Slacker!

OK,
So I am apologizing for any of you who come to my blog planning to see something new posted because... it just doesn't happen. I keep saying, "I am definitely going to get to that this week", and surely enough, the week passes and it just doesn't happen. Needless to say, I have pictures of my sweet little four-year-old's birthday party and also a picture of my new hair cut and color that have not been posted, but I will get to it... hopefully this month :)

Rosa, the mother of the three children, and their new home. They are such a wonderful family and it was such a blessing to get to know and help them.
Rosa's three kids, named Gual, Selvi and Iris.
Ki, me and the kids showing our green hands after painting the inside of their new house.

Everyday to and from the job site we rode in the back of trucks. This is us so happy to be headed back after a hard day working.

This is another very lovely picture of us. Here we are waiting for the trucks to come pick us up to take us back to Antigua.

Mom, Ki & I working on the house!

Well here we are moving cinder-block from one location to another. This happened almost every day and was really hard work. We all appear to be really happy about the fact we are loading block after block but we are only smiling for the camera, and apparently Kil'ee found the energy to pose.

Here we are filling the cracks between the blocks with concrete. We actually became decent at this task, though I wouldn't recommend hiring us. We eventually ended up walking along the beams about 5 feet off the ground doing this and although I am a big chicken, I pulled my self together on the unstable beams and helped get the job done.
We actually had to mix the cement and concrete. First we would shovel the amount of wheelburrows full of dirt or rocks needed, and then we would add the cement bags. Mixing it all together was by far the hardest and most exhausting job we did. The second to last day we mixed 14 wheelburrows full of dirt with 7 wheelburrows full of rock and 8 bags of concrete at once. It was painfully exhausting.
This is me mixing cement.
This is a lovely picture of Ki and I carrying buckets of concrete to pour on the ground making the floor for the home. If you can't tell, we are covered in it and quite disgusting. I had bruises on my arm and leg from holding, lifting and carrying the buckets.

Our Interesting Times in Guatemala (besides building the house)

We climbed the volcano Picaya! It was a really cool experience and really hot by the lava.
My sister and I both happened to run into this lovely corner with the protruding cement window sill. This picture was taken after her hit and before mine, and I caught her after she ran into. I find it ironic the picture was taken of the two of us and I soon after went down because of it.

Interesting things in Guatemala

So we thought it was interesting that they can carry anything with or on their head. This woman is carrying pineapple in bags. We would see men and women also carrying things like large bundles of wood held to them by a strap around their forehead. Crazy.
This is obviously a volcano erupting and we thought it was really cool that we got to witness it.
We found this interesting thing a little funny. The main square in Antigua has this fountain in it with (stone) women, one facing each direction, squeezing their nipples where the water flows from.

Pictures of the home the family had before and during our trip in Guatemala

This picture is of the house the family was living in prior to us building their new one.
This was the inside of the house the family was living in. The family consisted of a single mom, her twin, 10-year-old boys, and her 6-year-old daughter. I just have to say what a wonderful family they are.
This picture is of the family's kitchen (the area with a roof held up by sticks to the right), the bathroom (the pieces of tarp with the blanket in front), and the new home we were building for them which is the cinderblock and cement to the left of the picture.