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June 2023 -Fiestas Patronales de Isabela, Buye, Flamboyan and Moca Waterfall and More!
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April 2023 -Caguas Botanical Garden, Paddleout Celebration, Butterfly Festival
April 2023 was a busy month as well. Lots of fun times on the farm and a few adventures of of town such as to the beautiful Caguas Botanical Garden. We also enjoyed some times with friends including some who came to visit us from Colorado. Unfortunately a friend of ours died while surfing and we attended her paddleout ceremony. Life has such a strange highs and lows. Aeden is growing up quite the jungle boy and can catch just about anything around the farm from chickens to geckos and spiders. We also enjoy going to our friends annual butterfly festival in support of the endemic butterfly Atlantea Tulita.
We love and miss you Toni!
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Puerto Rico Adventures and Home Life: Guajataca, Aguadilla, Baby Birthday and More!
Beachside in Guajataca
We have been staying busy exploring the great outdoors whenever we can and appreciating our daily life routine. Things aren’t quite back to ‘normal’ but it feels good to get out and see the real world instead of ‘doomscrolling’ and reading about all that’s not right.
Mountainside in Yauco
There is so much more that is not just good, but awesome! So we’ve gone out to explore them whenever we can. Here in Puerto Rico, we’ve had a couple of yo-yo policies opening up, locking down (for some reason they really didn’t want us going out on Sundays for a few weeks) and now back to opening up, so we try to just go with the flow of it as much as possible. When we can go to the beach we do, and when we can’t we go explore other places. Here’s a few adventures near and far from home we found recently!
Fun day exploring the Guajataca River by kayak and Guajataca Beach with our friends Heidi and Pedro
Fun day trip to Camuy and Hatillo
Lots of fun and improvements on the farm. New concrete pad, new plants, flowers, and even new ponds for aquatics plants and fish!
Went through Tropical Storm Isaias and Laura
Short Excursions around Rincon, Aguada, Mayaguez, Anasco areas
New Waterfall Blue lagoon we found in San Sebastian
Amazing day in Yauco exploring a coffee finca
Exploring more of Quebradillas and its amazing cliff views!
In Aguadilla we finally found the “Secret Stairs” of Survival Beach! We’d been looking for them forever!
Our little boy turned TWO! I can’t believe it! Felicidades!
A wonderful day for a swim under a rainbow in Rincon!
Our little jungle boy!
Overall, life is good! We’re staying busy trying to remember that the best way to appreciate life is to LIVE it. Hope you are all doing well! Remember if you want to see what we’re doing more regularly, follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Youtube Channel where we make videos weekly!
Mother’s Day, TARS, and our Tropical Gardens
Overlook spot in Moca
A quick update. We have been tackling house repairs and building of the deck railings, keeping up with the cabana (recently painted the entire interior again) staying on track with all the mowing (we maintain about 2 acres of green areas) as well as planting and watering the tropical gardens when it’s dry. When we are not at the farm, we go out for drives or on searches for more plants as well as just normal chores like grocery shopping and things like that. We have also had the opportunity to spend some time with friends which is always nice.
The farm always feels so refreshed after we mow it, it’s like our own personal park
It would be a rare occasion at a plant store that I don’t find something to buy
Quick stop at Borinquen Beach in Aguadilla
Aeden loved it!
We also went to TARS in Mayaguez. It has been a long time since we’ve visited. Now that we’ve been doing this tropical gardening for a good long while I can appreciate the collection that they have there even more. It looked to have suffered some damage from the hurricane, but overall it is still quite impressive. So inspiring to see what’s possible here. So many home gardens are plain and this is extraordinary!
Britton and Aeden under a huge palm
Me and a HUGE Panama Canoe Tree
Britton and Aeden with a large agave
Me and a jackfruit tree/fruit
We just started a pandanus. It would be amazing to see it grow into this
Back at our farm
We are growing a new variety of microphone/beehive ginger
Another turkey came out of the woods with babies
Early morning sunrise at the finca
Peaceful serenity in the gardens
A mango tree releafing over head
Newest additions to the farm -2 tortoises (I think sulcata but not sure)!
Amazing number of torch gingers to take to the farmer’s market lately
At the farmer’s market with the babe
Celebrated my very first mother’s day as a mother. Here’s the mother who made me, and who made me a mother (around the same age 8-9 months)
My precious boy
Crossing the suspension bridge in San Sebastian
Everyone loves Aeden, everywhere we go. His hair is so “llamativo” and many people want to hold our smiley coloraito/ cano
Doing a photoshoot with friend Laura. Going to miss her so much! We always have fun together. And I have loved being her muse!
Tree-mendous!
Going away party for Laura and Kara
Receiving party (Hawaiian themed) for someone who got out of hospital with our neighbors
A normal day in Rincon -cows crossing the road and mangos falling from the sky
What a beautiful life!
Here’s our 8 month baby update video!