Thankful for Ladders

A few weeks ago when Laura told me that we should start a family blog, I thought it would be a good idea. That way I could have a blog and also someone to update it for me. So, Laura started a blog. Everything was going fine until she got sick being the only one to write on it (which, I knew at some point would happen, but I didn't think it was going to be after only two posts). So, after a week of prodding, I have decided two things. One, it wasn't a good idea to start another blog, and two, I will write when asked.

So, here it goes:

Last weekend, as you all know, was Thanksgiving. Laura and I spent the entire weekend with my family down in Las Vegas. Laura wasn't feeling well for over a week before we left and then got diagnosed with Mononucleosis the day we were to leave for Vegas. She came anyway. I am going to show several pictures that she wont be in because she either was taking the picture or she was in bed sleeping.

Thanksgiving weekend, in my mind, is famous for two things other than the normal Thanksgiving type stuff like turkey and yams. Those two things are Black Friday and putting up your Christmas lights. I only took part in the ladder of the two (I wrote "putting up Christmas lights" second so I could say that it was the ladder, which will be funny as soon as you see the pictures) (It probably wont be that funny).

Here are some of the pictures that were taken while putting up my brother Zach's Christmas lights. I don't have pictures of putting up my Dad's lights, even though I did help with that as well.

We hung the lights up with paper clips, I imagine we used about 50 or so, but it turned out looking pretty good.

This second picture is of me bending the paper clips to create the hooks needed to hang the lights.

And here is a picture of the whole house with my dad holding the ladder for me.

Also, in recent news...I bought a new game for my Wii. Super Mario Bros.Wii, it is pretty much da bomb! Thanksgiving weekend was also "beat Super Mario Brothers for the second time" weekend. Michael, Zach, and me played pretty much every night until it was beat. If I told you how late we stayed up playing our parents might punish us. Actually, we kept them up the whole time, so they already know...and they already punished us with their raised voices...and by "their" I just mean Mom's.

Michael is probably laughing because he just sabotaged our gameplay.

Now, on to the big news. The day before Thanksgiving was a special day in the Zach Parry family. I guess it was a special day for all the Parry families, but Zach's especially. Grayson Beckett Parry entered the world at a whopping 7 lbs, which is kinda wimpy considering how big each one in our family was. But, he is really cute...as you can see in the pictures.

That is all I've got, until next time Laura gets on me for not writing. :)