Uncle Tom!

Today is also Uncle Tom's birthday! THE BIG 60!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

You are great... and I appreciate you so much!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Phil's B-Day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL!

Thanks for being so patient with me while fishing in Wisconsin...and teaching me how to drive the tractor. :) Your family is great!

...And I think I'm finally starting to learn your humor. :)

Hope you had a wonderful day!

Cute Cousins

Here are some random pictures of some of my little cousins.

Me & Ernie watching Fireworks

Bailey

Reagan

I babysat Ashlyn & Carson this past weekend. I love their smiles in this one!

Carson is so talkative, snuggly, good and cute! :)

AND.. Happy Birthday to Miss Brenna Jean, who I believe turns 6 today!

(These are kind of old pictures because the newer ones aren't on our computer...at least I couldn't find them.)

Jenna!!

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY, JENNA!!!!!

Thanks for all the great times, girl! :)

Hope you had a fantastic day!

LOVE YA!!!

17th Birthday

I had my 17th birthday in August.
It was a good day, but not quite exciting as my 16th birthday! Because your Sweet 16 is just a cool birthday. :)


I got to go out to lunch with my "second family" at Sol Ez Teca in Washington. I loove that place! I order the same thing everytime. :)
Me & Hyde

And lucky me, I got to do peaches on my birthday!

That night I went to church, and then we celebrated afterwards. We had my favorite: brownies and ice cream. :)

17 candles in one brownie. Yes, it is possible! :D

My Family

Ellie came to help celebrate and spend the night.

It really was a good day.

And now I can drive with more passengers than one friend and my siblings...

I think that's the only advantage of turning 17....

Josh <3 Wendy

I'm going to start going back and post my pictures & happenings from my Summer.


My cousin, Josh Schick married Wendy Stoller. It was an outdoor wedding, and it was a beautiful August Saturday!
The Happy Couple

The adorable ring bearer & flower girl. :)

Dad and Daughter

Cousins

The two tractors-- so funny!

My Bud lookin' sharp in his tux!

I love this little girl!!
(She was getting a little tired of pictures at this point...)

My second dad --Uncle Tom! :)

Josh & Linds

My pictures aren't so great, but thought I would share what I have!

[Whatcha think of my blog's new look? I kinda like it! :D]

Restaurant Reviews

:) Yep... that's going to be the new thing for my blog!

I always read them in the newspaper, and I think every time I read them that I would LOVE to write restaurant reviews. Because I love eating out.

So now for fun, I will be writing them on my blog. Not very often do I try a new restaurant, but occasionally.

Time for my 1st one! :)



Tonight we went to Sicily's Pizza in Washburn.
If you don't know where Washburn is, it's North of Metamora. It takes us about 25 minutes.

I had never been there before, but my parents had, and they raved about it. My uncle always goes there in the Fall while they're harvesting, and also raves about it.

When we arrived, we seated ourselves in a big room, with just one other couple there. The decorations are just kind of random, but kind of Italianish because the people who own it are from Italy.
There was definitely not much atmosphere. It really would have helped if there was some music.

We ordered an 18", regular crust with sausage, garlic, onion and mushrooms. We only waited about 20 minutes.
For an 18" it was $14.95, plus $2 for each topping.
It was good pizza, but nothing spectacular. I couldn't taste any garlic, and there weren't many onions. But the sausage was good, and I was so hungry that anything tasted wonderful. :)

Three of us ate a 18", but we ate a lot and overstuffed ourselves. It's pretty filling, even though the crust is fairly thin.

It's a nice little "Italian" pizza place, and everyone was very friendly. My Dad loves it because they used the old ovens.

I really would recommend trying it if you're up for going for just the food, and to support a little hometown restaurant. Which is kinda fun, I think. :)


QUICK GUIDE:

Sicily's Pizza

101 N Jefferson St.
Washburn, IL 61570
248-7477


Ratings: **** is highest

Food - ***
Atmosphere *
Service ****

--they also have carryout

So there you have my opinion. It was really was good, so go on and try it!

Jessica's Birthday Post :)

Happy (belated) Birthday, Jessica!

Her birthday was on Monday, and I felt honored I got to go out for lunch with her!

Jessica- Thanks for always letting me stay at your house, hang around you all the time, letting me use your pool, and taking me along with you on vacation.

Don't know what I'd do without your family!!

LOVE YA!