The Moose!

The Moose

One day I was driving along with my husband on a weekend getaway in New Hampshire, and low and behold there is a moose munching away in a field alongside the road. I was so excited I nearly jumped out of the car.  All weekend I had been asking where were all the animals, we had ventured off snowmobiling and hadn't seen nary a creature.  Just a minute before I had asked God, 'Why no animals?' and bam,

 'moose to order!'

 Now I know a few things about moose, one being to stay away from them. However, I needed to get a picture of her (him?) while the getting was good.  How often does one see a moose?  I needed proof and a little time to use my new camera on the capture of proof, that we had seen this grass munching, frozen faced moose.

Many cars passed us in our 15 minutes of trying to get close enough to said moose, without becoming an aggravation to it or accidentally freezing to death.  My brave husband got out of the car with me and we slowly crept down a ramp to a ledge that would get me close enough to pop off a few pictures.Yeah, that is love.  No one else seemed to care about us or this moose, they just flew by, as we nearly froze to death trying to get her to smile 

(I mean not kill us).

The moose immediately popped up from eating and gave me the eye.  She was a good 50 feet from us, but she was letting me know that she saw us and we better not try anything.   We definitely didn't try anything, but she wasn't convinced.  She couldn't take her eyes off of me, I felt loved.

We told her she was lovely and thanked her for the photo shoot before carefully climbing back up to the car.  My hands were frozen and I was sure that fur must be the way to go, as my new friend wasn't even shivering.  

She is pretty cute isn't she?

and speaking of cute and lovely...

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Try Organizing This!

Try Organizing this; a family photo shoot with no blinking, cheery faces and just the right fit.

It is no easy task.

The baby's hair has gone wild in this picture. Some appear to be just a head.

Cooperation...well, this might be harder than we first thought.

Your guess is as good as mine.

 Crazy might be our middle name.

 Some of us more than others.

Too bright?  But pretty blue sky, right?

This is sweet, but one child has misbehaving bangs.

We went with this one for this year's Christmas greeting.  I picked this one, as how much longer will I be able to pick up our youngest babe?  

Another reason to keep going to the gym, right.

God has blessed me with such beautiful children.

 Thanks for letting me share them here with you today.

Happy last week of 2015!

Found New Photo Editor Program!

before

 (straight out of camera-indoor shot, no flash)

Punched up with iPiccy 

 -discovered it in search of a Picnik replacement.

This is closest thing I've found to my beloved Picnik site. 

(Picnik will soon be no more- so visit and play, but don't get attached or anything ;-)

iPiccy is easy to use, it is free and it has many of the same features as Picnik.

 I am so thankful to have found it!  

Unusual Pleasures

subtitled:

Because Sometimes the Posts Need to Be About What Pleases Me

an evening on holiday

watching the carousel ponies go round.

Tonight Mama does one of her favorite things, which is playing with photo editing.  Time slips by, the crickets quietly sing through the study window as I gently nudge this and that around in this one photo.

Self taught, but how it makes me feel.  Glorious, after many heavy days of parenting.  

Oh, Picnik 

how thankful I am for you to snatch me away from the weight of motherhood for a few moments.  How thankful I am that my Knight upgraded me to the premium account (a sweet birthday/sanity gift).

Photo editing is a form of temporary escape.  You just might find a few more posts like this one.  I need it for the spot I currently find myself in.  No I haven't forgotten about prayer, or Bible reading or friendship...but somehow this seems to sooth my heart in the perfect prescription.

If I cross your mind (ever) would you pray for me...or I might just slip into photo editing as a full-time position and toss my hands up at this parenting thing.  

my heart is contented. 

a huge sigh came up with this black and white addition. 

i can push away and fall to me knees,

thanking God that indeed He is guiding my steps,
today and all-ways.

photo editing is easy, parenting not so much.