Has Spring sprung yet?

Every year I get sucked into the warm and fuzzy feeling of Spring and go out and buy lots of flowers and other things to fix the yards up and make them look pretty.  Then about 2 months later, I'm cursing myself for getting all this stuff that makes extra work for me.

This year.....I told my self NO!

Well kind of.  Although, I am cutting way back.

Here's how we spent our day (other than sweating like pigs).

The first thing we had to get done today was put Weed & Feed on all 3 lawns.  Has to be done every March so that the grass will be beautiful all summer long.  I walked up and down the lawns and put the fertilizer on......and Paul got the job of watering it in.  We only got 2 lawns done today because it got too darn hot.  Backyard will be done tomorrow morning!

Bought just a couple of vegetables to plant and bought an Azalea to plan in the front yard.  Still need to get a couple more things to plant in there and then buy mulch and mulch all the flower beds and tree wells.

Cleaned up some junk laying around and getting ready for the trash man tomorrow

Took a selfie.  Note:  this is not a beauty shot.  It was over 80 degrees outside today and I was hot and sweaty.  I still need to learn to hide my fat neck.

Got the cherry tomatoes and the jalapenos planted today.  We plant jalapenos every year, because there is nothing tastier than home grown jalapenos.  I really love having a garden......by the end of the summer it's just a big pain in the butt.....so this year, I went little.

Started getting the front porch cleaned up.  Everything has yellow pollen on it.  We really, really love having this porch and do enjoy sitting on it occasionally (when there is no mosquitos out).

The plant that we had growing up the trellis last year died, so I cleaned all the dead vines up with the intention of buying something new to grow on there this year.

But then.......to my surprise, the trellis plant was sprouting new life!  I'm so excited.  It had the most gorgeous pink flowers covering it all summer long.  I'm going to taking loving care of this so hopefully it will be beautiful again this summer.  Guess I need to get those weeds pulled out of it.

We bought a pressure washer last weekend so that we could clean up a lot of things that need cleaning (driveway, sidewalk, brick walkways, etc.).  How many people do you know that keep a pressure washer in their living room?

Then again.......how many people do you know that keep a working traffic signal in their living room?  We do!

Actually, both of these items are just temporary residents in the living room.

And in other news.......still waiting on the county permit so we can get our inspections done.  We decided that the floors looked crappy after the construction (because the contractors beat the crap out of them).......so we decided to put new flooring in PZ.  

We actually are thinking about putting this product in our living room and my office.  It's really awesome, durable, better quality than laminate, and looks really nice.

But of course, we still need to get this PZ open and get this mess cleaned up.  We need to start making money on this place.......instead of spending it!

Time to take a shower.  I am exhausted.

I am so happy that this week is almost over

It has been an extremely stressful week.

The husband hurt his back last week and that not only slowed him down, but it also added extra chores for me.

The opening of our shop is delayed due to red tape issues, so he's been stressing about that.  FINALLY....after 8 days of submitting our application, it came back today........NOT APPROVED.  Terrific.......we had to make a few small changes to the plans we submitted, so we are hoping that they will be approved on Monday.  After that, we'll only have 2 more inspections to get through.

It's been a crazy week and things have just been totally screwed up.  My house is a pig sty.  And I can't seem to get anything done.

I did take a morning off and go shopping for a birthday present for someone, so I was able to get the rest of things to finish decorating my Paris themed bathroom (you know the ones that we got remodeled months ago.....but still haven't put stuff up in them yet).

So, since I wanted to hang up some photos that we took in Paris to put in our new bathroom....it gave me the chance to look through our vacation photos and remember all the amazing fun trips we have had.  I also needed some pics to put in my office.

So......just sharing some of the pictures I chose to blow up and adorn my walls with.  I am actually pleased with the way they turned out once I've framed them (and I'll share those later), but just wanted to end this blog with happy thoughts of fun adventures.

P.S.  I personally think I took some amazing pictures.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

 Paris, France - 2016

 Arc de Triumph - Paris, France - 2016

 Bacharach, Germany - 2016

 Eiffel Tower - 2016

 Neon Museum - Las Vegas, Nevada - 2015

(this photo probably looks out of place amongst the others.....but I just love this old history)

 Paris, France - 2016

 Louvre Museum - Paris, France - 2016

 Paris, France - 2016

 Tower Bridge - London, England - 2015

Oh how I can't wait until our next vacation!

Some Catching up to do

Well I'm so glad to be back here and documenting the excitement of my life.

Actually, whether you read this page or not.....I love going back and looking at all the great times (and sometimes not so great times) that I have shared here.

I have so many great memories.....and I hope to make many more.

So, here's a few pics to catch you up on what we've been up to since I was posting more regularly.  Of course, there has been billions of things happening.....but this is just a few:

We went to Las Vegas for four days and had some much needed alone time:

Well........the two of us and Tinkerbell.  Actually, we rescued her from a 

drunk and then Paul felt the need to have a picture with her :-)

Our entire trip in Las Vegas did not consist of all gambling....we also saw shows.  This was Burtom Cummings from The Guess Who.  Paul scored us 2nd row seats!

We've been desiging new magnets

Eating pizzas at other places to get some ideas on new pizzas and how to run a dining room

(we take running our business seriously)

We've had lots of new equipment delivered and have to get it set up

We've sampled the new ovens to make sure they are working properly

We've been working to get the space all finished

We've been working on designing new menus

Every once in awhile, we try and fit in a nap or two.  Of course, I can never sleep alone in this house

We've been getting TONS of deliveries to the house with all the new stuff we need.  This shipment was plates, pizza pans, spatulas, plastic baskets, silverware wrappers, and all sorts of other interesting items.  In fact, the UPS and FedEx drivers and myself are practically on a first name basis.

We've been designing new business cards

Paul had jury duty in the middle of all the action.

He sent me this pic of himself from the court and said "Bond,  James Bond".  

I thought he was trying to be cool......I didn't notice that he was Juror 007.

We've been getting inspections done.  Still have 3 more to go so we can open

We've been admiring the beauty of our awesome new location.  

This place is so magnificent compared to the little hole in the wall we'll be leaving

In addition to all the things we do during the day, we are still heavily 

involved in running an extremely busy pizza shop at night!

We've been designing our dining room and our restaurant

We've been picking out new floors because after all the construction the floors 

ended up looking like crap and we want everything to look perfect

We've been taking a little time off and visiting antique malls in 

the area to find cool stuff to hang on our walls

We were so excited to score this item for PZ.....and what a deal we got on it!

And........we've been trying to hire enough people to handle all the business we'll have once we move into our bigger and better new location!

So......as you can see, the Gainors have not been laying on a beach in Hawaii or eating pizza in Italy (like we are so wanting to do).......we've been busy with our life.

Well hallelujah......I'm back!

I thought this blog was lost forever.

Not that I've really had any time to document our life, but there were a couple of times I was going to download pictures so you can see what we've been up to.....but the computer would never let me log back into it and kept spinning, and spinning, and spinning!

I'm excited.....I can start jotting down all the boringness of our life again.

But now right now..........we're off on another boring adventure.

That's not true.  We're off to fill up the BBQ propane tank and look at a hot water heater shelf.

See what you've been missing.  Are you even still here?

I can't wait to start writing again.

We're not Millionaires

Back from Vegas, but we have no exciting stories to tell of BIG jackpots to tell you about.

We've been running at full speed since our return, but we found 10 minutes this afternoon to try and get everything done (finally) in the downstairs bathroom. 

Ta da.......here's a sneak peek at the (almost) finished product:

Jut a couple more things to do and then we'll be finished.  We love our new bathrooms!  In fact, we always say that when we walk in them they feel like they should be in another house and not ours.

Can't wait until we get the rest of this old house remodeled.   But of course.......Pizza Zone is first priority on our list right now.

I can't wait to find some time in the next couple of days to get my pictures on here.  I have to do it soon.......before I forget!

Getting the job done

To take off a few days means you have to work your butt off to get things done.

I started a "to do" list a couple of days ago so that I wouldn't forget anything:

 

Here's that list today.....had to add a couple of things to it......but it's nearing completion:

 

(I seriously have no idea why this wants to load upside down.....

maybe because that's the way I feel right now.) 

 

And then of course.......there's this cute little distraction!

I've even got a list started for when we get back.....too many things I can't forget to get done:

 

(so now this list wants to load sideways???????  Seriously.....strange things happening today)

See ya on the other side of our vacation.  But when we get back...............oh we have so much friggin work to get done to get that new store open (unless I win a million bucks and decide to retire there)

Wow!

I'm still here.

I still want to blog.

Time is just not my friend.

Busy with new location, remodeling, kids visit, catching up, getting my house back in order, and just plain busy-ness just makes it impossible to get it done.

I have so much to share, but no time right now.

I'll see what I can do before the end of the week.  Although, I have a trip to Vegas to get ready for...........

In the meantime.......here's my favorite pic from the past month!

Funny story about this picture.....Paul stopped someone and asked him to take this for us.....after the picture we noticed he had a Bengals jersey on and we had just beat them.  Ha ha!

Here's a couple of other pics that I also love:

Wrigley in puppy prison.  The cornhole board makes good prison walls when the workers were here!

Another Texan game day picture of my awesome family!

 

We've also been picking out new signage for the new location

 

And here's some more progress pictures of the new location. 

The demo after they knocked all the walls down and finally opened the space so we could finally see how much space we had.

 Back kitchen dishwashing area and prep room

 Front kitchen and dining room

 Digging a trench in the front kitchen for the plumbing lines

 What a mess!

 Yayyyy......we've got halls, walls, and doorways!

I still have the amazing bathroom pictures to share, but I haven't had a chance to get all the stuff put back up in them yet.  Don't want you to see them "naked".  I just need to clone myself!