Janamastmi - Krishna's Birthday Celebration

ISKON does an awesome job with their invitations for Janamastmi each year ...This year the they opened the doors via card to a beautiful picture of  Krishna ...Each year we look forward to go to the celebration but this year the card made it even more exciting ....

The decor, music , sounds of instruments can be heard far far away from the temple and as you come close the chants draw you inside the temple .......you enter to a peaceful and calming statues of Radhe Krishna and the gorgeous decor with fresh flowers make it even more special.

The park outisde the temple is turned into vatika and just like India you have small booths that share Krishna's stories ...

There is a booth where you can feed the cow , a message board to wish Krishna Happy Birthday .....Havan kund and more. Prasad is made with love and good spirit which you can take in the food and the smiling faces of the volunteers.

It's amazing feeling to see everyone celebrating and happy and dance away on this special birthday of Lord Krishna.

Rakhi - Made with Love

A little bit of ribbon, a few yards gotta, some beads and some flower .....but lots of love ... We do have the option of buying Rakhi here in US however the love and warmth that goes in making Rakhi for your brother is a special feeling ...I don't believe in something elaborate ...but just something simple and sweet just like how are brothers are ....

My niece(who is just six) and I made these Rakhi this year and it was so much fun deciding with what we think our brothers will like. She was making it for her brother and decide on pink from her side and yellow from her sisters side who is just two.....and I decide to go with gotta ones ...

Making them was easy but fun part was decide on combinations and cracking jokes ....my mom mentioned my niece being so excited about making her own Rakhi .....I love the fact she enjoys it and every year gets more excited than last year :)

This is what we finally came up with and we think we did a great job .. our brothers though the same too ...Let's see what do you all think ? Hope everyone had a Happy Rakhi and they got to either see their brother or talk to them ...