Pura Vida

This past week Paul and I had the awesome opportunity to go to Costa Rica with friends from our church. The trip was amazing! The weather was humid, I felt like I had come home! The time we spent together was full of activities, games, swimming, and of course eating! We did not take Nora with us so it was the longest the both of us had ever been away from her. It was great having the respite and it was great coming home and seeing her smiling face!


Here is a brief snapshot of the trip!

On every vacation I take a picture of Paul looking out our window...here it is for this trip. I called Paul, Moses, because our bed was made like a basket!


The endless pool made Paul want to install one in our backyard but I kept telling him it needs to look out at something and our fence just wouldn't cut it!



Ready for some high stakes adventure!

The girls took a cooking class one night. After we were done the boys joined us and we ate our fixings for dinner. We cooked vegetables, snapper, and chocolate lava cake. Everyone said it was delicious, even if they weren't huge fish fans!

On our last day there we took a jungle river cruise (kind of like the one at Disneyland) and we saw crocodiles, monkeys, iguanas, lots of different birds, and the seldom seen Jesus Christ iguana!

The crocodile got so close Paul wanted to pet it.

He was urged not to and thus came home in one piece!

White Faced Monkeys

It was so fun seeing so much wild life and not being in a zoo!

Feeding the monkeys!

The motley crew:

Brad, Christy, Amy, Derek, Paul & Cathryn

Pura Vida!