August Travel Info

Here is our flight information:

Tuesday 8/11

Pitt to DFW 7:20-9:13am AA 1055

DFW to Austin 10:00-10:55am AA 419

Tuesday 8/18

Austin to DFW 4:55-6:00pm AA 1057

DFW to Pitt 6:55-10:35pm AA 1188

We can't wait to see everyone! Love A & J

4th of July in Pittsburgh

We watched fireworks with some friends on a bridge over the river. Very nice view.

More pictures in the album, enjoy!

Home!

So it's official! We're coming home to visit! The dates are August 11-18th (Tuesday-Tuesday). So mark it down! We should be buying our tickets this weekend, but those dates are pretty much set. We can't wait to see everyone! Not looking forward to the heat though...

Dad & Lindi Visit

We've had an exciting last few days. Visitors from home! Dad and Lindi came to visit, and it's been great. We've seen a lot of cool things. Carnegie Museum of Art/Natural History... We got yelled at twice for taking pictures.

We also went to a Pirates baseball game. They beat the Astros! It was a great game, and we got free hats!

After the game, there was a fireworks show and the Zac Brown Band played. Very nice night. 

We've had a great time running around with them and showing the sights of Pittsburgh. The park, the overlook, the market, and campus! Today's our last day unfortunately. Jon was able to spend the whole weekend and most evenings with us, so that was very nice. We love having company, so anyone is welcome! I'll post a new album, probably tomorrow, so check it out!

NYC 2009

I am really lucky to have a great husband. A husband that would be OK with me going on vacation without him! Meme and I decided that we wanted to take a trip to NY to visit Catty. We decided on a long weekend and flew over this last Thursday. Catty was nice enough to let us stay with her in her bedroom! It's a great place... but with the three of us, I'm sure it wasn't easy. So it was really kind of her to deal with us for four nights!  We had a great time walking around the city, shopping, eating great food and visiting. Here's a great view from Central Park. 

A few nights, we went out with Catty and her friends. We had lots of fun. NY has really great mexican food! We went to a cool bar that had a Zydeco band and dancing. It was great! Catty and I decided it reminded us a lot of Austin. Meme and I saw a broadway show and did some great walking all over the city. The weather was amazing. 

I had such a great time. I am so thankful it was something we could do. It was great to spend time with my family, to meet Catty's great friends and see what her life is like there in NY! Thank you to meme for accompanying me, Catty for putting up with us and Jon for being OK with me ditching him for a few days. I added more pictures on the slideshow link, take a look!

Spring... or Winter?

We have had the most beautiful weather. Things started to bloom...

And then, today it started snowing again...

And it's been snowing all day. I miss Austin...

Richard & Rachel Visit

We had visitors! Yay! Richard and Rachel came for a long weekend visit. They flew in Thursday afternoon and went home today. We had a really great time. They were a nice reminder of home. Unfortunately, we didn't have the best weather. Mostly cloudy and rainy at times. At least it wasn't in the 20's the whole time! Mostly 50's. We started the visit with a good view of the city. Between Richard's GPS and mine, we finally found the "best view" of Pittsburgh. 

We also had an interesting adventure at the Carnegie Science Museum. We played around, saw an IMAX show... and  a few other things...

We were able to board an old submarine they have in the river behind the museum. It was very interesting since Jon used to be a frequent visitor on the subs for work. I felt very bad for him after seeing the conditions. No space! And it stunk like nothing else...

So here is Richard. With his shirt still down... He's riding this crazy contraption at the science museum. He was brave to give it a try. Rachel tried it as well and did awesome! They both completely flipped, which looked really hard to do!

We also had dinner with some Pittsburgh friends of ours, and went to a game night with some other people. I think they got the full "Pittsburgh experience". Hopefully they had a good time and weren't too bored... We sure enjoyed having them. There are more pictures posted in the slideshow, so take a look!