2022, January 3-9

 A week of firsts marked the first week of the year. 

"Hello, there," says the kitty.

Landon spent the week preparing for his first meet on Saturday. 

We have yet to take down the tree. Mike put the fancy Disneyland candy can we haven't eaten yet on it. Note the regular canes for scale. 

Eliza loves her boy. If you look close Fergus has his paw on her lip.

Mike caught this beautiful sunset outside Sam's Club while getting groceries. Spectacular! 

Eliza has had to dress more warmly to ride, even with the indoor venue. Eliza rode May on Thursday but part way through another rider and Eliza decided to play switch your horse. So, Eliza also rode Tilly.

Mike taught the first of his two classes of the semester. Things are off to a running start. 

Landon competed in his first gymnastics meet of the season at USA Gymnastics World - Woods Cross. He did pretty well for himself, including scoring first place on rings despite doing it with two left-handed grips! Most of his events he scored quite a bit better than last year at this same meet. Landon is competing Level 9 again due to his injuries last year. 

Yes, it is. 

The kids were very wound up upon arriving home. The parents were not. Landon and Dad played with light sabers (before Dad fell asleep), and Eliza and Mom watched veterinarian videos (before Mom fell asleep). Everyone eventually went to bed too late.

Landon may have overdone things or otherwise fallen ill, because Sunday morning he woke up feeling ill. It got to the point where he was throwing up, and Hallie took him to instant care to get tested for COVID, flu, or whatever else might be floating around. Poor guy.

We received a surprise gift in the mail: A Mandalorian version of Monopoly from Grandpa O.!  It was quite entertaining, and Eliza beat Mike twice, because Eliza is amazing at games like that.