ABC Tag

A - Attached or Single: Attached
B - Best Friend(s): My hubby and my sister
C - Cake or Pie: Cake--chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting
D - Day of Choice: Saturday--Than is home and lets me sleep in and then we usually do something fun as a family
E - Essential Item: Dr. Pepper
F - Favorite Color(s): Orange
G - Gummy Bears or Worms: Worms
H - Hometown: Chicago?
I - Indulgence(s): Extreme Moose Tracks Ice Cream
J - January or July: JULY!!!
K - Kids: Two gorgeous ones
L - Life is incomplete without: Family, The Gospel
M - Marriage Date: November 10
N - Number of Siblings: 1 sister
O - Oranges or Apples: Both
P- Phobias or Fears: Too high places
Q - Quote: "Pardon me for being rude. It was not me, it was my food. It just popped up to say hello and now its gone back down below." Austin Powers
R- Ring size: 5
S - Season: Autumn
T- Tag 3 Friends: Andrea, Cheri, and Allison
U - Unknown fact about me: I've been to Kuwait (well, just inside the airport).
V - Very favorite stores: Target, Naartjie, The Red Balloon, Archivers
W - Worst Habit: Biting my fingernails
X-ray or Ultrasound: Baby ultrasounds for sure!
Y - Your Favorite Food(s): Bombay House Chicken Tikka Masala
Z- Zodiac: Virgo

Tulip Festival?

We've been going to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point for the past 3 years. I guess it has become a fun little tradition. Sara and I (and now Aaron too) go with my sister and her kids and we usually have a good time. Maybe that's not really true. Last year, when I was 6 months pregnant I thought that Sara could handle the very long walk and decided not to bring my stroller. Well, she could handle the walking, but she could not resist the beautiful flowers. After being warned, she continued to pick them and the only thing I could do about it was carry her, a screaming 3-year-old, a half of a mile back to the car. So I guess that wasn't a good time. But the flowers have always been beautiful.

This year we've had a long winter, but I thought that if they were advertising for their tulip festival, there must be tulips. Boy, was I wrong. Sure, there was one here or there, but nothing substantial. It pretty much looked like what's going on in my yard. Therefore, I have no pictures to commemerate the event. So why am I writing about this? I guess I just want to put down in words how I wasted money this week. Sara also revealed her disappointment by asking, "Why was there no dancing?" Turns out she thought the tulip festival should include dancing tulips.

Sittting, At Last

Finally Aaron is sitting up on his own!!! I've been stressing out because he is 9 months old and can't sit up. Since he was born a month early, I've known that he will probably learn to do things like sitting, crawling, and walking a little bit later than the other babies his age. But I didn't expect sitting to take this long. My sweet baby has always had a special love for me, his mommy, in that if I'm around the only thing he wants is to be held. So the past months have been hard on me because I can only put him down for literally 2 minutes before the wailing begins. This makes doing anything around the house (like sweeping, dishes, laundry) nearly impossible. Anyway, enough with the "waah, waah, waah, poor Veena." Than has been working with Aaron more the past few days to help him sit, since it wasn't working to well with me. And then last night--Aaron turned into a "big" baby. He sat for 10-15 minutes and loved it. He was laughing and playing and just as happy as could be. I didn't get a picture last night, so today at lunch--yes, McDonald's--I snapped a few. If you look closely you can see that Aaron is NOT resting his back against the highchair.
Now for a Sara story. She is 4, but I find that she still needs to take a nap everyday or else she turns into a grumpy beast of a girl. Today we were driving home in the afternoon and I knew that she would not be keen on the idea of a nap, so I tried to strike a bargain with her. She likes driving home one way where we go up this big hill. She asked if we could go the big hill way and I told her we could, but then she'd have to take a nap when we got home. Her response was, "So if we don't go up the big hill, then I don't have to take a nap?" She's getting too smart for me.

Name Tag

I thought this was cute and would give me something to blog about a little. So this is for you Traci.

1. My rock star name (first pet and current car): Mittens Pilot
2. My gangsta name (favorite candy bar and favorite cookie): Take 5 Chocolate Chip
3. My "brotha" name (first initial of first name and first three letters of last name: V'Mur
4. My detective name (favorite color and favorite animal): Orange Elephant
5. My soap opera name (first name and city where you were born): Veena Chicago
6. My Star Wars name (first three letters of your last name and first two letters of your first name then the word "of" then a medication you are on): Mur Ve of Camilla
7. My superhero name (2nd favorite color and favorite drink with "The" in front): The Pink Dr. Pepper
8. My Nascar name (first names of your grandfathers): Arthur Jayantilal
9. My stripper name (name of your favorite perfume/cologne and your favorite candy): Lilu Twerps
10. My witness-protection name (mother's and father's middle names): Gloria Jayantilal

I think my favorite is The Pink Dr. Pepper. But Lilu Twerps is good too.

Bag Tag

1. Take a photo of your everyday bag(s).
2. Take a photo of all its contents--no cleaning out first. Discuss. :)




Even though I am a mom to a 4 year old and a 9 month old, I absolutely HATE carrying around a huge diaper bag. So I dump the essentials into what I think is the cutest bag ever. I got it at a bazaar in Provo right before Christmas and I've been loving it ever since.

The contents: 1 diaper, wipes, toys, a jar of baby food, spoon, Cheerios, empty sandwich bag for gross things, bib, burp cloth, receipts, cell phone, dollars, change from the very bottom, pony tail holders, Chapstick, keys, wallet. I also keep another bag in the back of the car always with a change of clothes for each kid, more diapers, and toys.

So I guess I need to tag some people. How about Amy, Amy, Gerty, and Traci--what's in your bag?

An unwelcome suprise

Can you see it? Something trying to hide amongst the leaves? Something that YOU wouldn't want to find on the side of your house, right next to your front porch?


Yesterday, my sis and I were working in my yard, cutting back my rosebushes. I was in the midst of cursing myself for planting such beastly bushes when I turned behind me and caught a glimpse of something terrifying (to me, at least). There, tangled in my honeysuckle, was the most ginormous wasps' nest I ever saw. I freaked. We went inside because we didn't want to upset anything that might be living there. Lucky me that I have the best bro-in-law in the world who came over and took care of the thing for me. He sprayed it with some wasp killer stuff and then cut the nest out of my vine. He busted the thing open on the sidewalk and we found that the wasps had vacated their home awhile back. Phew! But isn't that the coolest thing ever? It was huge! The photos don't do it justice. It was literally the size of a basketball. My sister said, to her, it looked like Voldemort on the back of Quirrell's head for those of you Harry Potter fans.

My First Post

Since it seems like everyone is doing it, I thought I'd join in too and become a blogger. We'll see how it goes.

Today Sara came home from preschool and was all excited about Easter egg hunts, so I thought it was about time that I explained to her the real reason we celebrate Easter. I told her that Easter is about Jesus and when He was resurrected. Then I told her that Easter egg hunts and baskets and bunnies are more to do with the fact that Spring is here. I think I just confused her, but hopefully it will stick soon. I always struggle with what is the best way to celebrate Easter and Christmas. I guess that's why The 4th of July is my favorite holiday. So, anyway, back to Spring, Sara didn't believe me that it really is Springtime because there are no little leaves on the trees and no little flowers. Later, we went outside to play and lo and behold, we spied these little babies in one of our flower beds. I forgot how cute they are. They are only 4 inches from top to bottom, but they really stand out against all the brownness surrounding them. Now I can't wait for the tulips to show up.

Here's some extra-cute pics of our sweet girl.

Sara's new favorite pose.