April May June 2019 Chile and USA

Hola 🙂 Well we are on baby watch for baby Zac! Jenine is at 39+ weeks, and I am writing this from Viña del Mar Chile in an Airbnb close to the hospital where we will have Zac. The due date is August 1 and we are very excited and nervous about the transition from one to two kids.

Perfect time to get out a little update. Life in Chile and back visiting in the USA has been incredible. We finished off the new addition to our house (Rena’s new bedroom and closet) and we advanced quickly on a new guest / rental house on an adjacent property. We also celebrated Rena’s 2nd birthday and made our yearly trip back to the USA for all of May. We also had good news when we sold one of our properties we developed. That keeps us afloat!

As we do every (northern) summer now, all of May was spent in the USA: California, Oregon and Chicago. Rena played with cousins and grandparents and we caught up with friends and met all the new babies! It was amazing time catching up.

We also did a little fancy partying for Tim and Erika’s wedding in California

Rena started pre-school in June. The name of the school is Waiwen and it is a new nature focused preschool that Jenine helped start with two other mothers here. The idea is that the kids spend most of the day outside and the school has a beautiful location in a forest right by the ocean. Rena loves it. When there is no school on Saturday and Sunday and we tell her “no school today” she replies “ugh…cause its the weekend”….

Our focus for the rest of the year is welcoming our baby boy into our lives (life is going to be crazy right?), completing our new house and getting it ready for renting/guest and welcoming visits from our family and friends. Jenine’s mom and dad are coming for the month of August to help and meet the little guy and my parents will come end of December for Christmas. They can try out the new rental house!

We also finally finished the addition of our current home.

Time is moving quickly and I imagine it will only move faster with two kids. I’m nervous to see if the investment in this new house will work out or if we will hate renting it. I’m super excited for the kite season to start in September and I have been amazed by the perfect surfing waves that have come to Chile this winter.

July 2, 2019. There was a full solar eclipse that passed through Chile. We went to La Serena to see it, and it kinda blew my mind. If you haven’t experienced a full eclipse, go make plans to do it. Many are coming to the USA soon.

I made a video with all the highlight clips of Rena these past few months. She is such a cutie and keeps us very entertained.

Finally, a little message from the Strumbellas who I saw in Portland with my buddy Tim: