Spring Break: Visiting Dada and Ba's Offices!

This Spring Break, we have been relaxing at home and enjoying local activities.  It was actually cold and rainy most of the week, so we spent a lot of time at home.  One activity we got to do though was visit Dada and Ba at their offices!  As part of the Highway 35 expansion project, Dada and Ba's current office building is being demolished to expand the highway.  Consequently, Dada has already moved into a new office space and Ba is moving into one at the end of the month.  Therefore, we wanted to see Dada's new office and visit Ba's current office one last time before the move!

The boys really enjoyed seeing Dada and Ba in their work environment and learned some new things about financial planning and medicine while they were there too!  It looks like they are ready to follow in their grandparents' footsteps!

Krish and Arjun at Dada's US Wealth Advisors Office!

Hanging out in the coffee table reading a new financial
planning children's book from Dada!

Krish learning about the human body and primary
care from Ba at her clinic!

Arjun learning how to use Ba's otoscope!

Ba teaching Krish more about the field of medicine!

Krish sitting in Ba's chair at her desk!  Look at all those
files and charts!

Arjun sitting at Ba's computer desk!

Happy Holi!

This past Sunday, we celebrated Holi at the DFW Mandir with Dada and Ba!  The boys had so much fun singing, dancing, and throwing colors on everyone!  We were so happy to be able to take them this year since they were sick during Holi last year.  It was great being able to expose them to our cultural holiday which celebrates good over evil and the coming of spring.  Both boys enjoyed it so much that they didn't want to leave the celebration at the Mandir.  Krish even asked to hear the story of Holi again after Dada told it to him last week.  He also said he didn't want to wash off his Holi colors all day!  It really was amazing showing them this part of our culture for the first time (although they have both been to Holi once before when Arjun was an infant, they seemed to really appreciate it more this time around)!

The boys loved playing Holi with Dada!

The guys!

Getting some color from Ba!

Sweet brothers playing Holi with each other!

We had a great time!

Dallas Snow Day! March 5, 2015

It's been an interesting winter through late February-early March!  While we were lucky enough to get amazing 70 degrees and sunny weather during Krish's outdoor birthday party weekend on February 7th, we have experienced some extreme cold and snow (for Dallas) by the end of the month.  After four snow days the last week of February, we experienced one final beautiful snow day last Thursday March 4th!  It snowed all night, and we woke up to our entire neighborhood and all of Dallas covered entirely in a beautiful blanket of pure, white snow!  It was absolutely breathtaking!  Since living in Dallas, we've definitely seen a few snow days every winter, but this was just gorgeous!  Unfortunately, Daddy had to go into work that morning, but the boys and I enjoyed the snow with the neighbors all morning long!

Snow at 6 AM! I never noticed how neon yellow the
crosswalk signs are!

The front of our house!  The lawn is completely covered
in 4 inches of snow!

Our backyard at noon.  The snow on the street has
completely melted.

The neighborhood park!

With the streets deserted and fully covered in snow, we felt like we owned it!  We were living in a Winter Wonderland.  The crystals of white in the trees glistened and the air felt crisp and fresh.  The boys rode their bikes in the snow with their friends, made snow angels, made a snow man that looked like a snow pile because the snow was so soft, attempted sledding, played on a snow-covered play ground, built a giant, life-size snowman with the neighbors, and made some delicious snow ice cream!  We had a productive morning to say the least!  We did all this before sadly seeing all the snow melt by noon!

Our backyard snowpile snowman!

 Playing on our Arbol street with Cayden, Logan, and Caleb!

My cutie pie in the middle of the street after slipping
and sliding on the ice.

Walking to the park!

Boys getting cold and tired after 2 full hours out in the snow!
Resting on the park bench, ready to go home!

Momma and Krish with the neighborhood
snowman!

We love our neighbors!!!

Recipe for snow ice cream!

Yummy snow ice cream!

Krish's Greenhill school playground the day after snow day!

24 Glen Abbey Drive: Our New Home - Bhumi Pooja

Since finding the perfect lot of land, signing our title deed last April, finalizing our floor plan and signing our construction loan contract last week, our builders are finally ready to break ground and start the construction of our new home!  We are extremely excited about this next chapter in our lives and are thoroughly enjoying working on this project!

This past Saturday, we participated in an auspicious Bhumi Pooja on our land in preparation of building our new home. Even Krish and Arjun participated in the ceremony by digging in the land!  We are hopeful that with the start of the spring weather, the construction process will be smooth and seamless.  We can't wait to witness the progress of the building phase and see our dream home come to fruition!

Mahraj Janakbhai officiating the pooja