Do you like surprises?

It is SO hard to keep a secret. Have you ever been asked to keep a secret and you were bursting at the seams to tell someone.... anyone? Well, just ask Stephanie's daughter, Lilly. She has been keeping a very cool secret from Jayme; well to be honest Lilly and Stephanie have been keeping this secret. I'll try to keep this story short....

We will be hand-raising a Harlequin Macaw for Stephanie. She wanted to purchase our female ekie to surprise her man, Jamye, for his birthday. Well today was the "surprise" day. Jayme arrived with Stephanie and Lilly just to touch base and see the new babies that recently arrived to Beakers nursery.

To bring a close to this post - the surprise went off flawlessly... Jayme was surprised to say the least. Here is a picture of Jayme and his new baby.

(Jayme, baby girl and Lilly)

(Stephanie and baby girl)

I just love surprises, don't you! Happy Birthday Jayme.... :-)

Elena
Beaker's co-flock leader

It was Christmas.... and now it is March

The older you get the faster it goes... this is a very interesting phenomena. It's been some time since our last post. Life has a way of getting in the way of living - does that make sense? For example, day-in and day-out busyness, consumed by the daily routines and habits we have, tend to put us on auto pilot and before we know it, a day..., a week..., months can slip by.

Today I STOP (pause) and decide to be fully present. I will...

• Savor the time this morning when I feed birdies - our personal flock and Beaker babies (we currently have one African Red Belly, two baby Sun Conures, two Congo African Greys, two Caiques) we are hand-raising in our nursery.
  
  
• Worship Jesus at church - today is my day to pass out bulletins and greet folks when them come through the doors :-)
  
  
• Thank God for my family and friends and for faith in His Son.
  
  
• I'm not sure what else..., but what I am sure of is that today, I will not let auto pilot take over my life... and I will chose to be fully present in each moment that God blesses me with.
  

Life if a gift, don't waste it.

Elena
feeling rather pensive this morning