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Life Updates: Around the Farm and Town

Life has been swinging right along.

We continue working on our flower business. We have more demand than supply so that’s always a great recipe for expanding and planting more and more. Something we love to do anyway!

Our flowers at a wedding!

Our flowers on display!

More and more flowers on their way!

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Animals are doing well

We’ve taken some time for beach days

Freshest coconut water from the crew down the road!

We continue to host our cabana for rent and have had some really fun guests such as ethnobotanist and author Maria Benedetti and competitive surfer Dominque Miller stay with us!

Dominique and her mother at the Rincon Farmer’s Market

We’ve been out hunting more waterfalls and found a nice close one in Anasco that is also an abandoned park!

At Salto La Encantada

Aeden keeps getting bigger and bigger and has even started walking a little! We also have put him in daycare a few days a week which has opened up our time quite a bit in order to manage our businesses (and just get a breather). He seems to enjoy the socialization time that he doesn’t get being with us 24/7.

Approximately one year apart! My how he has changed!

Aeden enjoying some play time at school

Dress code at home: No shirt, no shoes, no problem!

Sugarcane in bloom

Well, that about covers everything new in our world. Hope all’s well in yours!

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Our Baby Aeden’s First Year Celebration!

Where has the time flown!? Our baby has officially turned into a one-year-old! We decided that we had a lot to celebrate after this first year, and that we should throw a party in honor of making it through (literally since I almost died)! Our property is like a sanctuary to us and we are sort of hogareños (home-bodies) and don’t often have events or people over. But we have the space and we also very proud of all the work we put into it and wanted to showcase it.

Before the party, not only did we mow and clean both the houses, but we also removed another section of fence that we have always wanted to take out in order to open up the meadow area and connect it to the upper courtyard. This took many steps, including a tow rope and the truck, but it turned out great and will look even better when the grass grows in.

We also had fun going out and finding the craft stores and party stores around. There was one I noticed close-by in Aguada and just had to check it out. We got all sorts of fun party supplies and then stopped for ice cream. And of course we went a couple of times to the All Ways 99 stores. They have pretty much anything you could want for cheap but fun home and party fixings.

Raising a baby really helps you to see time go by much differently. And it is like a marker point for reference now (before Aeden, when I was pregnant with Aeden, when Aeden was ___ old, etc). It is not always easy and the challenges always change, but I’d say having a one year old is much better than having a newborn! Holy smokes we can sleep again! We are so grateful that I am alive to celebrate this milestone of life that the party was more than warranted.

Aeden Cakes!

For the party, we rented a big white tent and chairs since we don’t really have entertaining space and it was a good idea since it was both roasting hot in the full sun and then we had a downpour for about 20 minutes in the middle! Aeden enjoyed his little smash cake that we bought from a local small business “reposteria.”

Nice tent at the party

Fun at the party!

Memories in the making! Thanks to some friends for some of the photos/videos

Here’s a fun video of the party and highlights of the first year and before!

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Combate Beach, Cabo Rojo

A cute stop on the way there!

We have been back to exploring the island. We prefer the west coast because we can make a day trip out of it and be back before dark and Aeden’s bedtime. I don’t know how we missed Combate Beach in our explorations, but it is definitely one worth checking out. Near the lighthouse area of Cabo Rojo, it’s hot and dry and the water was a welcome sight! I loved how still and flat the water was -perfect to bring a baby! It was also nice that at one end of the beach there was a restaurant/bar if you needed any refreshments. On the other side there is an extensive natural reserve that you can walk or bicycle! Pretty hot for too much physical activity out of the water in the summer, but maybe this winter we can check it out some more.

Nothing like a huge chair to make you feel like you have been shrunken!

Fun at Combate

Playing with the boy – he still LOVES the water!

Playa Combate: We will be back!

Check out this video of our time there!

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Mother’s Day, TARS, and our Tropical Gardens

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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!

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