festival of colors

holi festival 

oh man. 

these photos are so gorgeous
and i love the idea of this
festival  

holiday catch up

our tree

 repurposing halloween pumpkins

+ crazy good lemons from our tree

lots of old movies...

 white russians all morning

 sugar cookie decorating

(not nearly as fun without omar)

twins.

ready set go

 rad art book.

 dad with zeina's gift from us

mom + dad in high school 

old print on canvas 

mom with same thing 

old photo of her mom...our teta

gift - book on type

puzzles + pomegranate

distracted by puzzles

+

putting pomegranate in every meal

thxgiving at mom + dads

bananagrams is the banana bomb!

happy holidays!

what a great extended weekend - filled with family, friends, great wine + beer, amazing barkawi food,

present wrapping, gift giving, dancing, baking, playing, singing, and some serious banana-gramming.

unfortunately, my laptop is on the fritz at the moment, so i've only got a few pictures from my phone...

getting festive

Went to Capital Nursery on Saturday and picked out our xmas tree (holiday plant) !

Other than ornaments - the only other thing it's missing is that sweet smell of xmas !  Oh well, I'm sure they make a coniferous evergreen candle smell... right?!  They must.