots for walking around in the snow.  Despite the cold, we had fun walking up and down main street to all the little shops. We also went to dinner at a cute little restaurant that had a view on the mountain. Seeing all the skiers made us wish we had money to take up skiing as a new hobby. I have passed Breckenridge so many times from going back and forth between Wichita and Provo, so it was nice to finally go.

Valentine's Day

I love being married to a romantic French husband. He always knows how to show me that he loves me.  These fancy chocolates and one dozen roses is what I woke up to on Valentine's Day. It was a great way to start the day.   
Before Pierre got back from work, I prepared a nice fancy, candlelight dinner for us to enjoy.  We decided to do a movie for Valentine's day evening since we never go to full priced movies, but love seeing movies.  We saw Safe Haven, which was a perfect choice for this holiday.  Also, it is a movie I recommend to anyone, because I really enjoyed it.  It was a perfect day.

 

Another Colorado Weekend Adventure

As Pierre and I try to explore as much of the Denver area that we can, we decided to spend a day up at Estes Park, CO back in February.  We had heard a lot about this place and thought it would be fun to take a drive up in the mountains for the day.  This town is part of the Rocky Mountain National Park.  
It was a picturesque place;there were mountains, a lake, and many cabins.  
We first went to the Stanley Hotel which is a historic building and known to be a haunted hotel as well.  If you have seen or read "The Shining", it is the haunted hotel that is in that story supposedly.   It was a neat building to walk around outside and inside.  It was huge.  With all the haunted stories, I don't think I would be brave enough to actually stay there for a night.
We also took a walk around the frozen lake, drove around the town a bit, and went to lunch.  It was a pretty drive in the mountains and now we have another place to mark off our list of places we've been!

The Stanley Hotel

The view from the hotel

a random old-fashioned car inside the hotel

The frozen lake at Estes Park

The Unexpected Day

January 14th was a very exciting day at the Stegelitz house.  Not expecting for the results to be positive, I took a pregnancy test in the morning.  I thought it was too good to be true, so I had to take a second one to make sure.   Sure enough, I was pregnant!    

I was just alone at home and Pierre was at work, and since I couldn't wait all day to tell Pierre, and I for sure didn't want to tell him over the phone, I told him I wanted to meet up with him for lunch. Before I went, I bought a cute onesie (sp?) that said "Daddy & Me".  That was my way of telling him the news.  We were both super excited and spent the whole evening skyping our parents and siblings.  We were too happy to be able to hold it in for a couple weeks.  

Woo hoo for babies!  Our kid will be the 4th grandkid for my parents this year.

2013

Our New Year's celebration was nothing special this year. Basically, we acted like boring and old married people.  The highlight of our night was watching a movie and eating lots of junk food.  We were definitely low-key for the evening.
 
However, we are excited for this new year and what it will bring for our family.  


                             




  (We were cool enough to do a toast at midnight.)