In Spanish this phrase literally means "pure life" but is more commonly thought of as meaning "full of life." Costa Ricans use this phrase to express a philosophy of strong community, perseverance, resilience in overcoming difficulties with good spirits, enjoying life slowly, and celebrating good fortune of magnitudes small and large alike. This blog is about our life... Pura Vida!

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Friday, August 26, 2011

The BIG 1!

August 6th, 2011....Emma turned 1! Here is the birthday girl all ready for her big day! With lots of family at our house, we enjoyed a taco bar, and a little Mexican themed cake :)
Opened lots and lots of presents (including some little people, a water table, movies, dolls, a purse and some clothes)

Then we enjoyed that wonderful cake! Especially Emma, who devoured her entire little one!

We were having so much fun, we even forgot to have Emma open her gifts from mommy and daddy! So we had more presents to open later...:)


She was a very good girl the whole day and enjoyed all the wonderful company.


Happy 1st Birthday Ems!

Monday, August 01, 2011

We love Waterama!

The last weekend of July brings us fun times at Waterama! What a beautiful, hot weekend to enjoy the activities outside! Here is why we LOVE Waterama:

1. Riding the rides! (and watching in Emma's case...)

2. ICE CREAM! (Milk mustache and all!)


3. Watching the parade, waving to the princesses and getting loads of treats!

4. Winning cool prizes! (Emma won a little unicorn flashlight toy, and Maria won this below. As if we needed more big toys in this house! haha)


5. And playing in the sun at the park and the beach!


Now, we are officially exhausted! Even daddy is, who played in a total of 4 softball games (their team got 2nd place over all :) and 2 baseball games this weekend!


We were looking forward to a peaceful evening of sleep last night...but unfortunately we were awoken by a terrible storm. Check out this hail:



We were lucky compared to the nearby towns who had lots of damage. Hopefully tonight we can get the rest we need!


Hope you enjoyed your weekend too!!


(p.s. 5 more days until my baby is 1!!!!!!!!!!)