Memorial Day Pizza Party Posting

Last night we had our second annual Memorial Day Weekend Dinner and Game Night. (whew say that three times fast). This year we had planned to make pizza on the grill and when dad said, "find a pizza recipe and stick with it" we were not about to change the menu.

These pictures don't do it justice. Our little house was packed full. Toppings being chopped and diced on every imaginable square inch of the kitchen. Laughing and shouting and a lengthy debate about what toppings on what pizzas and which pizza get grilled and which get baked. Anner and Emma took on the grilling experiment (with good success!). Grace and Aaron baked the pizzas (which turned out just like dad's). I gave them a primer on "dad's way" of making pizza, including the cheese on top and they followed it perfectly. No one got out of the evening without getting some flour on themselves. And ice cream and homemade crisp for dessert. It was just what the doctor ordered.


Pizza on the grill...turning out!


Emma pulling the final pizza off of the grill. She's a natural and can comeback to help any time!


One pizza almost done and one pizza about to go in.


Aaron and Wolfe on oven duty.


Dad making pizzas - 1998

Dad making pizza will be one of the images in my head that will stay there a long, long time. Before dad died he told me to "remember the good times" and pizza dinner is far and away the top of the list of the good times.