Katie Cunion

Hello everyone. I can't believe Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I am hosting Thanksgiving dinner for my side of the family this year. I am really excited! I went grocery shopping today for all my ingrediants...yikes. It takes a lot of food to feed 8 adults. This will be the biggest turkey I've ever made (21.3 lbs)...hope it goes well.

Will is going through a "mommy dependent" stage right now. Sunday he freaked out in the nursery at church and they had to come get me. I ended up spending the whole church service in the nursery with him. Everyone keeps telling me that most kids go through this around age 2, but it is a big change for him. He has always been very confident about being away from me (not that he really ever is away from me). I must admit, I love all the hugs and kisses I get when I return home from the gym or running errands. You'd think I had been gone for a week instead of just an hour. He's such a sweetheart.

I'm looking forward to getting his picture taken on Santa's lap in a few weeks. Last year he thought Santa was pretty funny looking and just smiled...this year...who knows!!

Bill is doing well. He has his official graduation ceremony next month at the University of Illinios. I am so proud of him. He is going to look so cute in his doctoral regalia (gown, hood & cap).

I'm doing great. Busy as ever. One of my best friends from college, Tracey (Toke) Dillen, her son, Lucas, and her mom came to visit for the day on friday. We had a great visit. Lucas is adorable - he's around 4 months old! It seems like just yesterday Will was that small. They grow too fast.

We had really bad wind storms last week and one of our trees in our back yard was knocked down. The tree knocked down our electric line, cable line & phone line. What a mess. That was last wednesday and the electric company just got the line back up today. The power wasn't out but the line was lying in our grass and was dangerous so we had to keep the dog out of the back yard. What a pain in the butt. The cable company and phone company couldn't work on their lines until the electric line was out of the way so this afternoon the cable company finally came. I am still waiting on the phone company. Poor Caramel misses her back yard...we've had to take her out on a leash in the front yard which she hates.

Not much else to share today. Hope all of you are doing well.