In hopes it hasn't died...

It's been a while since there has been any activity here! Sorry. Hopefully people havent' given up and will check it from time to time still, so with that said, I'll get on with it.

Turkey day is just around the corner! I can taste the food already. It is by far my favorite holiday in regards to food. Christmas is a close 2nd. Well, Christmas should maybe take 1st since it's actually 2 days of great eating. Hmm...tough one. The Kortan kitchen is demolished in the midst of an extensive remodel, so we are going to go out to eat with the Kortan clan at noon. MacTavish is the destination. They generally have great food, so I'm assuming their T-Day buffett will be tasty. The we will be off to the Shallman's, hopefully in time for round 2.

With Friday off, it might be a good time to get the Christmas lights up on the house. Many of my neighbors are ahead of me on it this year. Oh well. Although I have wednesday off, and it's supposed to be 60...so sounds like a nice day to run around on my roof.

Speaking of roofs, that reminds me of when we were kids (Mom, you might want to stop reading now as you probably won't like what I'm going to say :) ). The house we grew up in had easy access onto the roof via a wooden sunshade thing over the deck. During the summer, we'd spend a ton of time up there, for nothing else but because it was high up and it seemed cool. We'd throw stuff at kids down on the ground, stuff like that. Mostly all in fun. But we'd make it over to above the garage, where it wasn't as dangerously high...and the fun thing to do was to Jump down from there, and then get back up and do it again. No matter how many times we did it, each time we were just as nervous, but we'd do it again anyway. It was about a 9ft drop. Suprised nobody broke a leg ever, but we did hit our chins with our knee's quite a few times. And yes, even Karen made the jump on occassion if i remember correctly! something tells me I wouldn't be brave enough to do it anymore.

Ava is now standing on her own and getting close to taking legitimate steps! Mostly just standing though. She does that a ton. She's also mastered crawling up the stairs, and is working on figuring out how to get back down (under close supervision of course). She's become somewhat of a picky eater in the last couple of weeks. Generally the only thing she'll eat no matter what is cheese, mac and cheese, and bread. Here and there she likes the fruits and veggies, which used to be her favorite, but she's turning them down more often now. She's also figured out how to spit food out she doesn't want, so that's a lot of fun. Great game.

Anyway, there's some filler to make it look like this blog is active! I'll try to keep it going, but don't expect much again until next week since this week is short. Although I do need to add Ava's Halloween pictures to our website, so i'll try and do that this weekend. Have a great Thanksgiving!