2012 Recap: January

2012 was undoubtedly one of our most exciting, adventurous years yet. We made some amazing friends and saw many new and familiar (all beautiful) places in the world. In the beginning of January, over our favorite lentil soup, we opened our new leather journals I had gotten us for Christmas.  We wrote down our goals and discussed how we could achieve them. It's such a good feeling to look back on what we had written and see that we accomplished so much. We are going to be doing one blog post for each month of 2012, since we can't sum it all up in one. Plus, we didn't blog as often as we wanted to for the most part of the year and we didn't want these photos and memories to go unnoticed.

In January, we were still in Utah after the Holidays visiting family (best way to start the year)....

Guatemalan Christmas: Part 1

We came to the coast to spend Christmas with Megan's family in Coatepeque and to experience our first non-white Christmas, no pun intended.

Here are a few pics from yesterday! We'll enjoy some sun for you if you enjoy the snow for us. 

Feliz Navidad! 

winter wonderland

Two years ago for our first Christmas in Spokane, we set out to get our Christmas tree after the first big snowfall. I love this shot I overlooked all those years ago of my Quinto in a winter wonderland.

collection

 

I was very excited to start my collection of colorful tapestries and dishes here. This week we went to a few must-see places in Guate. I'm happy we were able to go to Panajachel and Chichicastenango, I knew Kent would love them both. We had a great time. Our preview for Panajachel is up next, but this post is to showcase our finds from Chichicastenango where the biggest market in Central America is held. Can you believe these handmade cups were only $3.75 each?! And it was in a store where bargaining wasn't even an option. Our hand-stitched tablecloth was only $12. Winning. Here's to colorful mornings.

december

This December will be different for us in a lot of ways. And although we miss this scene and our families more, I get to cross off an important item on my list:

Experience Christmas the way my mother did growing up.

If you know me well, you might know that I'm a halfblood. My father was born and raised in a small town in Idaho and my mother was born and raised (through her adolescent years) in Guatemala. That is partly why we are here. We'll expound on it all in pieces as we continue to share our story in other posts, but a main reason why we wanted this move when we did is because we wanted to experience Christmas with my Guatemala family here. So in a form of nostalgia, a snapshot of where we spent Christmas last year - the beautiful Wasatch front.

There they are, two of my favorite people.