A wrap-up of 2015...

Well, here we are into another year. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year's.  We stayed home this Christmas for the first time in about 20 years. Jarin started a new job in October and she had to work so we stayed home this year. We missed everyone but we had a great Christmas. We cooked our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve so we could relax on Christmas Day. We grilled steaks on Christmas Day.  Jarin and I made our annual trip to the Festival of Lights the week of Thanksgiving.  That is at the Tanglewood Park here. Lowes Foods took over sponsorship this year and brought back the marshmallow roast. We always like to get one of the big pretzels.

Our outside decorations this Christmas.

I mentioned looking for some battery lights for the swag on the door and Hubby found some and brought them home. They worked great.

Christmas Eve before Santa came. :-)

Christmas Moon 

I'll catch you up a little on the rest of 2015. Hubby healed great from his eye surgery in February to fix his Orbital floor blowout fracture that happened when he slipped on an icy, outside escalator on a business trip to Chicago.  He had his other surgery in Mid May for the ICD, he had no problems and recovered well from that also. Hopefully everything will go well on the medical front this year. 

The many hair colors of Cori in 2015... I'm sure there were some shades I missed.

Cori got to see her favorite Kpop (Korean) band in person, twice this year.  Once at Earth Day in Washington DC (bottom two pics) and the other at KCON 2015 in New Jersey (top two). She got to touch their hands in New Jersey, that's her favorite she's touching in the pic (dark haired one).

In June, Jarin and Cori went to Heroes Con in Charlotte again. I went on Friday with Jarin because Cori had classes and that was the day to pick up the ticket badge and free stuff.  I did meet the cartoonist for Snuffy Smith. I bought two compilation books of comic strips for him to autograph for me and my Dad.

He also drew a picture in each one.

(my Dad's)

Some dress in costume at Heroes Con.
The ladies of Hocus Pocus.

Shawn, wife Iliana and little Sierra after canoe race

Brother Shawn competed in the Texas Water Safari canoe race in July (I believe his 7th time). They canoe over 260 miles, starts on Saturday morning and they have to be at checkpoints along the way by certain times. It is usually in June but all the rain and flooding postponed it twice until July. He competed in mixed with another lady Debbie, they came in 7th overall and 1st in mixed. For my Facebook buddies there is a video I shared on my wall that Debbie put together of their race. I got to watch along the way on Periscope. I stayed up until 5:30 am on that Monday morning to watch them come in at the finish line. That was neat to get to do, I was able to let him know I was watching and congratulate them at the end and say hi to the family. 

Then we met at Mom's later in July and went to the beach for an overnight. Sierra is into Frosty the snowman and he was there at the beach...ha. 

Jarin and I went by to see the military stone that was put on brother Ronnie's grave, while we were home. We miss him.

I caught a double rainbow in September, on Labor Day.

Hubby had to use up some vacation time before the end of the year so he went to his parents Thanksgiving week. He didn't get to go during the summer when the girls and I went. He also took the week after Christmas and since we had pleasant weather that week we got the garage cleaned out. Oh and we had a few problems with our Christmas lights on the bushes in front. We thought it was because of the steady rain we thought would never end. We replaced a couple of net lights and after Christmas they went out again, turns out it may have been a rabbit that chewed through the cord. Well, something did and I have seen rabbits run for the hills when we came out with the dogs to do their business. And last but not least, Cori wrecked her car a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. She was fine, drove it home. The headlight on the front passenger side fell out. She wanted to keep it so I guess we need to build her a box to hold it so she can hang it in her room...ha. Too bad we don't know how to wire it so she can turn it on and off for a light.

So I think that pretty much wraps up 2015, the highlights anyway. 

Hope everyone has a great week!
Take care,

Sheila