Thankschristmakawali Celebration, November 21st 2015
Thankschristmakawali! That's right. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah and Dawali celebrated all together! With friends from all over the world and living in an international community, Rubina and Tesh introduced the idea of their tradition of having such a party. We were more than happy to provide the venue and be a part of it! I've never had my Christmas decor up so early but I actually liked getting it done and out of the way. It was an amazing international feast with everyone bringing food from their native holiday. We had friends from the USA, Canada, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, China, Holland, Israel, Columbia, Belgium and New Zealand.
Brian carving the bird!
I baked the turkey. Lovely bird!
Sarah, Colby, Lorna, Yanti, Stephanie, Rubina, Tamar, Sharon, Natalie, Jacee, Isabelle and Jaiya.
It was an awesome spread of delicious food! We had some super fun gift exchanges as well.
The children! Yuval, Brock, Edan, Olly, Enrique, Ashton, Xavy, Matteo, Cameron, Gavin, Ronan, Indy, Pepper, Jet, Chael, Addie, Shauna, Asgar, Emily, Matteos, Maya, Prisha and Reyhann
The children had a gift exchange and drew names. It was really fun for them to give and also receive a gift. The videos people took were so funny.
Moms and dads enjoyed the children's gift exchange almost as much as the children.
The adults had their own gift exchange! Our traditional white-elephant gift exchange.... Always exciting and it was really fun to introduce to friends who have never experienced or done one before. I had to explain it several times and I was asked lots of questions about it. And they did great! We had an epic exchange.
I love the superman and superwoman aprons. They were quick to have a new owner.
Lindsey and Lorna with Tesh's fantastic fan stand "made in Indonesia" and Super Woman apron!
The black elephant at the white elephant party!!! Tamar opened up the best gift of the night. Thank you Tesh and Rubina! We are still laughing about it!
Me with Colby and Steph. Holding it together and trying not cry as our days together were coming to an end. Miss you Osbornes!
Colby, Sarah, Steph, Rubina, Reyhaan and Indri
Thanks friends for celebrating the coolest mashup of holidays ever!
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