Happy New Year! Anna managed to stay up past midnight to go downtown (in our small town) to participate in the festivities with parents and siblings and cousins and aunt and uncle, and Gran, too! We love that we live close enough to walk downtown for New Year's Eve, and we like sharing the time with family, too. Once we arrived home (Anna actually chose to ride home in the car with Scott and Scott's mom, instead of walking back with the rest of us---it was really cold, and it's about 1/2 mile walk home), she was about to "hit the wall," so she gave hugs and went to bed!

Anna had a blood test on Monday morning (checking her cyclosporine levels as well as her CBC and other things), and she will have appointments with both the rheumatologist and ophthalmologist this month.