Christmas

Nutcracker Decorating Party 2024

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So typically I host a yearly gingerbread decorating party just before Christmas. But this year I discovered the fun in decorating my own custom nutcrackers so I thought it might be fund to extend that into our party this year. Something where everyone could decorate, party but also have a keepsake that doesn’t have to be thrown away in a few days 🙂 Well, everyone brought their A game and they were so creative with how they adorned their mini nutcrackers! The usual decorating crew gathered: Kohli’s, Gundara’s and Nani joined us this year! read more

December 2023 – Other Cute Memories

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December is alway jam packed with adventure and fun celebrating the closing of another year. Sometimes I can’t categorize all the great memories so below is bundling of a few more moments that were precious. Nani and Nana hangout time with Aanika. Tina got engaged! Aakash and Jatin truly share the same blood line *it shows in their amazing moppy hairstyles! Jatin LOVES to bulk and gets caught eating a lot! Aanika did a little Christmas shopping. Jatin went to the Winter Formal with his best friends *the future leaders of America (what I like to call them). Baby Gia is the cutest little butterball ever!! I discovered a series of amazing selfies from my beautiful husband on my phone 🙂 Kai, Jace, Gia and Brody shared their Christmas Morning photos. They are all such cutie patooties! I created a waffle bar for one of our pre-Christmas evening gifts. Nick and Aanika cuddled and had lot’s of silly moments. Jatin started to shave on his own!! Happy December! read more

Christmas 2023

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Christmas this year was lovely. As I was starting to pull out all my holiday decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving we realized the lights were no longer working. Jatin and Nick went out to run some errands and surprised me with a fully built snow flocked slim tree that fits perfectly next to the fireplace in the family room!

We hosted and attended a few Holiday themed hangouts including our yearly neighborhood Christmas party (Donna & Manny hosted this year), Gingerbread decorating with Geeta & Devi & Usha Didi and this year I decided to host the Band Mama’s over the first week of Holiday break. We also got a visit from Jannavi Masi and Sheila Masi and Nick attended the boy’s annual holiday dinner party at the club with Bob & old school friends. read more

December 2020

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Well the kids are officially on 3 weeks of winter break and nick and I are taking some time off as well. The weather has been beautiful so we’re exploring the local hiking trails more and as always playing games and eating delicious food and watching movies.

Mommy took a spin in the Ferrari with Nick and posed for some cute pictures! Maybe next time she’ll drive it too!

Aanika and I have been coloring in our festive room and she’s been enjoying watching tv and relaxing a bit more with the whole family which is a nice change.

Scrabble is officially our favorite game right now even though Jatin is getting a bit tired of it. We’ve also introduced chess into the mix after being reinspired by the Queens Gambit.

Aanika has been enjoying washing the car with Nick! Of course anything with water is always fun!

And we’re getting ready for a quiet but festive Christmas! Driving to see holiday lights, wearing festive ugly Christmas sweaters, watching the Mandalorian and lighting the fire. Love this family.

Christmas 2019

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We had a beautiful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Started with a family pajama party, Chi’s Chinese for dinner followed by opening family gifts by the fire. Aanika has thoroughly enjoyed driving through candy cane lane and looking for Santa. She also said that she wanted Santa to bring her a new doll for her this year and that is exactly what he did 🙂

Christmas Eve:

Christmas Morning Breakfast was hosted at our place. Mommy and Daddy as well as Sammy and Nisha joined us! I rocked a very festive jumpsuit that I couldn’t resist at Target!

I also had time to finish up the restoration on Daddy’s art piece for all the family names.

Aanika has been loving spending time with her doggies this break. A few snapshots of my favorite moments below.

We absolutely enjoyed and loved every moment. Decorated the whole house early November and cleaned up the place just before New Year’s Eve. Staycations are underrated. Love. Light. Peace.