Pictures in frames...

I love pictures, but pictures printed and in frames REALLY make me happy. Dinesh spent some time with me today working to print these pictures and I put them in this frame. I'm planning to hang this in my formal dining room. I love, love, love it!

It was this picture of Jacob's that came in that got me started on this framing project. Half his team didn't show up for pictures, but we did and look how good they came out.

Okay, try as I may I cannot get this picture to rotate. Anywho I changed the frame it was in to go onto the bookshelf I was working on. I love this picture because not only is Christian in it, but Miranda and Grandpa Mike is also in it.

The cute frames the girls painted.

I found this picture online and printed it, added it to a piece of scrapbook paper and framed it, and hung it in my entry way. It's vintage valentines post cards.

Finally, here is the pictures in frames, on the bookshelf I cleaned off.

Tot School Days at Home

The girls have been busy creating master art work this week! They love to color and paint. I think they believe that crayons are for babies and prefer to use markers instead, haha. When they've finished working on their masterpiece they move onto coloring/painting their hands, arms, faces and clothes. I took out the whiteboard and put it on top of their table and they loved coloring on it with mommy. Anjali was especially excited when she realized that she could make things disappear by rubbing marks away with her finger.

One day I had to lock myself into the laundry room so that I could actually fold a load of laundry. The girls do love helping but the clothes never get folded. The prefer to grab a handful of clothes and run off as fast as they can and hide them. One of the new spots of Vaishali's that I recently discovered is in their oven of their little play kitchen where I found a couple of Jacob's missing shirts. Very clever that one! Anyway, while I was busy in the laundry room, Jacob was suppose to be playing with the girls. It got very, very quiet. When I came out to check why it was so quiet the girls were missing and the gate was down. Jacob of course was busy watching tv. We found the girls in my office and Vaishali had found some of the Indian sweets opened the box and was huddled down in the corner here behind the chair stuffing them in her mouth. So, so cute and Anjali was playing the piano and reminded me a lot of the Charlie Brown cartoon. Jacob ran to get the camera and took the above picture.

Look closely, closer, no closer. We got snow in Atlanta! Well okay, maybe just flurries and nothing stuck to the ground, but I was excited and it was pretty.

See, Jacob even ran outside to taste the snow. Still adorable even at the ripe old age of 12, haha.

Seemed like the perfect week for Jacob to read the short story Snowflake Bentley.

I found these cute unfinished wood frames at Michaels craft store and let the girls paint them with do a dot markers. I think the pink and red with the heart are cute for the upcoming Valentines Day. I put in pictures of them eating cake from their 2nd birthday.

And last, mommies new toy. I love this laminator, now I officially feel like a teacher. I've been busy working on all kinds of new school projects to come later.

  

Yummiest Apple Crisp Ever...

I made this yummy apple crisp recipe to go with dinner tonight. I changed it a little to make it a tad healthier. Instead of using plain flower I used half white and half whole wheat, splenda brown sugar & cut down the regular sugar. YUM!

Christian's 16th Birthday

Happy birthday Christian! I can't believe you're 16 already. We enjoyed spending time with you in NC this past weekend. I pray that God will guide, protect, and bless you in the coming year.

Happy 2012!

I was busy traveling most of the day back home from a quick visit to NC to celebrate Christian's 16th birthday. So, Jacob and I were tired well mostly me. We managed to play a very long game of UNO, Dinesh beat us as usual, and watch Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. I did, however, participate in our families long held traditions. I made two pillow cases one for each of the girls, and I put the change out on a can of corn this year. It's suppose to be a can of sourkraut but I didn't have any. I recently watched a documentary which said that at least 80% of our processed foods in US come from corn so I thought corn was a good idea, hahaha. I read in an article that an old tradition of the Pennsylvania German culture is to eat some form of pork and sourkraut on New Years day is believed to bring good fortune in the coming year. I don't believe in any silly superstitions but think it's fun to carry on those left by my grandparents and great-grandparents.

The reversible pillow cases I made for the girls room. The colors match the pretty new tinkerbell bedspreads that Grandma made them.

My New Year's resolutions are to read the entire Bible this year and to loose weight of course. Last month I bought the above One Year Bible. I like it because it breaks down for you what you should read on each day of the year and includes scripture from the Old Testament, the New Testament and verses from Psalms and Proverbs every day.

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was a week long celebration for us! Since we were going to NC for Christmas we decided to do Christmas at our house on the 21st. The above picture is of the girls waiting to unwrap their presents. Vaishali is obviously giddy with excitment and Anjali is unhappily waiting.

Brother is always happy to help out the lovies. See how sweet he is, too busy paying attention to the girls to attend to his own gifts. The girls were so funny ripping into their presents. Anjali got so excited with the first one and yelled with excitment "thank you, you welcome" and Vaishali kept saying "rip it" in a frog like voice each time she ripped off a piece of paper.

After the girls woke up from the nap, and daddy had finished putting all the toys together, Anjali ran into the play room and said "new toys awesome".

Later that evening we had some friends over and decorated cookies and had pizza.

The girls had their first school Christmas party and me, daddy, and Jacob all went. It was adorable.

Here Anjali is showing us the snowman she made. Doesn't she look serious? Such a big girl at school!

Poor Vaishali wasn't feeling good that day. The following night we found out at the emergency room that she had pneumonia. She still wanted to show her class Christmas tree, just precious!

Check out this cool cat running away with brother's hat then striking a cool pose. Love it!

Daddy helping Anjali decorate her cookie.

Vaishali decorating her cookie and brother even decided to do one too, lol he IS still a kid.

Okay, and this next one is a tad late but I didn't realize we never uploaded the Halloween pics. I couldn't just leave these adorable pics out though.

Oh my, I know aren't they the cutest things? Vaishali is Snow White and Anjali is Little Red Riding Hood. Jacob was way too busy with his friends down the street for me to get a picture of him in his costume but he was a Jester (some crazy looking clown/joker thingy). That night we attended our church fall festival with a very big trunk or treat and lots of bouncy houses to play in, and we finished it off with the kids favorite buffet place, Golden Coral. It was a fun night.

Anjali didn't like Red Riding Hoods Hood, but sissy did for a minute. Well, maybe just for this photo op, hehe.

Frosty the Snowman...

Frosty the Snowman is a cartoon I watch EVERY year, even if my boys refuse to watch it with me. Lucky for me my lovies will and this was their first year to really watch it. This year I bought the movie so that we could watch it when we wanted instead of waiting for it to come on tv and not have to deal with commercials. It was a fun snowman event. We watched Frosty and made snowman cookies. I think tomorrow we'll do a snow flake art activity. Vaishali would rather play but Anjali enjoyed the cartoon while sissy jumped on mommy and daddy. After our snowman cookies they were both jumping on us. I think daddy may have even suffered an injury or two. I'm still a little bummed that Jacob would rather play video games with friends than enjoy these wonderful little kid moments. I mean really, how on earth can you feel like it's Christmas time if you don't watch the traditional Christmas cartoons with your family? Hmm, I wonder if I enjoy these cartoons more than they do, hehe?

Having snowman cookies with daddy. Yum!

Awe, I love that they will sometimes take time out of their busy play day to sit with mommy! I adore these sweet moments and knowing how fast the boys have grown up, I hug them so tight and try to hold on just a minute longer. Vaishali is busy climbing on my back and then rolling off and giggling, hehe.

Playing in the Leaves

Yesterday the weather was so good we spent most of the day outside. This was the first time the girls ever played in the leaves, and man were they dirty afterward. We played all the way upto dinner time and then ended up going out to eat. When we were getting out of the car to go into CiCi's Anjali said "hungry". I told her we were going to eat pizza, and she rubbed her belly and said "pizza good". We had tons of fun in CiCi's Anjali ate a lot and sang really loud along with the music playing in the restaurant. Vaishali likes any kind of dipping sauce and had a bit too much marinara sauce. The girls are starting to decide what THEY want to do and are not much interested in what you want them to do so, when daddy said it was time to go, and they were playing in the little arcade area they said "NO" and through a fit. Then we went next door to Gamestop where Anjali seen some blinking lights and she screamed "cool" and "wow". I'm not sure where she learned cool from but it was funny.