Annie and Nell took a break from their shutdown hometown to visit their cousins in Utah.

Annie skied from the top of Nordic, from the top of Basin, and all over Powder Mountain. She seems to like skiing a lot.

Nell’s parents: Your cheeks are purple, you have to stop skiing.
Nell: (throws a fit)

George got to ride on a snowmobile.

George: Are unicorns real mom?
Me: I’m not sure.
Della: I think they’re extincted.
Nell: Oh, Della. Unicorns are not stinkeded.

Della (after skiing and sledding and before night skiing): This is the best day of my entire life!

Mike: Let’s ski Hell’s Canyon.
Steve: I have a wife and kids.

Della: I would fly to the moon for Annie!
Annie: I would move to Utah for the rest of my life for Della.

Annie (thinking to herself): And for the skiing.

George: Daddy because he wrestles and teaches me how to play video games.
Della: I think Daddy because he does sooooooo many nice things for us.

Della (crying): I’m crying because you said I sound like a horse.
Me: No, I said you sound hoarse. Like you’re losing your voice.

George (at school): Miss Jack, why are you so bossy and strict all the time?
Miss Jack: Because I’m an Anderson. 
George: Ohhhhh….my mom is an Anderson, and she is the bossiest and the strictest.

George: Della and daddy are best buddies and you and me are best buddies, right?

George: Mom? Does Donald Trump get presents from Santa?

Liz gave my dad cocktail napkins that say, “Good girls with bad habits make the best friends.” This was a message that really resonated with Della. She said earnestly, “I’m a good girl, with bad habits, and I’m a very good friend.” My dad asked her what her bad habits were. She said, “Sucking my thumb, grinding my teeth, licking my lips, and picking my nose and eating it. And farting a lot.”

I found them like this. No I actually did.

George: Mom said I could play video games.
Della: But George! Now you can’t go to the berry festival, and also I hate it when you play video games.
Me: George, go to the fairy festival and then you can play video games.
Della: Not fairy festival, berry festival.
George: So is it all about bears?
Della: Berries! Berries like you eat! Berries!