Visit With My High School Friends - January 27, 2015

Tuesday - January 27th

I had a long weekend at Linda's helping her clean.  I went without Roger and the kids.  That was rough.  I missed them a lot.  I thought I was going to be excited and enjoy having a little break from being mom, but I couldn't fully enjoy it, because I missed them too much.  Anyway, we got a lot of cleaning done and each night, we stayed up late watching movies and eating treats.  That was fun.  On Saturday night, we went to Italian Village to meet up with a bunch of my friends from high school.  It was so fun to see them.  It had been way too long since I had seen them last.  Here is a picture taken while we were waiting to be seated.  We waited for an hour and a half before we got a table.  I didn't mind the wait, because I wanted as much time as possible to visit with my friends.

While I was downstairs cleaning at Linda's, Mathew came down wearing this funny clown wig.  He was being really goofy.

Today at school, they gave the kids Valentine's Day cards with their school pictures on them.  I think this is a horrible and very annoying thing to do.  They send the kids home with an 8x10 of their school picture, key chains with their picture, and bookmarks.  Then they send a note explaining that if you want to keep these, you have to pay for them, if not send them back to the school.  This is the first time they've sent the Valentine's Day cards home.  The reason I don't like this, is because sometimes the pictures get lost or the kids really want to keep them and they cry and then your left feeling like a bad parent because you can't afford to keep the pictures and the kids keep telling you it's not fair, because all of their friends got to keep theirs.  I just think it is rude to pressure parents to buy the pictures and put them in situations where the kids end up so disappointed.  One of Brinley's friends got home from school, cut out the cards, wrote her friends' names on them and handed them out to her friends before her mom even had a chance to see them.  So, now, she has no choice but to buy them, but she doesn't even get to use them because they already got handed out and most of them lost.  I just get frustrated that they send the pictures home and you have to pay if you don't get the pictures back to them safely.  It's a mean way to get our money.  Here's Brinley's picture that was on the card.  We sent it back, but I told her I would take a picture of her picture so
she could remember it.

Parker's Math Sample - January 23, 2015

Friday - January 23, 2015

Parker had a parent teacher conference meeting online with his teacher.  It went well, but she needed us to send a sample of one of his math assignments.  I took a picture of a page he did to send to her.  Parker didn't want me to send a picture of the homework without getting a picture of him with it.  He is just funny like that.  So, here he is with his homework.

Really Crazy Sickness - January 22, 2015

Thursday - January 22nd

So, I had a really weird sickness, but I'm feeling better now.  I went to bed early

last night, because I wasn't feeling well.  I laid in bed and I was starting to feel really weird.  I was having a really hard time falling asleep even though I was so stinking tired.  I started to get a little scared about how sick and weird I was feeling, so I texted Roger and asked him if he could come home early.  I just thought, that if I die in the night, it would be better for roger to be the one to find me and not the kids.  So, Roger took personal time and came home to take care of me.  I managed to fall asleep after he came home and all the kids were in bed.  I woke up in the morning still feeling sick and I still had a fever.  After I got the girls to school, I laid down on the couch to go back to sleep.  I felt so weird as I lay there.  All of the sudden, I felt like I had Torrette Syndrome.  I felt this weird feeling in my back, just below my neck.  Then it moved up to my neck and my head shook, like my sister, Shelley's does.  I laid there thinking about how weird that was.  I liked the weird feeling in my back, right before it would move up and make my head shake.  I don't know how long this went on, but I laid there in awe.  Thinking, "So, this is how it feels.", "Do I have Torette Syndrome now?", "I bet my neck is going to start hurting soon.", "Am I awake or am I dreaming this?"  I thought about that for a long time, then I finally decided I was awake.  Then my neck started to hurt.  That's about the time I drifted off to sleep (If I actually was awake. I'm still confused about that).  When I fell asleep, I had a crazy dream that I was out of breath and having a really hard time breathing.  I was at a mall in Downtown Salt Lake with my kids.  I don't know where Roger was.  I was having a hard time keeping up with them because I couldn't breath.  I sat down on some stairs to catch my breath.  The kids sat by me and asked if I was okay.  I told them I didn't know.  Then a stranger walked over to me and told me I had asthma, then she gave me a bag to breath into and told me I should go to the doctor.  I told her thank you for helping me to know what was wrong.  Then I woke up from my dream.  When I woke up, I felt better.  I was no longer sick.  All of the crazy symptoms I had just went away.  I felt great!  It was so weird.

Besides the crazy illness, I had a good day.  I was bust tonight, calling everybody about the sister's fling.  I don't like to call people, so that wasn't very fun for me, but I had to do it.  I didn't get a hold of everybody, but at least I'm starting to get things planned and put together.  I also spent some time trying to get a hold of some of my high school friends, so we could have a get together this weekend.  I'll be going to Linda's house to help her clean.  She want to refinance her house, so they are cleaning up before someone comes to do an appraisal next week.

This morning Brinley didn't want to go to school.  She was really cute and funny about it though.  Instead of just coming in and asking me about it, she wrote a note, then came over to me and tapped my shoulder.  When I looked at her, she had a sad face and pointed to the notebook in her hand for me to read it.  The note said that she doesn't feel good, so can she stay home?  Then it explains that she doesn't want to talk, that's why she wrote the note.  I told her that I thought she would feel better once she gets up and starts moving around.  A little while later she came back with another note saying that she feels like she has to throw up.  She had a little tear in her eye as she showed me that one.  I told her that I really think she will feel better once she wakes up more.  Then I suggested that, I will giver her a ride to school, so she has more time to get ready and maybe we can go a little late, to give her even more time to feel better.  she came back with a third note that asked, "Can I go late, like later late?  Write yes or no here."  She is too funny!  I love that she asked in this way it was too cute.  I had a really hard time making her go today.  I did let her stay home "like later late".

While I was making phone calls tonight, Brinley came to me and told me she was tired.  she asked if I could put her to bed.  I told her I would after I got off the phone.  Alissa was standing next to Brinley and Brinley fell into Alissa.  She had started to doze off while standing next to me while I finished me phone call.  Alissa helped her sit down and Brinley, just slumped over on the stool.  she was out.  So, I quickly got off the phone and got her up to bed.  I've never seen someone fall asleep standing up before.  It was kind of crazy.

I Feel Sick - January 21, 2015

Wednesday - January 21st

I spent the morning cleaning.  We got Direct TV today.  The guy came to hook it up at 1:00pm.  We haven't had a TV package in over a year, so we are excited.

I had a hard time getting Parker to do his homeschooling today.  Alissa ended up being the one to get him to finish it.  Alissa stayed home from school today.  she just really didn't want to go and I felt like she hadn't missed too many days, so I didn't make her go.

Anyway, so, I started out the day thinking that maybe I have allergies.  I experienced allergies once a few months ago.  It only lasted for a few hours, then I never felt that way again, until this morning.  It's a weird tingling in my nose, lots of stuffiness, with snobbers that are clear, and watery eyes.  I really thought that I was just having allergies all day, but tonight, I think I was wrong.  I have a fever and a weird rash on my legs.  I've felt tired all day, but I figured it was from the lack of sleep last night,  I tried to take a nap around 3:00pm, but I just laid there and wasn't able to sleep.  I'd doze off for like a minute then wake right up again.  It was kind of frustrating.  I felt extremely cold all day.  I just couldn't warm up.  That rarely happens to me.  I am almost always hot.  A little while ago, I noticed the rash is also on my stomach, but it is just on the front of my legs and stomach, not on the back.

Alissa and Parker had a fun time playing Minecraft together this morning.  They don't get to play together too often, so that was fun for them.  Then Alissa fell asleep while Parker watched a show and did some of his schooling.  They both had a good day.  Brinley had a good day at school.  when she got home, she was frustrated because Tiernynn (the mean little girl that we watch for a little bit after school) was being rude.  But she got over that pretty quickly.  she stopped thinking about it when I told her she has Activity Days today.  She loves going to Activity Days.  They got a cute bag to hold their books.  she had a lot of fun.

I'm going to bed early tonight because I don't feel well.  Roger is at work, so Alissa volunteered to take care of her younger siblings and make sure everybody gets to bed tonight.

I Thought Someone Was Trying To Break in to Our house Tonight - January 20, 2015

Tuesday - January 20th

So, I had a rough night last night.  I was tossing and turning all night.  I just couldn't sleep.  I don't know why.  Finally, at 3:00am, after laying awake for most of the night, I got up and went downstairs to scrapbook.  Parker woke up around 4:30am, saying that he couldn't sleep.  I woke the girls up at 5:15am (they like to wake up really early so they have time to watch tv and wake up slowly).  I was feeling super tired still.  After Alissa left for school, I couldn't stay awake any longer.  I asked Roger to get Brinley to school, then I went to bed.  I was finally able to fall asleep around 7:50am.  Brinley woke me up at 10:00am, when she called home to tell me that her tummy hurts.  She didn't eat much for Breakfast, so I figured she was probably hungry.  I got up, made some popcorn, got her a drink, and some cookies, then took them to the school for her.  I had her called to the office, then we went out to the truck so she could eat.  She felt much better after eating something then she gave me a hug and went back to class.  I didn't get any homeschooling done with Parker today.  I just
couldn't fit it in.  Parker ended up falling asleep for a couple hours during the time we should have been doing his school work and I had a lot of things that I needed to take care of around the house.
After Roger left to work, I started cleaning and organizing the laundry room and the file cabinet.  Working on those two things and taking care of my little ones made for a busy night.  The file cabinet and laundry room are organized and clean, but the rest of the house is a disaster.  After putting the kids to bed, I couldn't get myself to do much more.  I sat down at the computer to rest my feet.  I got busy with my scrapbooking and looking for a place for the sister's fling that I'm in charge of planning this spring.  I think I found the perfect place.  I'll have to call everybody tomorrow and see what everybody thinks.  I was thinking that we could stay in Midway, UT.  Roger's mom lived their for a while as a child, so I thought it would be fun for her to be able to show us around a little and the place I found to stay will be really nice and comfortable and perfect for us to do a lot of visiting.  Here is a link to the house I'd like to stay in http://www.vrbo.com/384850.
I was starting to get really sleepy after sitting at the computer for a while, so I texted a goodnight message to Roger and was getting ready to turn off the computer and head up to bed when something crashed into the back door.  Then I heard the sounds of something moving around right outside the door.  I was terrified!   I was shaking so bad.  I was so sure that somebody was trying to break in.  I stood there panicking for a little while, trying to decide what to do.  I dialed 911, then I changed my mind.  I decided to just call the police instead.  So, I pulled up their number on my phone.  Then I decided that I should try and look outside before I call for help.  I was still hearing sounds and I was too scared to go near the door, but I knew I could go upstairs and look out Alissa's window and see down there. So, I raced upstairs and very slowly and carefully peaked out the window.  I couldn't see anything because it was too dark.  So, I went back downstairs.  I stared at the door for a little while, kind of frozen with fear trying to decide what to do.  I finally got up the courage to walk toward the door and turn on the back porch light.  Then I booked it up stairs to peak out the window again and see if someone was down there.  I looked out the window.  I could see better this time, but I couldn't see anybody.  That's when I realized the wind was blowing pretty hard out there.  It clicked in my brain that the wind had probably blown something into the door.  So, I calmed down a little and went back downstairs to build up enough courage to look out the door and see what it was.  I sat next to the door for I don't know how long before I finally dared to move the curtain slightly and peak out.  When I did, I realized that the wind and the snow shovel had caused all that commotion.  The shovel had smashed into the door, then the wind kept blowing it around so it made lots of scary noises.  I was so relieved when I realized this.  It took me a long time to calm down though.  Roger thought it was pretty funny when I sent him a message to tell him about my ordeal.  I'm just really glad that it wasn't someone trying to break in.  that would have been truly terrifying.  Alissa went Ice Skating for their Young Women's activity tonight.  Here is a picture that one of the Young Women leaders posted on Facebook.

Brinley found a hairstyle on Pinterest that she really wanted me to do for her.  So, here is Brinley's hairstyle today.

Adventuring Around Brigham City - January 19, 2015

Monday - January 19th

We had to just wake up and go this morning.  I really wanted to sleep in longer, but Roger had scheduled an appointment for us in Brigham City to get the windshield replaced on the truck.  Roger didn't stay with us at Linda's.  He helped move things, then he went to hang out with his friend Dan.  It makes things easier when Roger stays at Dan's.  Roger works the graveyard shift, so he doesn't sleep well at night.  When he's at Dan's they stay up and play World of War Craft.  Anyway, so Roger came and picked us up and we headed to Brigham.  We stopped to get some breakfast along the way.  We got to the place about a half hour early.  We dropped the truck off and had about an hour of time to kill, so we decided to go for a walk.  We walked down main street, then took the kids to see where we lived before we moved to Tremonton.  After that, we walked to the park.  At the park, we could see the train, so we decided to walk over and get a closer look at the train.  Then, Alissa and roger walked back to get the truck, while Brinley, Parker and I went to another park to play and wait for them to pick us up.

We hadn't walked very far on main street when the kids found this door that totally freaked them out.  They were nervous when Roger told them to stand by it for a picture.  It was funny.  Here is the video I took from our walk around Brigham City.

 We weren't at the park for very long before Roger wanted to go see the trains.  so, here are the very few pictures I took at the park.

 Parker and Brinley didn't like the loud sounds from the train.

 Here we are at the second park.  There were some boys throwing things, so it wasn't very fun to be on the playground.  We spent most of our time wandering around the park.

We had fun in Brigham City, but I was exhausted by the time we got home.  I called the shower first, so as soon as we got home, I took a shower, then I headed to bed for a nap.  I felt super tired, but I had a hard time falling asleep.  I'd doze off for a little bit then wake up.  I was in and out of sleep for 2 hours.  Roger came up and relaxed with me.  I felt too tired to get up and do very much.  Around 5:30 pm, Roger and I got up and went downstairs to feed the kiddos.  We decided to order pizza.  Roger and Parker played pool (Alex gave us this game.  He said he didn't want it) while we waited for our food to come.  After the pizza came, we all sat in the living room eating our dinner and watching the movie 'Brother Bear'.

 The girls were relaxing in the living room while they waited for the pizza.

We had a really fun day.

Helping Shelley Move - January 17-18, 2015

Saturday - January 17th

We went to Linda's to help move Shelley out of Linda's and into her own apartment.

After moving stuff all day, we all came back to Linda's.  Shelley didn't spend the night at her new place.  Her and Alex came back and spent one more night at Linda's.  We had fun staying up late and watching a funny movie.  I love watching funny movies with Shelley.  She laughs a lot and it makes it funner.  We had fun.

Sunday - January 18th

We got the majority of things moved yesterday.  Today, we woke up and finished taking Shelley's things to her apartment.  Then we helped her unpack as much as possible.  Here is a picture tour and a video tour of Shelley's new place.

 This is the view outside of Shelley's apartment.

 Here it is after we unpacked a lot of things for her.

 After getting Shelley's stuff moved and unpacked, we headed back to Linda's for some lunch.  Then, I went downstairs to do some cleaning.  I think I am amazing at cleaning showers.  Here is a before and after.  I like cleaning way too much and I'm excited that I remembered to take a before and after picture this time.

I was pooped from cleaning the shower, so I didn't get too much done in the rest of the house.  

After all the cleaning, we put the kids to bed and stayed up late and watched a movie.  I love to be able to hang out with my sister.

Lighting Candles - January 16, 2015

Friday - January 16th

Hi! It's Sydney! I'm taking over this blog a little, just for this post.

Today, I lit a match for the first time! I know this sounds crazy, but I've never used them. I already have 2 pyro crazy cousins and that's enough!

Jenny wanted Parker to light a candle in the kitchen to make it smell better. I decided to ask if I could light it, since I never have. I've watched my cousins do it and Parker showed me so I felt really confident!

The first one I lit I struck on the box so hard it snapped in half and the lit end fell on the floor! Below you can see the burn left on the ground. It will be there forever (unless the floor is replaced)!

The second one I let burn for too long so I had to blow it out. 

We decided Parker should light the one in the kitchen and I could light one in the living room. But when Parker got the candle in the kitchen lit I accidentally blew out the candle when I blew out the match for him, so he had to relight it.

Everyone came into the living room prepared to set out a fire I might start. Brinley was afraid I'd light the piano on fire! It was hilarious, and also so funny to see everyone standing around with blankets and dish towels and Jenny with the camera! I sure love these guys!

So, then I lit a candle! And the only thing that got on fire was the candle!

And by the way, that candle burning and letting off light like that sure looked beautiful!

I am not gonna lie, lighting matches was fun.

We watched a movie and goofed around and had a lot of fun! I love coming over!

Parker, the silly goose, wanted me to take a picture of him shining a flashlight on the candle I lit. He's such a goofball!

Here is the video.

What We've Been Up To - January 16, 2015

Friday - January 16th

I haven't been taking pictures and videos lately, so I have no fun pictures to go with this post.  I haven't been posting anything new.  I keep thinking I should, but when I get a chance to sit at the computer, I always find something else to do.  I really want to have my blog be like a big Journal with pictures and videos from when I first met Roger and our family began.  I've been working hard to get it all done.  I try to blog about things as soon as I can after they happen.  When I'm all caught up and nothing too exciting is going on, I spend my time working on blogging about things that have already happened.  I use my pictures, videos, and my journal to help me remember what we were doing and what was going on, so I can blog about those days as I would have had I had a blog back then (hopefully that makes sense).  I have all of 2001 from June 8th (when I met Roger) to the end of the year.  I have bits and pieces from 2002 on my blog.  I started to get bored of the post when it was just me and Roger, so I skipped ahead and started blogging from when Alissa was born.  Then, I thought, maybe I would just start working backward from where we are now.  I started my blog in 2008 (I think), but I didn't post very often.  So, I started working backward and filling in the blanks from the things I didn't post about.  So I have all of 2012, 2013, and 2014 blogged about.  I still have the first few months of 2011 to finish, but as I was finishing that, I started to feel like I wanted to work on things from 2002.  So, that's what I've been doing lately.  It's funny to read my journal, see the pictures, and watch the videos from back then.  I'm glad that I kept good records of that time.  I've been reading my Journal from the end of December 2001 to the first week of January 2002.  Roger and I got married at the end of November and at the end of December I started complaining about feeling tired and having these weird stomach aches that weren't like any tummy ache I've ever had before.  It was funny to read my thoughts on those things.  I had no idea I was pregnant, I just thought I had some weird kind of flu or something.  Also, one of the days, I wrote about how Roger and I were just hanging out and all of the sudden I started to cry.  I didn't know why I was crying.  I was so confused and surprised by the crying that I thought it was funny, so I started to laugh.  I was laughing and crying at the same time and Roger just looked at me, all confused.  He had no idea what to do.  I think that is so funny.  I was pregnant at that point and had no idea.

Anyway, enough about that.  Let's see....... Roger had strep about a week ago.  He gets really sick about once or twice a year.  It seems like he gets normal illnesses, but an extreme case of it.  So, he had strep.  He assumed that's probably what it was when his throat first started hurting, so he made an appointment right away, hoping to get it taken care of and start feeling better before it got too bad.  He, of course, was right.  They started him on antibiotics, but he just kept getting worse and worse.  It wasn't making a difference at all.  His throat was swelling up and his tongue was a little swollen.  It was hard for him to talk and he sounded funny when he talked.  He made an appointment with Dr. Wilding and found out that he had a more aggressive case of strep throat and he needed a more aggressive antibiotic to get rid of it.  That helped and he finally started to feel better.  It was a bummer though, because he was sick for a week of his time off of work.  He didn't have to go back to work until the 6th this month.  It was so nice for him to have so much time off of work, but a bummer that he had to spend so much of his time sick.

I've just been busy with homeschooling Parker.  Homeschooling really is not my favorite thing.  We are doing the K12 program and it is going well.  I can see the improvements that he is making and he seems to be feeling much more confident about schooling.  That makes me feel happy.  But he is getting bored and lonely.  He likes to go to school to be able to see and play with his friends.  He has friends around here, but he doesn't get to play with them very often.  so, I feel bad about that.  But, I just heard the best news last week.  Brinley's friend's mom is a founding parent for a charter school that will be starting up here next year.  Yea!  A charter school!  It sounds like the perfect thing for my kids!  And it's free!  There will be one teacher to 8-10 students.  School will be from 8:00am to 1:00pm on Monday thru Thursday.  So, the kids will all be going to the same school, They will have shorter school days, and they will have Friday off each week.  They group the kids according to their abilities in each subject and not according to what grade they are in.  It all just sound like it will be so nice.  I really hope it is!  I really don't like to homeschool. 

I don't feel like I'm good at it.

Today when I logged in to do Parker's homeschooling, his daily plan said "Vacation Day!"  That made me so happy!  I love a good vacation day where I don't have to worry about school!  He gets a vacation day on Monday also.  Yippy!

I can't think of what else I had wanted to write about.  Maybe it will come to me later and I can update things then.

Best Mom Award - January 7, 2015

Wednesday - January 7th

Alissa made me this award for me today.  Go me for being the best mom!  Alissa is too nice.

Alissa and Jamie - January 5, 2015

Monday - January 5th

I was just looking through my phone and found this picture.  Apparently, Alissa and her friend Jamie got a hold of my phone.

Roger took Parker with him to Logan.  He had some errands to run and he wanted to get Parker out of the house for a little bit.  The kids love this Park.  Parker had a lot of fun.  He especially loves the rock climbing wall.

Brinley Got An Ouchy - January 3, 2015

Saturday - January 3rd

The girls were outside playing and helping our neighbors (their friends Tiernynn and Malaiyah) move their stuff from their old townhouse into their new town house directly across the parking lot from us.  Brinley came inside for a little bit, then ran back out to play and help them out some more.  She just barely made it out the door, when we heard her screaming.  Parker was really quick to race outside and see what was wrong with her.  Also, Malaiyah, just happened to be looking out the window and saw her fall.  She raced outside to help also.  She had a pretty good fall.  I still can't figure out how she did it though.  When she fell, she managed to scratch her knee and the top of her shoulder.  I can't imagine how her body had to twist or whatever in order for both of those places to end up with scratches.  Brinley wanted me to take a picture of the ouchy on her knee.

 Parker made a super cool race track using a tall box that he has.

 Here is my cute little Alissa.

Happy New Years 2015 - January 1, 2015

Thursday - January 1, 2015

We had a nice relaxing New Years Eve.  Roger has strep throat.  Yuck!  I feel bad that he has to spend the holiday feeling sick.  But, we didn't do much besides sit around and relax, so I guess that was okay.  After Roger's Dr. appointment yesterday, he bought some chips, dip, lil' smokies, and shrimp while he was waiting for his prescription to be filled at Walmart.  so, we had yummy snacks to enjoy and Roger had antibiotics to help him start to feel better.

Alissa loves shrimp!  She tried some for the first time about a month ago, when she went out to eat with her friend Erin.  She has not stopped talking about it since then.  She desperately wanted to have more shrimp.  She kept telling me that Erin's family gets shrimp every New Years Eve.  She was so desperate for it, she really wanted to go and spend New Years with Erin's family so she could have some shrimp.  She was almost giddy when I told her that her dad bought some shrimp.  Roger loves shrimp also.  I really don't like it at all.  Brinley says she doesn't like it, but I'm pretty sure she hasn't ever tried it.  She didn't want to try it tonight.  Parker tried it, but didn't like it.  So, Roger and Alissa got to enjoy it all by themselves.  They seemed to be very happy about that.

I decided that I should at least take a few pictures of our New Years Eve fun, even though nothing exciting was going on.  Parker jumped in and photo bombed the picture of Alissa and Roger eating their shrimp.  He is too funny.

 Since Brinley didn't want to try the shrimp at all, she stayed in the other room and played the computer.  I took a picture of her then decided that I should take one more picture of me this year.  I always think my nose looks so big when I take a selfy.  But, oh well.

A little before midnight, we went online to find a count down to watch.  Then we went outside to bang pots and pans and yell and scream, "Happy New Year!"  Parker was way too tired by this point, so he didn't join us.  This is the first time that he stayed awake until midnight.  He was really tired and fussy.  After we put the pots and pans away, the girls and I ran through the house trying to be the first one to do everything and anything this year.  We each pushed each other as we tried to be the first person to sit on each section of the couch, the first person up the stairs, the first to use the bathroom, the first to turn off the lights, the first to turn on the lights.  Eventually that lead to Alissa kicking my leg and saying, "I was the first to kick you." (we didn't kick and hit each other hard.  It was still all fun and games.)  So, I turned around and got to be the first person to slap her.  The hitting kicking and slapping led to our first pillow fight of the year.  

For the most part, Roger stood back out of the way.  He was feeling to sick and tired, but every time he could get to something or do something before us, he did.  We all had a lot of fun.  we were laughing so hard.  It was a good time.  Parker went upstairs and was the first one to go to sleep.  He didn't want to join in and be the first to do anything else.

Before we went up to bed, I remembered that I needed to be the first one to take a picture this year.  So, I grabbed the camera and Brinley quickly jumped in front of it to be the first person to have their picture taken this year.  Here is our first video in 2015.

 Also, I still can't watch TV without crocheting.  So, here are the 5 hats that I made in the last 2 days of TV watching.  The top Red and Black ones are for Roger.  My favorite one that I plan to keep for me is the one on the bottom in the middle.