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I have my first "job" subbing at the high school on Wednesday morning! Aiiigghhh!!!!!

We are all recovering from a whirlwind trip to Pittsburgh this past weekend. We went down to visit Scott's mom and stepdad and dad and stepmom. We have met them several times before. We enjoyed a trip downtown on Saturday even though it was rainy. We took the kids up the "incline" so they could see Heinz field and the hockey arena. Then we went over to Oakland, with a tour of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon--Scott's neighbor growing up was the football coach there. (Scott got me making this guy's key lime pie) We ate the most amazing rainy-day hot dog lunch at Essie's Original Hot Dog Stand. I can see why this resturant has repeatedly won awards for thier french fries. We have a picture of the HEAP of fries before we ate them--I will post it soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essie's_Original_Hot_Dog_shop

Other highlights were Elaine and Denny's (Scott's mom and stepdad) dogs Seiko and Sammy. Seiko is a Malamut and Sammy is a Newfoundland. They are great dogs--LITERALLY. The girls spend hours brushing and brushing Sammy's long bear fur. He just laid there loving every minute of it. Seiko is a darling girl. She and Dan became great buddies. Anytime he was in the house she perked up and followed him around. It was sad to leave them especially!

Pap and Rose (Scott's dad and stepmom) enjoyed seeing the kids and we watched the Penn's game at their house Saturday night. They took us out to King's Sunday morning for brunch. http://www.kingsfamily.com/ We had the BEST waitress--I think that she should go out and train all other waitresses in the whole world. It would solve all our problems!!! This resturant hosts many parisheners from two Catholic churches nearby. We got there early to get "the big table" before mass let out. It was a good thing! Many of Pap and Roses' friends came by to say "hello". (and to check me out, i am sure! :) ) The children were (phew!) very well behaved.

We met up with some nasty weather on the way home. I heard from Eva that Owego woke up white this morning. It was gorgeous and sunny most of today, and only down into the upper 40's. We will "get ours" later on this week, have no fear! I can tell that it is getting colder out by the minute.

The girls and I went and picked up a birthday present for Kennedi. (Scott's daughter who will be 6 on Thursday) We will be going down to see them Wednesday night. Just last week I had seen the cutest Barbie display at the Walmart here that had Barbie dolls dressed in the same little girl clothes that were for sale in the display. We went back to get one set for Kennedi only to find out the whole display had sold out in a couple of hours! Well..... never say never to a girl of Gray descent! We went through the entire store looking in all the nooks and crannies and we managed to find not only a doll, but the entire outfit (with the purse)!!!!!! http://kidsfashion.about.com/b/2008/11/13/holiday-gift-idea-barbie-and-me-fashions-for-girls-and-barbie.htm My favorite one was the red one, but we ended up with the pink satiny jeans/jacket one. She will probably like that one better anyways.

I am off to watch Monday Night Football! :)