Let the festivities begin.

Each year in September the Pittsburgh Parks and Rec put on an Alphabet Walk Festival. They have choose a theme and decorate the parks entire walking route with alphabets and stations to do fun things at, it truly is amazing to think of the man power behind something like this. The entire event is free and every few feet there is something new and fun for the kids to participate in, including painting, clay modeling, "fishing", face painting, coconut bowling, face painting, puppet making etc.

Along with all these fun things they had the most amazing "Balloon Guy" I have ever seen, it was about a half hour wait, but all kids agreed it was well worth it.

We had an awesome day, enjoying the warmth, fun and festivities, too bad we won't be here next year to enjoy it again.

Passing Time...

To keep the kids busy, Thomas got a membership at the local rock climbing gym. This is a win win solution for all, I get a bit of alone time (HALLELUJAH) the kids get daddy time and some pretty awesome muscles. Not to mention it wares them out a bit and they go to sleep nice and easy. Thomas says that he's pretty impressed with their climbing skills and each time they get better and better. 

A Greek Mythology Dream

If you know Alli you know she enjoys a good book.  Sometimes I sneak into her room well past bedtime and see her reading away. She's a huge Rick Riordan fan and I believe it was his Greek Mythology books like Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief that got her hooked.  She knows all of the characters, knows when the next book in the series come out and she was dedicated enough to the books last year that she dressed up as Artemis for Halloween.

I like this little addiction of hers, I proudly support book reading. So this October when word got around that Rick Riordan was coming to our main library here in Pittsburgh I knew I had to get tickets. We had such a fun little night with each other and some other members of our ward here. Rick Riordan was very personable and gave an inspiring little speech on his career and how to become an author. I'm so glad Alli and I were able to share this great little experience together.