The Parry Family Blog

After getting our new playroom area setup for the boys the past week, we decided to move the small TV in the playroom. This TV is not connected to cable (on purpose) and has a DVD player and XBOX. While we are planning to buy the kinect for our XBOX, as soon as we assembled the XBOB to the TV, Leonidus and his daddy have been playing TIGER WOODS GOLF. The kinect offers more wii-like games so I am thinking once we buy it, that'll serve more fun and useful for the kids. For now, we think tiger woods golf is filling his little heart with lots of joy :) As most of you know our son Leonidus (2.5 years old) is obsessed with golf. He became a fan at the ripe age of 15 months old, swinging his toy clubs all around the house. Since sacramento is so HOT, we can't take LJ to the local driving range until well past his bedtime. Neil does take him but now that he's going to start college football, there won't be anytime. I researched age and video games all over... There's ...

As most of our closest friends and family know, we had to move to sacramento about 5 months ago because Neil got a coaching gig at UC Davis. Our time in sacramento, while the duration is unknown, is beginning to wear on me. Yes the cost of living is MUCH cheaper. But that's pretty much the ONLY benefit to here when compared to living in the AWESOME AMAZING bay area. I was just down in Los Gatos visiting my dad with the boys. We spent the day at vesona (this was our usual stop almost every other day when we lived down in the bay), we rode the train, got ice cream, walked around downtown LG... all of this in the middle of summer in perfect 85 degree weather. In sacramento, on the same day, it was a BLAZING 95+ degrees and with 2 small kids, there is BARELY anything to do here. I swear if you were to ask me to list things to do in the bay area with 2 small boys, the list would be at least 10-20 items long. living here, SHOOOOOOT, I can hardly make the list 5 points long. With th...

In August, my hubby and I will mark our 10 year anniversary of dating. We just celebrated our 3 year anniversary on July 22 in Cabo San Lucas. We had a great time and spent the day golfing together, one of our most favorite things to do together. Like all college sweethearts, we had our share of ups and downs but my life changed when I met him and I cannot imagine being with anyone else! He is my best friend, my biggest motivator and the absolute love of my life. He's given me two of the sweetest boys and I am so freaking pumped about our future together. One thing that I still feel like we have unfinished is that we never had a wedding. After we got engaged, I had a 20 stack pile of wedding magazines, excel spreadsheets with wedding plans and a wedding folder but all things stopped when we found out that I was BLESSED with Leonidus in my belly. We decided that having our baby was top priority and felt that financially it was best to put a hold on the wedding plans. We are alw...

I have been the owner of the Canon Rebel since 2005. I bought the camera because I LOVE taking pictures and I wanted to have a camera with a fast enough shutter speed so we can take good pictures during Josh (Neil's Brother) NFL football games. At the time he was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles and then went onto play his last season with the Seattle Seahawks. Since 2005, camera's have COME A LOOOOOONG WAY!!!!! My measly 8MegaPixel camera is ancient. The pictures do not come out as clear and sharp as I'd like and its unmotivating me to want to take more pictures. I recently splurged on an Sony HD Video Camera back in 2009. Its been great to take film of my boys growing up but sharing video is not as easy and uploading/editing it takes forever. I also just have a better attraction to my camera. With that said, I need help. If you have a camera that you love, please message me privatly or in the comment field and let me know the make, the model and why you love it. ...

We are finalizing our preschool paperwork and our son Leonidus will be attending school this Fall for his first time. He is attending a school that we were waitlisted on for MONTHS so being accepted is a huge deal here in the parry home. The school is nestled in the city of Davis and has a very unique feel to it. The education is playbased and the school teaches everything in both spanish and english. Their goal is to have the kids completely fluent in both languages. At home, we are teaching our boys farsi so having 3 languages under their belt will only help them in their future. I am a firm believer that the spanish language is a MUST for kids. I am surprised that all schools, both private and public, don't teach both of them in the lesson plan. Its just mind boggling to me. Leonidus will be turning 3 soon and will be attending school full time. I had a hard time figuring out the best balance between school, our jobs and giving the best to our kids. In the end, I realized that...

One of my hobbies since highschool has been selling stuff on eBay... I have had the same account since 1996 and have been selling random stuff online using eBay since. Being such a fan of the company, I attended eBay live in Las Vegas in 2005 and 2006. I seriously love everything about eBay and NOW, well as of August 8, I will be their newest Research and Development Project Manager! Woot Woot. That's right. I accepted my offer and will be starting as an eBay employee and I'm ecstatic about the new opportunity and my next phase in my career. There have been 5 companies I've always kept in my radar over the past few years and this has been one of them so you can imagine that I'm pumped about it. I have worked so hard since 2000 building my career and this move is an exciting one for my family and I. Let the new chapter begin!!!

Kian my littlest mooshie recently had his 1 year checkup. We took him down to our FAVORITE pediatrician in san jose Almaden Pediatrics. The family and I packed up the car and drove from sacramento to san jose early friday for our visit. We met with Dr. Michelle since Dr. Pete was out on Friday. Kian is healthy as can be. What more can we as parents ask for right? His measurements were as follows: Height: 32.5 inches (95%tile) Weight: 23.5 (50-75%tile) Head Circumference: 47.5 (75%tile) Both of our boys measure similarly in their milestone checkups. In fact, I would say they are close to identical! Crazy huh? It looks like they are going to be taller than their mom (5'1) since they are already half my size and they aren't even out of their toddler stage! I blame my shortness on gymnastics. DAMN YOU NADIA! As for other fun and exciting things Kian is now doing.. he has become quiet the chatter box. He can say MOM, DAD, BALL and make train, car and airplane noises! Its freaking s...

On July 9, 2011 we celebrated the 1 year birthday party of our beautiful Mooshie Kian. Our boy blessed us on July 6, 2010 at 9:56am and our lives changed for the better ever since. He has been the most wonderful addition to our family and he has the most kind and gentle (and loving) soul! He is truly a joy to be around and his brother LJ and him have grown so close! We love his contagious smile, his spirit for life and most of all his kisses! We celebrated Kian's 1st birthday at Pappajoons House in los gatos. My dad's house overlooks the gorgeous Vesona lake and the weather for the party was JUST RIGHT. No I'm serious you could not ask for better conditions! Pappajoon took the boys to the train on Saturday morning while Neil and I setup for the party. I had the tables, bounce house and chairs delivered early in the morning and the food was going to be ready for pickup around 2pm. The day was planned meticulously so everything was moving along as planned. We picked up the ...