the quilt

My sister, Kristine made a quilt for me for Christmas! She is super talented. I love her attention to quality and detail. She hand stitched the entire border!! Now it's laying on my bed and I get excited each time I see it. Although I wish she was just standing there posing with it every time I walked in my room... having it my bed is second best. Thanks Teen!

travels in twenty-twelve

FEBRUARY- SAN FRANCISCO, CA

MARCH- MANILA, PHILIPPINES

APRIL- MILAN, ITALY - LYON, FRANCE

MAY- THAILAND

JULY- HEBER, UT - SALMON RIVER, ID - LAKE POWELL

AUGUST- OHIO - BEAR LAKE, UT

SEPTEMBER- LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA

OCTOBER- ST GEORGE, UT - SEATTLE, WA

OCTOBER- LA, CA

NOVEMBER- SEATTLE, WA - LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA

DECEMBER- KATHMANDU, NEPAL

kathmandu, nepal

december times

Christmas morning breakfast with the cuties.

Late afternoon christmas gatherings.

Girls trip to the BYU museum of art. 

Hike with the twins in park city.

Super Jane strength.

Only picture from New Year's dinner with friends at Mazza.

Nepal: work trip. Nagarkot

 We drove an hour up a long, tiny road to get to the top of this mountain (they call it a hill).

From the viewpoint it was still quite pollution-y and muggy.

Those mountains peeking up out of the haze... crazy high. Highest in the world!  Nagarkot is the name of this location and last year  I had been in that same mountain range we were looking at . 

Getta and Lhakpa

Lhakpa insisted on taking my picture here. You can barely see the Mountains  So we went back inside for lunch and waited for the haze to pass. 

Someone has a sense of humor and hauled a wooden row boat all the way up. See picture below, the boat is sitting on the ledge. 

Thick haze still covering the mountains. You can just barley see the tips. 

Nepalese style lunch!

View from our lunch spot.

Finally haze is moving. Its unreal to see a mountain range like this. They are breathtaking and my pictures dont even capture them.  I wish I could have seen them in all their glory with no haze but what I saw was pretty great.

Nepal : work trip

A little sunshine, fresh squeezed juice and a heart healthy breakfast. 

This guy is a modern day Nepalese scrooge. 

It was freeeeeezing in his little thread store. And he wasn't very helpful.

I also asked him if he uses a computer and his response was "I am too organized for computer".

At the factory they use this little tent for drying when it's rainy or cloudy.

We visited Corn Row. Ha get it?

For real though this is the area where they specialize in corn drying and we buy some of the dried corn husk here for one of our products. The kids were the cutest here!

Corn drying apparatus.

Beautiful, happy, smile-y people.

Bamboo measuring cups.

There are random livestock everywhere in Kathmandu. 

They are usually tied up and eating trash. Real sad.

I still dont get why they dont have a better system for trash here. It's everywhere. 

Nepal: work trip

This week I am in Nepal for work. 

It's pretty rad!

This is my driver.

This is where I work everyday.

This is the view from the factory window.

This is Swayambhunath stupa. Over 3,000 years old, so they say. 

The stupa is way high on a hill.  Stairs are on 2 sides to get up to the stupa.

There is no limit on distance and height they will hang these Buddhist flags. 

Holy monkeys eating trash.

The neighborhood.

But that power-line(sssssss)....

Off season rice fields.