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Season’s Greetings -A Photo Update from A, B, and C

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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!

Until next time! Hasta Luego!

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RIP Cindie Rice of Calypso

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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!

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Out and About with Baby

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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!

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Adventures in Jungle Taming: Felling a Giant Royal Palm

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A Daunting Task

It’s not all planting flowers and building trails when it comes to taming our jungle. In this case, we had one of our favorite huge Royal Palm trees die of Thielaviopsis trunk rot. It’s a bummer because it was sort of the statement piece of this “room” in our botanical garden. This occurs when palms suffer some sort of trauma to their soft core such as tearing off palm fronds or wounding it in some other way. You know, the sort of thing a huge hurricane could do. After Maria all the surviving palms (the ones that didn’t get knocked over completely or bent in half like a straw), seemed to slowly come back replacing their fronds one by one. Including this one. But then a yellowing came over the spire and then the upper green trunk. The rot had been slowly and quietly eating away at the palm from the inside out. We kept thinking maybe it got struck by lightning and would grow back, but it never recovered. Finally the entire crown just fell off. If there is no crown, a palm can’t survive.

We contemplated just leaving the huge concrete-pole looking tree there, but we knew it would eventually start rotting away and pose a safety threat when it finally fell on its own, so we decided to chainsaw it down. Chainsawing is dangerous and even with a lot of experience, you can’t always predict where trees will fall. This one was a pretty scary job, and made this pregnant lady waddle away as fast a possible when the tree started coming right in my direction. Check out the video.

In the end it all worked out and we planted a new mango tree in its place. And the jungle grows on.


It smushed a mulberry tree, some bananas and heliconias, but we managed to save them


It stinks from all the rot inside!

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