Full Moon Dancing

This is going to be a fairly picture heavy post.. and I apologize if it makes this page load slowly, but I enjoy each and every one of these photos enough to keep them on the blog. One day I'm going to look over my history here, and be in love with each and every moment. 

Yesterday I woke up in a funk. I was emotional, sad, depressed... the usual of what I've been feeling lately.. I'm still working past it, and treating it on a daily basis. Seeing what I need each day to combat this depression. Yesterday Sterling and I were having coffee and deciding our day. We had a few errands to run, but that was about it. I was prepared to go back to bed, and just be done.. I remembered that it was the full moon, and a super moon. So I didn't want to just give up on the day..

Sterling and I like to celebrate each full moon and New moon by making goals and holding mini little ceremonies. I had the idea to go up to our field, hike with the dogs, take some fun photos and end it with a short moon ceremony as the sun set. 

Meko and Wicket are trained to know what the word "Adventure" means. Whenever I ask, do you guys wanna go on an adventure?! They both leap to the door. Once we got up to the field, I kept them off their leashes. They are familiar with the field enough to get by, and they know not to wander off too much. 

Sterling and I had the idea to take photos of us. Something we try to do every couple of months, as his hair grows longer and will eventually dread, and my hair goes from short to long from purple to pink. It's fun to keep up with our ever changing styles.
After taking a few photos I got bored.. I felt silly and awkward. I said "How else can we take fun pictures?" We only had a tripod and a remote.. no photographer to tell us what to do.. so we decided to take some fun photos..
Pretty soon we were both laughing beyond control, due to missed timing we got some pretty happy photos. I couldn't be more delighted.

(Now lift me!) 

(Wicket wanted in on the photos) 

We took photos just as the sun was setting, during the golden hour under the full moon. As the sun's light began to fleet we decided to do a quick ceremony. The dogs usually sit in on our moon ceremonies, but this is the first time Meko was so involved he drank the Water Element. We kept a careful eye on our two candles, and burned some intentions for the month. I have a lot of heaviness I'm trying to shed, a lot of acceptance of myself I'm working on. Remembered to treat myself one day at a time, and move forward one step at a time.

After our ceremony was finished we extinguished our candles and packed up. I chose to leave the pups off the leashes until we got to the car. The pups did amazing on their own and stayed within 15 feet. Trusting that we wouldn't leave them, and we trusted they wouldn't leave us. (I also kept a watchful eye out for predators... I'm terrified of a bird scooping up Wicket!!) But I trusted my intuition, and my pups. We all made it back to the car safely and feeling a lot lighter having danced away the heaviness.

(On the walk down I felt something sharp poking my foot, turns out I had a crystal stuck in my boot!) 

We didn't hike up with the intent to get these kinds of pictures, but I'm glad we were open to taking silly pictures and laughing at ourselves, because I think the pictures turned out fantastic. 

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Mystery Solved!

Okay, I've been sick this week. Waking up and doing stuff has been hard. The last few days have been a cold, and today I had an upset stomach! Sterling did too. He had to leave early from work... He's sleeping on the couch now, and I have willed myself to stay up to get some work done.. It's been yucky around here.
Yesterday we did have our pumpkin carving adventure. We finally felt a little better around 10 pm so we stayed up a bit to carve our pumpkins. Alien Abduction Themed! If you guys know me.. I'm a huge UFO and alien fan.. which reminds me.. GUYS! The quotes you have said for your bracelets for the giveaway have ben amazing. So many Doctor Who and Star Wars fans! I'm so proud...

Anyways, if you guys follow my instagram, you probably remember some of these pictures.

A random mystery plant started growing!
I weeded that area, put down a tarp, AND tree bark to keep weeds from growing back.
Then this mystery plant grew!
Every day I asked it "What are you?!" as it got bigger and bigger and started to take over my porch.
Then, one day it started producing blossoms, then green plants.
My hope was zucchini!
But, nope...
Mystery Solved....
Pumpkins!
Growing ON my porch!

I ended up getting three pumpkins! I don't know who planted them.. since I've been here for a whole year now, but I got three beautiful pumpkins! Yesterday we decided to carve them up. Sterling got out his trusty GoPro, and I took photos with my camera.

First we started with the perfect fall dinner of Broccoli cheddar soup with grilled cheese.
And the perfect fall colored flowers from Sterling.

 Table of a sick person... huh? 

I'm not one for talking today... I think I'd like to go back to sleep.. but I'm going to try not to.

I still can't get over the fact that these three pumpkins grew on my porch for me.
It was a pleasant mystery.
And we had a lot of fun watching scary movies, carving pumpkins and laughing.





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