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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The barn is just missing windows and doors!!

From our last visit to De Leon Springs:

The barn is done except for windows and doors!! We are eventually turn part of it into and apartment but that will have to wait until we have a house to live in :-)


Looks kind of like a fort right now :-)


The garage


Upstairs


Upstairs



Front door


Dining room


Master bedroom down stairs. Will be used as school room/guest room.

Building improvements and Gabriel’s fish :-)

Our buildings are changing every time we go out to check. The “skeleton” of our barn is done and the outer walls of the ground floor of our house :-) I’m staying busy designing kitchen, picking appliances and tiles. The floor for all but the bathrooms I have already picked.



Date night at a new local Mexican restaurant. I had an Elder flower daiquiri. Delicious!


Gabriel and Bubbles snuggling on the floor. 


 Visitor on our Guava tree.


Her mad and messy face.


Gabriel caught this with his bare hands in a pond by our friend’s house!!


Monday, June 16, 2025

Beach and building

Our house and barn in De Leon Springs are changing every time we are going out there. It is so exciting!!!


We had some “old” friends from Ormond, who now live in Utah, visiting the other week. They were part of our cc coop about ten years ago. Last time we saw them was in North Carolina and before thst it was in California. :-)






Rafael was playing around with the camera on my phone and made these interesting pictures. 




Another beach day woth friends. We went down to Ponce Inlet and drove on the beach. It always makes me nervous and this time I actually got stuck in the snow. A helpful man came to help ao between him, my friend and the kids we got the car out of sand and didn’t have to call a tow truck! It ended up being a great time at the beach!







Wednesday, June 11, 2025

New braces for Marlee and ending the soccer season

Marlee just started phase 2 in his braces adventure, the bottom jaw. I took a quick picture while his mouth was free from “equipment” and then they put on the new braces. They honestly look like torture equipment. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture of the new braces.  I’ll be back!





One of the soccer teams has Swedish soccer jerseys because they were the cheapest jerseys on Amazon  When I get to the video upload there will be some soccer videos :-)

Marlee




Rafael





Ice cream after the last game. All the boys’ teams got second place. 



Sunday, June 8, 2025

Beach days

We are still finishing up school but also enjoying the beach more and the boys still have soccer.

Marlee woth his buddies.


Noah with his buddies.



David with his buddy.



I got new Padua furniture for my birthday so the boys put them together when they arrived. So nice!! Gabriel was on a trip with Alex when they arrived or he would have loved to build them. Noah and Rafael did most of the work.




She now eats some solids, and she really likes it!


More beach! And splash pad.