11/21/22

For Family Home Evening we decided to all learn how to ride the city bus:

Destination. . .

Life skills training can be fun!

11/17/22

Lizzy had a singing duet performance for the district showcase:

Congratulations to everyone!

11/12/22

Mom, Dad, and Lizzy went out to Brother Castillo’s brother’s house and he took us inside some caves on the property.

We kayaked into the caves and then waded though water inside as we explored several caves:

We didn’t run into any alligators this time but there are some on the property!

That was so much fun!

11/05/22

Rachel and Mom did a table together this year:

10/21/22

Trunk-N-Treat at the church:

10/28/22

The YMCA had a Trunk-N-Treat and we did another quick trunk decoration:

10/30/22

Mom and Rachel did a pumpkin painting together:

10/31/22

Mom taught a Body Combat Class at the gym today and she decided to get dressed up for Halloween.

Happy Halloween!

10/13/22

Rachel enjoys baking and sometimes she will just make a cake just for fun:

10/14/22

Lizzy was off to the school Homecoming dance:

10/18/23

Mom and Lizzy had a mini photo shoot around town with thigs they like:

10/08/22

Lizzy and Sullivan went to Fort Myers for a hurricane cleanup:

Awesome work Lizzy and Dad!!

While they were working hard at the clean-up Rachel and mom had to stay home this time. They decided to have a mother-daughter date at an old-fashioned diner that also has miniature golf!

It wasn’t getting pretty late but we weren’t ready to go home yet so we checked out the outside murals and enjoyed the outside area:

Look who we ran into:

We went inside the diner for a bite to eat:

We missed Lizzy and Dad but still managed to have fun.

10/05/2022

We went to an extension off Possum Creek Park near a pretty live oak tree. We take our own pictures so we had a lot of poses hoping for some nice pictures:

When we got home we decided to take a few more on the back deck:

General Conference

10/01/22

We were very excited to have the Lowerys and Patricia over for the first session of Conference:

For the second session we were excited to have Franklin sr and jr. join us and we celebrated Franklin’s birthday!

Sullivan made his favorite pineapple upside-down cake:

Make a wish:

Italian tradition you make a wish with the first cut of the cake:

Time for gifts:

Happy Birthday Franklin!

Sunday General Conference Sessions

10/02/22

We had our Sunday sessions of conference with just our family. We enjoyed the first session very much. For the second session we had our traditional spa treatments for each other while we listened to conference:

Dad gave Rachel a hand massage:

We did a hair removal treatment on dad’s legs!

Time to rip it off!

Ready or not Dad:

Let’s do it again!

Lizzy’s turn:

Awesome general conference weekend!

September 28, 2022

We got as prepared as we could be for hurricane Ian.

Dad and Rachel made homemade eclairs!

It is a very complicated recipe that they have been working on throughout the day:

They were absolutely delicious!!

For dinner Lizzy and Mom went head to head in a “Chopped” (like the TV show) competition. The Ingredients picked out by Sullivan and Rachel were: Panko bread crumbs, egg, green beans and malanga blanca (a root vegetable). Rachel and Dad were their sous chefs:

Dad and Rachel were the judges:

We also played Monopoly for the first time!

We had a lot of fun and the hurricane passed us by with barely a tree limb on the ground!

August 27, 2022

Rachel and Mom decide to paint her room together:

It was hard work, but they did an awesome job!