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

Catch Up

 Some picture catch-up.  Above was before the humiliation started.

 Best part of the game, Alec winning a football for having the halftime score square at the party we went to.

 Post school fun-fair.  Batman and a ninja

 Doing some wall-sits for Alec's gym class

 A very typical scene at our house

 Joshie got a buzz for vacation

 The boys ran around for a good hour last night pretending to be Olympians in various sports - this was during their cross country race

Loading up the leap pad with new games for our long flight

Vacation

Guess where we are going on Saturday??

Crazy boys

Charlie swishing hoops after Alec's bball clininc, he has a better shot at 2 than several of the 6 year olds on Alec's team.  I think we have to invest in an outdoor hoop for his upcoming birthday

Crazy Alec doing the Ninja course Matt built him in the basement, the "ultimate cliff hanger" is the new addition at the end.