Things they are a changin'

Well lots of life changes have come our way...

We had a fabulous Radhastami celebration at Krsna Camp, affectionately renamed this year, Radha camp. I know we have truely made some life long friends here. To view all the fun I've uploaded the pictures to my Picasa web album.


Papa Bob had a birthday and Ashton made him a cake all by himself! Here is a shot of the baker after he finished his masterpiece.

Ashton finally lost that pesky loose front tooth! No more Carni smile!

Steven will begin his Ayurvedic Practice starting Mid November. We just signed a lease for his office space yesterday! We are super excited. Got a great price in a great location. Here is a picture of the exterior. We'll get to move in October 1. This will give us plenty of time to paint and get everything set up.

Steven's got several more trips down to Nevada City planned through November and then he'll be home for a while! YAY! A trip to India may also be in the near future due to some great connections he made on his last trip to California. A pilgrimage is being organized by a local Pujari to tour various holy places. He'll also have an opportunity to meet other Practitioners in India!

I couldn't be more proud or excited for him!

What a Loaf!

Oh yeah! Can you believe how awesome this loaf of bread is? Well don't look at me. My wonderful, talented, intelligent, handsome and caring husband made this for us. If this is his idea of loafing around, I'm all for it!

Thanks Steven we love you and appreciate all you do for our family!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Well, ok Steven isn't exactly leaving on a Jet Plane, but pretty close. He is setting off for a week long intensive for his Ayurveda program in Nevada City, California on Sunday. I already miss him. I started baking goodies for him to take with him while he lives the bachelor life for a week.

The boys and I plan to squeeze more snowboarding in while Dad is away. While the cat's away the mice will play right? I also hope to finish painting our bedroom before he returns. It is just the finish work left around the ceiling. That would be a nice surprise.

So wish us luck! We'll need it.

PS
The photo is one I took trying out my new skills after taking a photography class. I think it turned out pretty good!

Way Bogus!

For all you snow bunnies this one's for you. The boys and I have spent the Saturday's of January learning the fine art of snowboarding! We have seen it all in the last four weeks and I must say they both came out victorious. I am so proud of them sticking with it even when times got tough.

Here are the highlights!


Snack time! Gotta refuel after all that hard work!


Hope you all have had as much fun this winter as we have! Let it snow!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Christmas everyone!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with our extended family. We hope all of you did as well. My sweet nephew was the center of attention this year as he is too cute not to want to smoother with kisses and hugs!

The kids had a blast playing with cousins and eating tons of sweets.


We even got some great family and generation pictures!


This shot is my favorite! Autumn you are awesome and I had so much fun talking with you. Congrats on the new house! We are so excited for you guys!

Hope you all had as great a Christmas as we did.

From our family to yours happy holidays!

Halloween!

Well it's been a while, but I decided to start back up with our Halloween celebration. We had a wonderful time at our friend Amrta's Halloween party. The theme was come as something from scripture. We had lots of fun with this! Here is what the boys and I came up with.

Garuda, Jatayu, and Holika! We all had to act out our characters and then everyone guessed who we were. It was so much fun! We'll do this again next year for sure.

We carved pumpkins on Saturday this year, which was a bit late, but they looked really good on Halloween. Kartikeya carved his very own dragon design, and Krsnanam designed a angry pumpkin with spears going through him.

It was so awesome dressing up. The boys got lots of comments on Sunday night while trick-or-treating. A few people thought they were ducks, which made us all laugh. Hope all of you had as much fun as we did this Halloween! Thanksgiving is just around the corner! This year is really flying by.

Holi!

Now my title may throw you and you may be thinking, Jennifer that is not how you spell holy. Well, actually it is if you are talking about Holi, the festival of colors. At the end of March each year the Utah Temple holds a gigantic festival called Holi to usher in the coming spring. Find out more about the story of this festival here.

Our journey began when one of our friends, Sri Hari asked us to go down to this festival as performers. I was really excited by this opportunity to be able to sing for so many people. Here is a taste of our performance. It is estimated that about 25,000 people came this year and over 50,000 bags of color were sold.

We had an amazing time performing and playing with all the devotees and spectators. You can see some of the best photos I took here. The file sizes are really big so I don't plan to post the photos again here. I'll let the photos speak for themselves as they are very colorful and tell a good story. I hope you enjoy and leave comments if you like. Here is a shot that one of the professional photographer's got of Ashton running through all the sage brush.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!