Camping This Weekend!

Hello everyone! So this weekend (starting today untill Monday) we will be gone on a camping trip! Yay I am so excited but that means no blog posts. Expect some great photos to be posted on this blog because we are bringing Addy and Julie! Thanks for understanding, Julie and Catherine

Quilting....my new passion

There was a time when I was interested in many arts and crafts....Then somewhere in life I lost all those interests..... But now when I tried to regain that lost passion, I feel I can...... Age is no bar to restart.....
Thus I made this quilt.....

I am going to the American Girl Place in Boston!!

I have some amazing news!! So this July or August we are going to the American Girl Place in Boston! I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!! Has anyone been before? How do you like it?
Sorry but I can't say when I am going because my parents don't want me meeting anyone there :(

Wow I can't wait to go back there!!

This is a pic we took last year when we went there .It is actually on google.



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OMG WE JUST BOUGHT JOSEFINA!!

OMG OMG OMG I am so freakin excited because we just bought a Josefina online and she is coming in the mail!!! I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited and I am freaking out! I just can't believe this!! Remember that post we made a while ago about how me (Julie) wanted Josefina?? Well we are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited that we finally got her!! We will ad pics soon!! Just so you know she is not new from american girl but she is actually used from someone online but she is sooooooo beautiful!!

She is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty! I can't wait for her to come!

American Girl Mermaid Post Inspired by Pirates Of The Caribbean 4

Hello everyone!! Yesturday I heard a ring on my doorbell I opened the door to discover there was a package for me and Catherine from my older cousin. I opened the package to discover she left a bunch of american girl stuff that she doesn't use anymore! In the package was an outfit I had wanted for my american girl dolls for years... A MERMAID OUTFIT!!

So I recently saw the new movie (still in theatres) Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 On Stranger Tides, and I thought how perfect to do a blog post!! Our favorite mermaid in the movie was Syrena so her is my Jessie doll as the mermaid Syrena.

The Gorgeous mermaid Syrena

NEW AMERICAN GIRL STUFF!

YAY! Today I looked in my mailbox and I saw a new american girl magazine came for me and I saw they have adorable new outfits, accessories, and more!! So I thought I would show you the new stuff that came out!!

So there are more new american girl items on americangirl.com but it wouldn't let me upload all of them. Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for viewing! What american girl items do you like the best?

Nganga, my name....

Oh, God!! What a strange name I have!! Nganga…..I think I was named Ganga by my parents…a name I couldn’t like in my primary school days. Whenever the name of the river Ganga was mentioned in the class room, the girls would turn to look at me with a teasing smile..
Mother’s younger brother Aniyammavan used to tease me that I was their adopted child and as my father got me from the garbage I was so dirty and father had to dip me in the river Ganga to get me cleaned. He said that is why they gave me that name. And I believed that story for a long time, and hated my name all the more….

I remember the days when Govind started his baby talks . He was the first grandson of my parents. We were all so excited and overwhelmed with many emotions when he came to our life. His each movement and facial expression was noticed and cheered by us.

I don’t remember when he uttered my name for the first time, but when it was clear that he gave me a special name, I was very much excited.. He started calling me too often in that name ‘nganga’, which I think only a Malayali can pronounce. Then came his sister, and she shortened it a bit and called me ‘ngnga’. And so my name got popular and all my nieces and nephews call me so. None of them found it necessary to call me aunty [valliamma or chitta]. Now their spouses too know me by that name….and their children…..Govind’s daughter has already started calling me nganga ammoomma….How strange!

Actually I got used to the name so much that I didn’t notice anything strange in it until now when I got a mail from Govind’s non-Indian friend addressing me ‘Nganga’. Ha ha…I wish to hear her pronounce it, if she ever could......

American Girl Doll Beach Photoshoot!!

OMG! I can't believe we have 41 followers!! omg thanks so much we want to do something special so please comment if you have any ideas for our special 40 followers post!! Yay!

So anyway today we went to the beach and we took some awesome photos of our dolls so here they are and we really hope you enjoy them because we think they came out pretty good :)

Jessie loving the beach!!

Kailey, "I could be on the cover of surfers monthly!"
Jessie "Umm I don't think that magazine exists.... (laughter)

I just love this picture! Kailey just loves the water and she had a
blast at the beach :)

Jessie!!

Here is Jessie enjoying the nice cool and soft sand between her
feet.

If you would like to see more pictures we took we made a photoshoot on our youtube account, aglover27.
Thanks sooooooooooooooooooo much!

Hindu Festivals

Hindus observe a lot of Festivals throughout the year. For them every celebration is religious. Important events of Hindu mythology, Birth of Gods, Harvests and regional and seasonal events, full moon, new moon, new year are all celebrated religiously.

Some festivals start as temple events with processions like ratha yatra, programmes including folk arts and cultural programmes.

Some festivals are universally celebrated while some are strictly within the family. Keeping fasts and observing poojas are very important for Hindus. Decorating the house with Rangoli, Kolam, Pookkalam, known differently in each region, is an auspicious observance believed to bring good luck and prosperity and marks the arrival of the festival and welcome the deity.

Wearing new clothes on festivals is a custom among the Hindus. A wide range of delicacies, especially sweets are made in every home. Friends and relatives meet and wish each other during the festival days.

There are festivals throughout the year and they are celebrated with all pomp and glory year after year. Hindus consider everything sacred and divine. The sun, moon, and every animate and inanimate things on earth has divinity in them. In a way every day has some importance and it is connected with a divine force and the Hindus have a different name for the divinity or God.

The festivals start in January with Makar Sankranthi, Lohri and Pongal. Though there are not many festivals in June, according to Hindu calendar, every month has a festival. Maha Shivratri, Deepavali, Onam , Dussera, Ganesh Chadurthi , Janmashtami, Raksha Bandhan, Vishu and Holi are some of the most important festivals.

Kerala village

The beautiful village, Meenadom

Paramada

His pets talking to him..

It's Ammai's farm..

New American Girl Doll Summer Photos!

Hello!! Today we took some really awesome photos outside of our american girl dolls and the pictures came out really great! How have all of you been?? Sorry for the absence of posts we have been super busy but now since summer is right around the corner, we will have more time for posts! :)
So grab a bowl of popcorn and enjoy!

So here is Jessie :) looking so adorable!

Jessie and Kailey Best Friends Forever!

What a beautiful flower!

Here is Jessie admiring the beautiful blossoms!

Chitragupta Temple

According to Hindu beliefs, Chitrgupta is the one who keeps record of man’s good and bad deeds. He then decides Heaven or Hell for the humans according to their deeds on earth.

There is a temple in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, with the presiding deity Chitragupta.

The idol is seen in a sitting posture with a pen [ezhuthani] in his right hand and a palm leaf on left.

Devotees believe that worshiping here gives one a prosperous life. He shows one the right path to follow. After the worship one gets a turning point in life. The evil effect of Kethu would be mitigated.

Huge American Girl Doll Website Sale!!

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Vibhishana of Ramayan

Valmiki Ramayana, the great epic of Hindus depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. One such ideal brother who tried to bring Ravana to a Dharmic life is Vibhishana.

Ravana’s brother Vibhishana was a sattwik who never strayed from the path of Dharma. When Ravana kidnapped and abducted Sita, Vibhishana requested his brother to send her back with all honor. Though born among the Rakshasas Vibhishana was noble in character. He fought for Dharma, so he left Lanka and joined Rama’s army. He revealed all secrets of Lanka to Rama which helped Rama to win the battle. He was not a traitor to his country, but fought for truth and Dharma. He showed Ravana the right thing but when he refused to obey he wanted to end the Adharma of the abduction of Sita.

After he won the war, Rama made Vibhishana the king of Lanka and he tried to turn his subjects from the path of evil to the path of good and Dharma