What Gives Me Happiness?

 I was invited by Leigh to join her on the happiness project. I loved her little button and just had to put it up on my blog!

So, what does make me insanely happy?? Well, apart from my two little twin munchkins, I'll have to say photography! Specially when photography helps broaden my horizons.
I'm kinda sorta terrified of bees, but something just compelled me yesterday to get over forget my fears and take shots of this fella here.
This did make me very happy:)

Kytsmom suggested in her comment that I enter this photo in Natalie's photo challenge . So, I said OK, why not?!!
 I'm linking the first picture to her blog hop!

 Before you read further I want to promise y'all that I'm not being lazy. I just didn't want to publish a new post with the same picture again but I thought this would be perfect for this weeks challenge!
The challenge is about three and the subject in my photo has three major body parts; the head, the thorax and the abdomen :)
Sorry for going all anatomical on y'all but I just wanted to be creative and think out of the box:). So, I went back to high school biology class (trust me, I vaguely remember anything more!)

Have a great weekend everyone:)

Twin Moments

This week I decided to play along Twinfatuation Makes My Monday. I came across it in Jeremi's blog where she shared really cute pictures of her twins and got me inspired to do the same on my blog this week. Besides, what better way to start your week by sharing a picture story about your twins.  So here are shots of my 18 month old fraternal twin boys Ryad and Nael!

Yesterday we took them to the National Mall, DC and just let them play around. Anywhere else they go their toddler curiosity is stopped by "don't touch that please" or just simply "no, no, no". So, here they were free to explore (atleast most of the time).

My boy Ryad just loves flowers (the weedy ones the most because he is free to pick them!)

Here Nael can be seen hurrying up to Ryad, they hardly ever play alone! Like most twins, my boys are inseparable:)

Aww, Ryad shares his flower with Nael, I'm glad I caught this sweet moment.

Nael was still admiring the weedy flower while Ryad bent down to get another one. One could make a bouquet out of the amount of flowers he picked yesterday!

Mommy!! Look what Ryad gave me!

A Book Nook

 

Another spell of spring rains made an appearance over the weekend. So, what could I do with two kids of who's energy levels were in no way dampened from the drizzling rain outside?

A trip to Barnes & Noble was a perfect way to get away from home and still be able to snuggle with a book indoors:)

Nael soon found a corner and got comfy with an Elmo book while Ryad browsed book after book to pick up the perfect one:)

Who could stay away from tho *choo-choo*? Both Ryad and Nael love the *choo-choo* at B&N

 

A lot of shuffling, picking, choosing, reading and glancing went on through out the time we were there.

Late afternoon turned into early evening and the boys still weren't ready to go home. They sure look tired but they just couldn't get enough of all the books. In the end, I noticed that Elmo found a young new fan who wanted to take Elmo home!! 

Depth of Field

I'm a part of Beth's you capture again! I just love these photography link ups, they give me chance to showcase my work {yes, I just called my casual photography my *work*}

Anyhoo, here are my depth of field entries:)

Just had to sneak this one in. The dried flower picture from my last post {this time in color:)}

My twin boys visited the farm park. They just love animals and horses are no exception.

This one is from last fall, I believe on Halloween day. We were in New York and my son Nael braved the cold to give me this shot:)

Another one of Nael's pictures, watching a couple exchange their vows under the Cherry Blossoms.

Last, but so not the least, a shot from the dinner table. Shrimp kababs, my favorite:)

Flower Arrangements with a Twist

   

Our friends had brought over this lovely bouquet when they came for dinner. It had lingered on our bookshelf for about a month until I finally attempted to dispose it, but not before taking photos:)