2011 has gone, 2012 is here!

YEAR OF THE DRAGON 2012

really from January 23rd, since this is the Chinese calendar we're talking about

Since May, when we moved onto Porter Gulch, we have driven past this deer warning sign. I looked forward to Christmas to share this picture! I also posted this pic on Facebook and someone commented "Reindeer Crossing"! 

For my 50th
birthday

Zen and Taka really surprised me with flowers and a cake.
No, I didn't do anything big for myself. I would have partied at a party for me if others had started one, but...nah~ make it big and it would feel big. So many people don't want to really think about being 50 years old. I think about it a little...well, maybe a little more than a little!

For Christmas season I brought this toilet paper back from Japan!!!

Christmas morning Zen and I visited Grandmom and her doggies. Lynn was there cooking Christmas dinner too.

Ahhh, over  Zen's winter break he surprised me by agreeing to play Scrabble with me~ then he went and beat me!!! I'm impressed~ happy for him~ sad for me! He says he's regularly playing "words with friends" on his phone. It does appear to help.

With my birthday money, I splurged on the recently for sale again- Japanese Dot shirts! Taka and I had missed getting one of these a few years ago. They were sold out. Now they are being printed again!

AND a special treat~ see Taka and me in the little corner picture of a picture below? With Eiko and John in Hawaii, we got to skype-talk!!!

That was mostly what the "holy-day" season was about this year! Hoping for a wonderful 2012 to all!