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!
Archive for December, 2009
Happy New Year Collie Puppy!
Posted in Dog, Family, tagged collie, puppy, smooth collie on December 31, 2009| 6 Comments »
Christmas Beach
Posted in Family, tagged Christmas, Crystal Cove, Family 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).
Reno Winter Wonderland
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Junior Olympics, Reno, Running on December 13, 2009| 2 Comments »
This weekend, I took Annika and Nikhil up to Reno for the National Junior Olympics. Both had qualified at the Regionals in San Diego about 4 weeks ago.
We had a nice flight up to Reno from LAX. The weather unfortunately was not as nice. On Friday night before the race we had about a foot of snow. Just getting to the course in the foothills of Reno was difficult and the races were all delayed.
This is the morning view from our hotel room at Circus Circus.
Here are Annika and Nikhil on the morning before their race during the course walk. You can see a light snow falling.
This is Annika in the team tent before her race.
Annika’s race was first up. She ran in the older Bantam Girl’s group (ages 9-10). It had stopped snowing just long enough for her race but began snowing again soon afterward. Running on the snow required special cross country spikes (shoes) with 1/2″ spikes in them. She ran a great race and persevered the brutal conditions and finished 162 (out of 200+). Annika’s team of 8 won the prestigious National title! Quite an accomplishment.
Here is the rest of her team at the awards ceremony in the evening displaying their “gold”. Two of her team mates finished in the top 25 with three others in the top 50. Their lowest overall point score (kind of like golf) earned them the win.
Nikhil’s team raced under heavy snow conditions and even stiffer competition. His team placed 11th overall(Nikhil is the 3rd runner in the pic – green/red jersey). This was the best picture I could get with my puny litle camera!
Here is Nikhil with his buddies after the awards ceremony.
And one last picture of Annika and Nikhil.
Next year’s race will be in Alabama. We’ll be going again if they qualify!
Grandma’s House
Posted in Cross Country, Dinner, Family, tagged Dinner, Family, Thanksgiving 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.
Khare Family Adventures 