School Photos were taken on Jatin’s Birthday this year so I felt compelled to order them. Jatin’s turned out lovely. Aanika has 2 photos because I had her’s re-done. Jatin – 9 years old, grade 4, Aanika – 5 years old, grade t-k.
Okay only true gamers out there will understand this mini excursion of ours! We headed to Eagle Idaho for a 2 day extravaganza called GrinkFest. Like minded gamers from across the country get together each year for a fun tournament, chopped pickle sandwiches, and non stop gaming. It was a blast. Met so many new people and loved seeing Nick in his element. He scored first place at his game “Pole Position.” It was pretty much like being thrown back into 1985 as a teenager would have experienced going to a local arcade with over 200 machines. Our walk from the hotel to the arcade was lovely and crisp every morning and evening. Oh and let me just say people in Idaho are so friendly!! Our waitress at the Griddle basically sat down with us like she had known us for years. AWESOME PEOPLE, AWESOME TIMES!
Neeru, Nikki, Naya and Naveen came down for a visit for the first time since Mr. Naveen was born. To commemorate the fun weekend I wanted to take some special photos of my beautiful nephew. Below are a few of my favorites.
Our beautiful baby girl turned 5 this year! Hard to believe! We played hooky with her from school on the day of her birthday and treated her to pancakes and a chocolate chip cookie at the Corner Bakery followed by a visit to Toys R Us where she surveyed the entire store and went home with a rainbow giant panda bear 🙂 The weekend of her birthday we had our family and friends over for a garden tea party and brought in the amazing Mr. B to host an hour drum and music circle program with all the kids. Theme / Rainbows & Music. Happy Birthday Cutie Pie!!!
The kids are growing up so quickly and I haven’t done a photoshoot for Jatin in quite some time. I feel like we’re going to blink and he’s going to be a teenager so I wanted to capture his sweet smile and baby cheeks while I still can! You can already see what he’s going to look like in the last still in the series. Love this handsome, fun loving, sweetie pie!
A little story from the Land of Gundara:
“There once was a beautiful little princess named Aanika. She lived in a beautiful garden and had many friends like Penguin, Zebra, Crocodile and Elephant. But her most favorite and dearest friend was a lovely prince named Froggy. He lived in Aanika’s garden overlooking the beautiful water and every day Aanika went out and played with the lovely golden frog. She took such wonderful care of the frog by picking him up, having long talks with him, playing with him and cuddling with him that he will be eternally loved by his darling princess and will forever be Aanika darlings little frog prince.
Aanika’s favorite character these days is a little statue who lives by our pool named Froggy. Below is a video of Aanika interacting with her darling friend.
The kids are in the same school again this year which is awesome! Jatin entered 4th grade (officially now an upperclassmen) and Aanika is in TK. The best part is they are right next to each other on campus and Jatin got his same teacher, class and friends as last year!
Happy 4th of July! Happy Birthday America. We celebrated it with a very fun, relaxed day together. Went for a lovely cruise in the Chevelle to the park. Had awesome Habit Burgers for lunch. Aanika splashed around at the water park and then we headed home for an afternoon in the water. Aanika discovered our “Froggie” statue out by the pool which inspired her to really start using her kickers! We closed out the evening by driving right down the street and watched beautiful fireworks. All around a LOVELY Blessed Day in the Gundara Household.
We pulled the kiddos out of school 2 days early and went to Montery and Oxnard before and after our trip to Fremont.
A few family videos to capture the moment included below. The kids loved the boat ride! Why eat Cake By The Ocean? Not sure – but it’s a great song.