Snowbird Living Ave Maria

12/31/2025

✨ Happy New Year from Ave Maria ✨
Wishing you peace, joy, and sunshine in the year ahead 🌴

12/31/2025

📺 Check out our good friend Chris Spano with Firehouse Doggie Day Care featured on WINK News!

We love seeing local businesses getting the spotlight—especially ones that take such great care of our four-legged friends. 🐾🔥

Way to go, Chris!

A former fire station in Immokalee has found a new purpose as a doggie daycare and boarding business.

12/30/2025

Be sure to share the last sunset of 2026 with us tomorrow! 🌅

join us Snowbird Living Ave Maria

12/30/2025

Introducing the Ave Maria Gingerbread Kit 🌴✨

Build your favorite local spots out of gingerbread:

🏛️ Ave Maria Parish
⭕ Annunciation Circle
🏠 The Welcome Center
🍻 A local pub favorite

✨ Nativity scene & decorations included ✨
Because why build a regular gingerbread house when you can build Ave Maria?

Perfect for families, snowbirds, and anyone who loves a little hometown holiday cheer.

👇 Which one would YOU build first?

12/30/2025

Ave Maria — we need your help 🌴

We want to feature more residents who make this community special.

Full-timers and seasonal snowbirds — we want to meet you!

👉 Enter yourself
👉 Or introduce us to someone who should be featured

Send us an email or DM us to get started 📩

Let’s keep celebrating the people of Ave Maria 🤍

12/30/2025

Congrats!! Great news for Ave Maria and the surrounding area!

You asked. We listened.

My Solution Guys is in the process of moving into a larger, upgraded shop with expanded bays, more lifts and services to better serve our customers.

As with any move and expansion, this transition may take some time, and we do not yet have a confirmed reopening date. Our current shop is temporarily closed while we complete the moving process. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to make this transition as smooth as possible.

The new location will be twice the size of our previous shop, fully air-conditioned, and equipped to support new and expanded services. We understand that temporary closures and waiting can be troubling, but we assure you — the wait will be well worth it.

With the continued growth of Ave Maria, Golden Gate Estates, Skysail, and the new Town of Big Cypress, this move positions us to better serve our community now and well into the future.

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to welcoming you into our new space very soon.

12/30/2025

A little extra Christmas cheer 🎄✨

One of the best parts of the Snowbird Living Christmas Tree Contest was seeing how quickly our community jumped in. To say thank you, we decided to surprise the very first person who submitted a tree photo.

🎉 Congrats to Yolanda Valencia!

Yolanda was the first to submit her Christmas tree and is winning an extra gift —
📸 a photo session with Imago Dei Photography!

This contest reminded us what makes Ave Maria so special: neighbors supporting neighbors, local businesses giving back, and a community that loves to celebrate together.

✨ Remember this for next year — being early matters! You just might be the first tree submission and score a little extra Christmas cheer. 🎄😊

12/30/2025

We’ve been delivering gifts 🎁

Getting to see the Christmas trees in person made it even more special — they were absolutely beautiful. Every stop came with smiles, gratitude, and a shared appreciation for what made this contest so meaningful.

We heard the same message again and again from our winners: how thankful they are for this community, our local businesses, and everyone who took the time to submit tree photos and spread Christmas cheer.

A huge thank you to our Ave Maria communities and to our generous sponsors who made this possible:

✨ Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee
✨ Pillar To Post Home Inspectors
✨ FC Naples
✨ Key West Express
✨ Compass Hotel by Margaritaville

🎄 Be sure to grab the next issue of Simply Ave Maria, where the top Christmas trees will be featured!

12/30/2025

Never been to Ave Maria?

Make it a 2026 New Year’s Resolution ✨

☀️ Add Ave Maria to your snowbird bucket list.
Peaceful mornings, walkable streets, great food, and a true sense of community.
It’s the kind of place many love to visit… and a lucky few get to call home.

📘 When you arrive, don’t forget to pick up your Snowbird Living Passport and explore like a local.

12/30/2025

☀️ Snowbird reminder ☀️

Waterside Chill & Grill is open!
Grab some pizza, burgers, and fries, take an evening at the Ave Maria Water Park, and watch the sunset go down. 🌅

Laid-back vibes, great food, and a perfect spot to unwind.