We made it to Guatemala!!!!

We are all settled in Guatemala now. It has been a little hard to settle in the small space we have now but thank goodness we are all done for a little while until the next box gets here haha. Kids are loving it here, often we have to go look for them to check what they are up to because they are always out playing with the other 14 kids here in the house. They all love the outdoors!

The way here was nice because Colton slept almost the whole time we traveled… he slept through most of the 3 plane rides and the car drive as well.  He was so tired for like 2 more days after that slept almost as much as when he was a newborn. Everybody is so amazed in how much he can do at his short age. The other day he crawled all the way to where the pila is (huge water container) there was a small container right next to it and he stood up and put his hands in there….. my mom screamed haha. There was a sister at church on Sunday whose baby is just 1 week younger and she was so surprised to see how active he is and she said her baby is not even sitting up. Colton is really a superman haha. Every time he cries people tells me he is hungry and want to feed him but I say no he has a schedule and he follows it very good… they don’t believe me lol.

Layla is loving the food (nothing new here lol). Everybody is amazed in how much Spanish she actually knows. Sometimes they are asking us questions about them and she gets ahead and answers them. They love her enthusiasm and her dance moves. She loves to visit my grandparents, every morning right after she eats breakfast she goes over their house and spends some time with them. Almost every morning she comes in the kitchen and asks for beans… her breakfast is very easy to make haha.

Xavion now can ride his bike without training wheels and that’s all he wants to do all day. Sometimes I need to ask him to put his bike away so that he can play with the rest of us. He is trying to speak Spanish, he asks a lot of questions about how to say something and tries to use them in every chance he gets. He loves feeding the turkeys, he is so amazed and how they can eat the fruit peels so whenever he sees someone eating some type of fruit he waits for them to be done then he takes the peel and throws it to the turkeys.

Mike and I have tried to stay busy, time here seems to fly so we must be doing good. We played with all the kids soccer almost every day and we have done other fun stuff like sliding down the hill!. We have introduced the kids to games like spoons, chicken feet and freeze dance. They really enjoy when we have activities for them to do with us because they don’t spend as much time with their parents. Everything has been great just getting use to changes again like washing clothes by hand lol. We got a system down though….. I wash and mike goes and hangs them in the rope to dry.

We went to church on Sunday it seemed like a very nice ward. Everybody was so excited to have such a mixed family in the ward haha. There was a sister that just wanted to talk to me during Sunday school and RS, she had so many questions about my family I tried to be very short with my answers because I didn’t want to be talking during class but she had questions after questions haha… in the afternoon she picked me up to go to a RS meeting they had going on and she asked me all the same questions again lol…..

The other day we went to the grocery store and there were a couple of ladies that were staring at mike and the kids and started to talk about them, they were so obvious that when we moved they moved right behind them to keep looking at them lol. Right after we paid 3 other ladies came straight to us to touch Xavion’s hair and to ask if they were ours, as soon as they say hi to Layla she threw herself on one of the ladies to give her a hug and they fell in love with her haha. 

Layla and Xavion sleeping in the back of the van on our way to Huehuetenango from Guatemala city. 

Colton sleeping most of the way here from Arizona. 

 

  Mike sleeping in the van he was so tired that could not stay awake his head was going all over the place with every turn the car made lol.

 

Me awake the entire time :(...

 

 

  Sliding down the hill with an old plastic basket. it was fun!

 Xavion riding his bike non stop... going around and around in circles.

Playing spoons with the kids.... they loved it. 

  Colton got so exited with this bike... he was sitting on it just enough for me to get a pic then he fell on his side good thing nothing happened... i know i should had never left them...oh and mike and my mom moving one of our boxes in the back.

Colton loves his crib, we put his crib right next to our bed because he was trying to climb out of it so now when he wakes up he start pulling my hair, my nose and my blanket so that i wake up too. smart kid!

This is all for now. I hope everybody is doing well back in the states. we miss you and love you all!