Happy Father's Day!

This was the kids' HAPPY DADDY'S DAY gift to Gregg. It's a 12x12" garden stepping stone with their footprints laid in, and the flowers were created using stained glass squished into the stone (cement). All in all? I think daddy loved it!

5 More...

So, i'm trying my darndest to look for "fives" for the photo challenge. Here are two more FIVES that I came up with yesteday!

Five rocks. I didn't put them there, I found them there! Darn Kids!

I know, I'm back-tracking here, but I did happen to find FIVE of the most precious piggies in the world! What a lucky girl I am!

A little bit of Macro Lovin'!

After taking my Quantaray 70-300mm, f/4-5.6 macro lens out yesterday to show Karin the zoom capabilities on it, I got to thinking... "Self," (I call myself - Self). "Self, you really ought to get that lens out more often and work on some macro shooting." So today during naptime (after my dog inadvertently mauled my hand (it was my fault, not his), I put my macro lens onto my camera and headed into the back yard. Man! My yard is VERY interesting and beautiful when you look at it piece by teeny tiny piece! Here are a few of the shots I took today! Thanks for looking...


Bumble Bee

The inside of a Clematis flower

The inside of an Asian Lilly

My pride and joy, this is a new bloom from my Mr. Lincoln rose bush. The blooms on this bush are the most beautiful and fragrant in my yard. I am a tried and true sucker for blood red roses!
(Credit: My husband is the rose gardener extraordinaire, it is only through his meticulous caring for my Mr. Lincoln that she can put forth blooms like this!)

Some upclose shots of my Dahlias

There's that silly ol' Bumble Bee again! Evidently my Salvia's are VERY tasty!

5 of What???

This week's challenge on the photography challenge blog was to have FIVE of (something, anything). Well, LUCKY me, I got the five prettiest girls in Aurora, Colorado all into one photo together! WAHOOO!!!!!!



Still having fun with last week's framing challenge, here is Mason Framed by a fish toy!

Today, was BIRTHDAY!

Because Ashli and Mason were born exactly 7 days apart (by two years), we hold the annual 'Mosbarger Birthday Bash' to celebrate their birthdays together on the same day. Today, was that day! I'm flat exhausted and do not even have the energy to clean up this tornado ridden house, but.. I CAN sit here and post a few pictures. Keep in mind these photos are COMPLETELY unedited. I just don't have the energy for THAT right now! Between Karin and I, we took almost 400 pictures of this party! And.... not ONE photo of the cake!


Mason had an absolute BLAST sliding into the swimming pool! I cherish smiles like this!



Oh that boy is a real beauty isn't he?

So, let me show you how to do it... Mason Style!
One leg down, one leg up...

Get yourself situated in there real good...

One last little wiggle and check before the release...

Head on down the slide doing the splits... making daddy cross his legs.

Hmmm How many beauties can we fit into this little water toy???

Priceless pieces of sidewalk art in the making!

Lets see... who's all in this one? Lexi, Calista, A.J., Tori, Jessi, Ashli and Mason... I think we were missing a kid in this shot!

JUMP!

Hehehe, Just Kiddin'!

She wasn't kiddin'!

Sweet summer relaxation... over on the turtle!

I just LOVE those Nemo swim trunks! Sooooooooo Cute!

A little game of run around the yard??? Lexi, Mason and Samantha.

Mommy's beautiful Luau princess!

I wonder if he's smiling because at this point, he is the only one who knows that his
"Little Swimmers" diaper thing is leaking poop into the pool?

Everybody out! Time to drain the pool! Euhmmm errr...

LETS HAVE CAKE AND PRESENTS!

The End

Framed?

The photography challenge this week was to 'frame your subject' see below post. I got this awesome shot today, and am thinking.. that eye is perfectly framed by the horn on this Big Horn Sheep (aptly named).
Thanks for looking!

"Frame It"

For the Photography Challenge Blog this week, we were supposed to try to "frame" our subjects. This one is really a challenge for me as I always tend to get really close up to my subjects! This is one style I really needed to try and I really REALLY like the results! Thanks Wen and H!

This is Matani, framed out by my kids' slide



While this is not a good photograph, I chose to include it because I not only framed out my 'subject' Ashli, but I also managed to frame out my dogs~ The results were pretty cool!

This one was my very first photo of the day, I was scouring my yard for a 'frame' LOL~

I'm not sure if this one counts as framing a subject - The Rock. But it looks REALLY COOL!

Try as I may, I just don't have the bugs that Wen has! I was stalking a bumble bee for a while, but he got a little irritated and chased me into the house. When I came back out I somehow found this little guy in the grass and took this photo. Man, bugs are HARD!

I really like this one of Matani, that I framed by looking through my Blue Spruce tree at him stretching out in the lawn. Very cool!

A little bit of Scrappy Goodness

And some MUCH needed Scrappy Therapy for ME! It's been a LONG time since I sat and just scrapped! Here are my two newest!

You can click on any of the photos on my blog to see more detail. Specifically for the layout BUSTED, you can blow it up to read the journaling, and the text on the photos! Thanks for looking!

Silent Auction to benefit AUTISM SPEAKS

Hello my friends, I am posting to let my 'scrappy friends' know of a silent scrappy auction taking place at Freckle Friends Kit Club June 5-7 to benefit Autism Speaks. Please check it out and see if there is anything there you might be interested in bidding on! THANK YOU!

http://www.frecklefriends.com/bb/index.php?c=15&sid=9ace0eeac30954f5614fe31489ecae89

One Summer Day...

THIS IS MY DOG...

This is my dog on crack...

So... I bought the kids a little blow up swimming pool, complete with slides. I filled it up with water, and before I could even get their swimsuits on.. Matani had claimed it as his own. He thrashed around that little blow up pool like nothing I have ever SEEN before! The dog... was CRAZY. I mean.. NUTS. He was FREAKIN' NUTS I TELL YOU! Well, after about an hour, Matani, exhausted from his 'swim' fell out of the pool and went to sleep allowing my kids to finally play in "their" pool. We decided after repairing TWO holes in the kids' pool, that Matani needed his OWN pool. The above photos are the results. I guess he likes his new toy?

Bubby Toes!

This photo is for a photography blog I am involved in. This week's challenge was to take a photo that incorporated FEET. So, here is my little man's baby toes! I LOVE these feet!!!