Easter Pictures

After many attempts we got several very cute pictures of the big brother and little sister.  They are getting bigger and I do not like the thought of them growing up.  I hope it will happen very slowly because I am not done enjoying this age.  Aww...look at them, the love and joy they bring to us is indescribable.  How can I measure it??  How can I ever explain it?  I look at their faces and how can I ever say I am frustrated or tired of taking care of them.  Isn't this the most beautiful gift God has given to me??  If I don't enjoy them now when will I get to enjoy them?  I am just so grateful to God for giving me the opportunity to be a stay home mom and I pray that he will not ask me to go back to work soon.  

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Catholic Party

How badly I wanted to blog from the beginning of this month but the past few weeks have been very eventful with weddings, engagement, holy communion party, graduation party, gardening etc.  We had two weddings where we got to witness two of our friends get married.  I love weddings.  I love seeing the newly weds immersed in love for each other.  It always reminds me of our wedding, the youthfulness of our love, the excitement of getting a new husband, having family and friends around.  What a beautiful and holy sacrament it is!!  It gives us a glimpse of what God's own love is.

George all set for the wedding

A beautiful family who inspires us all the time

Poor thing she couldn't sleep for a while with all the music and fun but finally fell asleep

The wedding season has just begun.  Summer is here. I cannot wait to party it up with my little munchkins. Thanking God for each and every moment of it because I know I am definitely not worthy of any of it.  All the fun and partying in His name and by His mercy.  

Celebrating St. George's feast day

We had a lot of fun celebrating a name day on April 23rd.  Do you celebrate name days??  The first time I started celebrating name days was last year with George.  This year I wanted to make it bit more special and also teach George more about the Saint to build up a special devotion to his patron saint whom he is named after.

He was given the name George after his grand dad (Sony's father).  It is also his great grandfather's name. Last year we bought a small statue of St. George slaying the dragon so that George can pray to him everyday.  One of the coolest things about the story of this Saint is that he slayed a dragon (whether it's a legend or not) unlike the many other Saints we have heard about.  I think as a child this is what fascinates George the most.

I decided to make a dragon cake this year to celebrate the feast day inspired by Charlotte.  I never thought the cake would turn out like it was pictured here in the one hour time frame I had.  We had our couples prayer group that day and I was finishing up the cake right before everyone came.  We were also celebrating one of George's friends birthday at the prayer group so the cake served two purposes and due to that reason I wanted to make sure the cake turned out right.  All I could do was just pray that it turns out good and the Lord answered my prayers.  What do you think?

I had also taken this book called Saint George and the Dragon from the library and it started off like this: 

 In the days when monsters and giants and fairy folk lived in England, a noble knight was riding across a plain.  He wore heavy armor and carried an ancient silver shield marked with a red cross. 

What an awesome book!! George and I loved it.  The pictures were just amazing.  I never knew a book like this existed.  Thanks to other moms who blog and share the information so that myself and other moms could enjoy it with our children. We celebrated the feast day and the birthday with our couples prayer group. There are 6-7 young families that are in the prayer group.  They all joined in for the celebration.  I wanted to get some cocktail swords but couldn't get them on time.  So we just used normal knives and they kids had such a blast.  We specially prayed to St. George to give us the strength and courage to withstand the temptations from devil. 

St. George - Pray for us

Backyard Picnic

I had such a great time with my little George and Anna last week doing a backyard picnic. The weather was just incredibly beautiful.  I made some meatballs and hot dogs for lunch and got everything ready in the backyard.

He took that basket and put it on her head lol

I have had few backyard picnics with George but this was the first time I had it with both of them.  I just purely enjoyed this time with them.  To have one child is great but to have two children is amazing and I don't even know how beautiful it will be when you have 3, 4, 5 etc I can only imagine.

I enjoyed seeing them enjoy the time with each other.   I love it when George starts talking to her and she looks at him with her bright eyes and with her mouth open wide smiling at cheta...  I love seeing them together sharing and caring, loving and hugging, sometimes even fighting for my attention haha

feeding each other

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eating apples

I read them books and just listened to them and watched them enjoy their childhood days together. How blessed am I to be their mother and nourish them and love them through the graces that God has given specially to a mother!  Soon it was too hot to stay out and I had to take them inside.  I hope I will be able to do many more picnics with them this summer.  

Good Friday - A different style

All these years Good Friday was a day that I reflected upon the passion of our Lord, go through the stations of the cross, attend church, and watch the movie Passion of Christ or a Jesus Movie.  This year it was very different.  It was not just me or my husband but I had to in some way or the other explain what Good Friday meant to my little guy George.  How much can a 3 year old understand?  I looked up online and came across this beautiful idea that was shared at Catholic Icing   It was so last minute and thankfully I already had most of the items at home.  

Lacy at Catholic Icing had already given the bible verses to be read as you go through each item.  Very helpful.  I had dad take the lead in reading the bible passages and sharing the story with our George.  It was just amazing to see how daddy was telling the stories and how George was paying attention.  

Love their expressions

His favorite part was washing his hands in the water which resembles Pilate washing off his hands.  

Half way through our lunch my brother and one of our friends also joined us.  They had just gotten back from doing the way of the cross by walking few miles all the way to our church.  

It was absolutely worth putting in all the effort to make all these items.  Sometimes we may think why do we need to put in so much effort to make a  little 3 year old understand these things.  But after you finish doing all this and seeing the joy in our children's eyes make it all worth it.  More than that just knowing that we are really building up true strong Christians who get to learn about their faith from such a small age itself is satisfying.  How much money and time we spend for our children in buying toys or taking them to places!  It is good to have those fun things but it is necessary and very important to incorporate our faith into the lives of our little children whom God has entrusted in our human hands.  We parents are their primary educators.  No teacher or school can replace that responsibility.