We, finally, after several years, had a birthday party! It was for all the boys except David. It was a great and crazy party. We had rented a water slide and snow cone machine, which was a hit since it has been a pretty hot fall. All the boys helped prepare the cakes and our front yard. I’m not sure how many people ended up coming but it was between 25-30 kids.
Time to party!!
Beach visit to try out a new surf board that Marlee and Noah bought from a neighbor.
The moon looked like a sun rise that evening.
Field trip to Lake Ashby. Great nature walk where we saw a rattle snake and a black razor.
Another afternoon beach visit :-)
Rafael was not feeling great so he was chilling on a chair and we read some books while the brothers played and surfed.
Gabriel turned seven last weekend and as tradition he gets to pick his breakfast, which he gets in bed. Gabriel picked soda and left over pizza ❤️ He is such a funny boy! Since we haven’t had a birthday party in a long time they have all gotten to pick an activity to do on their birthday, or around that date depending on the day. For Gabriel’s birthday we all went to the skate park and then played Monopoly. It was a great day! The monopoly game is not over yet (3 days later) but me, Gabriel and Rafael are out…
I can’t believe my sweet, independent, smart, considerate and caring Gabriel is already seven!!
The brothers attacked him when we sang in the morning…
I am reconnected to the rest of the world again (I have a phone) and my time in peace and quietness is over ;-)
Not much going on here now. Just school and normal activities.
Gabriel stayed home from coop today because of a stuffy nose. He did have a fever a couple of days ago but it disappeared within a few hours so I don’t know what is going on. Noah and Raffi had fun at coop today though.
About a week ago I "lost" my phone as I was using it in the water in the waterproof bag I have. Unfortunately, it was not waterproof anymore and my phone did not survive the bath it got... We were at Rock Springs on a field trip when it happened. A wonderful park that we had never been to before. There is a natural lazy river to float down and we had a great time. A lot of the kids' friends from coop were there so I hardly saw the older ones as they were creating islands, made spears to pretend spear fish and having fun in the lazy river. Unfortunately, I have no pictures from that day as my phone did not want to start again... Hopefully, I can get some pictures from some of the other families as soon as I have a working phone again.
It has been a little tricky to not have phone but also pretty nice. I will hopefully get one tomorrow so this break will soon be over. Despite the lack of being able to connect with people as easy as normally we have still stayed pretty busy. Last weekend we spent on our land in De Leon Springs mowing the grass and clearing out sea weed, to create a little swim spot. Sunday we had a beautiful day on the water in Ponce Inlet, by Disappearing Island. We went there with some other friends so hopefully I can add some pics later. It was so pretty!!!
Monday we had coop and after that we hang out with some friends in New Smyrna who surf a lot. Marlee and Noah had a blast!! Rafael was home with Alex since I did not know that we would stay for so long. We ended up staying way past bedtime bbq:ing and grilling marshmallows. What a way to spend Monday night, right!
The rest of the week was pretty normal, doing school work and other things. Yesterday, after coop I took the boys to the beach surfing. David got to go in the water, too, and he loved to dig in the sand with his little hands and feet. So cute! I brought our flip phone that I have tried to get to work while waiting for a smart phone (which failed) and actually got some pictures :-)
Since, I am doing the blog update on the laptop I am able to add some videos!! So here some videos from the past month or so. David started crawling around mid September so that is his latest major progress.
That is all for now, maybe I will be able to do an update from my phone next time...
