The home improvement projects for Pepo continue at our house! He’s our guy and can seemingly do anything. This week he’s helping fill in all the holes around the house and finishing the edges of the cement work. This electric pillar out front looks sooo much better after he finished it!
The weeks have started taking on a routine like schedule with school, work, etc with a few “little wins” thrown in there now and then. One morning for the first time we actually bought the donuts that we see “senor dona” selling on the street on our way home from the gym. Turns out…they’re DELICIOUS! We may never go back to regular donuts again.
Our passports came in the mail so now the world is ours for the taking :)
The boys have been loving their after school tutoring. I think mostly because they get snacks and get to play games along with the learning they’re doing - but hey whatever helps them to learn is fine with me!
Our ward activities have become something to look forward to. Eudaldo renamed them Miércoles de Hot Dog in honor of the hot dogs we eat there every week. We contributed a macaroni salad and bowl of watermelon this week and just made dinner out of it.
Also we’ve all been watching this tropical storm that’s approaching. It keeps looking like it will hit us square on but still not a lot of details on it. So we keep watching it.
Beck and Desh both got an award in their tutoring class this week for their hard work the progress they're making. So proud of them! This has not always been easy so it's great to see that they're doing some good things.
Our washer and dryer for upstairs got delivered as well! It fits in the big bathroom and looks great. Can’t wait to be able to wash clothes upstairs now. Josh and Pepo also worked on installing the glass for the showers in each of the bathrooms. They look awesome and it adds just the perfect finishing touch. Oh we’re so close to being done! Plumbers are going to come back to install the vanity in the master bathroom as soon as it gets here. But for now we can shower and wash hands and use the toilets! Including the bidet that Josh already loves and that the boys each had to try out for themselves :)
Our kids have been sick the past week or so on and off so Monday Beach Day turned into Thursday Beach Day instead. Just half of us went but we didn’t want to skip a week of at least a little time at the beach. This week we were at Playa Fortuna right by the kiosks in Luquillo. Beautiful. The tropical storm that’s approaching has everyone a little nervous. It’s been the talk around the island the past few days and wondering how bad it will hit or how big it will be by the time it gets here. Of course we can’t really know until it comes but we’re all getting things tidied up and ready for whatever it might bring. Tonight at the beach though we had it mostly to ourselves and definitely could tell the surf was high. The storm is headed our way. But we got a gorgeous sunset to end our day.
Friday and Saturday mostly was spent on storm prep. We had date night Friday night and ended up at Costco to get a few supplies that we might need. I think we’re figuring that we will lose power for at least a little bit but not sure how long. We feel like the house is pretty set up for power outages. We have a great generator and some large full tanks of propane and also a few small ones. Most of our appliances are gas ones as well so don’t need electricity for them. We stocked up on paper products and water and food that can be easily cooked. Overnight Friday the storm got upgraded to a hurricane and is now approaching as Hurricane Fiona at a category 1. We tied up a little tree that we just planted and secured anything loose around the house. We brought all the plants that haven’t been planted yet inside the garage for safe keeping and cleaned out the whole downstairs of the house, putting everything up off the floor and moving the rest of our stuff upstairs. Chances are if there’s a large amount of rain there will be some flooding in the lower level. We still have some areas that we need to seal off and just haven’t been able to do that yet. So we’re prepping for at least some water getting in down there.
It’s pretty crazy to think about being on a small island in the middle of a huge ocean and know a hurricane is coming for us. It makes me feel very small and a bit defenseless. But we’ve done all we can do to prepare and I’m actually a little surprised that we’re actually doing this just weeks after we arrived. It seems weird to be preparing for a hurricane when that’s something we’ve never had to do in our lives! We feel good though and hopefully prepared for what comes. The predictions show that it will make landfall Saturday night into Sunday morning. We enjoyed watching tv and playing Nintendo knowing we may not be able to for a few days coming up if we lose power! Josh has a flight out to Utah Sunday morning for the week for some meetings at home. Omit may turn out to be bad timing for that. We’ll have to see what this storm does.
Saturday morning out countertop guys finally came to install the countertops!! Wohoo! We’ve been waiting oh so long for this and even with the approaching storm they got it all done for us. They turned out beautiful and I’m in love with being able to cook upstairs now! The kitchen has been the one thing we keep needing to go back downstairs for and now we get to enjoy everything upstairs. My favorite part? The long, uninterrupted counter just below the window. I have been dreaming of a big space to prepare and serve food. And with a view?! Can’t beat that! What a good day.
Saturday Night we dubbed “homemade pizza and movie night” and that’s just what we did. The rains started just as the countertop guys left and we were so grateful for our new kitchen to be able to be up here making dinner as we watched the rain outside. The pizza was delicious and the movie for the week was Lego Ninjago. I’m going to take charge of movie selection next week. For now, we’re happy, healthy and just waiting for what’s to come in the next 24 hours.
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