For the holidays and winter break, we had saved most of our personal vacation days from the past months and were able to spend 20 warm, lovely days with our family in Escazu, Costa Rica. We left Tbilisi on December 20 and arrived there about 27 hours later on the same day! It was late at night so we had to wait for the morning to give hugs to the boys and have our first meeting with our new granddaughter, Eliana . The boys, Kylan and Auden were up by 7 and greeted us with big hugs.
In the following days we had many adventures: some with the whole family, a few with just us and the boys or other combinations. We also got to meet many of Stephen and Dana’s friends who joined us for dinners and barbecues with various numbers of children. One of the big highlights was a 3 night visit to Manuel Antonio beach where we had spacious accommodations, great weather, monkeys outside our windows, and the Pacific ocean just a few minutes drive away.
Here is a sampling of our pictures and videos. More can be seen at the link below.
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- Get me out of this car seat!
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- Making Gingerbread cookies
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- Bumper car kids.
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- On the Ferris Wheel
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- Listening to the turbines on the mountain.
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- Let the tearing begin.
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- Time out with Grandpa at the sand park.
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- Waking up the family!
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- Trampoline fun.
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- Sifting and filling the bucket.
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- Christmas eve at church.
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- Kylan balancing on Dad’s shoulders.
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- Auden having a serious talk with his sister.
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- “Who buried my brother?” says Auden.
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- Eliana pondering the noises of the beach.
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- Enjoying the beach.
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- Stephen and Dana on the beach at Manuel Antonio.
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- Eliana taking a nap for Grandma at the animal rescue park.
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- Kylan showing off his Lego space ships.
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- A family outing to a animal rescue park.
We are including a link to Dropbox where you will find lots of pictures and a few videos of our adventures.
Wow – a little girl in the family. Costa Rica looks like paradise and you both look wonderful! Can’t help wishing that we were all with you!!!
love – hm
Wonderful…
thanks, Suz and Tom
Love,
Aunt Marcie
Congratulations on birth of your granddaughter!! Always good to spend time with family especially if it’s beach weather!!!
Love, Wanda
Thanks so much for sharing this wonder-filled. Time with us, Tom & Suzanne!
Love, Kelz & Sarah
What a wonderful time you had over Christmas! Aren’t those grandchildren wonderful?
God bless all of you in your remaining time there. Margie