added something :-)

app/models/user.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class User < ActiveRecord::Base
-  attr_accessible :email, :password, :user_id, :admin, :password_confirmation
+  attr_accessible :email, :password, :user_id, :admin, :password_confirmation, :first_name, :last_name
   validates_confirmation_of :password, :password_confirmation
   validates_presence_of :password, :on => :create
   validates_presence_of :email

app/views/layouts/shared/_header.html.erb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
      <a href="#l" class="logo">
       
      </a>
+
      <div class="user-profile">
        <a data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle">
          <img src=" <%= image_path('profile_color.jpg')%>"  alt="profile">
@@ -20,6 +21,14 @@
        </ul>
      </div>
      <ul class="mini-nav">
+	   <li style="color: #FFFFFF">
+		<!-- 
+		I'm going to use HTML safe because we had some weird stuff
+		going on with funny chars and jquery, plus it says safe so I'm guessing
+		nothing bad will happen
+		-->
+		Welcome, <%= current_user.first_name.html_safe %>
+	   </li>
        <li>
          <a href="#">
            <div class="fs1" aria-hidden="true" data-icon="&#xe040;"></div>

app/views/users/new.html.erb

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
 					<div class="content">
 				    		<%= f.label "Email Address" %>
 				    		<%= f.text_field :email, {:class => "input input-block-level"} %>
+				
+							<%= f.label "First Name" %>
+				    		<%= f.text_field :first_name, {:class => "input input-block-level"} %>
+				
+							<%= f.label "Last Name" %>
+				    		<%= f.text_field :last_name, {:class => "input input-block-level"} %>
 				  
 				    		<%= f.label :password, nil %>
 				    		<%= f.password_field :password, {:class => "input input-block-level"}%>