T-N Productions: Winter Performance

The troupe regrouped for their winter season, producing not one but two stellar performances.

 

Christmas Party 2013

Last weekend we hosted our annual Christmas party at home. Susan masterfully and single-handedly prepared a delicious meal for the 30 guests that we had - and we had tons of leftovers. And this year we switched to a new Santa, since the kids were getting all too familiar with the regular one - Kartik - after all these years. This year when Rahul showed up as Santa and Kartik was still very much around, there was a good amount of confused looks till the presents took over. All-in-all was the usual galata.

And since this is being posted on Christmas day, here's wishing everyone a very blessed Christmas, and a special year ahead.

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Christmas at School

The kiddos got dressed up for their Christmas event at school last week. Yo's class did a performance as well. One of their favorite numbers was "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth".

   

 

Orange Belt

It's almost been a year of Taekwondo, and our man has been slowly progressing up the levels. The belt collection so far:
- white
- white with red stripe
- white with green stripe
- yellow with orange stripe
And at the most recent belt test he just moved up to a "plain orange" belt. He felt it was quite the achievement to once again get a belt without a stripe on it.

And in more recent news, the little lady excitedly took her first trial taekwondo class this week. She has been asking to join for awhile now, and next year she'll get to join her big bro. Having gone to each of his classes for the last year, she pretty much knows all the theory now. On to practice.

"This is the best snow day ever"

We got all dressed up for school and BSF on Friday, when we decided to play for 5 minutes in the first snow of the year. Ended up ditching the day's plans for snow fun, followed by hot chocolate stirred with candy canes, a Christmas picnic lunch next to the tree and lots of painting time :)

Thanksgiving at School + Annual Thanksgiving Tree

M along with her four-year-old class put up a wonderfully cute Thanksgiving music performance.

We also put up our Thanksgiving tree in November (thanks gama for drawing the artisitic tree) and recorded on an almost-daily what they were thankful to God for. The kids also came back home from school with cartloads of Thanksgiving crafts and stories about the Mayflower, pilgrims and ahem, Indians ;)

  

Thanksgiving 2013

This year we had full tummies and a full house for Thanksgiving. We started with an early Thanksgiving meal with the Bhaskers on Sunday (Yummers). Wednesday saw the arrival of the Rasams (Ramya + Sam) and Sidhus (Ritu + Sid) and the band of little people (four total this time). With six adults and six kiddos, Thanksgiving was a riot - four days of partying it up for us (at least our version of a party - food, more food, yapping, marathon TV shows, kids who kept each other busy...) Ranjit did the honors of brining and roasting the bird which turned out pretty good although thanks to wifely input we roasted it wrong side up (hehe). Nothing that some Indian masala gravy couldn't fix. Vegetable bake, roasted root veggies, smashed potatoes with rosemary, bread rolls, cranberry sauce and stuffing completed the meal!

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