Last Weekend

Last weekend was a ton of fun.  It started when Taffy and her three kids came Thursday the 8th, and Tony joined us here on Friday night.  Taffy decided that it was a good time for a visit since she needed a little break and we had two home basketball games.  Friday we played Big Piney, and Saturday we played Mt. View.  Between games and other events we had a great time.  Friday morning Taffy, Mylie, and Mariah had doctor appointments in Evanston, so Connor was here with Dad, Tessa and I, and we had fun.  First, he went to the gym with dad and did his "basketball work."  Then when they got back we went sledding at a few of the dirt hills (now covered with snow of course) around our neighborhood from all of the new houses going up lately.  We had a lot of fun but soon got cold and came home and played dance-dance.  Now Connor and I are the masters at dance-dance, and we danced it up for about an hour.  (That's as long as I can do it.  He does it for hours.)  The highlight of that dance-dance session was that he passed off a song on basic (level 2).  He was so excited, and I was pretty impressed.  Then we did some more fun stuff until the game including lunch and watching Hairspray.  Saturday Tami and her boys, Tel and Kimball came for the day.  It was fun to have all of the nieces and nephews together, and they had a pretty good time together for the most part.  On Saturday night Tami and the boys went home.  Then Sunday after dinner Tony took Connor and Mylie home, and Taffy and Mariah stayed for two days of relaxation.  It was fun for everyone to come, but now I think we're ready for some relaxing of our own here at home.  Fat chance with sports and everything.  Oh, speaking of sports and why Sulli was never mentioned in this post is because he re-injured his knee and wasn't wrestling, but was still with the team.   Anyway, here are some pictures of the weekend so you can see a little of the fun we had.

Here's all 5 of the kids one morning...

Mariah and her bottom lip. 

Mylie after her "gymnastics trick" in her way cute pj pants from her favorite aunt, Livi.

Connor dunking it on a hoop that Kennan and Sulli made for him.  When I was taking these pictures he asked me: are you  going to put these on the internet? and I said: if you want me to, and he said: for sure.

Life in Cokeville

Well, I decided that I should post a blog because I always give my sisters grief for not posting, and I don't want them to do that to me too.

This week I had a BLAST on New Year's Eve.  It was my first dance and it was so fun.  Everyone told me that the dances in Cokeville were lame, but Nathan and Susan Fiscus did a great job to make it fun and to encourage people to dance.  If you didn't come to the dance, you missed out.  It was great.  

On Thursday we ventured over to Mt. View for Mariah's baby blessing.  She is so cute.  It was the first time we were all together since last Thanksgiving and we've added three to our family.  And you know what people do when their WHOLE family gets together... We take a family picture.  So here is our picture. 

    

  The fun isn't over yet.  When we got home we saw my Aunt Marlene's burban in Grandma's driveway.  I was so excited.  I hadn't seen Drew since last Thanksgiving, and I was missing him.  But now he is here for Violet's reception and I am excited! 

Yesterday the basketball teams went to Dubois.  The girls won by a spanking 56 points, 81-25.  It was good.  The boys team won in an exciting game by two points.  It was exciting.  Although we won by a lot, it was the longest day of this week.  The bus ride was long... but Dad brought the XM radio that he got for Christmas and we listened to the Utah-Alabama game.  This is probably one of the last time I will say this but, Go Utes!  

Today is Violet's reception and it will be great.  I am excited!

Happy New Year!!   

Christmas!!

Since the older girls couldn't come home this year for Christmas they wanted us to make sure we posted some pictures and details of the morning.  We had an eventful morning starting at 6:00 with Mark Shea's annual Christmas morning phone call.  After we saw our Santa presents we read the Christmas story from Matthew.  Then we had our typical Christmas morning breakfast, pancakes, bacon, and eggs.  It was delicious.  Present opening went quite fast this year since there was only 6 of us, but it was still fun.  Everyone received some great gifts.  I'm not going to tell you everything we got, but in the pictures you can see a few of them.  

Here's mom with some purse-size hand lotion and headbands from Tessa.

Tyson with his lovely Christmas mullet (from Mom) and a new shirt from Dad.

Here's Livi with her new coat that she is really excited about even if she doesn't look like it.

Here's Tessa with her new coat as well.  You should've seen her reaction when she opened it...Priceless

Sulli, the movie director, got this camera and all the accessories including an awesome bag...Thanks Tami and Casey! 

Dad with his beloved mints and m&m's.

We had a great Christmas and hope you all did as well.  

 

Kimball Clyde Parry!!!

I figure Tami is a little tied up right now with Tel AND Kimball... and plus mainly I just can't wait any longer to post some pictures of the little guy.  He is adorable!

I think that he is just Lovely!  He is very cute!  LOVE HIM!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tryin' pictures

I am trying out pictures.  So... here goes nothin'. 

Here is Sulli, Livi, and myself.

Here is a picture of our wonderful family.

Our Blog

Well our family has been talking about starting a blog for a while and today I decided to just do it.  This blog will be run mostly by Livi and myself and probably some help from Sulli.  So here goes nothing.