Pizza Anyone?

Come on over and we'll whip up a custom pizza!! How about a bacon-chicken-ranch with hand tossed crust? Or a loaded one with extra cheese?? We love pizza here but in this area they make them very thin and xtra crispy, we like hand tossed with a nice edge and soft, browned bottom.
I like to try new stuff, this one below is a BBQ Chicken which the kids and mom really liked, I thought it was different- not a pizza flavor but pretty good just the same.


I am going to try a buffalo chicken one next- with some blue cheese and mozzarella. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I think pizza is kind of an "anything goes" sort of thing. Does anybody out there from UMM remember "Itza Pizza"? I would love that crust recipe- THAT was good!!
Can you smell this pizzas with onions, peppers, pepperoni, & mushrooms? This one was breakfast for the boys...they REALLY love mom's pizza!

II Chronicles 7:14."

A faithful mother annotated this verse in her Bible with these words, "A most wonderful verse for the healing of a nation." It would be years before her son laid his hand that Bible as he took the presidential oath of office...is it not still appropriate today?


14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

12 Degrees

It is a cold-cold morning here in PA this November. Kids have just gone out the door to wait for the bus with hats and coats buttoned up tight. I have to take advantage of this weather and start in on some ice buckets for Christmas- don't know if they will last but I will try. Rick is in GA this week, the last travel week for the year (I hope), then the holidays begin! Guess we will be heading to the Bills for our Turkey day this year. It is always an adventure with the likes of her extended family, never know what will happen. But they are very much like family to us here in PA. We have been here for 13 years now and it doesn't look like much will be changing any time soon.

Rick and I joined Direct Buy last weekend, getting ready to put a new kitchen in. Looks like we will save about 30% on our cabinets and more on the granite counter tops. We already saved roughly $500.00 on a new washer dryer set, our dryer died last week and hanging out clothes in this weather is for the birds. The 73 inch Tv they had on display would look pretty nice in our living room! Maybe next year.

Today is grand-daughter Savannah's 4th birthday...Happy Birthday Silly P!!!

1 Thessalonians 5:8-13

Heard this passage today in church- read it and read it again. How beautiful a thing to be in the light of God! To accept the light of God and to radiate it for all the world to see! To accept that gift so fully and freely given- how awesome! To feel it in your heart and radiate the light to the world around you...I hope that i can feel that at all times....I hope that you can too!

8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves

Thought I would up-load this pic of boys from our day out in October. They are both really photogenic and it was a great time for all of us. I have so many more to share but I have to wait until I decide which pics I will be sending out for Christmas. As soon as I do that, I will share the link with all of you and you can see them all.

Kind of wanted to do something with the whole black and white thing, as you can see by the pic below, it washed out a bit so I figured I would try this. You can click on it to make it larger. I am no photographer but I really have some beautiful subjects to shoot, wouldn't you agree. Rick gave me a wonderful camera for Christmas last year and I have yet to really learn how to run it. Maybe my New Year's resolution this year, how about that? Our two year old Jasper weighs in at about 160 pounds. He was 150# last time at the vet but he has really thickened out in the last few months...He is such a sweetie!! Enjoy!!

Report cards came home!!!!

Matthew brought his report card home and he has made the honor roll!!!! First time ever and we are so very proud of him!! He has been working hard at it (still needs to watch his science class!) and it has finally paid off. This is a first for our family, though both boys with a bit more effort could easily make it ever marking period...Boys!! Alex's gpa was an 88.9 and we are happy with that too! He also needs to watch his science and math- put more time into it but we are so proud of him too!

Both boys have begun hockey at the local rink. They are having a great time, working hard and learning the game. Of course, I have always wanted to be a hockey mom- LOVE the game! Two former ECHL players from the Johnstown Chiefs (remember the movie Slap shot?? that's OUR team!!) have helped the team in their practices- that is exciting for the boys, to learn from local celebrities. Check out our Chiefs at http://www.johnstownchiefs.com/ Will put some pics up when we get some!

God Bless America

Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Libertarian, Independent, Liberal....God Bless America and all that she stands for!!!