My Lovies Turn 5!

Happy Birthday to the sweetest little lovies ever!  My girls turned 5 today.  I can't believe it has gone by so fast. We celebrated yesterday since they had the day off from school.  Vaishali woke up a little before 8 & come into our room to tell us it was their bday lol & then I had to wake up Anjali. We went downstairs & had cake for breakfast,  got dressed up in their new Anna dresses,  opened presents, & then went outside to ride their new dune racer. After playing with their toys for a couple hours, we went to golden corral for lunch & then chuck-e-cheese to play.  It was a full day of bday fun.  Today they went back to school & brought cupcakes to share with their friends at school.  Vaishali is excited to be 5 & Anjali wishes she could stay 4. :-) I love these girls so much! 

Happy Halloween!

Vaishali said it was the best Halloween ever!  We started off the day wearing orange accessories,  orange eyeshadow & nail polish, & orange socks for orange day at school.  After school we rested and watched cartoons until time to get dressed up for trick-or-treat at the mall.  Both of the girls chose to be Elsa from the Frozen movie.  After trick-or-treat we went to IHOP for pumpkin face pancakes & then home to eat a tiny bit of candy.  It was a good day indeed.

A September Weekend

It turned out to be a beautiful weekend with fall like weather here in North Maryland.  Saturday morning the girls had their Home Depot clinic with Daddy & they made a cute Wizard of Oz bird house.  For lunch we ate at our favorite Indian restaurant,  then picked up Gulab Jammun ( Indian desert ) at the Indian grocery store.   Today was spent mostly outside playing while daddy finished the shade top over the sandbox he made,  cleaning off & decorating the front porch for fall. We spent the afternoon at a local farm apple picking,  visiting the farm animals & playing at their park.  Now I'm enjoying the fall like breeze blowing through house since it's cool enough to leave the windows open.  

Preschool & Daycare

We've started our own Preschool & Daycare!  Visit our website at  sawantkidsacademy.com

New Years Eve 2014

We danced with Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve & then it turned into a balloon sword fight/dance.  We sprayed each other with silly string,  some of which is still stuck to our family room ceiling :-) & had lots of food and snacks.

Back to Blogging

Last night I was awake until 1:30am looking back at my old posts on this blog, and I kept thinking how glad I was that I had captured all those sweet memories.  So, I'm gonna get back to it so that I don't regret it later for missing all the sweet times.  Since I've missed most of this year I plan to spend some time catching up with pictures I've taken.  I'll start with some pics from Christmas 2013. Jacob flew in from NC for his Christmas break.  We had a lot of fun but missed bubby. Jacob's in that stage where he doesn't want his pic taken so you won't see much of him.

Valentines Day 2014

Okay so I seriously need to update my blog! I just realized I didn't even do a Christmas post! I can't believe it. 
Anywho,  Valentines Day was fun.  We're in India this month and the girls are having a blast. We baked a pink cake for cousins and made Valentines for them and then hands delivered it.  That was fun and sister in law had gulab jammun (Indian desert) ready for us when we got there.  We first took them to an outdoor flower market and let them pick out some flowers.  Next,  we went to Aaji's house and she taught daddy how to make them flower necklaces.  Later Aaji suggested we take them to Infinity Mall.  The mall is 4 stories and the top floor is just for kids with rides and arcade and play spaces.  The girls had a lot of fun.  It was a sweet day; -)

Dining Room

Only 8 more days until Christmas and I finally got my dining room how I want it :-)
Now if only the sun will shine like this on Christmas Day I'll really be happy!

Christmas Playroom

All cleaned up & decorated for Christmas.

First snow of the season...

... well it's not even officially winter for 2 more weeks and we got about 7 inches of fluffy snow today!  We took the girls out with intentions to build a snow family instead of a big snowman because we were only forecasted to get 2 inches, but the snow was too powdery and wouldn't pack.  Ah well we had fun anyway!  After about 10 minutes Anjali stated complaining it was too cold but we still managed to be out about 20 minutes.  Then I had daddy fill up tubs of snow for them to play with inside.  We watched all kinds of Christmas movies and had chicken curry for lunch, thanks daddy:-)
Me and the girls spent a good bit of the afternoon cleaning up the playroom and changing out toys.  I kept it to a minimum since Christmas is only 16 days away!  Oh yes and best of all I finished all of my school work week before last so no school work to do! !! Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for that degree to arrive in the mail since I'm not attending graduation. 
Tomorrow I'll post pics of our playroom all cleaned up and decorated for Christmas.