Thanksgiving in Arizona

The Corcoran family is in Arizona for Thanksgiving. Its been awhile since I've been here and its been a lot of fun. We rolled in to the valley at about 8:30 Sunday night and have spent the last few days hanging around the house with family. We've headed out a few times to go shopping for lucky folks at home, and last night was a nice get together. I got to see some of the guys that I haven't seen in 9 years! Hard to believe that its been that long, but everyone is happy and healthy.

Noah is having so much fun with his cousin Dylan. They are playing so much that I hardly even see him!


Its Thanksgiving morning and the kitchen is already bustling with activity so I have to keep this short or I'll get pulled into helping.

Fall Updates

The Corcoran families will be traveling to Arizona for Thanksgiving. Not too excited about the 2 day car trip, but can't wait to see family that I haven't seen in a few years, not to mention visit a few of the great breweries down there.

Over the summer, the family went camping. It was a lot of fun, but on the second to last day I slipped and fell into the river off of a big rock that I had climbed up to take photos. Of course, I had the BRAND NEW camera in my hand as I slid into the cold river. As soon as I popped up I turned off the camera but it was already too late...

Flash forward about 4 weeks. I had taken the camera and opened it up as much as I could to let it dry out, hoping against hope that it would still work, well it didn't. A few days later I was about to toss it out, but decided against all odds to try turning it on one more time. I tossed in some fresh batteries, turned on the camera and TOOK A PICTURE!! w00t it WORKS! Bet you can't tell how excited I was that my brand new camera had survived a fall into the river.

Late Summer Camping Trip

The Corcoran Family and friends went camping last weekend and here is a shot of the waterfalls that were just down the way from our camp site. This was one of the best trips we've made. Though smoky for the first few days, the last two cleared up nicely. Starry skies at night, crystal clear water during the day, it was almost paradise.

Its very strange, when camping, Ted is very energetic and excited about everything. All day he wants to explore, river walk, run around, go swimming...he never stops. Noah on the other hand was content to do what ever Dad was doing. We swam a lot in the river, explored the little fern gullies, slide down the rock slide, or just hung around the camp fire. The girls were mainly content just sitting in the river and relaxing.

A few guests showed up over the four day camping trip. Matty showed up both Saturday and Sunday. Chris and Tiff came out Saturday night for a few hours, and Bryan and Scandal came out Saturday and stayed through Sunday.

This spot is a great location. Just over the CA border its usually pretty quite. This time though there were people all over the place. This didn't really ruin any of our fun, we just had to be a bit more respectful of others. What really upset me though was all the trash these temporary neighbors left behind. I'm not talking about one or two beer bottles, I'm talking 4 or 5 days worth of trash, bottles, bags, broken items...most of it not even bagged up!

Corcoran Family Summer schedule

With summer almost here its time to start planning our summer vacations. Noah will be gone between June 21st and late July. Kay-la is heading off to Job Corps soon up in Seattle. So, that means that we have some time this summer to go camping, or day tripping. If you are coming into town this summer, or taking a vacation let me know so that we might be able to meet up.


Jenn is working in a new positon and won't be able to take vacation until this fall so that rules out anything longer then a weekend for her, but I plan to attend the Oregon Beer Fest in late July in Portland. We are also working on a weekend coast trip.

Update to the update

I completely forgot to mention that Jen got her position with the university full time now. Previously, she was hired on as a temp, but when the position was opened up as a full time, classified (union), opening, she applied for it. She faced some serious competition for the opening, but came though the interviews well and was offered the job! Sadly, this means no vacation this summer :(

Snow Day

Ashland got 10 inches of snow over the last 24 hours! Needless to say, everywhere is closed including work. We are going to spend the day curled up in front of the new big screen tv and playing video games.

Jen, her sisters, and thier dad

Over the summer Jen and I traveled up to Seattle for her eldest sisters 20th (?) wedding anniversary. I got to meet Jen's father for the first, and only, time. I'm glad I did since I'll never have the chance to now. It was great seeing all the sisters having such a great time. The party was great, the karaoke was so horrible is was good, and i got to spend so real quality time with Jen's family. I'm very happy that I am going to get such great in-laws. Jen's sisters are great people and thier mom is amazing. Enough of this for now, I have a lot more photos to go through.