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Bay Area Thanksgiving

Posted in Family, tagged , , , on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We went up to the Bay Area over Thanksgiving holiday.

Here are some pictures from my sister’s house. In front is Vikram and then in the back from from left to right: Kiran, Nikhil, Annika, Maya, Saurabh.  Saurabh is my nephew visiting from India.

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Here is Kiran literally sitting on Nikhil’s head.

khare-blog-0012The next day, we went to Abhijit’s house.  Here are the boys, all jacked up after 4 desserts!

khare-blog-009One day we went into San Francisco and hung out at Crissy Field.  It was a rare sunny and warm winter day.

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Alcatraz Island appears to be a very short swim from where we were standing!

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Here are the lovely ladies.

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And I actually got a good one of Vikram without a frown or a pose!khare-blog-0017

Nikhil contemplating driving soon.

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And finally, a parting shot of the Golden Gate Bridge.khare-blog-0016

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Happy Birthday Nikhil and Vikram

Posted in Family, Kids, tagged on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The boys just had their 15th birthday.   We celebrated at home with homemade cup cakes.

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Spring Break

Posted in Family, tagged , on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We went up to the Bay Area over spring Break and visited my parents and Abhijit and family.

Here are some pics of the kids at my parent’s house (Nikhil, Vikram, Annika and Maya).

Here are Kiran and Vikram wrestling.

We went to Sky High in Concord.  Here are the kids standing still for one second (at most).

 

 

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India Trip

Posted in Family, Trips, Vacation, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We went to India over the Christmas break to visit Anjali’s parents in Pune and my extended family in Nagpur.

Anjali’s parents had their 50th anniversary.  Here is Anjali with her parents in the middle and her brother on the right.  In the front and back row are her cousins.

Here are the kids with their Great Grandmother!

Here are the five of us.

Here are the kids at Anjali’s uncle’s vacation house outside of Pune.

One of the days we went to Sinhagad, a fort from the 1600′s with quite a colorful history.  Here are the kids at the entrance to the fort.

Here is the view from inside the protected walls of the fort.

On most days, we did our shopping trips and visits in a scooter rickshaw.

We did a side trip to Nagpur which is about a two hour flight from Pune.

We visited my uncles and cousins there.

My cousin Shirish (on the left in the photo above) took us to a wildlife sanctuary outside of Pune.

Here are some pictures from the Pench Tiger Sanctuary.  Unfortunately, we didn’t see any tigers but lots of other big game including sambars, horned deer, antelopes and all kinds of monkeys!

On Christmas Day, we went out for Chinese food at Mainland China in Pune.  Probably the best Chinese food in India! Christmas Day in India is like any other day there.

On our last day in Pune, Anjali was lucky enough to catch her 30th year high school reunion at St. Joseph’s.  Here she is with her friends.

What a trip!

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Family Portrait 2011

Posted in Family, tagged on December 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This morning, we drove down to Crystal Cove Beach and took some family self portrait pictures. The weather cooperated and the lighting was pretty perfect.


You’ll be seeing these on our holiday cards this year!

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Thanksgiving 2011 in the Bay Area

Posted in Family, tagged on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we drove up to the Bay Area to visit my parents and also Abhijit and family.

At my parent’s house, Madhu and her kids visited one day.  Here’s a pic of Maya (Annika’s cousin) and Annika.

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Here are the boys with their little cousin Kiran.

And finally a group shot.

For Thanksgiving diner, we went up to Abhijit’s house for dinner.

The boys got all dressed up.  Annika refused to dress up, still wearing her trademark Abercrombie and Fitch casual clothes.

Abhijit had cooked all weekend long and had quite the elaborate spread!

Here are Rajiv and Nikhil goofing around.

And finally a pic of Anjali and Ashwini.

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Diwali 2011

Posted in Events, Family, tagged on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The kids took the day off from school to celebrate Diwali.  Here are Annika, Mira and Harsheta spending the afternoon in our backyard doing rangoli.

 

 

The girls pose for a picture (Ankhita, Mira, Maya, Annika and Harsheta).

 

In the evening, we went over to Arun and Jo’s house for dinner and fireworks.

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Here are some of the backyard fireworks.

The boys graciously accepting their gifts!

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Bay Area Weekend

Posted in Family on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Over the 4th of July holiday, we went up to the Bay Area to visit Mom and Dad and Abhijit and family.

Here are some pics from the weekend.

First up, Madhu and her kids Maya and Kiran came over with their puppy dalmation.

Here are Annika and Maya.

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Here are Vikram and KiranVikram and KiranThe two puppies played all day long.

 

They took the occasional break and then started their wrestling again.Kiran and Vikram also wrestled much of the day.

 

One of the days, we went to Abhijit’s house. Here are some pics from the evening and the following day.

Here is Abhijit showing Nikhil his secret chicken recipe.


 

Here is the full gang (Nikhil, Vikram, Rajiv, Apurva and Annika).The girls did a backyard campout for the night.

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Memorial Day Visit to Santa Cruz Island

Posted in Family, Life, Trips, tagged , , on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

On Memorial Day we visited the Channel Islands – Santa Cruz Island. We started out at Ventura Harbor, a little over 100 miles from our house and then took a 2 hour boat ride to the island.  The weather was beautiful.

Here is Annika with her best friend Lizzy who came along with us.

Here is Vikram being camera shy!

 

On the boat ride, we saw lots of sea lions and dolphins.

Here is the start of the 4.5 mile hike on the island.

Here we all are just above Pelican Bay.

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Melting Pot Birthday

Posted in Family on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Annika just turned 10 and for her birthday, she went to the Melting Pot fondue restaurant with her friends.

Can you say Chocolate Fondue!

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Ouch That Hurts!

Posted in Family, tagged on February 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Nikhil broke his arm last week – both radius and ulna.  He’ll be in a cast for the next 4 weeks.  Fortunately, no surgery needed but the first few days are quite painful.

At the hospital, they now send you home with a CD of x-ray pictures.  This is cool – no more films.

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Thanksgiving 2010

Posted in Family on December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We went up to the Bay Area for Thanksgiving to visit my parents, Madhu, Abhijit and family.

Here are some pictures with their cousins.

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Monsoon Wedding in Pune

Posted in Family on July 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Anjali just got back from Pune and here are some of her pics.

Theses are some of her cousins.

Here is Anjali with her favorite uncle Makarand Mama.

Here is Anjali with her favorite fruit Jambul – a cross between a plum and a blueberry (and very sweet).

Anjali went to Pune for a wedding.  Here is a picture of the bride and groom (Sujay and Aparna) along with the family.

Here is Anjali with her cousin Shantanu (also an elegible bachelor).

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Summer Races

Posted in Family, Track on July 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I have some catching up to do as it has been several weeks since my last post.  The kids have been keeping me very busy.

Annika and Nikhil had their final two races of the season.

The first was the SCMAF Championship.  This is a Southern California track meet with qualifiers thru our city and county meets.

Annika qualified for and ran the 400M and 200M.  She placed third overall in the 400M with a personal best of 79 seconds and 9th in the 200M.

Nikhil ran the 1600M and placed fourth overall.

A couple of weeks after the SCMAF races, both raced in the Junior Olympic Regionals.  Both ran on two consecutive days the 1500M and the 800M races.  These were much more competitive and they were running against kids that were one year older in most cases.

Annika brought her friend Lizzy to help cheer her on.

After the race on Sunday, we went to eat at our favorite Indian restaurant in Cerritos called Jay Bharat.

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Mother’s Day Hike

Posted in Family on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today we went to Peter’s Canyon to celebrate Mother’s Day.  Here’s Anjali with the kids.

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Fireside Collie

Posted in Dog, Family, tagged , , on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Joey continues to grow like a weed and is keeping us very busy.  We’ve had about 8 inches of very much need rain this week so we’ve been spending a lot of time indoors.  Here is Joey enjoying the fire.

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More Joey Pictures

Posted in Dog, Family, tagged , , on January 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

By popular demand, here is a Joey update.

Joey is finally getting into a routine.  He slept seven whole hours last night and only had two little accidents in the house today!  He is also napping a bit more during the day, and seems a lot more relaxed.

Here are some more pics.

We are crate training Joey, but in the meantime, he has picked out a cozy spot by the sofa.

Here’s a couple in our back yard.

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Happy New Year Collie Puppy!

Posted in Dog, Family, tagged , , on December 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »

We got our new puppy this afternoon.  He is a 9 week old Smooth Collie.

Here are the first pictures of him in our backyard.

We have tentatively named him Joey!  The other leading names were Sprite, Baron, Google and Jamba!

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Christmas Beach

Posted in Family, tagged , , on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Mom and Dad came down on Christmas Day with my nephew, Vinayak.  We went down to Crystal Cove Beach and enjoyed the sunset.

Here is Vinayak with Mom, Anjali and Vikram.  Vinayak is a Junior at Purdue studying EE (my cousin Raju’s son).

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Grandma’s House

Posted in Cross Country, Dinner, Family, tagged , , on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Over Thanksgiving holiday, we went up to Mom and Dad’s house.

Here is a picture of the kids with their cousins (Kiran and Maya).

On Thanksgiving morning, the kids ran a 5K race in San Jose called the Silicon Valley 5K.  This race had 11,000 plus runners.  Annika got 2nd place in the 9 and under category and Nihil got 2nd place in the 13 and under category.

Annika knocked another 30 seconds off her 5K time from last month and Nikhil got another sub 20 time though both were slowed down by having to dodge the slower runners that lined up in front of them.  It was crazy!

For Thanksgiving dinner, we went to Abhijit’s house.  He had spent all day cooking a monster dinner.  Here are the girls before dinner.

Here are the boys working on their seventh piece of homemade pie!

Here are all the kids after dinner.

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