Year: 2015

Mother\’s Day

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Mother\’s Day started with sleeping in.  Ahhh.  
And a little of this.  

Quinn had told Don that he thought they should spoil me on Mother\’s Day…and they did.
Some love notes from Quinn.

Don made us a delicious breakfast of Eggs Benedict, following Gordan Ramsey\’s techniques.  Some hiccups along the way but it was very tasty.  And then he cleaned up!  You can see the flowers Quinn picked out for me.  One red rose, one sunflower, and one yellow rose that he calls a Sun Kiss.

We were feeling lazy so we hung around the house before going out for lunch and then on to the beach.  My Happy Place!

There were so many large flocks of pelicans cruising the coast.

And me and the boy who made me a mother.

I felt the love.

Hummingbird Rescue

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On Thursday I arrived home around lunch time and talked to our gardeners for a bit.  When I went back in to the garage I could heard an insect flapping noise.  Turns out it was a hummingbird. 

I opened both sets of garage doors and pulled my car out to the driveway to give the hummingbird lots of room to escape.  But it just kept flying close to the ceiling.  I thought I would just leave the doors open for a while and it would find it\’s way out.

After an hour or so it was still there.  I knew that I was leaving the house at 2 pm and wouldn\’t be home until about 7 pm.  I had read that hummingbirds have such a high metabolism that they will just keep flying until they exhaust themselves to death.

So with the help of google and flowers from some neighbors I devised this contraption to help entice it out of the garage.

I gave it a try and it didn\’t work.  I waited a while and tried again.  I think by this point it was exhausted, starving, and desperate.   I was able to get it down low but it kept trying to fly back in to the garage.  I finally got it below the opened garage door and had to just block it\’s retreat and force it out.  And away it flew.

Here is one of my failed attempts at getting it out.  As you can see it just wants to fly up.

First Hit

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Look what happened…

Yes!  Quinn got his first hit of the season.  Coach Ken gives him a crazy stance that is working.  Quinn was at bat 3 times this game and connected with the ball 3 times resulting in one hit.

He even got to 2nd base!  At that point our team had score the maximum allowed 5 runs that inning so the inning was over.  
His teammates were so excited for him and really cheering him on.  And the parents in the stands went wild!  It\’s great to have so much support.  One mom told me that she couldn\’t wait to tell her husband, who frequently helps with coaching, because he was just waiting for Quinn\’s first hit.  
All the boys already knew that Quinn was going to get the game ball.  
Quinn and Coach Ken.