added something :-)

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>