The Parish Family Blog

In Honor of Sharon's Creativity at Halloween - Every Year without Fail

Some of the classics from years past. I think I'll dig around and find more of these for the week. I shot these  pictures. I was really into photography back then. Still proud of them.

Love
Tom

Sharon's Shrine of Crosses - a New One for 51

Gerry brought over a beautiful new cross for Sharon's Shrine of Crosses.

Thank you, Gerry, for your love and kindness in remembrance of our Sharon.

Notice the multicolored one at the top just above the left corner of the picture. The close-up of it is on the second shot below. So Sharon.

with Love
Tom

Some Before-the-Wedding Pictures

A few more pictures. These are at the rehearsal dinner Friday night, and Saturday afternoon right before the big event.

Love
Tom

Ryan Foresman - Lauren's husband relaxing at the rehearsal dinner. The weather was perfect.

Justin, Gerry and Juliet speaking with The One World Theater wedding coordinator.

Lauren having some fun with my camera and phone. She's always looking out for me. I thought I had misplaced them while running around and sure enough she had them. This was just before the wedding event.

A Few Wedding Pictures

I reae I'm behind in getting a these shots up. I'm very proud of both Justin and Juliet for creating such a magnificent wedding Oct 13th. They were such gracious hosts for their event too. Be sure to visit their website at www.JustinandJulie.us for more information about this new couple. They have updated it recently.

Here are three pics I took with my iPhone.

NEWS FLASH - Justin Gets Accepted to ...

Justin has received notice this afternoon that he's been accepted into the School of Architecture at the University of Colorado.  I am so excited about this because he's had a vision for his career for three years now and his dream is coming true. What a feeling that is!

The two of them will likely be moving to Boulder by January 2008 and that's both exciting and a little sad, thinking about them being so far away from Austin.

Kudos to Justin.

love
Tom

HAPPY Birthday Sharon Parish - 51 - Making Hurricanes in the Gulf

We love you.

Thanks to everyone for the cards and emails this week remembering Sharon's BD.

As I've said in the past, there is hardly a weekly that goes by that I don't receive an email or card from someone in the world that remembers what Sharon did for them.

I have a funny story for you. This morning Lily and I were wishing Sharon a Happy BD. Lily said she dreamed that she was talking with Mom. Sharon looked like one of those little holographic characters on the movie Star Wars.  As Lily stepped closer to the little holographic image, she put her hand out to touch Sharon, but of course her hand just went through the light. But then Lily felt herself getting sucked into one of the hurricanes Sharon was making, and she said, "Let go, Mom." Sharon let her go and then said she had to leave now because she has more hurricanes to make in the Gulf.

So Sharon is still very much a part of our life as we know it.

with gratitude,
Tom