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, April 27, 2012

Easter Memories

Has it already been a month since Easter? My goodness... time flies. I'd better tell you about our Easter before I forget. It sure was a wonderful weekend.

It started with an Easter egg hunt on Saturday morning. Here are the hunters. Maria was too anxious to get hunting, and didn't want to waste her time taking pictures. However, we managed to get her in one of the group shots!


Once the egg hunt officially started, we were in much better spirits!
We were even getting along enough to help a sister out! {Precious}


That evening we had a nice supper with lots of family before evening mass. Even though mass was two hours, both girls were troopers! Emma especially liked the candles we all had. (ok, she actually liked blowing them out and relighting them:)

Easter morning was the most exciting of the weekend, at least for Maria. She was so excited to find Easter eggs and her basket hiding from the Easter bunny, she could hardly stand it. “Look at this mommy! Look at this!!” was a phrase we heard over and over again. It was so cute.



The weekend concluded with a delicious ham and chicken lunch at my parent’s house. Overall, it was a wonderful weekend full of family and fun. We wouldn't trade it for anything. We were so glad to finally get a family picture too.

Too bad it looks like we were pulling the girls teeth out or something! :)

Hope YOU are enjoying this wonderful season of Spring!