Inside JJ's Pizza

I know we've been open now for nearly a year (on August 11th!) in our new location. But I am fulfilling obligations to various out of town family members and friends! You guys really need to come see it in person!

So this is our dining room. It is very red! The windows make it so bright & we have added plants here and there. This picture shows the tile very nicely. We looked & looked & looked more at so much tile & kept coming back to this combination. It looks so great. Don't you think?

We are working on covering the front patio area. It is slowly coming together. We are still working nearly every single day, making pizzas.

We are also trying to host live music on Fridays. The musicians seem to enjoy it, even though the audience is somewhat sporadic.

Long time, no blog...

So I was just glancing at my last post, which was of Ian. It makes me think about how Justin just shaved all of Ian's sweet little boy hair off (it now matches Adam's & Justin's). Gone is my little boy, here comes big, strong, growing up IAN!! I'll post pictures someday.

Right now Justin, Adam, and Allison are camping in the Jemez Mountains. It's their last chance before Adam returns to school. I have to work at JJ's, so no camping for me. Ian went with them several weeks ago, but this time chose to stay with me and Jason (and Grandma).

Otherwise, it's the same old, same old...

Sending love out to all our family & friends!!!

Ian

Ian takes such great pictures. He is so handsome and sweet.

Whee!!

It's a "Di-mo-moor!"

So Adam made these dinosaurs out of clay & set them up in a little dino-environment, all by himself. Actually this is two pictures of the same dinosaur taken from different angles. He made a baby dinosaur that is not pictured (he must be shy).

The way Jason says dinosaur, it sounds like "di-mo-moor." So cute.

More Soccer Pictures

Remember, you can click on the picture to get a better & BIGGER view.

Adam's Last Soccer Game

Here is Adam & his fellow "Thunderbolts" after their last soccer game today. From the left, there is Joseph, Hunter, Zerrick, Alex, Liam (goes to Adam's new school), Payton, Adam, and Jason.

They are just a great group of boys! They only won a couple of their games (and tied once). But they worked hard & played as a team every time.

Negotiation can be rough

Actually, Dad is cooking dinner & we are just waiting...

Allison, aka "Gappy"

So here is a picture of Allison taken today. She has just recently lost three teeth!! She is much happier without the loose teeth. When they are near falling out, she is miserable!! And she doesn't eat much at all. The day after she lost the last of these three, she ate three slices of pizza!! Poor girl. She must have been so hungry.

Jason Pictures

Here are some pictures of Jason, again a couple of months old (the pictures, not Jason). He loves hats. Any and all of them. And notice the dimples? So sweet!!

Lately, he and Ian have been getting along so well. Ian takes care of Jason & runs to help him if Jason falls.

Jason will be two years old this month! April 25th. He is talking up a storm. He is a little parrot, mimicking our words constantly. And he is often heard running around the house singing little songs to himself (like people who randomly whistle as they do something).

Ian Pictures

Here is cute Ian. He is the most happy-go-lucky of any of us. These are a couple of months old. So just picture him even bigger and brighter now!

Adam & His Buddy

Here is Adam playing with one of his friends, Hovey. They seem so grown up when they are together, playing like big boys.

Bette Davis' Eyes

Does anyone remember when Allison was tiny & very un-photogenic? She always looked squinty & squished in her earliest pictures.

New Members of the Family

So we have some new additions to our family from the Holidays. Adam received a parakeet. He named him Sunny, but then we all decided to call him Perry, as in perry-keet. Allison became a mom, thanks to her Grandma. She and the 2 big boys all got dolls for Christmas. You can see them riding our new dragon (from Grandpa Tom).

The whole gang of kids

Or is it a "gaggle" of kids? Who knows? It's really neat to see the kids all together in stop motion. They do look like a bunch of silly-heads! Notice the PJ shots - they're all in blue ones.

Mom and Dad - I think I stopped doing the annual calendars because it's too hard to get all of them looking good in one shot. Nearly hopeless. It wasn't so bad with 2, or maybe I'd get lucky with 3, but 4? Never!!

Happy Winter (although it feels like spring!)

Some pictures from the past couple months: the top of our Christmas tree, an ornament mirror, and the kids' cute little snowmen (I don't remember when it snowed though?).