Family tied

The Quinns have left Chicago. In their wake they left four positive notes.

1. Allison, who studying to be an art teacher, took the news of the wedding about the same as if we told her we were ordering pizza for dinner. "OK, cool."

2. I won over Kelley's six-year-old niece, Kacey, by wearing cowgirl boots. She held my hand everywhere we went and called me Miss Kati.

3. Aforementioned Kacey asked if Kelley and I were sisters. Kelley's brother, Brian, responded by saying, "That would be really weird."

4. Aforementioned Brian discounted my criticism of their critical sibling relationship (they rip on each other for getting saggy neck skin and the like) by saying it was OK and that I didn't have to defend anyone. "You're a Quinn," he said.

(Check out funny pictures from their visit on our photo album link.)