Canopy Tour/Zipline

OMG...if you ever get the chance to Zipline I HIGHLY recommend it!!!

Mike and I had an amazing day today celebrating my birthday and kid free :)

We dropped the girls off at the most wonderful child center I have ever seen at 9am this morning, compliments of the Four Seasons. We started our day with a little high flying through the rain forest and finished the day with a full body massage at the spa. We are finishing the day with a movie and dinner in bed with the girls.

Just to note...when I went to check on the girls at the child center they didn't even blink an eye. I guess they needed a break from us as much as we needed it from them, xoxoxoxo

The Dora Show

Dora, Dora, Dora...she is the explorer and has run off a few times. Thankfully there are some good local folk that have helped us keep an eye on her. Bad things would happen if we lost Dora :)

Between having Dora with us and several DVD's of Dora, all we hear from the back seat is "Where's my Dora!" Papa and Mama will have several episodes of Dora totally memorized after this trip. Years from now people will ask us what we remebered the most and we will go into song..."Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorererererer"...Good times!!!!

Day 7/8

A lot of driving has taken place in the last few days. We have basically driven across Costa Rica...from the Caribbean Sea through the rain forest to Volcan Arenal and to the Pacific Ocean.

This is where we have been so far:

We landed in San Jose and had to drive through Puerto Limon, the main port, down the coast to Puerto Viejo where we stayed the first three nights. A bit further down the coast we took day trips to Manzanillo, a super small village (the farthest point before Panama). After our stay in P.V. we headed North back up the coast to Cahuita, found some amazing places to stay and eat. After a few nights completely cut off from you we headed to Volcan Arenal, the drive was amazing!!!! The girls slept most of the 5 hour drive and did really good except Remy got totally car sick but totally pushed through and was a champ!!! We spent the night at Baldi just under the volcano, the coolest place for kids and adults. I forget how many hot spring pools they had but every corner seemed to have a little hidden hot tub. Remy and Macy even went down the water slides, with us of course :) After our one night stay there we continued our journey across Costa Rica to Peninsula Papagayo where we are staying at the Four Seasons for five days. It is so nice and we feel completely spoiled with the service and the beauty! There really isn't anyone here and again it seems that we have the run of the place!!! After our stay here we will be heading back to the rain forest to Tilaran for some monkey spying :)

Day 5/6

We made it for five days and still counting. We were basically kicked out of our last place because of the girls. It was not really set up for small children and the girls were not sleeping well at night, basically keeping up the entire place!!!! It pretty much sucked. We packed our bags and were ready to call it quits! But low and behold we found the most spectacular place where we were the only guests!!! We had a really secluded cabana with thick rock walls, hahaha and the pool was all ours. We actually stayed an extra night. We were so happy that we found this place..Cabanas Malu. It was also right on the beach. We got in a lot of beach time combing it for amazing drift wood and shells. Found some great stuff and can't wait to get it home :)

Costa Rica Day 4

I have finally figured out how to post pics to our blog without photoshop....oh and the few minutes a day without kidlets pulling on my pant leg!!!!

These pics were taken on our morning walk today. We can not keep the girls out of the water...who can blame them when it is as warm as a bath!

More blogging to follow.

The morning after...

After a good night sleeping off the cake and ice cream the girls were ready to open their birthday presents. 

Macy was the fastest at opening up the gifts. I think she was more excited about being able to rip something than most of the gifts...she loves to rip at her books and gets into a lot of trouble. So this was totally ecstasy for her :

Remy was a little confused about her new big girl panties...she thought they looked pretty good as hats :) 

Macy and Remy were both really excited to see their new baby dolls had tattoos like the ones they got at their birthday party. 

We had so much fun playing with all the fun gifts and spent the entire day in our pj's and in the jumper. We are going to cry when we have to give that back...thanks Ron and family :) 

The Big 2!

I can't believe another year has passed! It seems like just yesterday we were filling the time capsule with treasures! 

The girls have obviously grown a lot since then and we are at a really fun time right now. Tantrums and sleepless nights aside we are extremely fortunate to have such beautiful and healthy girls. We are looking forward to some great family vacations this next year and preschool is right around the corner. My little babies are all grown up...well they would like to think they are, hehehe. 

Thanks to everyone that helped us celebrate the big day and we look forward to many, many more laughs with all of you!