Beauty "FALL" Around

How did you like that title?!  Pretty clever, huh?  This is the most beautiful fall that I can remember...I think it's at it's peak this weekend.  We are fortunate to have gorgeous colors out every window and the drive along Old Route 30 is picture perfect.  We've been busy, busy, busy...Friday we had a fall event at the school, yesterday it was soccer and pictures, today we had several friends over.  This week we'll be getting ready for our costume party which the boys insisted that we have.  So hopefully I can pull that off...I have not been planning ahead or pinteresting appropriately!

Last weekend, riding the lift at Ski Liberty

On top of Fairfield...

Some cold morinings at the bus stop

Jace was having fun with Nana and Pap so Brennan got treated to his first hibachi dinner 

and a trip to Target where he asked me to take his picture in the circle...

A boy and his blankies...

What in the world?!

This is what it looks like when Daddy comes home from hunting!

New camo

Jace's artwork

More of Jace's work

Brennan's artwork and school work.  If you look clsoe you'll see kindergarten is more advanced (at least from what I remember) than 30 years ago

 FALL...this makes living int he middle of nowhere worth it!

Dino Brennan and Naturalist Jace

Grandma, Aunt Tammy and I took the boys to Pittsburgh over the weekend. We went to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  The boys loved it!  It was one of the best place of that type that I've taken them.  It was so well done and the exhibits were so nice!  We got to take a tour with a scientist to the mollusks area of the center.  It was in the working area of the museum and they had vaults full of thousands of shells.  He also showed the boys a living snail and showed how to see the heart beating.  Then we had a tour of the dinos.  We were the only people in the group and a former science teacher showed us around and gave us the scoop.  Brennan was so impressive; I should have videoed.  He was telling her what all the dinos were and other facts that he knew.  Jace was right there taking it all in.  The museum also had a hands on paleontology area, a wildlife area (taxidermy) with exhibits from Africa and North America, and a nature play area.  On Sunday, the boys enjoyed some time in the pool, then took the incline ride and finally finished with some shopping.  It was a fun weekend!  We'll definitely be back to the museum and the Carnegie Science center is on the list as a must do.

The only ketchup that matters.

Dippy the Diplodocus

Lunch at Primanti Bros.  The guy cooking deserves a raise...he was working so hard!!  I'm still not quite sure what all the fuss is about but we were true tourists and indulged in it.

Future Panther? 

Let's just get to the museum, Mom!

So many pretty flowers still in bloom

Checking out the snail heartbeat

Paleontology lab

A real leg bone

A library that looks out onto dinos, Brennan's version of heaven!

Sitting in a dino foot print

This kind lady gave us a tour and showed the boys special things!

T-Rex

Paleontologists at work!

This is taxidery....looks so real!

Figuring out how the incline works

I tried all weekend to get a nice pic of the 2 of them...I pretty much failed.  I'm hoping that Mom has one.

Bumped his head

A gorgeous fall day to take in an awesome view!

Heinz field

LOVE this view

Don't go to Pittsburgh without getting an almond torte at Prantls

This is supposed to be a pic of the 3 of us, again we failed!