Our Family: Happy New Years Everyone! It's 2011

I thought that I would put up a post this year of some choice pics that somehow never made the cut or that kids would have killed me if I would have posted or just plain old great family memories. I thought that we would take a stroll down memory lane in a post that I call POY - Post's of the Year!

Here we start off in January (New Years to be exact) of 2010.

Nerd and Milton sharing some New Years hugs together....awww

Sunny looks so happy to be out on a snow trip with the family!

I know Dad was so thrilled to have me taking so many pics. I think the exact phrase was "lovely more pictures". But look at all the blackmail...ugh.. I mean memories I now have.

Raman the sexy snowbeast.

Now as we progress through the year there have been lots of changes and challenges that we have faced.

In February Karan turned 9....my how the time has flown by.....

Here she is in her karate attire....

In April Milton and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. It seems like just yesterday.

We took this pic at Chuck E. Cheeses and I just love it.

Pretty soon before you knew it we were on to summer and the kids back out for vacation. To get ready for summer we dusted off the old pool and Milton bought me a new grill for out back. We did a lot of remodeling this year on the house and one of them was to open up the patio so that we can have parties out back for the kids.

Here we are taking the kids up to Chico Creek to swim and have some fun in the creek.

Here is the girls and Skid at the fair....I thought they were going to poop their pants. LOL

And now moving onto September and the kids back in School!
Trinity turned 8 this year and got baptized so we all traveled out to Utah to have Milton baptize her. We were so excited and I know Milton was thrilled!

We hung out for awhile and visited a lot of spots around Utah that we wanted to see and got to spend some quality time with Jesse and Cari as well as the Trinity and Aidin.
This year for the end of October we ended up going to Blizzcon as well as Disneyland so it was a pretty hectic time.

Raman and Skid kicked so much in bed they ended up getting "kicked" down on the floor that night in our hotel room in Anaheim. The SNORING IN THAT ROOM WAS UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Nagar Kirtan is a Sikh celebration that happens on the first Sunday in November. We had over Babaji, Grammaji, the kids Aunt and Uncle and lots of cousins. Manjinder (the kids cousin) stayed out our house and it was really super nice in seeing them all grown up. It seems like yesterday he was running around being a little munchkin :)

Three Generations

It was a really rainy day and we all got soaked. By about 2 pm it started to clear up thankfully but we had all dried our clothes and had to get changed about three times that day. Luckily we live right in front of the parade route so that we can just run inside and change.

Grampa Bill stayed inside in his snuggy and had chole and samosa's delivered to him from the kids...lol

Thanksgiving this year we stayed home and had Arlin, Maribel, James, Deanna and Skid over. It was really nice and the food was great...if I do say so myself. It just didn't seem right though not having Mom's dressing :(

Grammaji in her usual spirit of giving brought me dinner one night when I got home from work.....yummy kerala!

Now as we get into December and Christmas time we did a bunch of new activities for the kids. Karan had a field trip this year to the State Capitol. She didn't think I could make it but I ran over there and surprised her....you should have seen her face! Priceless.

One of my favorite days in December is the 11th. My biggest pain in the butt...ugh I mean child was turning 16 this year (heart attack!) and so we took him to DMV to get his permit.

We then celebrated with cake on his birthday but of course he wouldn't let me take a pic of him.....teenagers

Christmas time was almost here and it was nonstop Christmas music and house decorating and teenagers rolling their eyes at me....

Raman at his Christmas Concert. He played the drums like a ROCKSTAR!!!

And finally we make it to New Years Eve! We had a party at our house with Deanna, Skid, Grampa Bill, Gramma Debbie, Rylee and all the kids. Milton bought me a fire pit for Christmas so I was dying to try it out. We set up the fire pit and I hung Christmas lights up out back and playing big band Christmas and we all got to spend some great quality time together roasting marshmellows and making smores.