Definitely Thankful

I am definitely thankful this week. A week in Hawaii with all me peeps in the sun without a care in the world pretty much filled my heart with gratitude. After all that relaxing, we even thought about adopting the Hawaiian work ethic: I'm going to have to post picture from our trip in waves because we did so many amazing things. One of our favorite things was to head to the beach with our boogie boards and ride those waves. We had to pull Isaac out of the ocean on Saturday to catch our plane. These are some happy faces on these boogie boards. I wanted it to never end.

Whirlwind World Series

When Craig left for Pittsburgh the week the World Series was starting, I had no idea that the next time I would see him would be in New York City. He e-mailed me and asked if I wanted to go to the World Series with him. It was a spur of the moment, whirlwind trip. I took the red eye on Tuesday night, crashed for a few hours at our hotel near JFK and then Craig and I headed into midtown. It was so rainy and foggy. I worried all day long that the game would be canceled.

When we got to midtown, we had a yummy, warm lunch at a little Japanese place where we love to eat when we are in New York. We had gyoza and ramen. It was so good. This is a horrible picture of me, but I had to include proof that I went and in my defense, it was raining (not that great for hair).

After lunch, we shopped at the Yankees clubhouse near Times Square. Our kids can't go to college now because we spent so much money on World Series gear. We stopped at TKTS TKTS and bought tickets to a matinee play called The Perfect Crime that was recommended to us. In the words of some British tourists we visited with at the play, "it was rubbish". The new Yankee Stadium was amazing. It's so much more open and incredibly updated from the old one. We arrived early and visited Monument Park and then shopped some more. I sat down in my seat 40 minutes before game time and never left the seats again. I didn't want to miss a minute of the game. It was so much fun to be at the World Series. The only thing that would have made it better is if the Yankees had won. Oh well, they won the series a week later in game 6.

The Morning After Times Two

Let the games begin. This is the morning after Halloween. Lots of candy trading going on at our house. It's also a good time for us to triple check Isaac's bag for peanut candy. If he has any, then he gets to trade it away to someone else.

This is the morning after Bountiful High was upset in the first round of the state playoffs by Bonneville. Bountiful was ranked number one in the state most of the football season. Here are three of our linemen, a wide receiver and our quarterback. Make no mistake, they are in mourning. Just because they are big seniors doesn't mean they don't cry. It was a really tough loss.

All My Peeps

These are my peeps. I had fun taking pictures of them today in their Braves gear. They aren't very good pictures, but they were so cute together, laughing and joking. I'm going to be sad next year when I only have three Brave football players instead of four.

Halloween Dance

Last night was the girl's choice Halloween dance at the high school. How cute are these? Evan and Maddie Cook dressed up as "hippies". So. Dang. Cute.

I love this picture of some of my boys. Evan is the hippie. Jake is the ghoul (he went stag--not 16 yet--and scared people in the haunted house area). Thomas is the gangsta.

These guys almost made me wish I could do high school over again. Almost.

They had a blast at the dance!

I Was Sad Today

Today I took Icky to the allergy doctor for his fish skin testing. It did not go well. He had immediate and decisive reactions to crab, shrimp and salmon. Salmon and shrimp are two of his favorite foods and we had high hopes that the skin testing would go well. For most of the 90 minutes we spent at Dr. Broadbent's office, silent and not-s0-silent tears continuously streamed down Isaac's face. This was the most emotional I have seen him. The saddest. The most discouraged. I was really sad today.

Sinking the Viking Ships

Isaac was the only Parry this week who didn't play Viewmont. His team played Bingham at home (his only home game of the year). Even with the home crowd (including Evan and a bunch of brown kids from the high school football team) Isaac's team lost yet again. In fact, it really wasn't much of a game, the Miners beating the Braves 25-6. But Isaac played well, pictured here running "the hammer" where he wedge blocks up the middle and a running back runs behind him. It's usually good for a few yards.

Sam's team, still undefeated, beat Viewmont 26-0. Sam's defensive secondary coverage was excellent. He's pictured here nearly intercepting the ball. The referee called it a trap, which Sam said was a good call. It's hard to see him in the picture, but he's diving onto the ground behind the two linemen on the sideline. Sam also ran the ball at wing.

The sophomores went into this week's game against Viewmont with only one loss. It was a very exciting game and Jake played really well. With two seconds left in the game, the score was 14-14. Viewmont had the ball and attempted a 41-yard field goal, a vast distance in sophomore football. Unfortunately for the Braves, the ball only cleared the upright by a few inches and the clock ran out, ending the game at 17-13 for Viewmont. This picture is Jake blitzing.

Evan has a few new special team starting positions this week and he met expectations, blocking kids out of bounds whenever he was in. The varsity game was also exciting, ending 24-21 for Bountiful, leaving them undefeated at 6-0. We lost two of our best running backs, Ben Lemon and TJ Farr, for a few weeks though with some tough games coming up. We have to win eight more games to take state. Go Braves.

Next up for Jake & Evan: East.