Welcome New Year! May you bless us and our loved ones with good health, simple, fun moments of love and laughter, happiness, joy, personal growth and success.

We had a lovely day trip to Bakersfield. Got stuck in terrible weather and they closed the 5 coming back but it was still a fun get away with Jatin. Pritpal showed us around and we enjoyed the change of pace.

Jatin has been working hard on his maps using his new gear he got for Christmas.

As with every new year we’ve been sprucing up the place. It’s looking beautiful 🙂 read more

October is always a busy month given that both Jatin and I celebrate our birthdays just a week apart from Aanikas and of course there’s always everything that comes with Halloween! But in between all the craziness of those major milestones I love to capture more of those candid moments that sometimes get forgotten in the big scheme of October!

Here are my beautiful kiddos having a rare moment peace hanging out in Aanikas room.

Here are Kooks and I having some bonding time with makeup 💄 she seems to think a whole lotta lipstick is the key to a successful makeover! read more

Darling Billy turned 3 Thanksgiving weekend! Both him and Brownie got baths that morning to celebrate! They came back fluffy and full of smiles.

We also took Aanika to ET park for some fresh air and sunshine. We have now officially entered another quarantine period. Covid cases have risen pretty high in LA county so right after we visited the park it became official that parks, outdoor dining, outdoor gyms and bars will all official be closed. Thank goodness for my crazy, lovely family who keep fun in our lives given everything 2020 has brought.

The house is looking festive as the holidays approach! Took this during our family game night.

Okay so we’re only a few years off the goal of Nick getting a Ferrari by the time he was 40! It’s stunning! Shiny red, black interior and sounds like a sports car! Aanika LOVES it and wants to go for a drive every time she sees it! She has a love for speed and curves and the sound the engine makes just like her daddy.

Everything was a little simpler and quieter this year but we still enjoyed the festivities. On Diwali we did a small Pooja at home and then Nick, Jatin and I headed to to the strangers thing drive through experience.

We’ve been enjoying our usual scrabble, Monopoly deal and cover your assets game nights, and Aanika had started to join us in the front room while we play while on her iPad or coloring with the occasional dance breakout.

We even experienced the election of our lifetime with CNN playing non stop while we played. Trump vs Biden. And the true hero of the week was CNN’s amazing announcer John King!!

We decorated the house early this year. Why not add a little extra cheer early. We can all use it! Rainbow tree to match our very colorful Paintings.

For Thanksgiving we spent the morning with Mommy and Daddy for a lovely brunch and chatted with Neeru and family over WhatsApp. You’ll see Neeru and I sporting our awesome matching blue neck masks 😷

In the afternoon the Gundara family joined us for Thanksgiving evening. Ordered Indian food from Village Tandoor and played games.

We are blessed and grateful to have each other. I hope this time next year we can all celebrate in full fashion and all together again. ❤️

Hilariously written 😂 (I do not know by whom)! And I do want it in my memories 😉if we survive 2020!

Dear Diary 2020 Edition,

In ❄️ January, 🔥 Australia caught on fire. I don’t even know if that fire was put out, because we straight up almost went to war with Iran 🇮🇷 . We might actually still be almost at war with them 🤔. I don’t know, because 👩 Jen Aniston and 👨🏻 Brad Pitt spoke to one another at an awards 🏆 show and everyone flipped the crap out 😲, but then there was this thing happening in 🦇 🇨🇳 China, then 👑 Prince Harry and Megan ✌🏼 peaced out of the Royal family, and there was the whole impeachment trial 👩‍⚖️ , and then corona virus 🦠 showed up in the US ✔️“officially,” but then 🏀 Kobe died 😭and UK 🇬🇧 peaced out of the European Union.

In February, 🌽 Iowa pooped 💩 itself with the caucus results and the president was acquitted and the 👩🏼‍💼Speaker of the House took ten. Whole. years. to rip up a speech , but then The👨‍🔬 🌎WHO decided to give this virus a name COVID-19, which confused 🤔some really important people 👔 in charge of, like, our lives, into thinking there were 18 other versions before it, but then Harvey Weinstein was found guilty👨🏻‍⚖️, and 🇺🇸 Americans started asking if Corona beer 🍺 was safe to drink🤦🏻‍♀️, and everyone on Facebook became a doctor 👨‍⚕️ who just knew the 🤒flu like killed way more people than COVID 1 through 18.

In March, stuff hit the fan👿. Warren dropped out of the presidential race and Sanders was like Bernie or bust 💥, but then Italy 🇮🇹 shut its whole country down 🚷, and then COVID Not 1 through 18 officially become what everyone already realized, a 😱pandemic and then a nationwide state of emergency 🆘was declared in US 🇺🇸 , but it didn’t really change anything, so everyone was confused or thought it was still just a flu 💁🏻‍♀️, but then COVID Not 18 was like ya’ll not taking me seriously? 💡 I’m gonna infect the one celebrity everyone loves and totally infected Tom Hanks👨🏻, get y’all to close all of the schools so y’all can 🙏🏼 appreciate teachers 👩‍🏫 for once (because you can’t teach them anything other than how to use a touch screen🤦🏻‍♀️ ) close down all of salons so you can’t get your 💇‍♂️ hair or your nails done💅 , everyone had to work from home and attend Zoom meetings in their underwear. The 📉 DOW took a crap 💩 on itself, and most of us still don’t understand why the stock market is so important or even a thing 🤔 (I still don’t), We were then all introduced to 🐅 Tiger King and the ONE thing we can all agree on this year , 👍🏼Carol totally killed her husband⚰️ ….. whacked him! And then Netflix was like you’re welcome, and we all realized there was no way we were washing our hands enough in the first place because all of our hands are now dry and gross and were all searching for lotion now.

In 🌧 April, Bernie finally busted✌🏼 himself out of the presidential race 🏃 , but then NYC 🗽became the set of The Walking Dead 💀 and we learned that no one has face masks 😷, ventilators, or toilet paper, or THE FREAKING SWIFFER WET JET LIQUID , and by now our 🦁outgrowth is showing, so there’s a shortage on 📦 box hair dye and all of our hair dressers are like , 😱 NO DONT DO IT!!! But, then Kim Jong-Un died, but then he came back to life … or did he? Who knows, because then the Pentagon released 🎥 videos of UFOs and nobody cared, and we were like man, it’s only April….

In 💐 May, the biblical end times kicked off , historical locust swarms, we learned of murder hornets 🐝 and realized that 2020 was the start of the Hunger Games🙈 however people forgot to let us know. people legit started to protest lockdown measures with 🔫 AR-15s, 🏀⚾️sports events were cancelled everywhere. But then people all over America finally reached a breaking point with race issues and violence. There were 🗣protests in every city🌃 ,which was confusing to some of us because people were definitely gathering in 👫crowds of more than 🖐🏼🤚🏼10 and for sure closer than 6 foot away ⬅️➡️from each other . Those people must have forgotten about the 😖pandemic called COVID Not One Through 18. Media 📺 🗞 struggled with how to 🤬focus on two important things at once, people in general struggle to focus on more than one important thing. A dead whale 🐋 was found in the middle of the Amazon rain forest 🌳 after monkeys 🐒 stole COVID 1 Through 19 from a lab 🔬 and ran off with them, and either in May or April (no one is keeping track of time now) that a giant asteroid ☄️ narrowly missed the Earth🌍.

In ☀️ June, common sense just got thrown 🤾🏼 straight out the window and somehow 😷 wearing masks became a 🏛political thing, but then everyone sort of remembered there was a pandemic, then 👨‍🔬scientists announced they found a mysterious undiscovered mass at the center of the earth, and everyone was like 🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🏻‍♀️🚧DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH IT, but then everyone took a pause to realize that people actually believed Gone With The Wind 💨 was like non-fiction, but then it was also announced that there is a strange 🛰radio signal coming from somewhere in the universe 🌌 that repeats itself every so many days 🗓 , and everyone was like 👽 DON’T YOU DARE ATTEMPT TO COMMUNICATE WITH IT‼️🚫 but then America reopened 🙌🏼from the shut down that actually wasn’t even a shut down, and so far, things have gone spectacularly …. not that great 👎🏼. All of the Karen’s came out at once, and people started tearing down 🔨 statues. Everyone is on Facebook arguing 🤼‍♀️ about masks 👃🏼, but then Florida 🏖 was like hold my beer 🍺 and let me show you how we’re number one 🥇 in all things, including new Not Corona Beer Coronavirus. Then we learned there was a massive dust cloud ☁️ coming straight at us 📍from the Sahara Desert 🐫 , which is totally normal, but this is 2020, so the 👻 ghost mummy thing is most likely in that dust cloud. We then 📚 learned of meth-gators 🐊 , and I’m like that is so not on my flipping 2020 Bingo card 😡 can we use it as the free space?? 🤷🏻 Then we learned that the Congo’s worst ever Ebola 🚨 outbreak is over 😓, and we were all like, there was an Ebola outbreak that was the worse ever? 👀 ……. and don’t forget we just discovered FLYING SNAKES! 🐍, seriously! FLYING SNAKES!!!!

So here comes July….Ghislaine Maxwell 👩🚔gets arrested, people 👥 all over America 🇺🇲 continue protests on race issues and violence there were 🗣protests in every city 🌃, Gun violence and shootings 🔫 occuring Across the Country 🌏 but Chicago 🌆 takes the 🎂 on gun violence,

Houston’s Chinese Consulate 🏛 was closed, we ended the month with random seeds 🌱being shipped to the USA 🇺🇲 from China🇨🇳

At the end of July we were over it , just tell us what’s next …. 👽 Aliens? 🔱Zeus? ☄️ Asteroids? Artificial Intelligence becomes self aware? Can it just be something cool 😎 or fun for once? Maybe even a good laugh , like hahaha 😂 April Fools! We all actually wouldn’t mind that joke at this point.

But August is like here I’ll show you hold my beer 🍺, Spain’s Former King 🤴 👑 leaves, 2 giant 💥explosion in Beirut 🇱🇧 killing at least 220 👥 people and injuring 7000 more, A 💣grenade in North Cameroon🇨🇲 killed 15👥 people, A Derecho that traveled more than 700 miles (Inland Hurricane) 🌬💨 across 6 midwest States (NE, IA, IL, IN, WI, MI) killed one 🚴‍♂️ in Eastern Iowa and left more than 800,000 👥 without ⚡🔌power and shutting down gas stations ⛽ for miles. And folks we are only 15 days 🗓 in!

Maybe the rest of Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec can let us have a break 🏖🌴!

Well June was no less dramatic then all the months before hand in 2020. We are continuing to stay at home as much as possible and the kids are officially on summer break. Jatin is growing like a weed and Nick thinks his voice is going to change soon! We’ve gone and walked the mall twice now as our Friday date in masks but shopping is definitely not the same anymore.

We started playing monopoly deal and are totally addicted! Jatin is a champ and kinda ruthless!

We also celebrated Father’s Day. Nick went for a early morning ride and the kids and I snuck out to get him donuts and get his dad basket ready. Then Daddy and Mommy joined us in the garden for some pakoras and donuts. Nick made a point to do something special with this kids individually. Aanika of course got her ride with her daddy in the Porsche while Jatin and him played some of their favorite games.

We added a small table to Aanikas room so she has space to color and “do her work.” She seems to like it so far.

And as always we’re being sillier than ever and trying to keep each other laughing and smiling no matter what’s going on in this crazy year.

Let’s see what July brings! Aliens 👽 maybe…