Author: amyewhitelivecom

It wasn\’t freezing but I wasn\’t about to jump in.  66 degrees outside.

My Monday hike.  Sometimes it\’s bad knowing the hikes because you know what\’s ahead of you, like this very steep hill.  Our hiking leader calls this hike the \”roller coaster\” and for a good reason.

That\’s Sharlene our leader.  She\’s a 54 year old grandmother.  She\’s also an assistant coach for the Thousand Oaks High School Cross Country Team and teaches at Cal Lutheran University (CLU).  This was her second hike of the morning.   She had already done a trail run on this trail with her CLU students.  By 11 am she had run/hiked 9 miles and would probably run another 6 – 10 miles with her high school kids after school.  She is one tough grandma but is always so positive, supportive and encouraging.  Still loving my Monday morning hikes!

That hill doesn\’t look so daunting in pictures.  Today I decided to check my Health app on the iphone because the iphone has an altimeter.    We climbed up the equivalent of 50 floors.  Elevation is my nemesis!

When Quinn gets home from school he loves to be with his buddy.

Sunday was Little League Day at Dodger\’s Stadium and there were teams from all over the LA area.  Thousand Oaks Little League (TOLL) had a big group of kids participate but our team only had two kids but it was still a great time.  

We had to arrive a couple of hours before the game started.  There were lots and lots of people there.

We finally got on the field around noon.  TOLL Rocks!

Selfie fail!

And then we got a little help.

Quinn didn\’t think he wanted to walk around the field but once he was out there it was alot of fun.  We walked all the way around the warning track.  They kept up moving!

Our seats were pretty good and we had a great view of the field.  A nice perspective to explain the game to Quinn.

We were rooting for the Dodgers (vs. the Colorado Rockies) and Quinn really enjoyed the clapping and cheering.   If you asked him his favorite part of the game he would probably say the ice cream 🙂

We stayed through about 3 innings before we headed home.  We had already been there about 4 hours.   But a fun day!

Yesterday I volunteered at the school book fair and since it was right at lunch time I popped in to say hi to Quinn.  Here he is with his pals Nate and Cade.  There were a handful of girls at the table too.

Thursday afternoons are generally baseball games or practice.  Coach recruits all the parents to help and I usually run one of the pitching machines.  Here\’s Coach Dan helping Quinn with his swing before I started pitching.

Hard to believe that there are crayfish in this creek but here is the proof.  Catch and release.  No Jambalaya for us.