Thanksgiving etc.

So it has been a good fall for us Marcikics, all things considered. We all have managed to stay clear of the swine flu long enough to be vaccinated, and have been otherwise healthy. Julie's pregnancy with our soon to be son is continuing to go well, with the exception of some minor aches and discomforts for mommy. Julie may take issue with my choice of the word minor, but ultimately she is tough and will prove just that. The weather for November was perfect. Not so much recently.

Dec. 10th
We went up to Traverse City for the 20th annual Iceman, in which myself and good friend Joe raced. Joe defeated me, but I did end up reaching my time goal despite the additional mileage added to the coarse this year. Good race Joe!

We rented what turned out to be a very beautiful cabin near town for the weekend with my parents and our friends the Corders. Sorry, but we have no photos of the cutie who is Kennedy Corder.


We did some site seeing around Old Mission Peninsula on the way out of town. Beautiful day!







I went up to my Grandfather's cabin the next weekend to do some hunting, but didn't bag a deer this time. My cousin did get an enormous 9 point though. Nice! I also learned how real men start fires.





This year we headed over to the Detroit area for Thanksgiving. Thank you Allison and Eric for hosting. We had a great time.

The rest of the weekend was spent hanging out at my parent's and catching up with family.




We saw Santa in his village on the "walking mall" last week. He was able to coax Emerson with a candy cane. We still need to have the stranger talk.

Not sure this is what is meant by bare back.