Holiday Pics, as promised

Ok, they are not in a chronological order but anyway... this is from a little trip to the coast, where my grandpa works, he couldn't be with us to celebrate the new year so we brought the party to him hehe

New Year's Cuties, we had an awesome time

ROCKIN' 2010

Can you tell we were having fun? Peace everyone! haha

Me and my daddy, I look so much like him!!

The boys enjoying the fireworks on New Year's, it was not as big a display as Christmas but it was still cool

Happy New Year mommy!! We love you so much!

Lil' bro

Family!!!!

Bro and cousin before San Silvestre race, Dec 31st, this is a big tradition for us, my grandpa and uncle have run it since they were really young, this was the first year grandpa couldn't be there but he was real proud to see his grandsons running it

Molly's bday, Dec 29, she had chocolate and cheese cake and grandma did some delicious empanadas! Happy Bday Sisi!

Sibling's Love

Mommy recieving her present from grandma, you can feel the love in this one haha

The boys, Christmas day

This one's from Christmas celebration with my dad's family, here we are with most of the girls, including the newest adition, my niece (!) Ariela.

My little sweetie, Diego, he's not into picture taking but I managed to get him to pose to "show his new Optimus Prime action figure"

And last but now least, Christmas cuties, check out the bag full of karaoke cd's!

A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I think I have written several posts all with differentholiday titles and I never get to finish writting them!
Well, we had a very nice celebration at both Christmas and New Year's Eve. We always have such fun together, the food was delicious, my grandma cooked for Christmas and my mom did all the New Year's menu. Now it is definitely time to start a diet but we still have Diego's 5th birthday, which was last monday (they are having a bday party on Sat)! and then my mom's bday, which was yesterday, Jan 6th. We had pizza and a delicious tres leches cake, yumm!

see? now diet is a necessity.

I can't believe 2009 is over, it was a good year overall, I am thankful for all the blessings upon me and my family, for Guate... let's say we opened our eyes to many things and there were a few steps forward, though there are many others to regret and be sad for. Hope 2010 has some good things for us, but so far so good. I'm confident there are great things ahead.
I am excited for this new year at school, I have to work very hard to move forward and make that light at the end of the tunnel look brighter than ever!

Now, for you to have a better picture of how much fun we had celebrating the start of 2010, I'll leave you with some pics

here I am with my sisi

ok, for some reason blogger won't let me upload more pics so I'll try again tomorrow!

Luces Campero

Well, again I'm way late on my posts, there is just so much to do these days... shopping, shopping, oh and more shopping. I think I haven't gained any extra pounds because of all the walking in the malls! We are almost done with presents, thank goodness, and we also bought a 20lb turkey for Christmas dinner, the thing is huge!
Holidays in Guate start with La Quema del Diablo, I didn't post anything because I was working and spent pretty much all day there, when my mom picked me up after work it was all over. Plus this year a youth organization started a program to recycle paper instead of burning, I really like this idea because the planet doesn't need thousands of people burning stuff right now and also because they were going to sell everything they gathered to a recycling company and use the money to buy food for families in need.

Well, on the 12th we had the infamous Luces Campero, it has been this way since I have memory. Family comes to my grandma's house, which is like having honor seats to watch the show. So many people comes to watch them that the traffic police has to close the streets, all for a half hour firework and music show.
Little Diego (almost 5yo) really enjoyed it this time, in the past he was too scared of all the noise and the exploitions. I have some video of the highlights of the show, you can hear him in the back squealing with joy haha. The show is called La Noche de los Deseos (the night of wishes) so he thought every firework was a chance for a wish, wanna know what he asked for? "MUCHO DINERO!" (LOTS OF MONEY!) haha he can crack us up. We had a great time.
Like many other countries, it has gotten cold here, very cold, it rained for a couple of days but we are having sunshine again which is great, otherwise all the fireworks joy at midnight would have been ruined!

Now, on to the video and pics! It's a bit long but it's worth it

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

p.s. This is post # 100! finally!!

Just like my mom said...

there is no Christmas like Christmas in Guatemala.
it is just such a special time. I dont think any other country has such a beautiful Christmas time like we have here. The food, the spirit, people, fireworks. Its amazing, I wouldnt change it for anything!
Pictures soon!