We decided to spend our vacation visiting family this year. We drove to Jed's parent's house to spend our first week with them, Jed's sister and her family. We tried to get in some fun stuff in the mornings so we could get back to the house for nap time. Unlike at home I usually hate naptime on vacations as it feels like such a waste and I tend to be the only conscious person (a love for napping seems to be in the Italian blood!). However I couldnt wait to spend this time enjoying the northern summer weather on my in law's deck that overlooked the Ohio river. It was lovely.
One of our days was spent in Pittsburgh, more specifically the strip district. We visited our favorite coffee shop and bought our favorite flavored coffee, we went to Penzeys to pick up some spices (Ben and Missy have to stock up for their first four term year living in Papua New Guinea), we picked out a block of cheese at the Italian grocery store to take home and we went to the seafood store to see a ginormous lobster! Of course we had our lunch at the infamous Primanti Brothers which, I learned recently, now has a franchise location in South Florida. I was hoping we'd get to see more of Pittsburgh on this trip but that didnt seem possible with 8 kids, 7 and under, in tow. Oh well maybe next time!
I have to mention a huge highlight for both Jed and I was the night that Jed's parents babysat all 4 boys while we went out to dinner! I love being a mom but a few hours out and alone with my husband is always a treat! Thank you Jerry and Rose!
Sadly we didnt get to the second part of our vacation which was supposed to be in Michigan due to illness. Poor Evan started off the week throwing up and ended it that way as well. He got sick once a day, every other day and in between Jed, Kane and Seth got sick too. It was quite perplexing so we decided to come home to be closer to our pediatrician. Fortunately since we've been home everyone has been healthy. Unfortunately we missed out on seeing everyone in MI which is a huge bummer.
Hiking to the waterfall at one of the parks we visited.
So pretty and the boys couldnt wait to throw rocks in the pool at the bottom! Yes, Seth has a ponytail, I dont have a girl and he likes having his hair done, win, win. :)
If you look closely you can see me (and Ford). The pictures are kind of decieving, I was much closer to the waterfall, we were even getting wet!
Cousins arrive and we visited another park with more falls!
The coffee shop in Pittsburgh.
Penzys with papa!
Kane found his favorite flavor coffee, coconut royal.
The massive 12lbs lobster! They had actually had a lobster that was 24lbs that they ended up donating to Pittsburgh Zoo. 
Primanti Bros with an overly tired toddler.
Hungry boys.
Seth is going to devour his sandwich. He actually ended up hardly eating any of it!
What got us through our vacation.
Buds!
Boats and trains, nana and papa's house is so cool!
The creek. I dont know who had more fun, the kids or the dads?!
Building a dam.
Fun!
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