Circa 2003...

From Noel

My name is Noel Thomas and I’m 6 years old. My birthday is on July 3rd. I’m going for a soccer game today. Would you like to see my soccer game? The name of my team is Wildcats. My coach’s name is Travis. I would like to say a story, once upon a time there was a sunny kingdom and a icy kingdom. At the sunny kingdom, there was a king that was nice. At the icy kingdom there was an ogre that was very mean. Everything was beautiful in the sunny kingdom and everything was bad and icy in the icy kingdom. One day the Ogre came to the icy kingdom and took the princess away. Everybody in the sunny kingdom was sad. So the king sent armies to get the princess, but anybody who reached the icy kingdom would turn to ice immediately. But, there was a dancing bear, his friend the polar bear could get on the ice easily. The king said, anybody who gets his daughter back will get lots of gold, so the polar bear agreed, so he went into the icy kingdom and he took the princess and when the ogre came he slapped him on the face with his paw and the Ogre died. Then he took the princess and went back to the sunny kingdom. He and his friend got lots of gold.

I like seeing all the pictures here. Josh calls Hannah and Joanna “Anna”…
xoxo
Noel.

from sharjah

putting up a picture of joel with his friend mohsen(a very naughty chap; as you might assess from the photo) and joanna with her friend shahid.
Also is this photo of Unni and Roshan taken one year back in the "Malayakil parambu."
Sailorman noel is v. sweet.
paul n usha

A small prayer for Joshua, Joanna, Joel, Noel and all of us.

"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen."

 

A small prayer for little Joshua and all of us

A small prayer for Joshua, Joanna, Joel, Noel and all of us.



"Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen."

Three Musketeers !!!

"Grandma and her three musketeers !!!"

From Texas

Lake Grapevine is only a 10 minute drive from our house in Coppell. Last weekend, we went on a sunset cruise on a sail boat called "Tranquillity" hoping to enjoy the beautiful weather before winter hits. With Josh "The Riot" on board with us, the trip was anything but tranquil...here are a few pictures...Capt. Noel had a blast!

Hai,
see this Photo From Mariammachechi


jojo

Chackochan & Kusumam

Thanks Anto!! It's great. Love to you all from the Kuwait gang.


Nice jokes for a laf

ONE FINE DAY A GIRL PROPOSED TO A SARDAR AND SARDAR DENIED
SIMPLY SAYING THAT IN OUR FAMILY,
WE MARRY ONLY OUR RELATIVES..
MY MOM MARRIED MY DAD,
MY BROTHER MARRIED MY BHABHI ,
MY UNCLE MARRIED MY AUNT AND SO ON.
SO PLEASE EXCUSE ME !!!!!

From Anto

Good going so far with some great pictures! Here's a picture from my cell phone. This is how JJ (Josh) kept cool during the hot summers in Texas. He would fill a plastic flower pot with water and put the pot upside down over his head. He would repeat this process every now and then. Nobody showed his this!!

from paul

anto its great that you have taken the initiative to start this. everyone should make an effort to keep it active by posting events and pics and misc stuff.
we are going through ramadan here (for us its shorter working hours - no fasting) and eid holidays at the end of it.
putting up a pic of our trip to muscat earlier this year.thats usha and leenachechi in front of their muscat house.and another pic of joanna and swarupa. the last pic ; the rest of us . joanne was dragged out of her sleep as is evident in thepicture.georgechayan was behind the lens.
paul.
roshan , great effort ! nice site of yours.
hello anupa! hope georgechayn will be able to come to bombay to visit you.

Antopappy, gr8 going... thanx for getting us started...

Here are a few pix... One of Appan, Amma n Swaru and the others of Hannah vava... Hannah was clicked almost a year back so she would have grown much more than what you see... just wanted to share them 'coz she's so angelic n cute...












Well, like Antopappy said... it would be gr8 if all of us could put in something atleast once in a while... then we can all stay in touch and know how and where each of us are...

I am in bombay pattannam... working with Crisil. I've been here for the past 4 months... Out of college and slowly learning how the corporate world functions... I stay at the YWCA here. Life is going gr8. I love work (tho' its back breakingly hectic most of the time...). Miss home terrrrrrrribly... Appa, Amma and Swaru are fine. I spoke to them last night.

Roshan, ur web page is superb! I'd called home the day u sent us the link... got thru to Lizzyeleyamma... u'd left for college after the hols that morning.

Thats it for now...
Waiting to hear loads from all...

Love,
Anupa

Roshan's divine site...

http://divinetreasure.50webs.com/

Launching the Chirayil Family blog.....

Welcome to the Chirayil Family blog! Anything from you daily life that you want to share with the rest of us is welcome here. It could be a thought, a prayer, an incident, a picture, a joke, a message....To start with, I'll post at least once a week. If each of you could post something at least once a week, it'll keep it alive and interesting. My hope is that this will help us and our children get to know each other better. Especially those of us who are miles apart - Anto.