Hosted my neighborhood friends for our annual holiday hangout at the house. We kept it small and it was PERFECT. The indulged me and took the viral holiday box pictures. They turned out so cute 🙂
Photographed Below in order: Vani | Mina | Maria | Esther | Gehan | Nancy
Neera and I hosted Shriya darlings bridal shower at my place this weekend *yes one weekend after moving Jatin to UCI! It was a good distraction. The theme was whimsical, garden tea party. Bright, colorful, and a little over the top! Shriya’s favorite color is blue so we encouraged guests to wear blues and florals for the event. We gave each guest a silk rose *in their tea cup to wear in the hair or clothing. Indian tea, heavy snacks, cakes and fruit were served. Devi was in charge of the games, Mommy made her delicious tea sandwiches and Geeta and the girls helped with all the setup in the morning. It turned out spectacular. Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald tunes filled the air while chai and champagne was sipped. Can’t wait for the wedding!
This year I got to finally host my first annual Witches Evening! I had so much fun planning the decor for a spooky evening. My favorite part was decorating our very long table for the evening. Brought back all the things I’ve stored over the years from my many years admiring Disneyland Imagineer decor and ambiance creativity! All the girls came as good or bad witches. We did a “sisterhood” toast to start the evening along with a splash of champagne with cherry juice to add to the wicked effect. Jatin helped me create an awesome Witch Party Playlist. The evening was a success! Cheer’s Witches. Thank you to our amazing photographer – Jatin.
We had an amazing week right after Christmas celebrating the wedding of Puneet to Dominic. Lot’s of dancing, partying, dressing up and catching up with family. Highlights below starting with the Sangeet.
Jatin got to spend half the week at his Dadiji’s house and embarked in all kinds of Shenanigans with Aakash, Kirat and Kadam who were visiting from England for the wedding! The craziest thing was them jumping into a freezing cold pool in the middle of winter!! TEENAGERS!! We also hosted the family over for a hangout, casual dinner. Amrita and I took Kirat and Aki for their first manicure and pedicures ever 🙂 Jatin performed one of his original pieces on piano for the family as our after dinner entertainment and the kids enjoyed the arcade. Aanika of course LOVED having the family and most of all her precious Amrita Bua over for a visit.
Hard to believe that our first born beautiful baby turned 16 years old this year! He continues to impress us with his vision, kindness, determination for excellence and love. We are so proud of the young man he’s become and can’t wait to see what’s around the horizon. Happy Birthday Jatin!
Nick was traveling this year on Jatins birthday so we postponed Jatins party with his friends for a few weeks. He had a lovely group of guys over and co-celebrated with twin brothers who also share an October Birthday.
It’s been such a fun few weeks. We got back from our trip to the bay on Monday and Neeru flew in with the kids to LA on wed! Nikki joined a day later. This trip was a big WIN for our family. Aanika, Naya and Naveen coexisted so beautifully. They played all day saturday, took a dip in the pool, played marbles, ate dinner together and watched a movie together. It was like magic. Neera and I got to have quality sister time, sunning and doing usual LA girl poolside silliness while everyone enjoyed themselves! YES! #happyheartsallaround
Our handsome, intelligent, warm and caring first born turned 14 this week! We couldn’t be more proud of this stupendous guy. He’s such a hard worker, has the most affectionate heart and exudes goodness in everything he does. We love you Jatin!!!
His birthday fell on a Tuesday morning which is a late school start so we got to have waffles at home for breakfast and I did my usual mommy birthday interview before he was off to school.
We’ve had the pleasure of having family come and visit and we got to host as well as attended a friends wedding reception and got to see the entire extended family after what feels like forever!
First we had The Maniktalas, Krishnans and mom and dad over for a garden dinner. We got Ciceks chicken for dinner and Masi fell in love with Billy!
Next we had Aakash over for a weekend and then had Maya over for drinks!
Then Kartik, Zita, Kai and Jace came over after so long ask we had brunch at the house.