2015 in review

I've never done a post like this, so let's see how this goes! 

January 

babysitting the puppy-nephew

 Injury #3 of the dance season - a sprained ankle that took until September to finally heal!

 Monster Jam

 February

practicing for driver's training

National Champs for Senior Small Group Lyrical

The Movement Project

 March

St. Pat's Girls Night Out

U of M Dance Invitational

The Movement Project

"A Walk in the Park"

Edge National Dance Competition

Dancers Only Studio

 April

A night of Comedy!

Colin Mocherie & Brad Sherwood from Whose Line is It Anyway

The Whiting, Flint MI

 May

Senior year skidding to a close......

 Mother's Day

1st place for Senior Jazz Duet

Showbiz National Talent Competition

"Cold Hearted Snake"

Heading off to drive alone for the first time! 

 June

 ~sob~

 Senior Prom

 1st day of Kindergarten vs last day of high school

 July

I'll spare you what's under the band-aid.

Randy's & mine 9th anniversary

 Vacation!

  August

Painting with a Twist

 Graduation Party

 DOS car wash

My 29th (again) birthday!

 September

Once a Chieftain, Always a Chieftain - Homecoming

Miss Daisy became part of our family. 

 to celebrate my 20th anniversary of becoming a Shellback (crossing the Equator initiation)

 Miss Angela turned 18 and got her first tattoo. 

 October

New furnace!  One that doesn't sound like it's a flamethrower when it kicks on. 

I never posted about this, but it happened!

 Riding a camel with my niece at the Ohio Ren Faire

Halloween!

 November

Our first (and so far only) real snowfall

 The result of said snowfall. 

Thanksgiving - watching the equine niece & nephew chase their new pasturemate.

 DaisyMae is settling in!

 What happens when someone steals my phone. 

 December

1st competition of the season!

Michigan State Spirit Showdown

Dancers Only Studio

 4th place! 

 December

me & the sisters, Christmas Eve

 Christmas dinner at Zehnders.

 2am shenanigans in Frankenmuth

Happy 2016, ya'll!

#TFTLS

Still need intervention!

So we're getting a new bedroom set for the girl from my sister, probably today.  I needed to put all the nutcrackers away so there are fewer obstacles when we bring this furniture in.  Not sure why she thought this would be a good time of year to get rid of furniture, but it's a really nice set and for free, so I'll deal.  

So I took pictures again to inventory of my army.  This doesn't count the ornament-type guys.

I'm also using these pictures to remind me of which ones need paint touch-ups and repairs. Yeah, that didn't happen when I unpacked them.  I really wasn't feeling the Christmas spirit this year and I'm perfectly happy to start putting stuff away.  

Sir Owein, Sir Richard & Sir Jasper.

 Still love this guy!

 The herd. 

 Some of the bigger guys.

 I got the one with the tools as a gift this year. 

 I found little Nanook of the North (on the left) at the Salvation Army & he's pristine!

 I've been meaning to put a skull on the lion's staff.  

I really like Olaf the Viking & Hans with his bier, pretzel & schnitzels.  

 I love the caveman, too!  He's new from Meijer's.

 I got the 2 tennis guys with the thought of making them over.  But it hasn't happened, yet.  And now I'm up to 3 hockey guys!

 I texted this to my sister.  ROBERT! is her favorite for some reason, so he was saying bye to her for the season. 

 Some of the ladies. 

 A whole troupe of ballerinas.  The tall one in white lost part of her arm, so that got wrapped up with her. 

 Little Santa on the right still needs some work. 

 Such fabulousness!

 Found another sailor.  I've had the one in blues forever.  He was my first nutcracker!

 My niece gave me the one in the middle for Christmas. 

 More fabulousness & I've noticed I have quite a few police. 

 I've argued with Angel about finishing the one on the left.  She started this hot mess and won't let me finish him!  And the guy on the right needs his new hat glued on & painted. 

 The twins are fun. 

I filled up these 3 huge totes and one more small one.  Ugh.  133, and 5 horses!  And I noticed my smoker isn't pictured, so he's still running rampant somewhere in the house.  

Yes.  As I was looking at these pictures, I see quite a few I'd happily get rid of.  There's a couple I'd consider repainting, too.  I wonder what the Vietnam Veterans would think to get a big box of nutcrackers?  Muahahaha!!  That's who I usually donate to.  Or I could message a couple people on the ChristmasFanClub message boards and see if they're interested in some. Options are there.  I'd keep the ones I really like, and pass on the ones I feel "meh" about.  I know Randy would be happy about that, too.  

#TFTLS

Happy New Year!

From all of us, both 2 legged & 4 legged....