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fancy a chat? and maybe a little cuteness…

By on March 22, 2012 in Costa Rica, family, God and stuff, HA! ☺, Lifestyle, the cuteness, Transitions, ★ dreams

so lately we’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed again. it might have the tiniest bit to do with our Costa Rica workation speeding to a close in the coming weeks. we’ve had an awesome time here, but as usual only got about a quarter of the stuff done that we’d hoped. too much of our life up to this point has been spent playing catch up. honestly, we could easily have plenty to keep us busy here for the rest of the year. whether or not we’d make any decent sort of money is anyone’s guess :)

the truth is, we’re at a VERY transitional point in our lives. it’s one of those things that if you think too hard you could easily freak yourself out to the point of being paralyzed. on the other hand, if you choose not to think much at all and just keep moving forward in the direction that you believe God is laying out for you, then it’s super insanely exciting.

we are contemplating some really fun things for this summer… 2012 is looking like the year for all sorts of craziness, lol. we want to believe God not just for survival, but for big, awesome stuff. we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the things in our hearts are far bigger than us, and are only remotely accomplishable with the help of a BIG God. honestly, we only know a small part of our dreams – as we fall on God’s grace, he just seems to continue to make our hearts bigger to make room for bigger dreams.

it feels like being on a high rope – just keep looking forward, never look down!

Source: google.com via Lorraine on Pinterest

so we’re taking it one step at a time…

and really, I think that’s a good place to be in.

here are a few random videos you may not have seen yet. we upload them sporadically, but don’t always post about it.
the latest ones show up handily in the sidebar there.

David had the idea to do a fun, romantic sort of meal for his aunt and uncle, so the girls got everything around and we cooked for them for their anniversary last month. inspite of a few minor disasters along the way, I think it mostly went over well, lol. we had fun anyway.

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when I’m too lazy to blog about adventures I steal them from other people.

By on March 19, 2012 in Costa Rica, guest posting, HA! ☺, Lifestyle, traveling, ★ dreams

I just noticed that Krista had written about a couple of our tiny adventures lately, and so I asked if I could swipe and hack them over to here. makes my lazy brain rather pleased. except I had to go through and remove the double spaces. what are they teaching kids these days?! I thought you were home schooled, girl, I expected better. (not that I’m trying to bite the hand that’s feeding me in this case or anything… tee. hee.)

Krista: When a friend of [Mr. D] offered to let us stay in a cabin that she owned up in the mountains, we decided it’d be fun to go there for a day.  We left on Thursday morning with [Mr.D's] aunt and his parents (who are visiting from the U.S.) It took us an hour to drive there and I got to sit in the back seat with Maeve and Maverick. Maeve can NOT just sit there and enjoy the ride. So, we played thumb wars (which she calls thumb tag) and approximately a hundred games of 20 questions. Maverick does not understand how to play 20 questions (one person thinks of any random thing and the other person asks 20 random questions to try and figure out what it is)  but he tried to play along. Instead of asking questions about the thing, he would just guess what the thing was without any clues.

“Is it a car?”
“No”
“uhhhh… a truck?”
“Nope”
“ummm… a cow?  mooooooo”
“hehe! no!”
“Is it a truck?”
*sigh*

When we got there, we found something we were not expecting…

I probably would not call that a cabin.
I was picturing a nice little log cabin up in the mountains but this beautiful house was really cool too.

(allow me to cut in here and say that no, there is NO WAY this could be called a cabin. there must be some sort of weird translation discrepancy going on here. Mr. D and I wanted to stay for a good, very long time. and we asked God to give us something like that someday to bless other people with… sooner than later would be sorta cool.)

checking out the view

How awesome would it be to have a porch that looked out onto this?

We had a little snack once we got settled in a little bit.

Apparently, the lady who owns the house has grandkids and so it was well stocked with toys and games, which Maeve and Maverick took full advantage of.

Here are a few other snapshots of the house.

looking through a mirror

It was a beautiful day.  So Maeve and Maverick played outside a lot…

and I joined them for a little bit.

When our stomachs started telling us they weren’t happy, we walked across the road to a little restaurant.

After lunch, we went back to the house and I got to work out on the porch for a while.  It was a beautiful place to work.

Later, we went into the town to take pictures.

There was a park that was full of these randomly shaped bushes.  It looked like someone had started making them into cool shapes but had decided to go take a nap and left them half way done.

Is this a dog???

And some of the bushes had faces… kinda cool and weird at the same time.  :D

Ok, I’m pretty sure that’s a bird.

A hobbit tree?

We had a quick peak inside of the church that was beside the park.

(I must cut in here to say, can you believe this freaking thing with all these walls and the faeux marble texture on the side of the steps and such… all fake! hand-painted. each. tiny. little brick.

WHAT?!!!

can’t even imagine that making more sense than real bricks.
it’s crazy to think how little those painters must have been paid. this is my church pic, and then back to Krista)

Then, we had a little coffee break and..

got back to the house just in time to see a beautiful sunset.

The trip back home was filled with singing, because I refused to play 20 questions anymore.  ”If You’re Happy and You Know It” was one of the more popular songs that we sang several times.

ok, me again, thanks Krista!!!

I personally highly enjoyed the rousing rounds of ‘I just wanna be a sheep! ba-ba-ba BA!” :)

this is the kind of working environment we hope to someday provide for all of our team members :)
(no, not that one, the one below this sentence.)

so there is one adventure I am glad I did not have to post from scratch. woot!

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life is a blank canvas – paint an adventure!

By on March 18, 2012 in Costa Rica, giveaways, stuff we do, traveling, ♬ music & art ✎

so a while ago we started this little line of multi-use cards. we’ve been having a lot of fun and adventures carting around our Costa Rican blank canvas model, Blanca, with us all over the place. right now there is a giveaway happening over at Kelly’s awesome blogging birthday celebration, wherein you could be inspired to get your own creative juices flowing with your very own set of BlankCanvas™ Cards! visit Living Apockylypse and have a go at winning!

in case you’ve missed the videos we’ve started putting up over at the Beauty of One’s youtube channel, here they are! (and there are a bunch more in the hopper :) )

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when in doubt, shut up

By on March 13, 2012 in "monthaversary", Costa Rica, Debt Free!

as I mentioned, our monthaversary was on Saturday. I’ve always tried to keep at least notes of the main details of all of our monthaversaries, but I can’t say that I haven’t missed a few in the past 102 months. I think I started out with a Word document and now I have a note in Evernote, but I’ve been thinking that I wanted to try to start penning some of them here as well. {cue talking in the third person, kind of.}

abuelo and abuela were here, so they were able to baby-sit the kids along with Krista and Eddy, which meant we could go out just the two of us! we did a horrible job of capturing the evening, however. we really need to get better at that.

we went to a mall first because Christina had always intended when getting her nose pierced years ago to have a ring, not a stud, and thought maybe she could finally get something. success! only $3.

we then drove around a bit, which Christina didn’t mind at all because she got to sit in the front seat and see out as opposed to her usual perch in the back seat holding Maverick. we tried going to a kind of touristy little area that is supposed to look old, but it was completely DEAD because I think 8:00 was too early for people to be out. it was the ODDest feeling, though, like being in some sort of weird time warp where everything was standing still and we were the only ones alive or something. we didn’t stay long at all because we were hungry and didn’t find anything worth bothering with. which apparently was a good thing as Eddy told us later that there are shootouts there and such. lovely.

thus we were driving around again, discussing what we felt in the mood for and assessing the cost/worth ratio in our minds. Mr. D tends to get a little annoyed and sometimes momentarily depressed in these moments, wondering when we’ll ever NOT have to think so carefully about these things in order to maintain our debt-free lifestyle. Christina tends to think about all the people who would be happy to eat a banana peel, let alone have the extreme gift of going to a restaurant at all… Mr. D always feels this is a bit self-righteous of her. Christina is still trying to figure out the best way to handle such situations… (when in doubt, shut up, right? easier said than done) thankfully that whole scenario was not full-blown in this instance :)

in any case, we ended up at a cute little restaurant that thankfully produced some major D-LISH, which we will be happily reproducing in our little ghetto kitchen when we get back to the US. (actually, Mr. D already tried it here today, with mixed, but still very yummy, results)

since you really can’t tell from the picture, you’ll just have to come over and try it yourself to know and understand the stomach-pleasure-inducing goodness.

upon finishing up we decided to head back, but not before snagging some Nutella and crackers to sneak into our room (already had the PB at home). yes, we are totally working against ourselves in our plan to become amazingly fit and attractive.

we sabotaged ourselves with food while watching Downton Abbey, which we only got around to starting on here in Costa Rica, and now we can no longer find Season 2 anywhere. dull.

Maverick woke up sad that he had not gotten to say goodnight to us, so we went in and cuddled him back to sleep. I treasure this very short phase of our kids’ lives…

cue scary picture of us – the only other one from the evening – the end of it all, about to ingest sugar = #fail.

great, now I’m hungry again. stupid stomach.

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lazy men in relationships

By on March 7, 2012 in (something clever), Confessions, help!, stuff we do, us, ☢ rants

we switched things up on the vlog a bit this week! we ditched the bright yellow background, which is the better of the two simple choices in our current abode (the other being baby pink), for an outside perch. we were joined by a number of street noises, even though it was after midnight by the time we finally started (what, us get in a spat?! preposterous!).

without further ado, here we are being goobers yet again.

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