looking for beetles

On most days she is my girly girl.

But even in her dress, flip-flops, bow and...

a sucker.  She looks for beetles!!

hills

As I look out my back door, in the pasture that lies behind the yard, there are 5 very small hills.  Why we have these hills in our back pasture is really beyond me.  I have no idea who created them, or why one would create these 5 hills...so small, but evenly spaced.  It strikes me as rather odd.

However, for Cydney Claire, and the other munchkins of the neighborhood, they provide lots of good entertainment.  When the kids ride their go-cart, they love to ride it over each of the hills.  Often getting high centered and someone having to push the go-cart off.

But with Cydney, it's not the go-cart that is most entertaining.  It is running the hills.  On many days, she will head to the pasture as we are feeding the calves or doing chores in the yard and run the hills.  Up, down, up, down, up, down.  Every now and then, the small hill that it is, poses a struggle and she must dig in to make it over.

Always careful to keep her sucker safe from any mishaps.

Not really sure why this is so entertaining, but it sure makes me smile.  Hope you smile too!!

just a walk

There are many days that I don't blog, for I feel I simply have nothing to blog about.  But, just a short walk through the yard with my camera and many things caught my eye to share.  It's amazing what lies just beyond my eyes that remind of life as it was just a short time ago and how it can change in such a quick time.

Beyond the swing set, beyond the trees, lying against the fence are Carson's old Tonka trucks.  Unused, but well loved.  Tossed aside because he is much older now.  He rides bikes, plays football and basketball, build forts, and many other things.  But digging with Tonka trucks is not on his list of activities anymore.

It really wasn't all that many years ago that he was a cotton top little boy that spent hours digging in his sandbox with his trucks.  But things change.  Time flies.

It was just a walk through the yard, yet it brought so many memories of where we've been and how far we have come.

i.am.in.love

I am in photo editing heaven.  Probably many of you already have discovered the photo editing site, Picnik, but I had not....that is until recently.  Quit honestly, I have it saved as one of my favorites, but never used.  How much sense does that make?  To have a site saved as one of my favorites that I have never even used before.  I am kinda like that!!!  I uploaded Cydney's one year pictures to the site, and I want to show you the before and afters.  All these pictures were edited in a matter of 30 minutes.  It could have been less, but I was playing and see what each option was.

before

after

before

after

(even the scratch is gone on her nose)

before

after #1

after #2 with an added layer

I.am.in.love

Did you already know about this amazing photo editing site?  Who needs photoshop?  I feel like this is photoshop for dummies like me that can't for the life of me figure out photo shop, and it takes millions of hours to edit a photo.

Hope you fall in love too!!!

Have a blessed day!!  Grab a cup of coffee and edit away!!!

Photo Editing Fun!!

Tonight I have been playing around with PhotoShop online editing. It isn't nearly as fancy as PhotoShop Elements or PhotoShop. I have begun to enjoy the post photo editing of some pictures...it is quite fun. I am trying to decide if I want to spend invest the money in a photo editing software, or if I can find one online ~FREE!!~ that will do pretty much what I want it to. Thought I would share a few photos with you tonight. Enjoy!!








Have a blessed day...