Thanks for the turkey!

Thanks Pat!

Pat hosted Turkey Day for the Corcorans and Donahue's this year!
The turkey was great and Mom's famous mashed potato's were awesome!
They are becoming a favorite of Ellie's as well.

Auntie Elaine and Pat gave Elle some gifts from their trip to Las Vegas. She spent the afternoon playing with them. Thanks Guys! And Auntie Carolyn gave Elle a great gift. She read her a gigantic book of the 3 little pigs. Elle loves to "read" and she loves to be read too! And my Aunt's are the best story tellers ever. Year's of teaching will do that.

We love Pat's house but with the weather being so amazing we went in her yard for a bit of fun. Nana, Papa, J and Uncle Arthur showered Elle in a leaf storm. From there we took leaf covered family photos of everyone with Elle.

Take a look!
I hope you all had as much fun as we did on Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthay Dad!

Last weekend we headed up to Everett to celebrate my Dad's birthday.
We had a blast hanging out with my folks, my brother and my favorite niece! Anastacia and Elle ran around ragged. It's always tough for me to leave my folks house. I hate leaving. So after J and Elle headed up to NH I went back to hang out with them for a bit longer and snag left-overs.

Dad, I hope you had a great birthday! Your a great Papa and a role model for me to be Elle's Dad.
You've always been an amazing supporter of everything I've done from sports, art and work.
I can't thank you enough. Thanks Dad. Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Crash Test Pummy

OK. This one is late but worth sharing. We had a pumpkin carving contest at work back during Halloween (of course). And I somehow became the captain of our pumpkin project.

Our idea was based on the "Crash Test Dummy's". Basically you'd buy this pumpkin to practice how to be a parent of a newborn. Being the design dept. we designed a product and a package for it. Here are some pic's of our hard work. We tied for first and we won a free lunch!

Wine Making Continued

Sorry for the infrequency in my posts. October into November has been busy for us. A few weeks back I transitioned my grape juice into it's Carboy. It had been sitting in a sealed bucket for a few weeks while the yeast did it's magic.

So now it sits in my cellar in the "carboy". Which looks like Poland Spring Bottle but it's made of glass and has a water filled cap so that air can escape. If the air couldn't escape it would explode. Fun!

I'll need to check on this batch soon and see where the sugar levels are and maybe take a little taste.