Happy Birthday Charlie

 Happy 3rd Birthday to our Charlie Matthew, who has more personality, spunk and attitude than the rest of us combined!  We adore him and laugh out loud every day at his antics.  He is a wild and crazy boy who talks extremely loudly all the time.  He is obsessed with basketball, wearing shorts and jerseys, asking "why?," his big brother Alec and eating ice cream! Our lives wouldn't be complete without you Squatty, we love you!

 

Grammy and Aunt Abby and Ava came to help celebrate.  Grammy made Charlie bball cookies to take to school and a basketball cake.

 

His new hoop

 

Two Toots for lunch

 

He loved being sung to in the dark

Costa Rican Paradise

 

We got back on Saturday night from an AMAZING week long vacation in Costa Rica!  We met Abby, Ross and Ava and my Dad and Loretta and had one of the best vacations we've ever taken.  We stayed in a spectacular villa that sat on top of a hill overlooking the beach.  The house was 5 stories tall,  had its own infinity pool and hot tub and a darling Costa Rican couple live in the basement and cook and clean for you all week long.  It was absolutely perfect.  We enjoyed the beach, the scenery, the pool, zip-lining through the forest, a crocodile boat tour, in house massages, lots of great food, wine, games and family.  We are SO fortunate to have had the experience and all genuinely loved it.  Charlie keeps asking when we are going home to Costa Rica, and we all wish the answer was tomorrow!  Thanks so much Dad and Retta for the best Christmas present ever:) 

 

Our infinity pool - the kids lived in it

 

The view out the front

 

Zip-lining, we split up and went two separate days b/c the babies were too young.  This worked out perfectly for Alec who got to go twice!

 

Pretty impressive for 60!

 

Only 6 year old around who attempted this

 

Monkeys on the roof next door

 Charlie knows how to vacation

 

Cocktails and Mocktails

 

This is a terrible pic of the boys, but a great view of what we saw from the top story deck