When Adam's family came up from DC to visit us, we went to the giant Carnegie Museum of Natural History to see the Dinosaurs (and modern art and architecture and gem show, etc)

 Adam's parents came to this museum on a business trip about 10 years ago and they remembered how huge the gem display is, so this pic is for them.

 They have an impressive kid dig. Naturally, Adam jumped right in.

We ended their visit by going to our favorite diner - Pamela's. Here is Brigham with his aunt that he loves!

Holidays!

We have had celebrated a smattering of holidays over the last few months. I was looking back through our photos and realized, again, how much we love any reason to celebrate.

Last December we bought a dozen mini-muffins and a dozen breakfast snacks to celebrate 12-12-12.

Also in December, we celebrated our own family tradition. It is my FAVORITE because we all get to act like a kid for an hour. We go on a Onesie Runsie! We put on our footie pjs and go get some hot chocolate at Starbucks. Yum!

Of course the highlight holiday of the year was Christmas since we got to go to AZ and be together with my whole family. However, I was majorly bad at taking pictures this Christmas so here are a few random ones.

Matching stuffed animal panda with Uncle Carson

My fam took us to Lolo's Chicken and Waffles and it was new/strange/great atmosphere and really really good

New Years was really fun. Stanton and Jenni gave us glasses made out of straws. It was silly and surprisingly fun. Here are Garret and Karli sporting them for us. Also, we strapped fireworks to remote helicopters and watched them explode in the air. It was a pyro-dream!

When we got back to Pittsburgh we celebrated our little Dyal family Christmas. It was wonderful. Brigham loved it and couldn't get enough of his toys from Aunt Chelon. Adam's parents made digital copies of his home videos and audio, so we spent the morning watching them. It was cool and fun to see Adam growing up.

Valentine's Day was simple but fun. We chocolate dipped marshmallows and strawberries.

More recently, Adam's sisters & co. came up to Pittsburgh to visit. They were all nice to let me throw a Mardi Gras party and cook a ton of cajun food. It was great!

(King Cakes below)

 (Chelon found the baby in her King Cake slice. Lucky her!)

We also celebrated Pi Day, Groundhog's Day (no we didn't get to go to Punxsutawny even though it is only 1.5 hours away because Adam had a group presentation and his group was super-lame-sauce and not flexible. Can you tell we were pretty bumbed by it?  Maybe another year), and St. Patty's Day. The only one we got a picture of our green breakfast.

We have to do better at taking pictures. Oh well, even though we don't document well, we sure do have fun!

In case you were wondering, YES, the Easter Bunny is ready and stoked to visit our apartment in a week.

Snow + Brigham

We thought he would LOVE playing in the snow because of moments like this:

 He was so happy with the falling snow.

So the next snow day we bundled up to take him outside and he reacted like this:

After some time and acclimation, the day ended like this: cute, fine, and not so scared.