Strange

A quick entry tonight because once again I got caught up and almost forgot to post.  Today I am thankful for family.  I know, I sound like a broken record, but it's because I am home and spending time with them and trying to enjoy every minute.  Today involved a lot of prep for tomorrow, but I did also get to go for a walk with my dad, look through some old pictures with my mom, hung out with my brother a bit, and go to the movie with The Bean and Double A, so that was all lovely.  They movie was Dr. Strange, and that is the theme for tonight's shoes.  Actually, it's only one pair, from three different angles, but it's a pair that definitely committed to a theme:

Scenes from the movie, but drawn like a comic book.  Even the shape is strange, which I appreciate, because again, commitment to theme.  Double A and The Bean (as I've said before) are giant marvel fans, so they were excited about the movie.  I enjoyed it quite a lot, actually, despite knowing next to nothing about this part of the Marvel universe.  But now I must go to bed so I can get up in the morning and finishing preparations for The Big Day.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mamas out there!  I know it's not always a happy day for everyone, especially those whose mothers have died or who want children and are unable or who have lost children.  I hope you found ways to find joy in the day and were surrounded by those who love you.  I didn't get to see my mom today, but I'm so glad I just got to spend 2 weeks with her.  She is the bestest and I miss her bunches and bunches.  This post is all about her.  I'm forgoing shoes for the night to show you my beautiful mama.

I decided not to get TOO carried away as I could post a million pictures.  And for some reason I don't seem to have one of Mom and the brother when he was a baby, just me and the seester.  They exist, but I don't  have one. 

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!  Thank you for everything.  I love you to the moon and back.

Memory Lane May 8th: 2013. 2014. 2015. 

Memory Lane Mother's Day: 2014.

Family!

Today was awesome.  We had a family dinner to celebrate my (late) and Double A's (early) birthdays.  The rain from yesterday continued today which meant that Flower's and Laughter's soccer games got canceled, which meant that their whole family got to come to dinner when we didn't think they would be able to.  There were 12 of us:  me, Mom, Dad, the Brother, the Seester, the Brother-in-Law, Double A, the Bean, Flower, Laughter, the Auntie, and the Uncle (who I haven't seen in a couple of years, so that was extra-special-awesome!).  We were only missing DJ and the hubby, which is very very sad.  There was German chocolate cake, which is never ever sad.  Sigh...it was lovely, and I wish it could happen more often.  Here are some shoes from the day:

The Auntie's thrift store boots.  They're crazy, and cool, and totally work for her.

Dad and the Uncle were both wearing Keene's today.  One of these days I should round us all up and take a Keene family picture. 

The Seester's adorable brown sandals, with a slight, unintentional photo-bomb from the Brother-in-Law.

So it was a pretty fabulous day.  So fabulous, in fact, that even going to the mostly terrible and very long Batman Vs. Superman couldn't ruin the overall fabulosity.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014. 2015.

Siblings!

Happy National Siblings Day!  I am fortunate enough to be the youngest of three children, and have both an older brother and an older sister.  The brother is 4 years and 11 days older (yes those 11 days are important because he is currently 45 and I am still only 40 which means for 11 days he's 5 years older than me instead of 4!) and the sister is 6 1/2 years older.  I am the baby and was something of a surprise.  In honor of the day I typed in "siblings shoes" and will now share some of the results.  Full disclosure, though:  I have NO idea what any of these shoes have to do with siblings.  You'll just have to draw your own conclusions.

I posted these last year in yellow.  There are a bunch of different colors.  Maybe so if you have a bunch of sisters you can all wear a different color? 

Bright and fun and happy!  Which would generally describe the seester, but not so much the brother.  I'm afraid to go looking for sarcastic and caffeinated and grumpy shoes. (HA!)

Classic and elegant.  But they don't look like they fit terribly well.

In this case I would go for the black one and the seester could have the pink.

These shoes are weird and interesting, but I'm almost more interested to know what is going on with that skirt?  Robe?  Coat?  Curtain?

I think these are probably really cute from the side, but less so from the front.  Which is sad and strange.

These are strange and hilarious, and probably look the most like my siblings and I collectively as we're all a little strange and hilarious in our own right.  Those little one eyed monsters deserve better than this weird shoe, though.

Happy Siblings Day!  I will wish this to my biological siblings, my seester-in-law, and the BFF and other friends who are like siblings.  In fact, if you are an only child and want to adopt a sister, I'm more than happy to have a million siblings.  We can post pictures next year and totally confuse your friends and family!

Memory Lane: 2013. 2015.

Happy Birthday, Brother

Yes, today is April Fool's Day, but it's also my big brother's birthday. There are jokes to be made about him being the biggest fool of them all, but I'll just leave that alone.  My birthday present to him.  I looked to see if there were any shoes with his name (actually his middle name as that's what he goes by) and it turns out he has a line of sandals.  Let's look:

And they're rather cute sandals, too.

Apparently they're quite comfortable as well.  I don't like these quite as much as that first pair, but they're still cute, and comfy heels are always a nice thing.

 

The color is good, but these are my lease favorite so far.

I couldn't help it.  They're so cute I just had to give you more colors.

And then there are these.  Still this same line, same creator, and really really ugly.  I'm sure they have great arch support and are probably very comfortable.  But they are not cute at all.

So the brother is another family member who has shoes named after him.  Some of them are even quite cute.  Not that they're men's shoes, but it's my blog so he can just deal, even on his birthday.  I'm also the little sister, so it's my job to be as bratty as possible to my big brother.  It's my birthday gift to him.

Memory Lane:  2013 (I was in Montana.  Jealous of my past self). 2014. 2015.

The Big 4-0

Today is my birthday, at least for another half hour or so.  It was a very nice day, starting with breakfast in bed from the hubby, 2 new pairs of shoes from my parents (I'll show you tomorrow), and then an outing with the hubby and puppies to Amador County to have a picnic and a walk.  It was a gorgeous day, even if it did gum up my eyes and clog up my sinuses (which is actually my fault since I've stopped getting my shots and taking most of my allergy meds because it's all so frickin' expensive).  But let's talk about shoes instead. I thought about finding a pair for each year of my life, but that seemed extreme, so we'll just go with every 5 years.

1975.  I'm an adorable newborn-8 1/2 month old.  Here are some awesome pansy shoes for my mama.

1980.  I started Kindergarten, despite almost not being able to tie my own shoes.  Being the saucy child that I was, I told the teacher at Kindergarten roundup that it didn't matter because I would just wear my buckle shoes.  Those are some crazy colorful shoes up there, and I was a blonde 5 year old.

1985.  I'm in 4th and 5th grade, slightly less blonde, and have been wearing glasses for several years.  In 5th grade I got bifocals, oh joy.  These shoes are still bright, but slightly less crazy and more geometrical.

1990.  Love the embroidered shoes.  No idea really what kind of shoes I myself was wearing.  I was in 9th and 10th grades and had a perm so I could have big, 90s hair.  My glasses were stylishly huge, and I'm wearing my dad's jacket from the 60s or 70s.

flower

1995.  I've been out of school since 1993, but still living at home, doing daycare for a family in my hometown.  I looooooved those babies (still do, even if they are all old now).  I chopped my hair off, and had been wearing contacts for about 3 years.

2000.  Love the red hounds tooth!  In January I moved to Plano, TX to live with my auntie, after graduating from college in December of 1999.  I learned to drive in traffic, got my first real jobs, and apparently posed in the shrubs in front of my bedroom windows.  Oh, and Double A was born in May, big sister DJ was 3.

2005.  2 years into seminary, and I headed off to internship, which sucked, so we shall not speak of it.  But, the year started with my spending 3 weeks on Oahu with the BSF.  She was doing her internship in Honolulu and I got to do my cross-cultural experience.  It was awesome.  The Bean was born in 2003, so I was up to 3 nieces.

2010. Stripey and strappy shoes.  Can't go wrong there.  I finished my first call in March and moved back to CA in July.  The nephew and Laughter were born. I met the man who would become the hubby. The couch is close to not holding all of us.

2015.  The shoes are crazy, but I actually really like them.  I am on-leave from call and my life is more complicated than in 2010, but way less complicated than 2014.   The only picture I have of myself so far this year is with this adorable young miss from St. Someone.

This post took way too long because the internet kept going out.  It's no longer my birthday, and I must go to bed because I am old.