We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2019 full of love and wonder!
This Christmas after some plans fell through, we found ourselves on the beach once more trading snow and cold for sand and sunsets. They moved the annual Pig Roast celebration from Almendros Beach because it was devoid of trees after Maria to Playa Lala. Playa Lala was once just “the beach behind the old Econo” and has now become a popular destination especially with all the little kiosk bars right nearby.
The 3 of us getting into the Christmas Spirit
Playa Lala on Christmas
Driftwood tree
Another unusual tree
Breaking out the Coquito at sunset
What a beautiful sunset it was! Almost watercolor
Britton and Aeden away from the crowd
My silly sweety -my favorite Christmas present ever!
Also, the Newstory about us aired in Colorado on Christmas Eve. Check out more of the story here if you haven’t yet seen it, or watch the video below!
Now that we have Baby Aeden with us we are A, B and C (Aeden, Britton and Cassie)! So we thought we would make it as easy as A, B and C to say Happy Holidays and Felicidades from our home to yours! 🙂 Here are a few photos and a short video from our life recently in Puerto Rico. It has been speeding right along. I can’t believe Aeden is already 3 months old and almost sleeping through the night! Now I might have time to actually blog a little more again.
The beauty never ceases to amaze me!
Lots of yard work even in winter -Baby Aeden is lulled to sleep by the sounds of the mower haha
Cool abandoned airplane I saw off the road in Aguadilla looks like it should be in Lost
This banana tree was just asking to be photographed in this light. Gorgeous!
So was this monstera! One of my favorites in the flower bouquets and arrangements we sell
We took a little holiday photoshoot at the finca with our little Santa Baby
So cute!
Mommy’s kissing Santa!
My most precious gift!
Afterward he was tuckered out!
Check out how long this banana flower goes (with Elsa from the Farmer’s Market)
Always lots of Holiday Cheer around here (haha)
Watch out! It’s pica pica season!! eek this stuff is painfully itchy
My big boy can almost keep his head up by himself. He is growing so fast!
These prayer/blessing/curse candles are definitely a “thing” here
Close up of the “velas“
Campaign to try to prevent people from shooting guns in the air whilst celebrating the holidays -“ni una bala mas al aire” means “not even one bullet more in the air!”
He can be such a guy smiley when he wants to be. My little flower child
He IS awesome like Daddy!
Awesome Daddy trying out the Moby wrap
News Anchor Jeremy Hubbard visited us here in PR a bit ago. For those of you in Colorado, stay tuned to Fox 31 in Denver for a couple of news stories about us that should air this week and in January!
Fun times with friends
Pretty turkey boy
I think we have more than enough lemon grass -sheesh! Poor Britton was all scratched up after this!
I’m pretty sure Aeden is going to be an astronaut! lol
Oh, I love this little guy so!
Sunset over Tres Palmas
Aeden’s 3 month update video complete with turkey photobomb!
On our very first trip to Puerto Rico on our honeymoon we serendipitously found Calypso just down from the lighthouse in Rincon. Calypso seemed straight out of a Jimmy Buffet song. Neon lights, pink and teal paint, ocean waves right beyond, and a no-shirt, no-shoes, no problem attitude. They had good drinks (especially their rum punches) and pretty decent eats too. It was one of the places that made us fall in love with Rincon. We felt we could fold right into the fabric of life in this little corner of the island.
Just another day in paradise…at Calypso
We met the owner of Calypso, Cindie Rice, on one of our trips to Puerto Rio. She was just enjoying her time at Calypso hanging out in one of the chairs out front by the gift shop. She was an interesting character who believed in ghosts, UFOs and lots of conspiracies. As a great surfer, businesswoman, animal lover and a legend, especially amongst the gringo community, most everyone in town knew her name. She was the one to tell us about the previous owner of our property (and how she had been found dead in the house). Cindie was a staple in the community. She supported local music and we are grateful to Cindie for having us play music when we were in the band. She was the sort of person it just seemed would always be a part of Rincon.
When we played a show at Calypso with our band
So it was sad to read that Cindie Rice had died after some difficult times in her life such as being diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
Cindie and Me
This season there seems to be a lot of people moving out of Rincon or otherwise leaving the island. Exiting the stage so to speak. It has been a time of transition with new characters arriving and some of the greats, like Cindie, leaving.
Calyspo Sunset at Cindie’s celebration of life
We celebrated her life the way I think Cindie would like for Rincon to: with a big party at Calypso. We watched the sunset over the water, listened to music and ordered up a rum punch in her name. Rest in Peace Cindie. May there be forever fun music, good waves, happy dogs and strong drinks on the other side!
Out to a Mexican Restaurant in Aguada…he is not so sure of the whole thing!
Life with baby can be somewhat exhausting. He’s a good boy, but he still needs to eat every 2-4 hours even in the middle of the night which leaves us pretty worn out. We are starting to get the hang of it, though and have started to take him out and about with us around town. We are getting much better. We’ve had a few diaper blow-outs and had to find strange places to breastfeed, but overall, he is just sort of our tag-along and it has been fun to have a new sidekick in our adventures.
With friends Frank and Rosa at our first time back to Art Walk
At the beach
With our friend Tom in Isabela (on the table)
With friends Bill, Jenn and Liam
With our neighbor Julio at the farmer’s market
At a photoshoot on the property with friend Laura
Of course it’s not always easy!!
At Rincon of the Seas
At beach parties
Halloween (with our little magician!)
Silly Mommy and baby!
Me and the bebecito
Overall, he just sort of is with us pretty much everywhere we go and we love him so!
What a beautiful sunset it was! Almost watercolor
Britton and Aeden away from the crowd
