All throughout 2019, Westminster Communities of Florida residents celebrated each month with exciting themed activities and events, as part of our Celebrating Your Life program. This monthly calendar of various themed activities and events was designed to appeal to our MyWLife wellbeing program’s Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing: physical, nutritional, community, lifelong learning, spiritual, emotional, vocational, and social. Around the state, we’re working hard to facilitate these festive celebrations all year long.
We’re excited to announce that, for the entire year, we announced an overall winner. Please congratulate Westminster Shores for coming in #1 in 2019’s Celebrating Your Life program!
Learn about all the fun we had last year:
December – Celebrating The Holidays
How do you celebrate Christmas and New Year’s? We discovered a whole world of celebration, plus a celebration of “Physical Fit”mas, annual choral and musical performances, holiday scavenger hunts and decorating contests — and more than a few New Year’s Eve parties, too. Happy New Year!
1st Place – Tie with Westminster Manor, Westminster Woods on Julington Creek, Westminster Shores, Westminster Palms and Westminster Towers
2nd Place – Westminster Point Pleasant
3rd Place – Westminster Oaks
November – Celebrating Gratitude
Each Thanksgiving, many of us enjoy gathering with our family and friends and sharing what we’re grateful for this year. With “Celebrating Gratitude,” we shared a variety of celebrations, from thanking local police and first responders, and sharing friendship with each other, to packing shoeboxes and sending greeting cards to the men and women of the U.S. armed forces serving abroad. What are you thankful for this year?
1st Place – Tie with Westminster Shores, Westminster Palms and Westminster St. Augustine
2nd Place – Westminster Manor
3rd Place – Westminster Woods on Julington Creek
Photos Celebrating Gratitude at our communities in November.
October – Celebrating The Arts
The residents and staff in our communities are amazingly artistic. All throughout the month, we celebrated every kind of art: We made kites, baked pies, enjoyed theatrical and choral performances, and so much more.
1st Place – Westminster Shores
2nd Place – Tie with Westminster Palms and Westminster Towers
3rd Place – Tie with Westminster St. Augustine, Westminster Woods on Julington Creek and Westminster Oaks
Photos showcasing The Arts at our communities in October.
September – Celebrate Active Aging
Aging is a part of life, but this month, we celebrated being active and having a great time! We treated ourselves to healthy dining choices, physical wellbeing events, meditation classes, and an astronomy night. Being happy never gets old at a Westminster community!
1st Place – Tied for Westminster Palms, Westminster Shores and Westminster Towers
2nd Place – Westminster Oaks
3rd Place – Westminster Manor
Photos celebrating Active Aging at our communities in September.
August – Celebrate The World Around You
In August, we celebrated “The World Around You” all month long. Our residents and team members enjoyed events ranging from dinners featuring international cuisine and presentations by world traveling residents, to musical events and even nature and birding trips.
Congratulations to our August winners:
1st Place – Westminster Shores
2nd Place – Westminster Palms
3rd Place – Westminster Towers
Photos showcasing The World Around You at our communities in August.
July – Celebrate Patriotism
“Celebrate Patriotism” was the theme for the month of July. Throughout the month resident and team members enjoyed many patriotic events: Fourth of July fireworks, red, white and blue yoga, virtual America, a historical happy hour and much more.
Congratulations to our July winners!
1st place – Westminster Palms
2nd place – Westminster Shores
3rd place – Westminster Woods on Julington Creek
June – Bucket List Trip
What’s on your bucket list? Throughout the month of June, we celebrated “Bucket List” items. We conquered some fears and went rock climbing, listened to a live mariachi band, tried some exotic foods, like fried frog legs, cricket-based protein chips and much more.
Congratulations to our June winners!
1st place – Westminster Shores
2nd place – Westminster Palms
3rd place – Westminster Point Pleaseant
May – Spring, When Life Blooms
We continue to celebrate each month with a unique theme. In May, we celebrated “Spring, When Life Blooms,” Westminster Shores, took the first-place prize for the second time this year.
Residents and team members participated in many spring-themed events: Planting Key lime trees, spring fashion shows, a Mother’s Day tea, a musical, and much more.
1st place – Westminster Shores
2nd place – Westminster Woods on Julington Creek
3rd place – Westminster Oaks
April – Celebrate Local Community
“Celebrate Local Community” was the theme for the month of April. Throughout the month, residents and team members enjoyed many activities around their local communities — city and farm tours, local scavenger hunts, exercising around the community and many other community involvement events.
Congratulations to our April winners!
1st place – Westminster Palms
2nd place – Westminster Shores
3rd place – Westminster Manor
March – Healthy Habits
To continue promoting a healthy lifestyle for our residents and team members, the theme for March was all about “Healthy Habits,” encouraging everyone to find a healthy habit they can enjoy.
Throughout the month, residents and team members engaged in many events — morning walks, volleyball, learning to create healthy meals, gardening and many other healthy habits.
Congratulations to our March winners!
1st place – Westminster Shores
2nd place – Westminster Palms
3rd place – Westminster Woods on Julington Creek
February – Love Your Neighbor
February’s celebrated theme was “Love Your Neighbor.” Residents and team members enjoyed physical outings around the neighborhood, volunteered at local organizations, had gatherings to meet their neighbors and explored new places with their neighborhood friends.
Congratulations to our top three February winners for celebrating Love Your Neighbor with wonderful experiences for our residents:
1st place – Westminster Palms
2nd place – Westminster Shores
3rd place – Westminster Manor
January – New Beginnings
January’s theme celebrated “New Beginnings” as communities across the state planned New Year’s celebrations, learned new traditions, and discussed resolutions.
Residents participated in new fitness challenges. Some of the new exercises included a Fitness Train, golf, chair yoga, pole walking and many more. We also learned about nutritional foods and danced to new tunes from many local performers.
