January 6

Normally, he's not a nose picker, but we were goofing around and this picture came to be - he's such a little goofball!

January 5

Sorry - this picture was taken with my cell phone, and as you can see, the pictures aren't the greatest. Today we took my mom to Walgreens and ended up waiting for a while. Right by the pharmacy counter is this little m&m guy and Ryan had a great time entertaining himself, me and the rest of the customers with his interactions with this guy.

January 4

Sometimes, a girl needs a little treat - this is my treat of choice. I used to be a chocolate girl. I still am...sometimes. However, once in a while I need a little sweet with a little salty. Crunch n' Munch works perfectly.

Project 365 Update

Unfortunately, last summer, our computer got some sort of nasty bug. I asked a friend of ours to work on it; he's worked on our computers before and does a great job - plus, he doesn't charge us much. Well, he's been very busy and still has the computer. Luckily, during the summer, I had my school laptop to use and then as school started, my mom got a new computer and was donating the old one to my school. We are using it, temporarily, until we get ours back - if ever!

So, putting an end to the story, I am only able to load photos on the laptop and only on the weekends, unless I remember to take the camera with me to school. So, here's an update of the week...

Monday, January 3

We had fajitas for dinner...yummy! It has been too long since we've had them and we had just a tiny bit leftover. I was going to take if for lunch the next day, but overnight, I remembered why it had been so long since we've had them...they don't mix well with my digestive system.

January 2 - Project 365

Day 2 ... Do you see a theme? I love my little boy! I promise, though, that not all 365 pictures will be of him. Today was special though, it was our last day of winter break. For the past 2 weeks, we have spent nearly every moment together. It started with him having a horrid stomach flu, followed by me straining my back, then Grandma having surgery and being in the hospital for 6 days, then daddy at Grandma's for 3 days and nights...It was a busy, stressful holiday for us. We were all a little out of sorts. But Daddy came home Wednesday night and Thursday we started to get back to normal a bit. We had our niece for a few hours each day on Friday and Saturday, so today was our first day at home, just being together and relaxing. Ryan and I played a few games of Go-Fish - his first time playing, and he was a pro and beat me 3 straight games. We then played Toy Story 3 Yahtzee, which was a Christmas gift from his aunt and uncle. He LOVES it and we have played countless games of it in the past week. Today it was nice to just relax and play games and stay warm.

Project 365

Yesterday I posted about Project 365 which I found via Ravelry. The goal is to take at least one picture every day. I'm hoping I get better at this, as I'm taking many pictures and finding it hard to choose what to keep as my one picture of the day. I'm going to try to post them on here - probably not daily, but as frequently as I can. So, updating on days past...

January 1 - Oops ... It's above. Ryan had his cousin, Corrianna, over to play so we went out and had a snowball fight in the first snow of the year. Here they are getting ready to attack me.

New Year's Wishes (not resolutions)

I have a hard time with New Year's resolutions - I never keep them. Last night I listed some things I'd like to do in 2011. Hopefully I'll do well with those. They are wishes, though, and something I'm going to try.

Today I thought of a few more things. One is something I've heard about the past few years and decided that this year I would try. It is Project 365 and once I figure out how to link things, I'll link it. Basically what it is is taking a picture every day of 2011 to see what the year has been like. I'm going to try it. I took several pictures today. Now to just keep it up. I'm going to try to post the pictures once a week to keep myself honest! :)

Another thing I've thought about the past several years was knitting a nativity set. I thought if I did a piece a month I could finish it by Christmas. I haven't done it yet, and I honestly don't think I'll do it this year. However, I would like to knit Jesus, Mary and Joseph. That gives me 4 months to knit each of them. That I think I can do.

I also just joined a group on Ravelry committing to knit an ornament each month. I can do one each month. This month I think I'm going to knit a snowflake. There's also a super cute advent calendar made of mittens that is a garland. I thought that would be so much fun for Ryan. He loves his advent calendar and it would be fun to find a cute treat for each mitten. I'll try to knit 2 mittens each month, but we'll see. What I love, though, is that I have summers off so anything I get behind on, I can catch up during the summer.

Right now I am behind on my knitting. I told my sister I would knit her a pair of flip top mittens, but I don't like the pattern I found. I'm going to have to keep searching. I also told my mom I would knit a pair of fingerless mitts for another sister. And, I started a hat for Ryan only to be sidetracked but holiday knitting. I'd really like to finish it. It started as a superman hat, but he saw a pattern for a batman hat and like it better. The only thing is, I don't think I have the right colors. I may just make it a plain old hat and work on the other later. We'll see.