This weekend i caught up with some movies which i have been wanting to watch for long.Finally,i got some time and both i must say was not dissapointing. Saturday i watched Hard Candy. I read somewhere that this was a nice movie and wanted to watch it .The movie is about a 14 year old and a pedophile. Ellen page as the 14 year old has done an awesome job. The movie has two main characters and the entire movie except for a few scenes happens in the house of the pedophile. If you like psychological thrillers,this one is good.

The next movie i watched is Dear John.I heart Nicholas Sparks books ,i havent read all but few and he never fails to dissapointn the readers. When i started this movie all i expected was an average film since i have not seen any good novel adapted movies.This one i must say did justice to the book.Well i wouldnt say this is one of the best romantic movies but its definitely one of the best adapted movie.The guy who plays John ,Channing Tatum looks so damn good,and he plays his role of a soldier so well .Amanda Seyfried as Savannah has did her job well too. There were few scenes which made me tear up a little especially the last scene between dad and son.

I would say this was very productive weekend. 2 movies .. a picnic at the park, and some fun times at the Beach. : ) Just wish every weekend could be this awesome...

VALENTINE'S DAY

I'm not a big fan of Valentine's day and i dont know why.. but of course we celebrate any occasion so why not Valentine's day.This time Jenna wished daddy Happy Valentine's day and together we made a card and she colored it or i should rather say she scribbled with color pencils .Daddy was ofcourse touched by this. In turn Hubby gave each of us a heart shaped chocolate cake with our names written and both of us went all awwwwww over it and ate it almost immediately and wow,it tasted damn good.In the evening, we went for dinner to an Italian Restaurant at Old town Pasadena.The food was good and we had an awesome time.But i was super full at the end that if i had seen another plate of ravioli or pasta i would have puked.And hubby asks do you want to have cheesecake for dessert??The idea of eating anything for that matter didnt go well with me so we returned home after dinner.The day was spent well with the two persons who i love and will continue to love throughout my life...I know that sounds so mushy but well thats a fact : )

WE ARE BACK!!!

We are back from San Francisco.This is one of the places we frequently visit because a) it is closer to los angeles b) we have lot of friends here c) We have many indian restaurants out there,(there are lot of restaurants in L.A too but this is the authentic indian food and tastes much more better than the ones around here ) and this time i had one of my school friend visiting sfo on a business trip from India .We showed her around the place,we visited the Golden Gate Bridge (for the eighth time)Fisherman's Wharf and the Union Square..We ate lot of biryanis,dosa and spicy chutneys too.. yumm!!! Jenna was at her best and enjoyed the trip as much as we did,food not that much..she is not a fan of Indian food right now!I hope thats a phase and she will start enjoying homemade indian food soon.She enjoyed the french fries and chicken nuggets.

I had lot of fun chatting with my friend ,just gossiping and talking about stories from school days... School days are the best.She will be visiting us before she leaves back to India.Maybe next time we should do some girly stuffs,maybe go shopping and do some mani/pedi. Altogether it was a fun trip : )

MINI VACATION

We are taking a mini vacation this weekend and will be back on Monday.

More on our travel,next week...Stay tuned!!

Happy Weekend! Have fun!

BEACH BABY

The weather has been beautiful for the last few days,temperatures in the high 70's.This made us go the beach.Jenna was so excited to wear her Dora Swim suit.We packed our lunches and set to the beach.Jenna had so much fun collecting sea shells,building sand castles with daddy and just playing in the water.When it was time to go home she didnt want to leave and we had to bribe her with ice cream to get her back to the car.Good times : )

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We had a quiet New Year's eve.We went out for an early dinner and had some grocery shopping to do since we had friends coming over the next day.Jenna slept in the car on our way home and when we reached home she was so fresh and did'nt want to go back to sleep, and she decided to stay up until 12..
I know thats way too late to stay awake for a 2 year old but she refused to go back to sleep .So ,when the clock struck 12 we hugged each other ,wished each other and went to bed.But the the best part was when Jenna called and hugged me and said ''happy nuuuuu ear''... i feel there is no better way to start a new year..Cheers!Happy New Year to all!!!

Tea Parties and more..

Jenna is too busy nowadays.

She has tea parties to attend with her toy friends,

and Oh Yes! Sleep Overs too....

Happy Weekend guys! Have fun!!

RANDOM RAMBLINGS

1.We had this frozen yoghurt last week ..It's called 21 choices of Yoghurt..Its one of the best
yoghurt shops i have been.. Yummm!

2.I went for a spa pedicure after months .They painted small flowers on my nails... so cuteee..It was so relaxing,i should do more often though.3. I heart Lindt Chocolates.They are so ummm.. delicious.I let Jenna take a bite and her face was so priceless ,like this is so heavenly.. why did'nt you ever give me one before? I stopped buying chocolates because it gets over in like 2 days .I can see that i'm gaining weight in all the places u dont want to, so no chocolates for now... or maybe once in a while.


4.We finally got to watch this movie in the theatre after a pretty long time..127 hours was an amazing movie..The story is about the guy Aron Ralston and he is such an inspiration,to think he underwent all this ordeal to save himself.If it was me,i would have just given up.There is so much to learn from him,his fight to live and get back to his family.Sometimes we just take life for granted.We dont appreciate the value of things when we have it,only when u dont have it u know its true value.

James Franco did an awesome job ,no wonder he is nominated as best actor for Golden Globe.The movie has 3 nominations.

I still have so many movies on my must watch list which i should just catch up on Netflix i guess.

BARNEY CRAZY

Jenna is so crazy about this big purple dinosaur Barney.Somedays, Barney is the only person who helps me to get my household chores done .

She has learnt many songs from Barney...Mr.Sun and Wheels on the bus,abc song ,so it has been educational in some ways too.

Her favourite song in Barney is ''I love you'' song which is the ending song in the Barney episodes.She can sing the entire song.

Every day before Jenna goes to bed she wants to sing this song but she does not leave it there, she asks me and hubby to join her in singing .Now this has kinda become our family song..

Is'nt it amazing how life changes after a baby??The songs which i keep humming nowadays seems to be twinkle twinkle and wheels on the bus...Which rhyme are you humming nowadays?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I'm thankful for having a lovely family,a beautiful daughter and a loving hubby.Life is good!!

Happy thanksgiving guys!!! Have fun!!!

127 HOURS

I'm a total movie buff and do not miss any of the good movies.But after Jenna was born we dont find much time to catch a movie.We wait until the Dvd release of the movie and then watch it.: (

But i so want to watch this movie in the theatre. You must be wondering whats so special about this movie...This movie is about a mountain climber who gets trapped under a boulder and goes to desperate measures to save himself.

The movie has been directed by Danny Boyle of Slumdog Millionare fame and the music is by A.R Rahman of ''Jai Ho'' fame. (For readers who dont know about him..He is a music director from India and he hails from the place where i was raised .He won the Oscars for his song Jai ho from Slumdog millionaire.)

This movie has a rating of 8.7 from IMDB and its running in a theatre jus two blocks from my house.I think i have enough reasons to get excited about this movie and i'm planning to watch it hopefully in the theatre this time : )

FUN TIMES

We had planned to go the zoo on Sunday and the night before while putting Jenna to bed ,i told her we will be going to zoo tomorrow.The next day the first thing she said when she got up in the morning was zoo...We were actually planning to cancel our zoo plans but once she reminded us about the zoo ,we went ahead with our plans.

It was a beautiful day yesterday in the high 70s...Jenna had so much fun seeing the animals,she was just squealing out of excitement everytime she saw an animal.Her favourite though was the monkey and the lion,she rode on the choo choo train,had her favourite pizza and ice-cream.Jenna had so much fun yesterday that she refused to nap.. finally she napped once we got back home.We were all tired due to all the walking we did at the zoo but i'm glad that Jenna had fun : )

MOMMY AND ME

Yesterday,me and Jenna went out for lunch .. Usually ,if we go out for lunch its with daddy but yesterday was exceptional.We were back late from our My gym class and i didnt have time to make lunch, so we call daddy dear but he was held up with lot of work and we had to go on our own.

We decided to go to Souplantation ,they have all Jenna's favourites mac and cheese,pizza,chicken soup,ice-cream and chocolate muffin.

She had so much fun and i was happy too.. no cooking and no cleaning up after lunch too..( i hate the cleaning up part after lunch.. )

I think we should do this more often, just me and Jenna.. Fun times : )

MEHENDI/HENNA TATOO

Yesterday i had a lot of free time.. (Jenna bedtime was earlier than usual)so i thought i will do something and i ended up doing this..

JUST AFTER APPLYING
AFTER LIKE ABOUT 6 HRS...

I applied on Jenna's hands too...

since she was sleeping it was smudged a little.

TRIP TO PORTLAND

Portland is a beautiful place...it has greenery all around and the weather was gloomy most of the time. Just the perfect place to have some good food and curl up and read a book.Luckily,i had a great friend who let me relax and did all the work and took care of Jenna too. I read 4 novels in a week..and i was not the only person who had fun. Jenna loved being pampered by my friend and her hubby.

We took Jenna to the zoo and she enjoyed thoroughly.It was her first time.She was naming the animals.. tiger was cat, pola bear was dada which means Panda.

The tulip festival was just gorgeous.. acres of land with all these colourful tulips was just a feast to the eyes.

If your a nature person and love all these scenic views ,Portland is the place to be.

A LONG NEEDED VACATION

We are in Portland having an awesome time in my friend's place.. its beautiful out here.. the place is breathtakingly beautiful,lush greenery around ,clean air and its drizzling most of the times,there is hardly the sun out here ,me and Jenna are having fun. A long needed vacation for me.. no cooking.. yay!We will be back the coming weekend and will post more about our trip later : )

FUN IN THE SNOW

It was our first time in the snow and it was absolutely breath taking to see the snow laden mountains.. we played and played, had snow ball fight with daddy,

we sledged and sledged

again and again until we got tired

It was fun playing in the snow and we would love to visit the Big Bear again.

PLAY TIME!!!

We are back from our first My Gym class and we loved it. I have been wanting to enroll Jenna in My gym for a very long time and i finally did because i felt she was having not much of activity and the play date with Dora and Barney was increasing!!!Jenna loved the class and was dancing for all the songs, exploring the new toys and she liked the teachers too and played with them..Her favourite was the trampoline All this activity has made her very tired and she is taking a nap and that gives some free time for me. I'm already looking forward for our next class ; )

WEEKEND WRAP-UP

We had a fun and frolicky weekend in the park.We packed our lunch and had it in the park,it was a beautiful day ,not too hot... Jenna usually cries when we allow her to walk in the park andlike everytime she did not want to get down but once she got used to the grass she started walking and did not stop unless she tripped and fell.. she was so tired walking that once we got into the car,she slept...We went to a botanical garden but unfortunately it was closed.. so we got back home..Yesterday we took Jenna to the pool,as usual she loved it and didnt want to get out of the pool.I really dont know how weekend flies...sigh!