Christmas napping

It's been a long day

Tighthead

We added a new brewery to our list of visited: Tighthead brewery in Mundelein IL. It's a nice little brewery where the owners are living the dream - craft brewers that gave up corporate America and opened up a brewery of their own.

Highlights include a seasonal sweet potato beer, "we be yammin'" and dog treats made from spent grains with all donations going to the Save-a-pet shelter :)

A worthy stop while in the greater Fox Lake Area :)

Allegiances are transferring

East Brownie Dam

Mock up of my project at our Engineering Cookie Table. Go figure ours wasn't the most festive table In the competition... Maybe because we were too busy working to make cookies?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey followed by elk antlers. Nom Nom.

Miss you all and wish we could share the holiday with everyone near and dear to us.

Movin' on Down

To Row E!

Carnegie museum

We revisited one of our first real dates with a visit to the Carnegie Museum and Alphabetsaurus (site of our first picture together full of goofy grins :) ) It is always a good trip and we enjoyed the Traveling Exhibits including Women Empowered and Whistler and Rebellion in the Art World. I recommend a visit if you are looking for an indoor activity. We finished off the evening with a walk around campus including a geocache and a trip to the Oratory. It was so much smaller than I expected.

Reflections

A first for everything

I voted for the first time as a Missenda and my first time in a purple state. :)

Happy Halloween!

Trick or treating at the M's tonight :)

My punkin was the best, btw :)

Buffalo

We went up to buffalo for football last weekend to watch Pitt vs UB. That's U at B, because the town has no interest in owning that university.... It was raining like crazy, but if their fans can handle two story icicles, a downpour won't stop them from tailgating.

It was crazy being there- the stadium felt like high school. There probably are larger stadiums at high schools in Texas :). They even had a set of bleacher that had never been day in and covered with adds - they were supposedly installed so the team could qualify for division IA. Not exactly a proud win, buy a win no less despite rain and 45mph winds :)

Cool picture of the day

Yup I walked out before dark two days in a row :)

Parkside Candy

We started the weekend off right with a stop at an old time candy shoppe in Buffalo - the Parkside Candy Shop. My grandpa worked here in his youth and my mom and her sister used to visit the ice cream counter when they were little. It was super cool to touch on this piece of my family's history.

The store was amazing. The candy and ice cream looked delicious, and the inside still looked the way I imagine it did when Grandpa Bob was serving up scoops to pretty ladies :)

And yes, there is a sample of the sponge candy in the trunk.

Pupdate

It's been a while
All is well

Pitt Homecomming

We ventured into Oakland Friday night to enjoy the homecoming festivities with dinner in Oakland followed by a trip to the engineering alumni tent fr dessert and drinks. We ran into one of my coworkers there, because everyone really knows everyone in Pittsburgh. We finished off the night with 25 minutes of fireworks at the Cathedral of Learning. (Side note maybe if we didn't spend so much on fireworks we could charge less for tuition?)

This morning we joined a reduced size crew for tailgating with mimosas and breakfast casserole before watching yet another loss. Being a member of the Illini nation has prepared me well for marrying pittboy.

Still a nice fall weekend nonetheless.

No Santa Maria

Last Sunday we headed down to the north shore to check out the Nina and the Pinta. The Columbus foundation built replicas and they wander round the world, making their way up to the allegheny river. It was a beautiful day out and I was amazed to see how small they were considering they made voyages across the Atlantic Ocean!

Oktoberfest

Fun times with good friends at penn brewery. Wishing you were there.

Lebanese Food Festival

We hit up the fall food fest last night for tasty treats. It wasn't quite as good as the Greek, but it made for a perfect Friday night.

David enjoyed his carnivorous lamb kebab and chicken and Lebanese beer while I enjoyed kibee, lubia (even better than the Greek green beans), and spinach and a feta pastry.

5 Month-iversary!

Time has flown and we are at our fifth monthiversary today!  

To celebrate, here goes....

I apologize in advance for the volume.  it was just so hard to pick just a few (and this IS just a few). Hopefully this is great memories for those of you who could attend and the rest of you feel like you were there now!

Some of our favorite "Getting Ready" shots

At the church... the clock is ticking :)

 

Let's get this party started!

The party just kept going!