Costa Rica!!!!

We are finally in Costa Rica! i have been telling Jerry for over 10 years now that we have to go to Costa Rica! It is one of my favorite places in the world.

Well... It has been raining everyday we have been here!!!!! And cold. It is supposed to be the dry season. But apparently there is some really weird weather going on here. No one knows when it will get back to normal, hopefully tomorrow! So on to the pictures!

The nice little neighborhood we stayed near in San Jose! We took a walk just a bit after we arrived.

We found a little park for Alex to run and play in... they had swings, a slide and see-saws! He tried them all including the little bench that is ment for the parents to sit and watch their children from!

This is what we saw at Volcan Poas on our Highlights tour! It was raining and windy and cold!! We were bummed! This is not what it looked like 12 years ago!

This was a waterfall that we saw on the way back to San Jose after our visit to the Volcano.

Howdy!

For those of you stopping by for the first time... Welcome! We have several blogs that we keep, feel free to explore and read as much or as little as you'd like! Here's a list below.

http://cookfamilyadventures.blogspot.com/ - This is the one you are at... It was the start of tracking our adoption... but has grown to a miscellaneous blog. We will be traveling to Costa Rica for 2 weeks in January 2008. We plan to post pictures here.

http://cookfamilyadventuresinkaz.blogspot.com/ - This was our blog when we traveled to Kazakhstan the first time to adopt Alex. This is a really big blog with tons of pictures.

http://cookfamilyadventuresinchina.blogspot.com/ - This is the blog that will follow us to China to adopt a daughter or two... there is a little bit there now, but it will be a few years from now that we will actually get to go to China.

http://cookfamilyadventuresinkaz2.blogspot.com/ - This is the blog to follow our second adoption from Kazakhstan. We should be traveling in the Spring/Summer of 2008.

http://cookfamilyadventuresinmexico.blogspot.com/ - This is mostly photography from our trip to Mexico for the Baja 1000 race. We did visit an orphanage while we were there and we met our sponsor children.

http://teamgodspeedbaja1000.blogspot.com/ - This is my public blog about our race in the Baja. Other team members belong to the blog and can also post things on there about the trip.

Starting Week 2 In Europe...

Hiking...

One week to go ... Until Daddy comes home!!!

More photos of Switzerland!

Switzerland

More Pictures!

Jerry's Trip

More pictures...

Jerry in Austria and Switzerland!

Jerry is spending 2 weeks in Austria and Switzerland with our friend T. They are backpacking during the day and 5 star hotelling it at night! Bums! Here are some photos!

My 2 Favorite Men!

We went out to Lake Michigan on a warm day in December!

Some Random Pictures!

Our WONDERFUL Stroller! A Britax, the more we use it, the more we love it! Alex loves it too!



These are my youngest sister's kiddos! They are so fun and adorable! Alex really enjoyed himself! He was really not sure what that thing was in cousin Erica's mouth though! haha! He kept yanking it out of her mouth and looking it over!

My Sister April, Colin and Erica! Her hubby was not home that day!

Alex totally enjoyed the snow... a little hard taking steps in though... he mostly crawled... er... snowplowed through it though!!
This is our Family Portrait!

For Our Secret Pal from my July DTC group!

Alex loves his gifts!