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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Fireside Collie
Posted in Dog, Family, tagged dogs, puppy, smooth collie on January 21, 2010| 2 Comments »
More Joey Pictures
Posted in Dog, Family, tagged collie, Family, smooth collie 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.
Happy New Year Collie Puppy!
Posted in Dog, Family, tagged collie, puppy, smooth collie 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!
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).
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.
Rockin’ Christmas
Posted in Family, tagged Christmas, Rockband 2, Wii on December 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The kids got the new Rockband 2 for the Wii for Christmas. We played all weekend long.
Here they are at their Jam session.
Annika also got a couple more Webkinz.
Family Get Together
Posted in Family, tagged Chirstmas, Family on January 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is a picture of Abhijit and Co. and our family.
(click on the pic to see the whole thing)
Peters Canyon Cactus Hike
Posted in Family, Kids, tagged Cactus, Hike, Kids, Peters Canyon on December 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Today I took the boys out for a longer hike through Peters Canyon. We started at the main entrance off Jamboree and worked our way thru Cactus point, up Big Red and eventually back home. A total of about 4-5 miles.
The field of catci were in full bloom. This is a picture of the Prickly Pear cactus that grows abundant in our hills. You will note that they have large fixed spines and smaller hairlike spines. It is the fine hairlike spines that hurt and take weeks to remove. I know from the experience of having fallen on one of these on a bike ride a couple of years ago. Believe it or not, the fruit is edible and is sold in Mexican markets here in the Southland as Nopal.
Here are Vikram, Jordan and Nikhil.
Here they are at the top of Big Red.
This is a strenuous uphill that climbs 175 feet at a 12.5% grade. Here is Rajeev at the top – working up a sweat!
Here they all are at the end, thoroughly exhausted. The facial expressions are genuine pain!
A job well done. The rest of the day is relatively peaceful, with the boundless energy left on the mountains.
Khare Family Adventures 