Heading home

It's been great to have so much time with family this week. Here's a few last pictures of them before we get on the road southward:

Pittsburgh fun

Although planting grass seed was plenty of fun, Nathaniel had an even better time over the past 24 hours as we went to a a children's museum (where he met one of his favorite celebrities)...





AND went to an amusment park (a.k.a "big, big, big, big playground). There were only 4 rides he could go on, but from his excitement about them, they probably ranked about even with flying the space shuttle:

Busy

Nathaniel continues to have a lot of fun on our trip, though I'm not sure he understands the meaning of vacation. As you can see in the pictures, he's occupied himself today with earthmoving, garage-cleaning and landscaping, and all of that before lunch.

Great friends

Here's a few pictures of our gracious hosts from our time in State College: the Horners. These friends housed, fed, and entertained us, in addition to giving up a lot of their time to just hang out with us. We were sad to leave them on Tuesday.

State College

We visited Kelli's alma mater today. Of course the highlight for Nathaniel was the construction activity that happened to be going on, more so than the stately buildings and old college hangouts.

Vacation

We're on vacation this week. traveling to see the Dominicks in Pennsylvania, with stops in Lexington, VA and State College PA along the way. Since we're not at work, there should be time to update the blog, right? We'll see how it goes. Anyway, here a few pictures from this morning's short hike off of the Blue ridge Parkway near Lexington, VA:

It's been a long time since an update, so here's some highlights of pictures from the last 8 months or so.