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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Happy Divali

Happy Divali to all my Hindu friends and family. Hope everyone had a festive and holy day and a wonderful year to follow filled with love, peace and prosperity...

Here's a look at our Divali's in the last few years.

2009- with a 6 month old baby

2010

Sweet toddler

2011-

For some reason, I can't seem to find the actual Divali day but here's Cassia celebrating with some friends' kids.

2012-

Our family is growing!

2013

And here we are this year! Post to follow shortly.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Five on Friday

Happy Friday everyone!! This week I am linking up with Darci, April, Natasha and Christina for Five on Fridays... pretty much the same thing as my past weekly updates or mid week randoms.

1- We did end up going trick or treating after all in all the rain and wind with our sick kiddie. She insisted and after bundling up, we headed out to a few houses. It was fun and maybe next year we'll take sweet A who 'decided' to stay home with papa and dole out the candy instead. We ended the night bundled up watching It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Getting ready for a long night.

Like my fascinator?

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Halloween. Our pumpkins have been picked and carved. The house has been appropriately attired and the pumpkin scented candles have been burning daily for weeks. We've had our fill of pumpkin pancakes and roasted pumpkin seeds. We've been to a Halloween party, had a Halloween pajama party and did a practice run for trick or treating but.... and it's a big but...we have a sick four year old!

They called from school yesterday saying that she was listless with a fever. Poor thing has missed her two parties because of it. We are resting up today so that maybe... and it's a big maybe... we can go to a couple houses tonight!

From our spooky house to yours--- Happy Halloween!!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Weekend Fun- Family Time

First of all, can you believe we're at the 200 post point!? Thanks for reading everyone! And by everyone I mean D, my parents, in laws, aunts, cousins, a few dozen friends and a handful of strangers :-)

We had such a nice family weekend. On Friday, Darin and I went out for date night--- I guess we don't do dates often enough since Cassia did ask us why we were going on a date as we're already married. We had trouble getting into a restaurant as I didn't make any reservations in Kitchener and Darin couldn't make it home to get to the place I had booked in Guelph we ended up going to this new restaurant in downtown Kitchener- we used to try all these new places before kids so it was fun eating at this new restaurant with its eclectic mix of food. And this place had no kid menu! We even had coffee and dessert like grown ups.

On Saturday, poor Anjali came down with a cold but we still went to a Halloween party at our local Kindermusik. So Shrek, a witch, a fairy and a pretty miserable owl made their way to our music studio where both girls have Kindermusik classes for some games, snacks and music. Cassia loves dressing up on a Saturday so Halloween is so much fun for her. She plans for months ahead on what to wear (with my prodding her to wear the same costume as last year). She was in her element.

Sunday was a perfect fall day- crisp and sunny. The perfect day for a long drive to Ajax where we got to visit with our friends Amra, Sean, Arissa and Aaron. We had lunch (and dinner), and hung out all day. Both girls fell asleep on the way home so D and I got to watch the best episode of The Good Wife ever! I mean seriously, best episode ever! A wonderful end to a lovely weekend.