Decided to take a trip down memory lane and visit UCLA! Haven’t been back since I graduated. Walked the campus, visited the dorms and explored Westwood! Many of the eateries are gone from college days but we ended up at Enzos and Deedeerees cookies which have been staples there forever!
Jatin has been playing the saxophone now for 1 year and boy has he picked it up quickly. He is in intermediate and jazz band! We had the pleasure of watching him and his classmates perform on Thursday. They rocked it!
Blessed to host Saturday Thanksgiving this year. All the local and San Diego family joined. Even got a pretty great group photo! The Gundara’s decided to all wear plaid 🙂
Had a very relaxed Thanksgiving Thursday. Mommy and Daddy joined us for spicy chicken soup lunch and in the evening the 4 of us had chicken pot pies followed by the premier of The Mandalorian by fire on Disney plus. It was also Billy’s 2nd birthday. Since In n out is closed on thanksgiving we treated him and brownie to birthday burgers and fries the next day! Nick also got in some great time with his latest pixel painting.
I’ve been celebrating my 40th all month long! The actual day fell on the Friday we were traveling in Idaho and there were wild fires back home so that was a crazy weekend! After that I was greeted home with a gorgeous bouquet of flowers designed by mommy of course and balloons! Then Nick brought home my favorite carrot cake from Stone Fire Grill. Later in the month Geeta, Devi and Shriya treated me to a lovely dinner at Cheesecake Factory and then we closed our the celebrations with a beautiful intimate dinner with mommy and daddy at firefly in studio city! I’m a lucky girl. Feeling very special and blessed. Here’s to 40 and the next 40 being even better than the first!! Cheers!
Halloween this year brought the Karate Kid and 2 princesses into our home! Aanika for the first time chose two costumes online and to my surprise she chose the girliest of all costumes but I was so excited that she was showing interest that I got both costumes for her. Jatin was an easy choice to play Daniel Larusso with our love of Karate a kid and now Cobra Kai. Nana and Nani joined us for trick o treating this year and of course KITT made his yearly appearance! Nick rocked his Cobra Kai jacket while I used Jatin’s Harry Potter robe along with our props.
Jatin darling turned 12 this year! One more year til his teenage years hit! Thank goodness for his amazing, sweet, easy going temperament. Love him so much. As usual be requested a birthday party at home with two requirements: chocolate chocolate cake and an arcade tournament! The morning of his birthday we had the family over for breakfast before heading to Maya’s wedding and the following weekend we hosted his party.
Party Highlights:
Key players: Jatin, Mark, Charlie, Andrew, Risley
We attended our fourth year of grinkfest at Grinkers Grand Palace Arcade in Eagle Idaho this year. As usual it fell right on my birthday! This year we flew in a day ahead of the tournament and met up with Mark, Sam and Aaron for dinner and Joker the movie in Boise.
The following morning we went for a lovely breakfast at Goldies in downtown eagle, checked out a local art store and walked downtown a bit before heading to Eagle. Checked into the hotel and then met up with everyone at Grinkers to begin the days events. Aaron managed to get warehouse keys from Steve the owner of Grinkers o the 5 of us headed off for a covert warehouse tour followed by an old fashioned corn maze and petting zoo!
Aanika turned 8 this year! And it happened to fall on a Jewish holiday so the kids had no school! Mommy hung out with the babies in the morning and then I joined them in the afternoon. We went to the park where Jatin got stung by a bee, Aanika enjoyed the swings and slide and I felt like my 8 year old self by hanging upside down from the bars! We picked up a delicious ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins and decorated it with hand painted dolls I bought on Etsy for Aanikas collection. Neeru gifted Aanika the beautiful Snow White doll she wanted. Her Nani and Nana spoiled her gorgeous winter jackets, clothes, a princess Anna doll and lots of nail polishes and lip glosses! We cut cake and enjoyed pizza from Amecis in the evening. All in all a fun, easy going Birthday for our beautiful baby girl.
Not sure how we waited so long to adopt fur babies but now that we have we will never go back. They bring so much love and peace into our home and hearts. Love these furry beauties Brownie and Billy.