Catch Up on Summer Days Post #1

On occasion when it was just too hot or we needed a change in our play area, I took the car out of the garage and set up a few different play stations in the garage, Along with the fan running of course.

Dinner with the warm glow of oil lamps.

And a very relaxing exciting bubble bath at the end of the day.

This is just a tad late, but I love this birthday pic of daddy and the girls. I have a lot of pictures I want to post that I need to catch up on and I plan on doing that every couple of days until I've gotten caught up on all of our summer pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas in July

Lots of fun was had spending time with cousins:)

                                                              Doing Christmas crafts

You'll not see too many photos of Christian. Every time I try to take a picture of him he turns around like this...

Every time Lish comes to my house she cleans the kitchen, yay!

We had fudge brownies and hot chocolate.

Opened little gifts for the kiddos.

Decorated a bit...

and earlier in the day we played for a bit outside.

Fun, Fun, Fun!

Mother's Day 2012

Our day out for Mother's Day at the botanical gardens was a wet one, but still a lot of fun. Thanks Miranda for taking pictures!

I love this picture of mom. A little Mary Poppins look with that umbrella.

Our tour guide was very informative, lol.

Pick Your Own Strawberry Farm

We had an exciting day at Patterson Farm today with the girls. This morning I had told the girls we were getting ready to go visit a farm, and as soon as Anjali finished lunch she got up from the table and said "let's go see the farm".

Strawberry picking was fun but the girls quickly got tired of carrying their 1 gallon baskets of strawberries and started eating them instead while daddy and me finished picking the strawberries.

After washing our hands Vaishali decided it was time for a quick drink, and then Anjali hurried over to the market to pick out a tractor.

Taking a relaxing ride with daddy around the farm. Anjali was so big sitting in there all by herself.

The girls favorite part of the farm of course is visiting the animals, and ducks are always well loved by my lovies.

Silly goats!

Riding the tractor trikes was a little disappointing for them when they realized they were too little to ride them on their own. I'm betting by the time fall rolls around and we go back for the pumpkin patch they'll be able to.

She's thinking Hooray for giant sandboxes!

Vaishali's so strong I wasn't at all surprised that she could do this.

2 gallons of freshly picked strawberries is gonna make a lot of strawberry pie, strawberry cobbler, strawberry milk shakes, smoothies and lots of other good stuff I haven't thought of yet. Patterson Farm with 2 year olds is fun, fun, fun!

Celebrating Holi 2012

We just brought out the colors (scented colored powder) and the girls are not sure what to do with it.....yet.

Daddy says "we throw it in the air, like this".

Alrighty then, let's get this party started.

It didn't take long for them to figure it out, lol. I'm sure who ever invented the way in which people celebrate this holiday in India must have had a toddler or two around. This must be done right before bath time, but that's okay we like messy fun around our house.

After sometime they moved on to painting each other's faces.

Next, we played with our new bubble machine that makes colored bubbles. Yay!

Fun, fun, fun and I'm so glad daddy has someone else to play holi with because it's not my favorite activity. I do, however, enjoy watching the girls play it while I get to stay clean and take pictures.

Play doh fun...

The boys are having fun playing with their sisters. Unfortunately sometimes they don't like to play nice. They're playing with the Elmo colors and shapes play doh set that Grandma gave them for Christmas. I was having a hard time taking pictures because I had to keep getting on to the boys, yes I said boys, for taking play doh from the girls. Oh well, I guess this means there still is some little boys left in them after all. So sweet.

Just look at that excitement on Christian's face. He does love him some play doh.

See, he even made me take a picture of what he made.

In preparation for winter I had put away our water table months ago, but decided to take it out to use inside. With wood flooring and carpet water wouldn't be a good idea so I dyed some rice and put a lot in their for them to play with it like sand. I added some dinosaurs for now until they get tired of playing with them and if there's any rice left in there I'll change the theme to something else, penguins maybe? This is after they've played with it a few times and it's missing lots of rice. They do very much like to throw it as if it were confetti. A mess for me but lots of fun for them...(sigh) I guess it's worth it.

Pictures of half of our classroom.

Adorable pictures taken right before we went to church today.

We Met Dr Seuss!

We got to meet Dr Seuss today and even have Dr Seuss cupcakes, yay! The girls always enjoy a trip to the mall but they really enjoyed this. When we were leaving Vaishali was crying and saying hug the cat. It was passed lunch time and nap/rest time, they don't exactly nap too much anymore, and they still did really well.

Here they're enjoying their Dr Seuss cupcakes. We had to move away from the table which held the cupcakes because Anjali ate hers really fast and then said "more cake, more".  The boys weren't really into the whole Dr Seuss thing and decided to go off to GameStop. Oh well, I guess they have outgrown such things after all (sigh).