It's awesome having older Siblings to visit!

Really,it is!!! 

It's been so much fun hanging out with them. Getting together every so often and just sitting in the living room chatting about when we were younger,and all the funny memories! And basically just anything! Joking back and forth and laughing a LOT! It's been great!

Often if Nelson's  went somewhere on their own  instead of me staying home alone with the kids they'd drop us off at Patricks and we'd  do a lot of lounging on the couches again,:) Of course Alayna needed to be with Patrick!:)

Xander also was quite content sleeping in Patricks arms!:)

Rhoda came to pick me up at Nelson's once  when I was planning to stay the weekend with them,and she let me drive around for a while so that I could get used to the feel of  driving!:) ah! Just a bit nervous!!!! But also excited!

Then later in the week I went with Patricks to State College and again Patrick was teaching me how to drive at the Walmart parkinglot;/ and then I drove home!!! I was sooooo nervous and tense and had Patrick a bit nervous(HA!) but we made it home and was having fun!

He's a great teacher, if it wouldn't have been for him and Rhoda encouraging me and just trusting me I don't know if I would have actually done it,but thanks to them I did!!!,

 Then during the week us sisters would get together again and go shopping! 

Here we are at the sale barn!it was cold but we still had fun together!

Lol! This picture makes me laugh! So we had both kids in the stroller and it was really hard to push and Vanessa thought it was just because of all the weight. So we were all taking turns pushing the stroller making sure to not bump into other people around us since the stroller had a mind of its own and would pull to one side!!! So once it was my turn and I couldn't get it to go in the right direction,I kinda kicked the tires so that they would function right, and that's when I saw that the brakes were on!!!!lol!:)))) so of course we laughed and laughed!

Alayna LOVES shopping or "going to town" as she says,so even she "bought" some stuff at the sale barn. 

Here she is with her purse,pumpkin,and 2little plates, she was quite pleased with her find!

Then their is helping Vanessa with supper, but since this little guy thinks he always has to be held and everybody was busy right then,I laid  him up on the counter and he was happy watching me cut vegetables. At least for a bit...

This little guy is already big enough to sit in his bumbo seat! Crazy!

I'm noticing that this post is kind of weird,because the pictures were all taken at different times. But what I'm trying to say and show is that I've had so much fun living with my older siblings and spending time with them  making a whole bunch of great memories!! They are great and I am so thankful for this opportunity to visit them!

Even though they are great and we've had a great time together, I'm also really looking forward to seeing my other siblings and my parents down in El Salvador, cause I've missed them a lot, and because they are great too! 

So see you guys on Tuesday!~Cecilia 

Fun with the Cousins!!

Last weekend I went out to Lancaster for the weekend and had a lot of fun hanging out with cousins! There was a birthday party planned for my grandma so all the Kauffman family was together except for the rest of my family!:( It was a great time though! 

Saturday I was hanging out with all these pretty girls!

And then uncle Nate hitched up his 2 little miniature mules to give us all a ride!!! Oh my goodness,it was so much fun! Those little things would just run and run!

Both Uncle Nate and Rylan were giving us girls ride out on the road and sometimes through the orchard. Here comes Rylan and Marcina!:)

I really liked the lighting out there so I had fun snapping photos with cousins,even though it was windy and my hair was like everywhere.

Me with Erika and Rylan,

When I told them to get together for a pic they did this: 

...lol

Again like I said the wind...:)

Janae and I

Marcina and I

And Sonya and I

After that the parents went out to eat together,so us kids stayed home and hung out,eating chips with dip,pop grapes,mountain dew, and all that "good":) stuff!!

And then I had to part and say goodbye to all these special people!ugh, it never gets easier!and I always dread it just as much:(!! But ,Lord willing,I'll see them again next year,:)

As I head off to make the best of my last week that I have left, I wish you all an awesome week as well!

I love Alayna and Xander!

Ok yeah maybe that's a weird title for this post, but I love them so much and these 2 1/2 months( almost) that I've been up,I've made so many awesome memories with these two little people!!!

Alayna has made me laugh so often!sometimes I could barely keep myself from busting up laughing right in front of her when she'd do naughty things! She has also tried my patience, doing stuff she knows she shouldn't be doing just to see what I'd say! And I know I haven't responded the best,:/!Anyway,though! I'm going to be posting about the good times,times when she'd make me realize how much I'm going to miss her once I leave! Times when I wished I wouldn't live so far away!!  When we had fun being crazy together and she "made me act like a kid her age"!! Lol!

This day we washed all the kitchen chairs together. Both of us scrubbing away!

And being crazy while doing it.

Traveling. Wearing our "awesome";)sunglasses! That are way to big for our heads!lol

Oh! And why not switch? 

This pic is really,horribly,embarrassing! But we were having fun keeping ourselves entertained on our way in to Lancaster.:)and that's what counts!

She can come up with the funniest stories! She can be really sweet! Last night it was getting dark as we drove to bible study and the moon was shinning brightly. Vanessa told her to look out her window and sure enough she spotted it,

Alayna:aw/oh she said in wander, I want to touch it!

Vanessa: well I don't think you can,but stretch out your arm as high as you can and see if you can touch it.

Alayna: slowly lifts her hand up,and then sighs,oh, Eena(that's what she calls herself)not reach it. I stand on mountain maybe my reach it?

Vanessa:well I don't know.

Alayna:oh, nebahmin,nebahmin!(never mind)

Ahh!  It was so cute! So often I also wish to touch the moon! But we just can't, not even if we stand on a mountain! It's sad,but I'm so glad God at least gave us the chance to be able to see the moon and 

it's beauty! I could go on and on with stories of her, but I'd have a hard time knowing where to stop! all in all I Love being her Tia Quila as she calls me, and I love that SHE is my little Alaynita!

Then there is this AdOrAbLe little boy! Not as many interesting moments with him in the same way I have had with Alayna,but still I love his little stage of life too!  He loves being held,and what baby at his age wouldn't, right? But seriously we lie him down and soon after he starts crying! He gets so mad when we leave him cry and don't pick him up,while we are busy, that once I pick him up he is SWEATING! Lol right now it's funny, but seriously he is not happy when we do that! So yeah it's pretty hard not to hold him when you aren't busy with anything! So I do a lot of that,and enjoy it!

I especially love that he has smiled at me already! Or maybe I should say grinned, but either way it 

brought a huge smile to MY face! I was able to experience that small yet huge experience before I leave! I'm going to miss a lot of firsts in his life but still I feel SO privileged to have been here for his whole first MONTH!! 

I also love when if he's been crying for a while and I pick home up he looks up at me with his huge little eyes and kinda like "moans" in relief and just stares at me as if saying thank you in his own little way!:)<3

 I never would have thought that little red and grey crabs could look cute on a baby till I saw it on him!

AHHH! I'm going to miss him SO much! Love you baby boy!

And that's why I try to take pictures of every little thing I do with them or of what they do!So that I can look back at them and smile once I leave and am missing them!  

Love you Alayna,sweety,and Xander,my sunny bunch! Xoxo-Tia Cecilia 

Last Weekend,

I had so much fun with my cousins last weekend that I felt like I need to do another post about it!! But seriously most of our time was crossing this creek and taking pictures as we went and once we would get to the other side we'd sit down and talk!!!  It was great!

A few fotos of the "scenery"!!

This spot was my favorite,

Ohm and did I mention it is fall!  Colorful leaves all over the place! The first day we were at the park this tree was still pretty much covered in leaves and the next day the ground was covered in leaves and the tree was about empty! Crazy,and yet so beautiful!

Yes I did mention colorful leaves!

Any shape and any color.

Lynnae and I.

Marcina and I,kind of a weird pose and pick but hey, it works,

 While Lynnae and Marcina kept taking pics of each other, I went up on the bank and practiced my "selfie pic taking" skills.lol random...

Oh and me being weird again!lolbut I thought it'd be a funny pose.

My sister and her kiddos! love them!

AHHH! And this little guy! I just gotta say it,he's SOOO cute!

Loved these shots that Lynnae got of him and I even though I was all sweaty from running around with Alayna:)

It was a great weekend! Had so much fun and it ended way too fast!

Yes, I'm still alive:)...

...But busy! Well maybe not like busy, as in working,but busy as in hanging out with friends and family! Trying to enjoy the last days of my time in the US! making memories, laughing a lot, and of course taking pictures of basically everything so that I can upload them on here when I finally get the chance.:) and my apologies for not doing this sooner! But here we go! 

Last week sometime Alayna and I went to see if we could find enough tea to drink for supper! And we did! And had fun doing it together even though she was just yanking a whole bunch of leaves and I had to keep checking to make sure that it was tea for sure;)

 Recognize her!? Lol we still aren't very sure what happened,but she had 2 bite marks on her forehead. So we thought she just reacted to mosquito bites when she was playing at her grandpas house. But when she woke up like THIS the next morning, we thought that maybe a spider peed on her! I don't know what it was,but I do know that when I saw her the next morning I freaked out and
asked Vanessa WHAT in the world happened! She did NOT look like herself!!ha!her forehead stuck out an extra half inch!  But after a few days the swelling went down and now she's back to normal!!!

Last week we had some really warm weather! It felt amazing if you ask me!! So of course Alayna needed a swing ride! So we took Xander out with us! And he just slept in the stroller!

While out there I was singing Spanish songs with Alayna! And she is fascinated with "Somos Soldaditos"!!!! Here she is trying to get her fingers JUST like mine, to sing the Tantararantan tan tan part!:)

Out shopping with Vanessa the other week and thought Xander looked so cute in his car seat!! And reminded me of when Alayna was that little!  Seriously I can't imagine my life with out these two kids!!! I love them SO much, even though one can make me wake up early to change his diaper and the other patting me at 7 in the morning saying "chila,let's go make lunch!" :) when I would just like to sleep a little bit more!

                                       

last week Vanessa made beans with pork ribs! And we had them for supper with rice and chirmole!!! Oh! And tortillas. Ah! One thing I'm ready for again! ES food.

This weekend 2 of my cousins,marcina and Lynnae came to visit and hang out! We had  lot of fun! We wre staying at Patrick's. Saturday went shopping with Rhoda and then that afternoon went down to the creek,crossed it!taking pics the whole time!

We had so much fun taking pictures of each other, the beautiful fall scenery, and of the ducks in the creek.

I think this little tree is so! Pretty!!! But this isn't the best pic of it :(

Like I said taking pics of each other! Love you Gurl!

Fall is really here! It is crazy, when I first came all the trees were still green,but now they are yellow,orange. And some don't even have leaves anymore!! I'm not really used to this kind of change of seasons,but it's really cool.

Oh and this!LOL was when were shopping! We stopped at Payless just to look around. And for some reason I was in the guys isle and these HEAUGE!!! Shoes caught my eye! HA! There like twice the size of my head!:0

Well that's it for today! Have an awesome week!