Purikura

 Purikura: A photo booth is a vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor. Today, the vast majority of photo booths are digital. (Wikipedia) 
Warning:  Lots of pictures for this post...

Christmas Dog Parade

Last week I heard about a Christmas Dog Parade happening at Avila Beach.  Dog parade?  What the hell?  I was told people would be dressing their little fur babies in costumes and parading them down the street in Avila. So I figured, heck I don't have Sunday plans I will go.  My sister accompanied me to Avila and I brought my fat little fur baby too.  No costume for him, he was just hanging out with us enjoying the madness that ensued.  Honestly it was less than five minutes of dogs trying to do what they wanted instead of walk in an orderly parade.  Some dogs were okay but most of them wanted to sniff around and play.

Snarky sitting with my sister looking on at the crazy dogs.

Japantown

Before race day we decided to take mom to some shopping and food.  We visited Japantown and spent a good bit of time wandering the area, checking out the shops and finding some yummy food.

The concrete Peace Pagoda designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi was presented to San Francisco by the people of Osaka, Japan.

Why is Susie lagging at blog posts? - Part 3

The big day!

"Time to wake up sleepy head, your brother is getting married today." - me

Mister is being a sleepy bum.

I needed a gift bag.

Tomorrow is my niece Audra's birthday.  I found these neat little toys called Zoobles and I figured they would be perfect for a five year old.  I kinda wanted to buy some for myself.  Technically I could have and then gifted them to myself later this month for my birthday.  Alas I decided to skip getting more because I would end up just playing with them instead of wrapping Audra's gift.  Or worse I may have been tempted to open hers and play with them too!  

Once I got home I realized I had no gift bag or even a box to put these critters in.  There is no way I was going to just wrap these individually.  The packaging would make for a sloppy looking wrap job.  So I decided I would make a gift bag.  Yep, I figured I had stuff around the house to make a bag.  Never done it before and I am so proud of myself I am sharing my results.

Cute attack!

Animals with Stuffed Animals of Themselves

Things that run in the family.

Sneaking food!!!

Don't worry Lily I won't tell mom.... she might call you fat or something horrible like that. I think she might have a fun house mirror that she looks at or poor vision that makes her look skinny. Dunno which one but seriously we are NOT fat, she is.... but don't tell her I said that she might get all scrappy and water her lawn. If only she would get scrappy and wash dishes or clean house. Oh well!

Notice how we all make strange faces in pictures. I would say I enjoy candid shots for the stupid faces we all make but darn if we don't have cute dimples!

Don't tell grandma! Hey what happened to his head?! Does he fall on his face all the time like I do too?

Yummy!

Notice; silly willy face and cute dimple time.

Maybe his dimples haven't grown in yet. Malachi, where the heck did you leave your dimples?!

No dimples.... and someone, can someone get Lucas some teeth please. I swear he loses them and what, they never grow back? That's not how it's supposed to work. Maybe I can score him some Pepsodent and some plastic vampire fangs... not the gothy emo ones. The cool plastic ones you get as a kid at Halloweenies time.

For the love of god! He has no dimples either?! Pfft you guys lose... Lily we win! Ha ha!

Stop with the canned smiles we need some goof ball faces... Man those little boys clean up nice. I like them when they are dressed all cute and in pictures. ***They can't make me sticky or deaf.***

I love how my nephews address me: "Umm, 'scuse me Princess of Power do you want to play video games?" Oh yes, I only answer to She-Ra Princess of Power. Kills my mom but heck that's my name till they grow up and realize its totally a farce or see who Princess of Power really is. Regardless I am sure they will still call me Princess of Power for nostalgic reasons.