Last Thursday night we had dinner at my parent's house since Claire and Tom were in town to move Aunt Kat out of her place and up to Red Bluff (we'll miss you in Menlo Oaks Kat!) Mark and Sarah and Sarah's brother Jacob joined us and Kathy and Michelle Bacolini were here to join in the fun and as always were a big help with the pizza preparations. We hadn't had a dual-family-dinner in awhile and it was fun to get the pizza oven fired up for some new pizza concoctions and John's BloodyMary skirts steaks too. Thanks Johnets!

Francie loves this scarecrow in Jannie's garden, we call him "Funny Guy" and she always wants to go see him and wear his funny guy hat (she signs "hat" by patting the back of her head with both hands.. close enough:)

She gets pretty excited to see Funny Guy and has her own little conversations with him...

Francie AND Jannie in funny guy hats!

Looking like a farm girl in her JanKnit longies...

Jannie got our old wooden blocks back (ie, had to pry them out of cousin Drew's reluctant hands!) and bought Francie a new push wagon for them

Speaking of JanKnits... Jannie just finished a new white sweater for Francie in the same pattern as her cute pale pink one she wears all the time but is growing out of!

AGAIN she finds her Cherrios in the pantry when no one was looking! We're on to you now Francie-sneaky-pants

Michelle making pizzas...

Dad eating the pizzas!

Francie with BOTH sets of Grandparents (she calls Opa "Pah-Pah" and Grandpa "Am-Pah" but sometimes they sound like the same thing:) and her favorite Menlo Oaks family members