This Summer has been a Summer for family and blogging has firmly taken a back seat. 

I have hundreds of photos to share of our happy times but have run out of time each day to blog them! I have often been guilty of spending so much time recording the moment, rather than enjoying the moment, but was determined this year, to make the most of our holidays with family and adventures with friends before we move.

Of course we all want to share our fun times and there's a strange sense of achievement when you get a large number of "likes" for a photo but this Summer there's only one thing I want you to like. 

If you follow my blog on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook you may have seen me talking about Loom to the Moon, the vision of an incredible little boy.

Skye is 5 and slowly losing his courageous fight against a disease he developed following treatment for an aggressive brain tumour.

Exactly a year ago my sister and I spent a week at our family holiday home in Southbourne and on a sunny day as we sat on the deck of the beach hut we received a call we would never wish on anyone. That our cousin's little boy had cancer.

Sally and I have grown up like sisters and had our sons just months apart from each other. 4 healthy boys who have spent many happy times together and 2 that were due to start school. Except Skye never started school. His uniform was never collected and whilst we've watched with pride as Sammy conquered two milestones this Summer, learning to swim and riding a bicycle, my cousin has watched her darling boy deteriorate. 

We were so lucky that they were able to join us for a day at the beach hut this week, a precious day making memories that will need to last a lifetime.

I am often teased in our family for endlessly taking photos. And I always say "You can't get these times back you know!" This has never been more true of this photo of 5 out of the 6 cousins. It breaks my heart to think we won't get the chance again to capture these beautiful children together. And when Sammy kissed Skye goodbye and told him he loved him, I felt like someone had shattered my heart into a thousand pieces.

Skye encapsulates the word brave. He has exceeded all expectations by undergoing intensive radiotherapy without the need for a general anaesthetic, lying completely still during the frightening process, in a mask that covered his whole face and body like something out of a horror film, and displaying a determination to walk again after his surgical procedure.

And it feels terribly and painfully unfair that after everything he has been through, he won't share all the happy times we have ahead in the future.

I want everyone to know how proud I am of Skye, what a remarkable son he is to Andrew and Sally and what an inspirational big brother he is to Jesse.

Most recently they have tried a hyperbaric chamber treatment, to try and halt the progression of the disease, and it was in the chamber which felt like a rocket, that Skye suggested they try and Loom to the Moon.

If any of you reading this have spent the last few months cursing these tiny rubber bands, hoovering them up when your children weren't looking, or popping a few ropy lengths in the bin then I need to ask you a favour! Please send them to Blue Skye Thinking, 59 Hendred Way, Abingdon, OX14 2AW, to help Skye achieve his dream of the world's longest loom band.

Over the Summer Sammy and Ollie have achieved some major childhood milestones. Sammy hopped on a friend's bike the other night and suddenly rode around the garden! Both of the boys have learnt to swim, Sammy blowing us away with 3 lengths of a 15m pool, back to back. Ollie decided this week to abandon his armbands and at just 3, is now confidently swimming a width of a 4m pool. We've had play dates with friends, including Sammy's sweetheart Katy. They are both convinced they will get married one day and this innocence is adorable.

Skye has a sweetheart and it's been heartbreaking thinking of all the things he won't have the chance to do in the future. So my cousin gave him a wedding, with his little beloved Ellie! I think these were the photos that stung the most. Seeing the stark difference in such a short time.

If you haven't already please pop onto the Facebook page and like it and follow Blue Skye Thinking on Twitter.

You can also donate to Skye at his Just Giving page HERE. 

Now go and hug someone you love, life is precious.

There's nothing I love photographing more than beautiful petals and I want to share some of my favourite images I have taken over the Summer for you to enjoy as a phone wallpaper.

Take your pick or download them all! There is a light and bright version of each.

Click on any of the images to download your free wallpaper and I'd love you to tweet me, tag me on Facebook or Instagram if you use them, I adored seeing the photos of people's phones and the Spring Collection set. 

Make sure you subscribe to the blog to be the first to see my exclusive sets. I love creating these wallpapers as a thank you to all you lovely readers!

Have a happy week full of floral love everyone. I have the orange Dahlia on my phone at the moment!

We have spent the last 2 and a bit weeks in the Spanish hills in a little place outside Altea. 2 weeks of sunshine, swimming pools, sea shores and family.

It has been hectic and I wouldn't have it any other way. Last week my sister Natalie, my brother in law Andrew and niece Yasmin joined us from the UK and the next day my brother Patrick and sister in law Carlotta flew from New York to London to Alicante!

9 sets of shoes at the door of my in laws house, 9 plates at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and 9 sets of booming voices laughing and chatting into the early hours. Well make that 6, we tried to get the kids in bed for 7!

I loved it. I love the noise, the games in the pool, the meals, the stories. It reminds me of family Christmas' where you sometimes had to be the loudest to be heard. In a week Sammy learnt to swim, Yasmin learnt to say Uncle (she's had Auntie down for sometime) and Ollie warmed to his little cousin instead of protecting his toys from her chubby hands!

I loved sitting on the patio, not realising it's gone midnight, knowing the children are all safe asleep upstairs and breathing in that hot humid air that just sets in your memory bank as the smell and taste of Summer holidays. Like the moment you step off the plane and are hit with a wall of heat.

And it was the week I turned 33. And the memories of my 30th came rushing back. I was sent upstairs (just like 3 years ago) and could hear cackling and giggling and a balloon popping as they decorated the house ready for the morning. I had no idea Natalie and Carlotta were still awake at 2am baking cupcakes - now if that isn't love I don't know what is!

I woke up to the most beautiful breakfast, complete with petals in the strawberries, mismatched bottles and cups full of flowers from around the grounds and gallons full of confetti. The Pretty Little Party Shop kindly sent some wonderful decorations, party napkins, cups, straws, all sorts! I adore the fringe garland and have saved it to tie to a huge balloon another time!

Spoilt. Rotten.

After a FaceTime with my Mum back in the UK and a very happy present opening, we all got ready to head to the Fonts D'Algar about 10 minutes from the house. I have always been jealous of our family who have visited the Fonts and desperately wanted to see them for myself.

It was stunning. Bright pink flowers lines the sides of the meandering river, with little brooks flowing with crystal clear waters around each corner. Lagoons which transported you to the Brooke Shields film The Blue Lagoon and crossings in the shallow water which made my brother burst into lines from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. 

The water was chilly, but invigorating and armed with one of my birthday presents, an underwater cover for my iPhone, we braved the waters and headed to the waterfall.

Just stunning and it makes you scream with laughter for no reason! You want to hold your arms in the air and lean back but the water is so tremendously powerful it tips you like a feather falling back into the water!

The best birthday present was seeing Sammy jump off a board about 10ft in the air. What a boy! And my sister was brave enough too!

We totally missed lunchtime and headed home hours later than planned with exhausted children, one of them full of pride for his big jump, and lazed around the pool, with the boys making "experiments" before heading into the old town for tapas.

As it turns out tapas and tired children don't mix! We bustled them into the car after dinner and home to bed, before a quick cocktail and collapsed into our own beds! How the girls were still awake I don't know!

That's all I wanted. To be with my family. To share an experience.

We had a lovely week with my in laws who flew in as my family all flew home and I made the most of sunny days in awe of Sammy swimming underwater like a fish and Ollie suddenly gaining the confidence to abandon the rubber ring and use armbands. It may not sound like much of an achievement but already I can see he could be swimming without them in a couple of months.

I have something important to post about now we are home, which many of you may already have heard about. Something that you can help me with. But I want to make sure I can share it with as many people as possible. So instead of hoping the wifi didn't crash out, and the boys gave me time to sit at the laptop (which was tricky as we need to watch them in the pool obviously) I want to you ear mark the beginning of next week as your week of good deeds. And if you get a minute read this. #LoomtotheMoon.

Because at the end of a day, it's your family you love the most with all your heart and I felt very loved last week. Time to pay it forward.