The Blog l forgot l had!

So it's been ages since l wrote a blog post. I love reading others blog posts and l learn so much but somehow l always forget or hate writing my own blog posts. And if we are going to be honest which l prefer to be, it's maybe because l always think, who'd want to read my posts, what interesting and exciting things do l have to share?!

What l really should be focusing on is why l should write a blog.  So l jotted down some reasons.

- Share my thoughts and ideas
- Help me to remember the little things l don't want to forget!
-Document my daily life
- Keep a record of the kids and their daily life
- Share cool places and finds with who ever should find themselves browsing my blog.
- And write, something we just don't seem to do much of anymore.

So here goes, I'm going to try once again to remember that l do have a blog, and that l need to be better at documenting our life even if it's for my eyes only. One day in the distant future my eyes will enjoy reading my younger thoughts and feelings. It might provide some great insight into who l was at the time or it might just give me a good jolly laugh and honestly who doesn't like a good laugh?

Project Life or Project 365

Call it what you want, but it ROCKS! I love looking back on the year and seeing in photos all that we did: the exciting, sad, mundane and everyday things. They all make up bits and pieces of our family life. Besides the fact that these photos are for my future, for a time when l will be old and senile and can't remember anything. Oh l know it's coming people, it sometimes happens now and I'm only in my early 40's !!

So here are the months of January and February summed up in collage form thanks to an app l just recently downloaded from iTunes: Project 365 and I am loving it. Besides the fact that it reminds you to take your photo for the day, you can also write a little comment with the photo.

Go ahead at only 99c it's worth every penny!

Also, all these pics where taken with my iphone. The quality is amazing and it's just so handy!

Stationery card

Snowflake Dazzle Christmas Card

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View the entire collection of cards.

Missing in Action

I almost forgot l had a blog, it's been well almost 9 months, my plan was to post daily. My plan was to take a photo a day. My plan was to... oh heck non of my plans came to fruition. I really don't have an excuse expect maybe that l got caught up in the world of Facebook and well that place gives you a soapbox to voice your opinions and share your news. It's instant gratification and who doesn't want that?

So enough of my talking. This has been my life these past two weeks after getting a new iPhone4 (which can l say I ADORE!!) and discovered the Instagram app :)

Life via my iPhone

a self portrait on my birthday

The Fabulous Miss Coco!

A beautiful Sunset (been seeing a lot of those lately)

The kind of day you want to drive with the top down!

Waiting to play some ball!

Some Fall colour makes me very happy!

My gorgeous bougainvillea still blooming

My love!

In with the new (2011) out with the old (2010)

New Years eve/day always stirs up some mixed emotions for me. I look forward to a new year, new start and wonder what it will bring with it (hoping that it will all be good of course) and at the same time l look back on what the old year has given me, how much of it was good and how much of it l will be glad to leave behind. It's always a little hard at this time of year since we miss our family so very much all year round but that little extra during the holidays.

So this year l decided that l would put all those photos l took throughout the year to some good use. It took me a few days on and off since it was my first time ever to create a slide show. But l LOVE how it turned out and am enjoying watching it over and over again. I love looking back on all the good things we covered in 2010, and counting myself lucky to have had a great year. Sure there were some not so good times, but l choose to dwell on the good, that's what New Years Eve should be about, looking back on all the good that has come out of those 365 days!

So l give you the Rickey family 2010 year in review slide show. Oh and Happy New Year, here's to capturing all the good in 2011.

The sweetest thing

OK, l know it might seem silly, a post about peaches, but l just have to jot this down.

Last week on one of my trips to Costco l came across these beauties. Now let me start by saying ,it's not cause l saw them, but more like SMELLED them! that's right, SMELLED them! I was walking past not even looking at the centre aisle and all of a sudden l smelt summer! sweet fragrant summer.

To me peaches bring back memories of my childhood, my father had a peach tree and those peaches were the sweetest, juiciest thing l ever tasted. The smell, the soft peach fuzz, the golden colour, l tell you whats not to love about them! I had given up thinking l would ever eat anything as sweet again (I'm sorry but store bought fruit just doesn't live up to my expectations!) until that day in Costco. I mean if they smelt this good they would have to taste this good right!

So off l went armed with a box of 12 peaches, and everyone commented on how good they smelt. I hardly got them home, and Liam was the first to pounce on them! To cut a long story short, l went back and got some more on Friday and we ate the last ones on Sunday night.

Well come Monday, l was asked, no begged to go and get some more! how could l say no! My plan is to make Peach cobbler, but honestly l don't know if they will make it till then, l mean it's hard to resist the smell of those sweet juicy peaches. Just looking at them makes me want to go back and eat another one, who's going to notice? Oh yeah that would be the Peach Police, my son!

Saturday was like this:

Not what l would call a very eventfull day really, nothing much was planned for today but l loved how it turned out and still want to remember it.

8am - Help paint Entrance signage into our Gated Community

Noon - Darren cuts grass, kids and I weed back yard (Ugh! how l hate weeding!)

1pm - Stop for lunch - Darren made us sandwiches

2pm - Back outside for more weeding (kids have gone by now, and l'm not sure where they really are! I think they may be hidding at the neighbours!)

3pm-4pm - Shower up and go with Darren to watch him play 9 holes of golf. Now this was very enjoyable. Although it wouldn't be my first choice for a date, we got to spend some time on our own and chat. I also got to take some cool shots of him playing.

5:30pm - Stop off at Starbucks for a Toffee Mocha Frappucino - not bad but l think l will stick to my usual Moccha Frap.

6:30pm- Call Tiz and sing Happy birthday to her, for 11 days my little sis will be the same age as me, something l like to remind her of every year!

7:30pm - Chilis for dinner - that frozen Mango margarita was really good!

Not bad for a Saturday that wasn't planned. Sometimes the best days are the ones you just let happen.