Read in 2015

Here are the books I managed to read this past year:



It came out to over 2 a month, but there were months where I read nothing and others where I really got into the groove. I'm hoping to have a lot more of the latter type of months in 2016!

Made in 2015

It's fun to look back at the end of the year and see what I accomplished.

My sister's Grumpy Cat hat:



Annabelle's Wonder Woman sweater:



Sarah's Christmas stocking:



A pair of FSU socks:



One of my most off-the-wall projects was a viking helmet with detachable beard for my friend Joanne's husband (the pic on the right is me showing it off at work before taking it to the post office):

Brunch and goodbye

This holiday weekend went by way too fast. We finished off this morning with brunch at Pinstripes in Georgetown, wandered around a little, and then put Mike and Sarah on their plane back to San Antonio.

Photo shoot

Well, for as warm as it has been lately, it sure was cold today when we met Marisa of White Sparks Photography for a photo shoot at the Air Force Memorial! I've been wanting to get a professional portrait of Mike in his uniform and some shots of Mike and Sarah together to go with my pic of Annabelle and Harvey. Here are a couple of my amateur shots, just clowning around:





See why I need a pro?

Here are the portraits of Mike in his uniform that inspired me to book this session in the first place. I'm getting the top on in an 8X10 and the bottom one in a big square to hang next to the Annabelle/Harveys pic:





Then there's this really nice shot of Mike and Sarah:



And some goofy ones too, but I'm ordering them because I think their personalities shine through:









I'm also going to order a couple more pictures from Annabelle's photo shoot last year. Here's one for the grandparents:



And Annabelle wants this one to give to Sam:



And I need this one because it's the most perfect picture ever taken of any cat:

Merry Christmas!

It's another shockingly warm day, but that's okay because it means Fred can wear his Hawaiian Christmas shirt without freezing:





Annabelle and I bought an elf suit at Target for Mike to wear, and he really took to it. He declared it the most comfortable thing ever and warned Sarah that he's likely to wear it throughout the year:









Even Ginger dressed up festively:

Christmas Eve 2015

I'm pretty sure it's Christmas Eve. Hard to know for sure though, because it is freakishly warm. I'm no fan of cold weather, but this is downright bizarre. This is how it was when we walked the dog this afternoon:



The stockings have been set out--if not hung by the chimney--with care:

Harvey and the tree

Harvey likes to hang out underneath the Christmas tree:

Make Christmas great again?

Annabelle and I made a limited edition, hilarious holiday card:

Crazy weather

It has been freakishly warm this month. This was a couple days ago:



And this was today: