pre-opening (may 2018)

There definitely was not much time for celebrating birthdays since we were running up against a deadline for the opening of our restaurant. As in, only a few days to go!! We had endless sticky film to peel, appliances to unpack, beautiful but annoyingly intricate light fixtures to assemble, hiring to finalize, training to plan, schedules to post, and marketing to get underway. Luckily the entire family was on board, including wonderful extended family!!

Oh, but do not let the smiles fool you. Yes, it was fun and exciting and energizing (some of the time), but it was also exhausting and maddening, and a full-out emotional roller coaster. Hard truth.

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april 2018 misc.

And to finish off April, we have ... Earth-Day excitement! Porter's promposal to this sweet girl!! Which involved singing to her (with his bro. and buddies) in front of about 75 surprised onlookers. Happy Birthday to G-ma Loo:-) And sunny family day at the park ... Looks like the man bun is still going strong!;)

Number Five

I've been meaning to update our blog layout with the new family pictures we had taken in November. But since I'm not going to get around to it anytime too soon, I thought I'd include a couple with this post. Aren't ' they cute! The crazy part, though, is that as much as I LOVE these pictures (thanks to McKenzie Goff), they will already be outdated as of September. Here's why ... Dueck baby #5 Arriving September 24 th 2010

july 2018 misc.

Aaaaand, to finish off July 2018, we have ... Yet another crazy decision, this time to wrap our entire white truck in a giant bright green salad wrap. James builds his own scrapped together bike ramp. Porter and friends hiking adventures! Rare couple time on a beautiful sunny day in the PNW

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