Little Gringo

For all of you who don´t know.............I´M PREGNANT!!! After a great first year in Guatemala and 4 wonderful years of marriage we thought the time was right. We surprised our families with the news during our time visiting Montana this past month.


We are expecting the baby to make it´s appearance around January 12th. I'm 16 weeks along and through with morning sickness! We will travel to Guatemala City a few weeks before the due date where we can take some advanced Spanish classes as we wait for the baby to arrive. Our side of the country doesn´t have very good medical facilities or equipment so we don´t feel comfortable staying here. I know this is practically unheard of these days but we WON´T be finding out the sex. We want to be surprised. I´m thinking it´s a boy and Shane´s guessing it´s a girl so we´ll see who´s right come January. Please pray for a healthy pregnancy and smooth transition into parenting!

Back in Chamelco........finally

Does anyone else hate airports as much as I do? We were suppose to leave Wednesday night, but after a 6 hour delay there was no way to make our connecting flight. So we quickly called our 2 airline carriers to change our tickets, which had to be successfully done within an hour or repurchasing tickets would have been neccesary. Then we learn we will leave Missoula Friday morning and have to hang out in Las Vegas until Saturday night. Bummer.
We did make the most out of this unexpected time in Vegas and enjoyed spending some much needed ¨us¨ time together after our packed 4 weeks in Montana. We think the worst is behind us and only smooth sailing from here on out until at check-in in Vegas we find out we can't board until we purchase return tickets since we don't have our work visas yet (after 12 months of waiting) but only tourist visas. So once again the race was on and there we were trying to buy return tickets within the hour and making sure we could get them credited to our account when we cancel them. After that near panic attack was subdued we arrived in Detroit at 1 a.m. and had to spend the night in the terminal since we had to be back at 4 a.m. for check-in. I slept only about an hour when I overheard some disgruntled airport workers discussing the ¨campers¨ behind their work station. Oops. Due to that one delay in Missoula and switching our flights we flew from Missoula to Vegas to Detroit to Fort Lauderdale to Guatemala City. Yikes. Why we had to fly to Detroit I have no idea.

I successfully accomplished two things from my ¨top 10 least favorite things to do¨ list. First was sleeping in an airport and the second was throwing up in a confined space. There I was head hung over my barf bag as we landed in Guatemala City. How humiliating.

Then I had to board a bus for a 5 hour twisting, turning road. 58 hours after we left Missoula we arrived home and were able to reunite with our o-so-loved puppy, Scout.








As you can tell by the pictures we had a great 4 weeks with friends and family.