Mommy's BirthDay

Mommy celebrated her 60th year on Easter Sunday at DJ Paradise Hotel in her most simple way.

The party's theme was 'Reminiscing the 60's'.

For the invites, we used 45s to match our theme. We used Mommy's photo on her teens.

Mommy had her outfit made and she bought me, Jenny and Ate Bing matching outfits at Greenhills. We had our hair and make-up made by Agatha.
We had our Thanksgiving Mass at the Golden Shower at 5pm. Mons Flint, Fr. Pros and Fr. Espiritu led the mass with the RCM sisters as the choir. Jenjen, Paeng, and Biboy read the readings and the prayers in Tagalog. That was pretty hard but they did it well.

After the mass, we invited our guests to make use of our studio-set up for their free vintage pictorial. They went home with their 5R photos printed in sepia for free. Then, invited the guests to party at the roofdeck of the hotel.
People feasted over the Fusion and Western cuisine prepared by DJ Paradise Resort and Chef Orland. We served sushi, sashimi, maki, salad with 4 different dressings, miso soup and sukiyaki, lechon baka and baboy, japanese dishes, pasta, ox tongue, chocolate fountain, pastries, tiramisu, and the likes. Everybody loved the food while reminiscing with the music of the 60s performed by the XPoZ Band. We heard a lot of good feedback from our guests about the band. They must have enjoyed the oldies but goodies sounds.

While enjoying the food and the music, we requested the guests to sign their wishes for Mommy at the photos pinned on top of the flower arrangement of the guest tables. We then collected these after the party and binded it.

Lola and Daddy gave their birthday wishes for Mommy.
Jenny prepared the AVP followed with our supposed-to-be surprise dance number. Daddy asked Ryan what he prepared for Mommy's birthday. With the little boy's innocence, he answered proudly that he will dance, inspite of our instructions that it will be a secret. He said that he did not tell Daddy, he just answered Daddy's question. Kids! And while Daddy was telling us how he caught Ryan with our little secret, he wasn't aware that Mommy was right behind him listening. Kuya and Ate Bing, I and Omar, and Jenny danced to the tune of El Bimbo and the kids joined us to the tune of Sugar Sugar. Surprisingly, Summer danced too! Onnie choreographed our dance steps. Still, Mommy and Daddy were surprised with our dance number. They didn't expect it to be that good DAW hehehe. Daddy even approached to hug me for a job well done.
It was a magical night with a magic show by Tito Cris, a gift for Mommy from Tito Boy and Tita Leslie. I did not expect the magic show to click with our guests since it was an adult affair. But they had lots of fun watching Danny, Mons Flint and Marion participate in the magic show.

Mommy then had her piece, blew her old-fashioned style cake from Merced Bake House, and souvenirs were distributed. We gave away fans, coasters with psychedelic prints, and CD of 60s music.

We had another set of music of the 60s from the band while other guests stayed to enjoy the music.

Mommy was so happy. Daddy had fun. That was Mommy's simple party. Happy birthday Mommy!

One hot afternoon

I don't want my baby to get dark.

Here's a photo of Summer and Omar one hot afternoon.

I hope the hat and the umbrella si enough to block the sun.

After bath

My baby loves to take a bath - not only because of the water, but she's so looking forward to wrapping her tiny hair like I do when I take a bath.

She tells me, 'Mama, hair!' everytime I towel her dry.

O diba, parang ang haba ng hair nya? hehehe

Daddy's birthDay with Summer

Mommy gave Daddy a birthday lunch, syempre sabit si Summer. Libre handa, dami pa gift hehehe. Thank you Mommy!

We had Daddy's birthday lunch on March 25 at DJ Paradise Resort at the VIP room. I provided Pancit Lucban and the cake and Mommy provided everything, fair share ha!

We were busy preparing for Mommy's birthday on April that we did not prepare any program for Daddy's unexpected birthday. Tito Joven volunteered to be the emcee for the party. He asked the guests to give their wishes for Daddy. He started with his siblings, with Mommy, with the children, and with the in-laws. Daddy had so much fun! He did not expect Tito Joven to host the party.

Happy birthday Daddy! Thank you Mommy!

Happy birthDay Summer!

It's Summer's birthday! She is now 2years old and I'm a little bit sad but happy. Ang gulo ko noh? Di na kasi baby ang baby ko. Big girl na sya.

We did not celebrate it with a party anymore after spending so much on her 1st birthday party hehehe. Instead, we brought her to Active Fun at Tiendesitas. I learned Active Fun from my e-group, N@W. We invited her cousins to join us. Unfortunately, Julian and Justine were sick and cannot join us while Jenjen, Paeng, and Ryan are too big to enjoy the place. Her Lolo Oka and Lola Olive joined us too. She loved playing at the pool of balls.

After an hour of playing and running around Active Fun, we brought the kids to Jollibee for snacks. My MIL bought a cake for her to blow on her 2nd year. She blew her cake, big girl na talaga! And the crew of Jollibee was so sensitive. While we were singing Happy birthday for Summer, she approached us and gave a tumbler for Summer, a small token but such a great thought from them.

Happy birthday Summer!

Luau Day

We were invited to attend Omar's cousin, Lizbeth, 18th birthday at BF Homes Club House with Hawaiian theme.

I was so excited, it was time to dress Summer up once again. I didn't knew at first that we can bring Summer along with us. I bought a head dress and lei for myself not knowing what to wear. When I learned that I can bring Summer, I gave her my head dress and lei. A day before the party, my MIL went to Divisoria to buy grass skirts just for the girls. Ang sweet!

Summer had fun running around the party in her grass skirt. I did not expect her to wear the grass skirt the whole time but she did until she changed to her pajamas at night. We had lots of picture taking in her costume.

You look so cute in Hawaiian, Summer!

New Year's Day with a Bang!

We went home just in time for the New Year's Eve with the Reantasos. Our flight arrived at the NAIA at 11am via Cathay Pacific from HongKong.

We went to my in-laws to have lunch and leave Summer for them to feast on hehehe. We then went home to sort some of our things for pasalubongs.

We went to hear mass at 8pm, had dinner, family picture taking and drank until 12midnight for fireworks. We wanted for Summer to stay inside the house, we do not want to scare her with all the noise. But we were wrong. She kept on crying because she wanted to go out to see all the lights inspite of all the noise. And so we brought her out. She had fun pointing at all the lights. It was her first time to celebrate New Year with fireworks.

We stayed up all night drinking with the Reantasos and slept at 3am.

We had dinner with the Alviz on January 4 at TongYang at Jupiter as our late celebration of New Year with them.
Happy New Year Summer!