Guest Post from Ray:

Julie writes all these cute little things about what is going on in our life. She does a good job playing to the interests of her audience (ie: the girls who read this), but the Parrish Post is a respectable online periodical, and any such journalistic medium would be doing a disservice to the public in not reporting the whole story. While our life does involve caring for our plants and fun pictures of our son, Cole (Or as I call him, COLE-MAN) there is a gaping hole in her reporting. So I will now take this guest post to update all of you on what takes up a vast majority of our time, energy and conversation in the Parrish household.

NBA PLAYOFFS

Round 1 of the Playoffs just finished up and Round two began on Sunday. Round 1 was crazy, guys. The big story was obviously the 8^th seeded Memphis Grizzlies taking down the 1^st seeded San Antonio Spurs. While this was an upset based on most experts’ opinion, the Grizzlies dominated the Spurs. In some of the other series, the Celtics beat the Knicks 4 games to 0 and the Hawks upset the Magic.

Round 2 matches up the Bulls and the Hawks, the Celtics and the Heat, the Lakers and the Mavericks and the Thunder and the Grizzlies. The Parrish family pulls for the following teams for the following reasons. The Oklahoma City Thunder, because Kevin Durant is our favorite player. Julie is a big fan of Kevin Durant's manners. 

The Boston Celtics, because I have always liked Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett and Julie remembers pulling for the Celtics in her childhood. 

The Atlanta Hawks, because they are kind of the local team for me. 

Round 2 is going to be great, especially the Celtics versus Heat series. This series will showcase the ultimate example of team basketball (Celtics) against the philosophy of having the best athletes on the floor (Heat). The Heat won the first game with an excellent shooting performance and tough defense. Also, the Grizzlies beat the Thunder in the first game, and, I am sorry to say, it looks like the Thunder will have a lot of trouble with the Grizzlies’ star Forward, Zach Randolph.