Family – Page 52 – M. Sullivan Photography

June 11, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Photos, School

Recap

A quick recap of the past few weeks.

Mike chaperoned Sophia’s school field trip to the Lake Superior Zoo.

We went to the Sullivan cabin over Memorial Day weekend. The weather was cool and somewhat rainy, but that didn’t stop Sebastian from christening the swim season by jumping in the lake. With the air temperature in the low 60’s and the water temperature even lower, he didn’t stay in the water long.

Sebastian spent a day in the Twin Cities for his class field trip. They visited the Children’s Museum and History Center. He was very excited to enjoy the day riding in style. They took coach buses instead of school buses. It may have been the highlight of the day. No pictures, he opted not to take a camera with. The boy travels light.

Sophia finished the school year with a picnic at Chester Park. The kids played, hiked and enjoyed picnic foods for lunch. I stopped by for a bit to check out the fun.

I celebrated my birthday at the beginning of June. Mike and I took the day off from work and enjoyed most of the day outside on the deck. We did have to do a couple of errands in the morning. I renewed my driver’s license – nothing like waiting until the last minute. We also had to go to the grocery store. Mike informed me that for his birthday, he doesn’t want to spend time doing either of those things.

Sebastian’s class had root beer floats to finish off the school year. They also spent time signing each other’s yearbooks.

Sebastian headed to the bus stop for his last day of elementary school. He barely stopped for me to take a picture. He will be going to the new middle school in the fall.

Sophia sat on the big rock next to the bus stop to pose for her picture.

The bus finally arrives.

May 25, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Animals, Cooking, Family, Garden, Photos, Weather

So Totally Random

I found a few photos that I took during the past couple of weeks. They don’t individually create the need to produce a post on our blog. Together, they barely culminate the need, but I figured, “What the heck, it’s Friday”.

Here’s a picture I took early one morning just before work. I grabbed my company’s Canon point-and-shoot to get a photo of a pair of geese walking along the boardwalk next to the William A. Irvin in Canal Park. Unfortunately, the geese didn’t make the cut as I liked this photo better.

A month ago my brother was at our house inspecting our garden and trees in the backyard, offering some tips and advice. We heard a number of different birds singing. He said, “Did you hear that? That was a cardinal”. First off, I’m not sure why he knows what a cardinal sounds like and secondly, we don’t have nesting cardinals in Duluth. Well, at least I didn’t think we did…until Sebastian and I saw this guy last week.

I have to admit, it was pretty cool to see him in the sea of green grass on my lawn. We have spotted him four times now and we also saw his lady friend. We are fairly certain he and the Mrs. have a little family somewhere in our trees (or our neighbor’s). I would love to see the kids, but so far we haven’t located the nest.

Guess who was back in the garden? Seriously?

Too bad we spoiled his fun by planting the garden and putting up a fence around it last Saturday. I’m hopeful that he’s too lazy to dig underneath. There are plenty of other delicious things growing in the yard and in my flower bed to go through all that work.

I baked bread last Sunday. Not like my Mom’s awesome bread that you want to slather with butter and homemade jam, but a more European loaf that is good with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and fresh cracked pepper. I made it to pair up with homemade broccoli cheese soup. Too bad my timing was off and the bread came out of the oven an hour after we finished eating the soup.

I am looking forward to the long Memorial weekend. I’m not so much looking forward to all of the rain in the forecast. We already received 4 1/2 inches this week. Baseball was canceled…twice. Our backyard is like a big soggy sponge. Keep your fingers crossed that the weatherman is wrong like he often is. 🙂

May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Baseball, Family, Photos, Sports

Opening Night

Guest post by Mike…

On a beautiful, sunny evening the 2012 ELL Red Sox took the field against the league favorite Diamondbacks. For the first time is his young baseball career, Sebastian was given the nod as starting pitcher. With butterflies in many stomachs, the Red Sox gave up 3 runs in the 1st inning with a couple of walks and some fielding errors. However, Sebastian relaxed and entered a zone recording 3 strikeouts to finish the inning. He pitched the next two innings allowing no runs and recording 4 more strikeouts before his pitch count reached near maximum per league rules. A solid first start. Way to go Sebastian!

On the batting side, the Red Sox were a bit overwhelmed by the best pitcher in the league…a 12 year old that can throw over 60 mph. He breezed through our line up the first two rounds before Sebastian broke up his no hitter with a solid double to right center.