-Church cleaning-

Last Tuesday we had a thorough church cleaning!

I always love when we do this,it's a time of all working together and making work fun!                   

We were emptying out the cabinet in the back and getting rid of all the stuff that we aren't using anymore. And this is all that was inside,:/

Even little kids were busy helping take all the benches out to the lawn.

Joseph had all of the young boys busy by getting them to throw the branches over the fence for the cows.

The youth guys were helping Papa on the other side of the building,cleaning up the fence on that side! 

And while everybody else was busy,this little boy was cutting away at a stick,trying to make it sharp,with a machete!! To me it looked a bit dangerous but he was having a good old time,and I think he thought he was pretty big to be able to handle a machete so I left him go! And there wasn't an accident!:)

Theses two girls were very into helping!

Once there wasn't much for them to do they were also very patient and just sat and watched!

These three little cousins started playing "church"! So cute brought back memories of when I was kid that age doing the same thing with my little friends!  Oh to be a kid again,with a carefree life!;/

While we washed the floors with water they had fun slipping and sliding for a bit,but then had to sit and just watch,before they got hurt!

Aw! I thought there little wet,wrinkly feet were adorable! I liked how this shot turned out.

Cuties!<3

Then it was a supper of pupusas!

~Asi que, hermanos mios amados,estad firmes y constantes creciendo en la obra de el Señor siempre,sabiendo que vuestro trabajo en el Señor no ES en vano!~ 

1 Corinthians 15:58

Youth party

Last week the El Resbaladero youth group invited us Texis youth to go with them up to Montercristo,which is like a state park,on Saturday. There are only four of us youth here in Texis and so we hardly ever have our own youth parties,so we were excited to hang out with other youth!

We left pretty early Saturday morning and didn't get back till 6:00 that night! We had a lot of fun! We went on several walks through gardens that they have there, then had lunch and after lunch played some very interesting games of volleyball!!:)

Here we are at the booth and the bottom of the mountain were we payed to get in, and then we drove up hill for an hour before actually getting to the park.

                                                 
                                                   Waiting till the guys finished paying!

  

On the way up we stopped at this look out,it was pretty cloudy but we were still able to see a pretty waterfall, just that it was too far away and I couldn't get a good picture of it.

Some of the pretty girls I was having fun with!

Mayra,Susanna,and I

And these were the winding roads we drove on!nope,it wasn't a very smooth ride!

But we did make it to the top! And these super tall trees were gorgeous with the sun shining through them!

Our first walk through the woods.

There were pretty little wild flowers that were fun to take pictures of!

Once we got back from our walk I got a game of spoons started!

There was like nine or ten of us playing and it was so funny cause the tables there were like all kinda covered with moss so when we'd fight for the spoons our finger nails would stay full of crud,and there was a whole bunch of scratch marks on the table!

                       Us four Texis youth were the last ones in the game to be knocked out!

But soon Mayra and I lost,then Mauricio and Susanna were fighting to win! (Susanna was the winner,again!)

Then we went on another walk and 

on our next walk there was a lot of pretty flowers!

They have gorgeous hydrangeas up there because of the cooler weather!

Orchids

Like I said,after our hikes the guys set up the volleyball net and we played several games before it was time to leave! Some of us were having a hard time hitting the ball right,because of not having played for a while,so we were all laughing a lot and so you can about imagine what our games were like! Lol:) but the point was to have fun, and, we did!!;) I don't have any pics of us playing but here's a pic of the whole group! We really did have a blast!

Then it was time to leave, and we were all kinda worn out! But half way down the poor van was smoking so much because of braking while going down hill that we stopped to let it cool down and most of us piled out to keep walking and then the driver could catch up later! 

But since it was down hill some of us started running down instead of having to break so much while walking,and it was way easier!

Mayra,Susanna, and I ran about the whole rest of the way down the mountain! We were exhausted,but still had fun! :/

The driver did catch up to us after a while,and then we were going down one of the last hills before getting to the paved road and there was this gorgeous sunset infront of us!

It was a perfect pway to end 

Life back at home!

Scenery like this is what reminds me why I love El Salvador so much!

Blue skies,white fluffy clouds,and palm trees!

When flying down, from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, from way high you could still notice the fall colors and grey, cloudy skies(which im not saying wasnt preetty!) but about an hour or more after leaving Atlanta I could tell we were getting close to my country,because of those white fluffy clouds that I just wanted to throw myself in!and everything was lush green! It was a wonderful sight!;)

I missed this girl alot! after hanging out with her for just one day I remembered how easy it is to just be crazy with her!!!  I can't wait till her school leaves out this week and then she will be home again! YAY!

 This guy too! Since when did he have permission to grow so much while i was gone? i don't know either! but wow! He soon is going to pass me! but anyway...
this picture shows how our beloved vehicles down here aren't as  shnazzy as the ones up in the US and need a spoon to keep the window up!lol;0 I love it though and really don't care if they aren't shnazzy:)

 and my dear mother! i know this isn't the best pic,but hey who cares I still felt like posting a pic of us!

               And I was finally able to meet our neighbors twins!!! they seemed so small and light to me after being used to holding my little chubby nephew! I am now getting  used to them though!

                                        They aren't identical,but i still think they look alike!!

       Their poor mother is afraid of us spoiling them by holding them so much,so we try (try,being the key word) to lie them in there seats as much as possible!!;)

So yeah, since I'm back we've been pretty busy! so I haven't had time to post,plus our computer has been down for a bit but I will be trying to update my blog a bit more often!

Have an awesome week!

I'm now home!:)

But I am also missing my sisters little family that I spent most of  my time with the past 21/2 months!

Nelson and Vanessa thanks again for inviting me to help you out over the time Xander was born! I had a lot of fun helping out and just hanging out with you two! I have a lot of awesome memories!

I love them both so much! I think my favorite memories with these two girls was "going to town" shopping! Love that Alayna enjoys it so much!!!

Awwww! I think they are beautiful! I could have taken a lot more picks of them, but Alayna only sat this still for like 5 seconds!!

Ah! And these 2 together just kill me!!! Alayna is an awesome older sister! And Xander loves her too!

I made matching dresses and we wore them the 

Last Sunday I was there! I also combed her pretty silky hair for the last time! Te quiero mi amorsito!!!!

Oh and this little guy! What can I say since I came back on Tues. Vanessa has sent several pictures of him and he already looks SO different since the last time I saw him! But I will always remember how much fun I had cuddling him the first and a half months of his life! You'll always be my little handsome boy!

Baby feet are just adorable! Even tho I think his are so huge for a baby his age!:) they are still small and cute though!

Trying to get some pictures of him with mommy, but he wasn't really cooperating!

Yup! Looking through these pictures makes me really miss all of them! Wow! But the amount of time I spent with them was pretty much perfect!

The feeling of landing in my home country and walking through a tiny airport where I fit in was awesome! Better yet when I saw my family peering through the windows looking for me and their excited waves when they saw me! I wanted to just run out and hug them, but I couldn't cause there was a huge line I had to go through first! But after passing through and getting my luggage I got outside as quickly as possible,stepped out the door to a huge crowd waiting for their visitors,heat, but most of all there was my mom and sister!oh happy day! After hugging my mom she took my luggage and then I headed to Susanna we about fell over and gave others around us something to stare and laugh at, but we didn't care! We hadn't seen each other for TWO AND A HALF MONTHS!!!!lol then was the drive home!  When my older siblings used to come down from being in the states a while,I would almost get annoyed at how much they'd gasp the whole way home,because of the driving! I would think to myself 'this is normal, don't you remember? It's not even bad,Papa's a good driver!" But...:/ I did the same thing!!!:p lol! It felt so odd that here I was doing the same thing! But I think it's normal because we are so used to driving in a country where people HAVE to obey all the rules,well when you get down here,well, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do if you want to get home! And it really isn't that bad!lol also when we stopped at a store to do some grocery shopping, me and Susanna were about out of our minds cause we were together again,finally, that we weren't fit to be in there so of course we went to the Payless on the other side and walked through the isles like always! It was so much fun:) but then we were leaving and I walk out the door saying 'thank you' very nicely,forgetting that I REALLY should be saying 'Gracias!' Oh boy! And when I'd be talking to someone in Spanish my head would go completely blank!! (So, sorry you guys for giving you a hard time! I guess everybody does that!).   But after being here for a while it all comes back and you get settled into normal again!(which is nice!)then getting home to our little town and recognizing about everybody!ah, yes I was ready to get back,too!!!

And now tonight I get to go visit my grandma!!! Yay can't wait to see her again,<3!!!

Hoping to post pix later of once I finally got here but this is all for now! 

Happy afternoon!:)-Cecilia