My mother's mother's mother

We took some family photos while we were visiting out west.
This is Laurel with her mother Jen with her mother Cathy with her mother Nettie

Grandma and Grandpa van der Horst with their family. 24 of us in all.

And this is just us 6.

Our new house in Virginia

Quad Cities Trip

We took a trip to Davenport, IA and Moline, IL.

We started off exploring at the Putnam Museum.

Next we took the Channel Cat across the Mississippi River to Illinois

We had fun playing on the heavy equipment at the John Deere Pavilion

Laurel is one year old

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Birthday cakes

Jen has made it a tradition to make a bear cake for each of the kids' first birthday.

Clark had a panda bear
Spencer's was a polar bear

Grant had a grizzly

Now Laurel got a koala