Light

~ In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary...
Aaron Rose

Having a bit of cabin fever these days...with all the grey rainy weather here.

How are you holding up this February?

WHITEFISH CARNIVAL

It's here...
Lets go!

Beautiful and creative floats of all kinds...
Fire trucks.
- Hey, there's Cory and Otto.

..and little wet dogs.


Everything from miss Whitefish...Jammers, men in costumes and some lassoing.

Frontiers men.

Our northern neighbors form Canada.

And my favorite...this young man that showed his exuberance for the parade...with one American flag and one Canadian...

Dogs...dogs...dogs..

Notice how this guy gets a little air lift from his ears...

the pit bull was chasing the truck loaded with dog food.. this little fuzzy short thing was having a heck of time in the mud....

and party pooper, Mr Great Dane Yawning there.

...Oh LADIES!.... This is always a fun part when the guys dress up in drag.

This guy was totally hamming it up...I think he had a few of what the truck behind him was serving...

ehem...yeah.

Remembering the past. This year we are celebrating Glacier National Park Centennial so there were many floats and people dressed to commemorate the occasion.

Here is that young chap again...I love him... so happy!

Also the sled dogs...HUGE. You can hear the dogs come from milesaway from all the barking.

I love these dogs...Bernese Mountain dogs.

Happy and smiling faces of all kinds.

Here in Montana you have riders of all kind....the magnificent, the ones with a coffee in their hand and the ones that can't make up their mind...bringing their ski gear on horseback just in case.

It was really fun this year.

I appolgize for the crappy shots...the sky is blown again and every thing is grey...but the parade was bright and cheery...and that is really all that counts.

Sarah wrote a post on the parade too...you can see her view of the parade HERE

Good weather!

Sunshine is delicious

rain is refreshing

wind braces you up

snow is exhilarating

there is no such things as bad weather

only different kinds of good weather

~John Ruskin

Have a wonderful weekend,

weather you are surrounded by; snow, rain, wind or sunshine...(I still prefer a little sunshine)

Gabriels NEW room.

Gabriels room has looked the same since we moved into this house...sort of vanilla-ish. It was time for a little change...get rid of the crib and into a big boy bed.

From drab...to FAB!

I painted one wall a juicy fresh orange and the other a crisp white.(Jules and Sophia helped)

Pierre and Auguste built the bed. Measure and cut in the shop and brought it in for assemblage.

He made a little place for Gabes books. Underneath is a fun place to play and read books.

Mom and I made this wall quilt for Auggie when he was newborn 9 yrs ago...now it's been passed down to Gabe.

Now all the big kids visit and play in Gabes room....I guess he's growing up.

Big Boy

"The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four- of secondary importance is to prepare to being five"
Jim Trelease

Montana Mornings

~For where ever your treasure is, there will your heart also be....
Matthew 6.21

Good Morning!
Yep, were over at Montana Mornings.

(my blog will look wonky for the next few days...trying a new template)

Have a fabby day.

Fun homeschool day.

We had such a fun day homeschooling yesterday.
Feeling the love for Valentines day we made some paper hearts for the window
to brighten our home from the grey Montana winter.
These are made from card stock with different designs sewn together with 2 buttons and strung up on fishing line.
(I know, the images are still drab) Then, inspired by Patricia...we made some flowers.

Pom pom flowers to liven up the table in assorted yarn and fabric.

Super easy the direction are HERE.

After all the crafts we enjoyed freshly baked chocolate chip cookies Julian had made.

Played charades...in french...that's right, we could only speak french.

Then we watched a 2 hr video on the beautiful islands in the Indian ocean, by Globetrekker.

...yep, I'm thinking this was a really good day.

Feeling blessed

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, And life emits a fragrance like a flowers and sweet scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal that is your successes.

All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause to momentarily bless yourself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

These past 3 months I have been to hell and back (a family issue) feeling like my life was a bad movie I was watching...as if I was merely existing.

The highlight of my day was going to bed, so I could end it.

I have never gone thru something so hard and stressful as these past months.

Feeling hopeless and exhausted.

I cried so much my face hurt.

Wishing that my children never have to experience what I've gone thru.

Anyway all this to say....I really don't know what I would have done without nature...being able to spend time out in the open, stretch out and just be, has truly been the peace and elixir my soul was in need of. The big blue skis, fresh air, the trees, I love trees...hearing the birds...sunshine on my face,walking in the snow. Praying silently for this to pass.

Knowing that nature does it's own thing despite what my troubles are...Finding comfort that the world is still going forward as I am standing still. Nature redirected my focus...

This did pass...

I walked thru those hellish gates and am now on the other side....starting to find joy and and light in my heart again.

Hope and healing is starting to begin.

From this experience I have also learned that no matter how much I wanted to be in control of the situation...it wouldn't let me.

I just had to let it take it's time and I couldn't hurry it.

Life really are the storms...you have to navigate your ship carefully...the smooth sailing is only there to catch your breath for the next storm...

Incredibly grateful for everything in my life and feeling so fortunate.

~I am blessed.