Meeting family :-)

Some of you may know that my boys are of Costa Rican heritage.  Well, kindof.  Their paternal grandfather was born in Panama and raised in Costa Rica.  So they consider themselves to be Tico.  In fact, when we went to Jaco Beach, Luke refused to wear sunscreen because, as he said, "I'm Tico!  I don't need sunscreen!"  And, sure enough...he got sunburned.

Well, we've been trying to hook up with some of their family who live here in Costa Rica.  We were finally able to arrange a dinner so that we could meet some of them.  We met Luke and Layne's second cousins, Rafa and Maria, and their Tia Lupe (Aunt Lupe).  It was an awesome dinner and they were so friendly!  Luke has decided he wants to try to figure out a way to move here...LOL.

Here's a pic of them....from left to right...Melissa (Rafa's wife), Rafa, Layne, Tia Lupe, Luke, me, and Maria

They said they want to try to arrange another time when we can all get together...there are about 40 family members in this area and we'd love to get to meet them all. I sure hope we can make that happen :-)