FAVORITE PICS
A house/store that we passed while touring plantation
At the coffee plantation ...now thats a balancing act :)
Two clean babies :)
Time went by sooooo slow in Guatemala ...... I got to be a pro at
Me pushing the babies to sleep in the courtyard of our Antigua house
Gramps decided that Arianna is a princess so she should be carried on a pillow
My awesome helpers
Bray Bray
My nephew Jude using the fountain at our house in Antigua as a swimming pool !!!
One year ago today ... Gramps with his grandkids in Guatemala City
My 30th Bday party in Guatemala
My crazy baby brother on the way to Santa Maria de Jesus
The boys chilling
Beach Bums
The twins hands with gramps hand
We all were a little excited to find Dr. Pepper in Guat :)
Learning to walk in Antigua
A little attached
Our christmas card taken at the Marriott in Guatemala last year
6. God is with us
Time went by sooooo slow in Guatemala ...... I got to be a pro atTETRIS !!!
Me pushing the babies to sleep in the courtyard of our Antigua house
Gramps decided that Arianna is a princess so she should be carried on a pillow
My awesome helpers
Bray Bray
My nephew Jude using the fountain at our house in Antigua as a swimming pool !!!
One year ago today ... Gramps with his grandkids in Guatemala City 
My 30th Bday party in Guatemala
My crazy baby brother on the way to Santa Maria de Jesus
The boys chilling
Beach Bums
The twins hands with gramps hand
We all were a little excited to find Dr. Pepper in Guat :)
Learning to walk in Antigua
A little attached
Our christmas card taken at the Marriott in Guatemala last yearThe Most Important Things I learned in the past TWO years :
1. The hole in my heart from "seeing what I saw" in Guatemala will never fill up but only get bigger.
2. God is with us
3. Culture Shock is so intense and it feels like a massive overload of all the emotions combined
4. Learning to F.ully R.ely O.n G.od is the most challenging but most rewarding faith building tool.
5. I will never fully recover from my culture shock and thank God for that. He has opened the eyes of my whole family .
6. God is with us
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!
And I leave you with one of my all time favorite pictures
Arianna not missing out on anything and Brayden just snoozing away. Guess who was up until MIDNIGHT last night and guess who was snoozing !!???? :)
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13 comments:
We were at the Marriott in Guatemala City last Christmas also. We had a picture taken in front of the same Christmas tree. We were there for two weeks to spend the holidays with Nora. I wish we had met.
Pam
What an amazing year you have had and a wonderful and eye opening experience of living in Guatemala. My greatest regret is not seeing more of John's birth country (the good and the bad) on my two trips to Guatemala.
Have a Happy New Year!!
BEAUTIFUL
The last picture is so cute!!! My how they have changed the past year.
What we see and learn from Guatemala changes us. We are never the same. Only those who have experienced it can understand it. My heart is heavy today with the current situation.
Happy New Year!!
What fun! Thanks for the year in review - all four of your children are beautiful. I wish I had spent more time in Guat - I pray the Lord leads me there again- soon! Happy New Year!
Becca
Momma to Ella
What beautiful pics! It's amazing to see the changes one year can bring. And how some things don't change - I can't believe how much Arianna hasn't changed, only gotten bigger. :)
Kerri and Ruby
That was an awesome post! Thanks for sharing those pictures. Happy New Year to you and your family!
Andrea
Wow! What an amazing year! Isn't it amazing how God touches us!?!
Happy New Year!
Oh I love these pictures. Guatemala has also changed me forever.
I love this post!! The pictures are fantastic. They look so different but yet so much the same.
This post is so full of wonderful memories and made me cry and I love your thoughts. So true. Living in Guatemala for any amount of time is an eye opening experience. It is so special that you were able to share it with so much of your family. I love the all time favorite photo.
Wishing you the best of 2008 and a new year that is great!
What a beautiful post- what an amazing year.
spending time in any 3rd world country can be quite shocking and so dreadfully painful. It's hard to imagine that for them it is a way of life. Why can't we do more?!
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