Happy Bday Sis!!

yes, it was my sister's birthday yesterday- Dec. 29th. She turned a big 18 years old, which means she is no longer an underage girl ha! She will become a guatemalan citicen in a few days when she gets her id.

We celebrated it last sunday at our house. We had pizza and some delicious strawberry icecream cake! yummie!!!! My grandparents and my uncle's family came to the aparment and we all had a blast. She had lots of phonecalls and post at facebook ha! and of course birthday presents.

My dad was not around because he is in Petén, taking some vacation on his own. 

Little cousin D. had lots of fun playing with T's gamecube and it was hard to get him out of the house. 

Pics will be posted soon!

p.d. we were actually trapped in the house since our car would not start and as it is automatic there was no way to move it, adding that my dad is not here it was up to my mom and I to do something, we walked around the neighborhood and found the right place to fix the car. It took three hours but it finally worked. I think it was close to die but we rescued it ha! my mom and I learned a lot too. I say we were trapped because in this country, taking a bus is not an easy thing to do... when you get on one of those you just pray you can come back home alive. They get robbed all the time! :s sad but true.

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!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So I just want to wish everyone who read this a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I am not even so sure if anybody reads anything from my blog but anyway... It's christmas time and everybody should have the best of times.

Well. tomorrow as every year we will be meeting my dad's family for a Christmas lunch, it is actually the same food we all have at Christmas dinner so we have a double super meal that day.

This year this reunion almost doesn't happen, some of my dad's brothers and sisters are not in Guatemala. We never have had the party at my house (though my dad would die for it) because we live in a small apartment and in the fourth floor, so obviously there would be no room for the almost 30 getting together to eat and "share".

To be honest we have never got along very well with them or we never felt that way. Most of the times my family and I sit by ourselves in a table until it ends. Of course once in a while someone sits with us asks how we are doing and leaves. It is not really fun. I guess the reason is that we hardly see each other during the year. And so we don't have many things in common.

They all are wealthy people, really like to party and travel with their wealthy friends.

We are not poor but just don't have that much money. We party but just differently, it doesn't haveinvolve alcohol :S theirs do. Most guatemalans think that parties MUST have alcohol or otherwise it just won't be good. It is sad. Of course you can have fun without being drunk! I guess it's a cultural thing and usually rich people parties have lots of alcohol. Sad thing isn't?

Well after that my family and I will be heading to my grandma's house and spend the rest of the evening there. Singing karaoke!!! yeah!

Anyway have a great day with your loved ones!! Merry Christmas

I'm adding this picture of Angelina on Christmas day with my dad's family last year. My mom and I picked a special and beautiful dress for her and she looked sooo pretty! Everyone said so. And she was soo good! Though she didn't know anyone and it was so late at night.

This other picture is the next day at my grandma's house, this is my mom and my cousin C. She is a year younger than me and we always have a great time singing and just girl talking! ha! As this was the Real Christmas day we got Angelina this gorgeous red dress. She looked so beautiful! She was tired that day and went to sleep at 8pm. I was constantly checking on her because I thought she would wake up at any time because of the noise of people and the fireworks. But she was sound asleep! My sweet perfect baby!

Just a little late...

I know TOMORROW its Christmas day but I decided to place a christmas background in my beloved blog... nice isn't?

happy birthday B1!

Yesterday, 12/17 was my cousin Byron's birthdya, he turned a big 16 years old!
It is unbelievable how much we all have grown, i still remember when my sister and I were toddlers and he was just a baby and we would make him sit in our doll's stroller and would give him rides in my grandma's patio. Sweet memories! :)
I wish the best for this boy. He has had some struggles on the way, since his dad passed away a few years ago but I know he has a very sweet soul and will be someone important someday. I ask my dear Lord many blessings for him and for his brother B2 (who recently turned 13! see post from a few days ago).
We had cake and pizza and just had fun.
I forgot my camera at home so i have not one picture! :s

p.s. we have most of our christmas shopping done! wohoo!!

So True

I found this in some other blog and I stole it :S
I think it is soo truth and I thought I would love to write it and give it to Angi and Angelina some day, so here it goes:

"We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life. But those who make their journey home across time and miles, growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them, are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us by God's very own hands." ~ Anonymous

Luces Campero!!

This is a fireworks show a famous restaurant "Pollo Campero" throws every year.

As it is organized in a big park near to my grandma's house it looks like the show is specially for us. We all set in the terrace at 7pm and just look up. I guess its kind of the firework shows americans have in the 4th of july.

We expect this show every year. We have seen it since we were babies...I think, we have seen it for so long that I can't even remember the first time!

It is also a nice time because most part of the time a lot of family members come too and we have a great time. Well, this year there was not as much people as years before but lets say that the ones that are really expected did show up. :)
My grandma did her famous Christmas punch and we had Bollitos Peteneros!! Men those are delicious and only people from Petén (where my family is from) get to taste!

I didn't take any video or pictures of the fireworks this year but I did take some of us! haha

here they are:


In This is one, my aunt Dacia, my cousin Cristina, my mom and my grandma, me of course in the green shirt.

Las Primazazas!

haha thats how we call ourselves.

We alwaays have a great time together... singing!

This three... I love them so much!!

Before leaving for today...

I just wanted to say that.... I miss Angelina sooooo much...

I think about her every day... and remember all the wonderful times we had. I love her so much!!! She is my little Angel.

I never thought it was going to be so hard to get over the fact that she had to leave and left more than 9 months ago. I just miss her and wish she was here or at least that I could she her and hug her and kiss her like I did for 9 months of her life.

I know she doesn't remember me anymore but I won't NEVER EVER forget her. None of us will.

Hopefully I will stop crying when I remember her some day soon :'(

TE EXTRAÑO MUCHO ANGIE!!! TE AMO BEBE!!

The last few days have been really hard for us. Last year on Christmas Angelina was here and we set our Christmas tree and decorations since early November because we didn't know how long she was going to stay with us and we wanted here to see all of the nice stuff, she loved to play with the tree decorations. This year while my mom and I set the tree, we remembered all of those sweet moments and could not help to get teary eyed.

Happy B-day Abuelita Mary & Brandon

It is almost a month after their birthday but we had such wonderful days, my cousin Brandon's birthday is on November 20th and my Abuelita Mary's birthday is the next day November 21st.

Brandon is now a teenager, he turned 13!! Unbelievable!! I am sooo old! I still remember when he was little and got mad all the time at everything... and he would only talk to me :')

I just hope the best for him in the future... he is still very quiet but a really nice boy... and SO HANDSOME!

He lost his dad (my dear uncle Byron) when he was 6 years old. And his mom has not been the best, so we try to give him all the love and care he probably doesn't get at home.

Here is a picture of Brandon with his b-day cake, also in the pic my cousin Byron (Brandon's older brother) I love them SOOOO MUCH!!!

Also we cellebrated my grandma's birthday... to be honest I am not sure how old she is so... We just gave her lots of love and love and love! and as usual my mom bought her flowers... because she LOVES flowers and a delicious cake!

Here's a pic of her and all of her grandchildren... well the ones living and Guate.

We sang in the karaoke both days and had a blast! We love that thing.

I love my family to death, I spend most of my time with them and it's just priceless.

Such a lousy blogger

I am still trying to catch up... it seems like I am taking this vacation time very seriously because in the last week I have been waking up around 10 am!!! Seriously that is a record for me! Usually the latest I wake up its around 8 am but my mom has been really good to us and just lets us sleep as much a we want... well after 10 seems to be more than enough, then she just comes around the room "talking to herself" saying all the things and chores that need to be done.
As every vacation of my life... or better said... all my life! we are visiting grandma almost every day, I think my mom does go every day, if she doesn't we will probably get a phone call asking if we are showing up... if not we get around 3 or 4 call during the day just to check out or just gossiping! ha!
I'm afraid I'm going to get just too lazy to wake up when I have to go back to school :S
I know I should use that time to exercise or do something productive!!!
Anyway... this Christmas time is going fine... we haven't done much of shopping but I hope I get some new clothes! I am waring rags! Its just sad! I hate the fact that my sister won't even borrow me a blouse! >:( Is not as if I am going to stretch it out or anything I am smaller than her! That always makes me mad because I borrow my clothes to her and never say a thing about it but if I even dare to try one of her blouses she goes crazy and gives me dirty looks!!!

First job...NOT

Well as I said in my last post, I started looking for a job.... like almost a month ago, and I did actually send my resume to 6 different places, 3 of them didn't work because everytime I e-mailed it, it just kept coming back, so I just gave up with them... the other 3, one of them didn't call back but I did have 2 calls back from the other places, (they were all call centers by the way).
I sent my resume after giving it a lot of thought and because as usual I was very busy. Everything seem to be doing very well, with those two they were actually the ones I thought were the best and the most likely to hire me. My english seems to be good enough for them, my english interviews went really well and they seemed interested in meeting me and to be honest I had practiced in my mind many times before my speech. HA!
At the end the schedules were just not what I was looking for, just too many hours and though I will have much more free time next year doesn't mean that I can neglect my studies. I have had a couple of bumps in the road to becoming a dr. but neither of them has stop me and nothing else will.
My mom and I decided we should leave the job thing for later on in the year 'cause we might be having a vacation trip in a few weeks! yeiiii I am really looking forward to go to the beach!! white sand! the sea.. the sun...(sigh) :)