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Happy new year! Here’s my first ten on ten post for 2012. The photos were taken this past weekend.

In the first panel, going clockwise from the upper-hand left photo:  1. The last of the glorious donuts from a Krispy Kreme run. 2. Through a combination of Pinterest and YouTube links, I began to learn to crochet on New Year’s Day; on this day, I was nearly done with my first project (a scarf). 3. The glorious coupon for a free dozen glorious donuts. 4. Neighborhood cat who likes to wander through our yard and watch the kids play.  Later in the day, this cat ran into our house, up the stairs, and darted underneath the daybed in the playroom. That darn cat! 5.  Silly boy posing by some wall ads during our glorious donuts run. 6. The husband and I donated blood and they gave us each a little soup mug. 7. Crazy weather day: 70 degrees in January?!  8. My boys sitting on the step down into our living room, having some clementines while watching football with their daddy.

Then, the final two photos (from top to bottom):   9. Stomp rockets are fun, especially when they end up on the roof of the house!  10. Boys like the strangest things; here I am shown details about the largest octupus with the most tentacles ever.  I knew they would like this edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

It was a nice start to the new year for us; I hope y’all had an equally nice day. Now please go visit my friend Amy Ames with her Ten on Ten for this month!

Welcome to another month of a project I am participating in with some fantastic and inspiring photographers. On the tenth of each month, all of us will blog 10 pictures taken over the course of a day .

We enjoyed a family game night in the lull between Thanksgiving and busting out the Advent Calendar.  Once upon a time, in my Single Girl days, I lived in the metropolitan Washington DC area, and when I was moving away, was given a DC-themed Monopoly set to remember the town by.  After our recent move, the kids unearthed the board game and immediately became obsessed with it, and demanded that we have ourselves a little family game night and play some DC Monopoly. There were some temper tantrums when people landed on the White House (this version’s Boardwalk), but for the most part, we had a fun time. Here’s my 10 on 10: ten moments from that night.

It is rather outdated, as the Monopoly money is imprinted with a DC-area bank that is no more (well, it merged with another bank in 2005), one of the properties is US Air Arena (which was renamed in 1996 and demolished in 2002), and you can own the former Washington Bullets basketball team (they changed their name to the Wizards in 1995).  But it never fails to tickle me when I build hotels on the Lincoln Memorial or charge rent on the Pentagon.

Now please go check out the super-talented Nicki Griffith!