Last Friday we hosted a Harry Potter release party. We played Harry Potter triva and discussed our predictions for Deathly Hallows. For the record, Mike won the game and some of our predictions were very accurate. I’ll spare the details in case you haven’t read it yet. Then, at midnight, we went to pick up our books. I think everyone had a good time…I know I did. I spent the whole weekend reading. I cried many times. Lot’s of death. But, I am very happy with how the story turned out and I am glad that it is finally over. Now, I can get back to dirty laundry and grocery shopping. Whoo-hoo!

» Added by Ryan: Fine! I’ll help you with the laundry, but its not necessary to take indirect shots at me through the blog saying I never help with laundry, which is true, but still… even though you didn’t actually say it I can tell that’s what you meant. I’m not over-reacting out of guilt, I’m just sayin…

For Molly’s 5th Birthday, we took her to Build-A-Bear workshop. That is a great place to go if you wanna drop $70.00 on a stuffed animal. She really had a great time though. She picked out a pink cat and named her Kitty.

Later that afternoon, her grandma Karen took her to the circus. Wow! What a day. She got lots of good gifts, including Aqua Dots (Molly pronounciation: Opwa Dots). She has been asking for this crafty little toy for months now. To top it all off, her Aunt Darlene made her a Plankton the Pickle birthday cake. By the way, Plankton is not actually a pickle, he’s a plankton, but Molly refuses to believe that.

I was browsing through our blog this morning and I realized that there aren’t any posts about Molly. She truly is the middle child. I intend to correct this oversight today. We love Molly and we want everyone to know how awesome she is.

Molly is an artist. She will spend hours drawing, cutting, taping and gluing if I’ll let her. She also has a really good sense of humor. At the tender age of 5 she can already crack jokes and sass me in a way that just makes me laugh. She is starting school in another month or so and she is thrilled! She has been asking when she can go to school for the last year. I kept telling her that she couldn’t go to school until she was 5 years old. So, the morning after her birthday, she asked “Am I going to school today?” TOO CUTE!

Here is a strange and interesting picture she took of herself. I love it because of the artistic value, but I’m certain that I should be embarrassed. The crumbs on the floor and the toy rat really add to the picture, don’t you think?

On June 22 the twins turned one! Whoo-hoo! We made it through the first year. Here are some pics of their big day.

This movie is a depressingly miserable hippy propaganda crap-fest.

So I finally broke down and bought the Canon Digital Rebel XT… yes the very same camera that Shanna and Deanna have owned for a while now. I don’t know what I would do without Walmart. I may have had to wait overnight to get the camera once the purchase was approved by the committee had Walmart not been open 24 hours and had the camera in stock.

I love Walmart and I don’t care who knows it.

Here’s a couple pics of the kids taken with the new toy.

Sponge Bob Square Pants! Chandler turned 7 in May and his Aunt Darlene made this awesome cake for him. See more of her cakes HERE.

One of Chandler’s presents was a “Merlock Crossing” t-shirt that his dad made him. He was so proud to wear it to school on his birthday.

This is Elly. Instead of bugging my husband to update our blog, I’ve decided to take over. I’m sure that he will check in now and again…you’ll know when it’s him because the post will be funny and interesting.

I’ve got a little catching up to do, so look for lots of new posts in the coming weeks.

Before I post anything about the game World Of Warcraft, I need to post a recent shot of the twins for the people in far off places such as Logan, Pocatello…. and Peoria. You can click the image to see a large version.

Okay the following is a video Chandler made of himself playing a video game, er, pardon me… THE video game World Of Warcraft. I’m not quite sure how he did it with warcraft typically being a two handed game. The quality is really poor, but as you watch it take note of two things. One, I’m not the worlds greatest parent, and like to let my kid play video games for obscene chunks of time because I was never able to when I was a kid……. so sue me. And two, listen to Molly in this video, while Chandler is playing she breaks in with quality lines like: “why do you have a beenana for a weapon?” and “Can you please do me a favor? Stay away from my poodle.” Click on the image of the video game to start.

I was given an early Christmas present by my Dad this morning in the form of an old family video. It was footage of a “talent show” in which all of the kids showed off their “skills.” It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary until I happened upon footage of Shanna and Deanna in their seriously southern hockey hair. I knew then that my duty as a brother was to post it on the web for all to see. I shall speak no more of the video, it will speak for itself, just click on the photo.

I now leave you with some of my favorite mullet nicknames:

1. The Kentucky Waterfall
2. The Missouri Compromise
3. The achey-breaky-bad-mistakey
4. The Mississippi Mudflap
5. The Tennessee Top Hat
6. The Yep Nope
7. The Camaro Cut
8. The Redneck Passport
9. The Beaver Paddle
10. The Sho-lo (as in short-long)

And of course we all know the mullet as business in the front, party in the back.

By the way Hillary, if I get my hands on your mullet photo (you know the one) it’s as good as posted.