~just a little hi~

Hello friends! I hope you are having a relaxing and joyful weekend. 

We spent our day cheering on our boys at volleyball and soccer. It makes for busy weekends but I love that they love to play! Plus I drew the volleyball straw today which means I got to sit inside a nice, dry gym rather then on the sides of a cold, wet soccer field!! 

Then I even got some sewing done, some lovely blue ticking pillows which I’ll be showing you later this week. I heart ticking!

I picked up these gorgeous freesias yesterday, I simply adore freesias, especially these all white ones. Having fresh flowers in the house makes me happy!

Have a lovely Sunday

Tracey

~SB and fresh air~

Hello peeps,

Happy New Year to you all! I am never too sure how to address my posts, and usually start with a “Hi Peeps”, but then my Mom was reading my blog and said that didn’t sound like me, which perturbed me as this blog is the real me!! What do you think?

Anyhoo, my vacation week was not quite what I had planned as the sniffles descended on our home and I basically only dragged my sorry self out of bed to feed the family or drive the kids where they needed to go. It was rough! So not much accomplished on the “to-do” list front, but I did get to spend tons of time reading all your lovely blogs, being inspired and amazed all over again.

I also played around a bit with Windows Live Writer so we’ll see how that goes, and I installed Picasa, which is so much more user friendly than I remembered, so we’ll see how that goes! And I got to think and think some more, sometimes life gets so busy there just isn’t much time to “think”!! Oh, and there was lots chocolate around being Christmas and all…

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Well we did manage to see the New Year in despite the sniffles, and by noon today when we were all still mooching around in our pjs Mr RGV decided we all needed to get some fresh air. What!!! Eventually with the bribe of a steaming SB I dressed my sorry self and off we went.

I’m so glad we did! We headed out to our local river, which is about 10 mins drive away. Okay, 15 if you factor in SB stop on the way  Ooh look, Windows Live just did that smiley thing for me. {I think we’re going to get along just fine}. It’s a really popular spot in the summer, but today it was quiet, just a few folks out walking their dogs and kids. It was clear and mild and NOT RAINING and of course the boys all headed for the water to skip rocks while I wandered around snapping photos and taking in my fresh air, as ordered.

Picasa put my SB in the centre there, I promise. I do love my family, really. And my steaming SB. Isn’t that a cute shot of the guys all gazing out across the water, I think they were choosing their target. First the water. Then the log. Then the hole in the log. High tech stuff like that. It was the fresh air I think.

We headed back for a late lunch with my parents and brother and SIL, where we played some intense boggle. Good thing I’d had my fresh air. Then we ate more chocolate and to-die-for turtle cheesecake left over from last night. There was other stuff too but I’m sticking to the important details.

Hope your January is off to a great start!

Tracey

~week-after-Christmas~

Hello peeps, how was your Christmas?

Ours was lots of family, food and fun!

Here are some photos of my handsome crew, it doesn't seem all that long since they were just toddlers around our tree...

So now we're enjoying some downtime this week before the new year begins.

I'm enjoying  lazing sleeping in, catching up on my favorite blogs, browsing magazines and spring cleaning my closets. In that order!!

Which might sound like work, but I really feel better when my home is somewhat in order before it's back to our crazy schedule.

And I'm starting to think about what I'd like to shoot for this coming year, I'm not a big fan of resolutions, but I like to have some goals/projects in mind. Are you thinking about your year ahead?

Hugs,

Tracey