Pittsburgh weekend!

Jeff and I headed to Pittsburgh on Friday, July 16 to visit Julie Klein and Dave Battiste!  Julie was my big sister from our sorority days.  She also just won a free wedding in Hilton Head, SC!!  You can read more about their awesome wedding here!  Julie asked me to come visit her in PGH because we haven't been able to get together in what seems like forever.  Jeff and I didn't have any plans so we decided to make plans with them and visit!  We originally planned to go to a Pirates game, but we weren't sure how the weather was going to behave, so instead we decided to head to the South Side and have some dinner and drinks.  We got to meets lots of Dave and Julie's PGH friends too!  We had such an awesome evening and can't wait to plan our next trip to visit them!!  Before we headed home on Saturday, I went with Julie to help her find a wedding dress and to try on some bridesmaid dresses.  Luckily, we found dresses for everyone and they will look beautiful at her November beach wedding!

Here are some pictures from Friday night...

Me, Dave & Julie

LiL & BiG

The lovely couple at the bar where they first met!

All the girls from the evening...

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The entire group... The way everyone posed is kind of funny... there was an extra guy who jumped in the picture and posed with a girl who is married (on the left in grey)... I ended up posed with the girl's husband (guy in the light blue shirt) which left poor Jeff looking like a loner in the back... haha!  Such a fun night!

After trying on dresses with Julie, Jeff and I headed to Morgantown so we could have dinner with my family to celebrate my brother's actual birthday.  Even though we celebrated his birthday at the beach, Saturday was his real birthday.  We had a delicious dinner at Olive Garden and Jeff got inspired from his meal and left with an idea of something to make for us for dinner... :)

Saturday night after ice cream cake for Nick's birthday, Jeff and I headed downtown to hang out with Ben & Brittany who we haven't seen in ages!  We were so happy to get to see them and spend some time catching up!  Ben recently got a job in Uniontown so we haven't been seeing as much of them as we used to!  We are so excited that they are back in Morgantown most weekends so we can catch up with them more!! :)

On Sunday Jeff and I left town early and headed back to Pittsburgh to spend the day at the PGH Zoo with Jeff's brother, sister, their spouses, all the nephews and friends of theirs with their children.  Most people thought we were crazy for volunteering to spend the day at the zoo with 6 littles ones, but we loved every minute of it!  We don't get to see the boys as often as we would like, so any chance we get to see them is a treat!  We had an awesome time walking around, even though it was super hot, and got to see lots of different animals.  The boys were all well behaved!  We got through the entire zoo and had to head home, but were really glad that we made the trip to see everyone!  Here are some pictures from the day...

All of the little ones!

Funny boys!

The whole group!

Another picture of the boys...

And last, but not least, Jeff playing at the ice sculpture! :)

Whew! What a fun filled, super busy weekend we had!  It was worth every minute of it though!  We got to see so many people that are special to us!  It was a blast!  Can't wait to see everyone again soon!!!