Joke's on You!

As promised, here's the story on the prank I played on Ian.

Bryan was taking the pictures of us and was trying to get all of us to stand closer together so that we'd all be in the shot.  After a couple of tries, it was decided to move so that we'd have a better background than the parking lot.

Also, it would help if all of us were looking in the same direction.

When we moved, it was taking a little bit to get everything right.  Since I'm the tallest, I was in the back (like always).  Anyway, Ian was standing right in front of me, so slowly started wrapping my arms around his shoulders in a hug.  He flipped out.

I think part of his reaction was from pure surprise and part of it was being a bit creeped-out.  As you can see from the pictures, everybody - even Ian - had a good laugh.  This is the perfect kind of practical joke: it's completely innocuous and can even be appreciated by the "victim."  It was fun for everyone and while I'm not sure why I thought of it, I'm glad I went through and did it.

Partial Family Reunion

As I mentioned on Monday, I got together with three of my four siblings this past weekend for a small get-together.  It was lots of fun to get to see everybody, especially my nieces and nephews (who really wore me out).  Rather than write a wall of text, I decided to have a post that's heavy on the pictures.

Phoebe liked to go up to people, touch their cheek, and say "boop!"

Sophie: the calmest of all babies.

If you look close, you can see that someone will be getting a visit from the Tooth Fairy very soon.

 The swings were very popular.

Henry later fell out the swing and landed hard on the ground. He just laughed and announced, "I found the ground!" 

"I learned this in my dance class!"

Peter challenged everyone to a swinging contests, even me.

Getting everyone to look in the same direction together while smiling was a bit of a challenge.

I'm not sure why we look slightly annoyed here. I thought it was kind of funny.

Amanda held Sophie while the "grown-up siblings" assembled for a photo.

Ian, you're a weirdo for not smiling in pictures.

Proof that Ian still smiles!

That last one happened right after I played a joke on Ian.  I'll tell you about it in my next post.

I hope that you enjoyed this presentation of pictures of our little event.  I don't get much of a chance to post too many pictures here, but I had fun using them to tell the story.  We'll have to do this again soon.