Neeru and Fam, Mommy and Daddy joined us for Christmas Breakfast at our place! Of course French Toast, Breakfast Casserole and Mommy’s Tres Leches Cake were gobbled up! Daddy mentioned that he never imagined such blissful chaos when he came here in the 60’s! It’s welcomed craziness when all our families and kiddos get together. One of these days we’ll get a photograph of all the babies looking at the camera together 🙂

We joined the San Diego family this year for a lovely Christmas Dinner hosted by Gee and Neha! Neha cooked a delicious meal for everyone. We decorated ugly christmas sweater cookies, while wearing ugly christmas sweaters and exchanged gifts in a secret santa extravaganza! I was so happy to finally have an excuse to by my Gremlins Christmas Sweater!

Some Family Portraits

Cookie Decorating

Gift Exchange

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We had a quiet Christmas Eve at the house this year. Pajamas, gifts, fire lit, Brownies first Christmas. Aanika LOVED her PJ Mask figurines and chapsticks she got, and Jatin got awesome Magic the Gathering Cards. A few snapshots included below.

Neeru, Nikki, Naveen and Naya celebrated Christmas with us this year and we had a chaotic blast! We took the kiddos to the park one day and had a lovely time going on all the apparatus’s and singing our hearts out on the seesaw! The kids loved the bumpy slide while I had less luck at being graceful on it, and Aanika loved the swings and pushing everyone on them. Naya did awesome racing her Jatin Bhaiya and Daddy!

This year Jatin had Mark our neighbor and Neel over to decorate Gingerbread Houses. In typical boy fashion, more attention was spent on throwing and eating the candy instead of decorating! Boys will be boys. It was fun though and they had a great time. The gingerbread village lasted all of 30 minutes before it was destroyed by rambunctious play!

Naya also very meticulously decorated a beautiful gingerbread house with the help of her Masi.

Christmas was lovely as always this year. The weather actually felt like winter time should with rain and tons of wind. My goodness the wind was crazy! Anyhow – we decorated the house, played plenty of Holiday movies and music and hung out together. This year Christmas Eve was quiet just the four of us at home, and then Jatin, Nick and I headed to San Diego for Christmas Day to celebrate the Booter’s 15th Wedding Anniversary and new home. Aanika’s favorite lovely Nani came and stayed with her while we were gone. We had a lovely time at home and while out and about in San Diego. Jack Elf Gundara showed up and bounced all around our house during the holidays as well. Hard to believe the year is almost over. We’ve had a lovely, busy, awesome year. Here’s to many more! read more