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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.

Football Season has begun

So after weeks of early morning starts, and being at school by 7am! (something l just could never do myself!) Liam got to play in his first ever Football game for his school last Monday.
The first game started at 4:30pm over at Byron Nelson High School and I made sure to get there with plenty of time to snag a front seat, l would have loved to be able to stand on the sidelines but somehow don't think that would have gone down well with the coaches.

I'm not sure how l feel about this whole football thingy, firstly l don't really understand the game that well and secondly l am super worried that he could get injured. One of his team mates broke his arm in a practice session before the season even started, I mean have you seen my son! he's not a big kid but l guess he does run real fast!

Any way! he got to play, Linebacker to be exact and luckily no injuries were incurred and most important the kiddo had a blast! His proudest moment? Tackling the Quarterback and bringing him down! Boys!! go figure


Oh yeah and his Jersey number is 34.
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tackling the Quarterback

(oh and check out the calf muscle!)

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oh yeah he's down!

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It's been a looooong time since l got crafty.

It's been a very long time since l got motivated to make some cards and l struggled with this project at the start. However once l got into enjoyed the process and loved how they came out.