Category Archives: Celebrations

My posts are so delayed, Jaime has already left! haha!! But anyway, a few weeks ago, Jaime came home for Spring Break.  Our home is really not the same without him and when he is with us – it’s just a different feeling.  So we cherish every moment when we are complete.  It’s always a celebration

I just recycled props that I already had 🙂

Paper cups and Mustache straws from the baby shower of Pam haha!!  Eeps we forgot to take photos with the mustache!

Previous entry:  Mustache Bash for a Little Man August 29,  2013

Recycled place cards from Lew and Ria’s celebration

Previous entry:  L & C Feb 9, 2015

Jaime’s favorites – Momofuku pork buns and siomai

My favorites haha!! 🙂  Chicken cordon blue, bangus from my good friend Bambi, Lasagna from Anto (  Previous entry:    Lasagna made with Love by Anto January 4, 2015 ) and homemade Salpicao

Truffles and More Truffle Popcorn which matched the theme 🙂 And Desserts in a Jar by Olivia – both vendors from the Gourmand Market

Previous entry:  The Gourmand Market March 25, 2015

Bread pudding brought by Mike

Yummy Red lady papaya from my friend, Toots

Previous entry:  Red Lady Papaya from Tarawoods March 17, 2015

And home baked chocolate chip cookies by Chef Javs – really yummy!!!

Giveaways 🙂

This is a very delayed post!  Javier’s birthday was last January! 🙂  We just celebrated with the family on both sides.  The theme was “Chef” because Javs likes to cook 🙂 

 Papa ordered from Lutong Makau and we just ate at home with Dada

YIPEE!!!  The de Jesus family is game! James said nauuto ko na his family! haha!!  LOVE IT! 🙂

I replicated the same thing for Sunday family lunch with the Lopezes

Lolo Benny and Renato and Tita Tess joined us!!! 🙂  LOLO IS SO GAME!!  And he even insisted on taking home the chef’s hat! haha!!

As usual Mom brought food! Beef from Japan which she took home

Heart2Heart’s carbonara 🙂

CUTE!!! 🙂  Cousins love!! I know my Chef Javs does not really like wearing the hat but he did it for me I know 🙂  

Family love!! to enough Chef’s hats 😉

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What a beautiful celebration of the 9th day of Lola Charing.  It was PINK!  It was a happy celebration because all the people that loved Lola and people who loved the family were there to celebrate with us

A beautiful set up by my sister and Rustan’s Flower Shop

Holy Mass

Dinner followed after in the same venue

By Gourmet Garage

Golden Spoon or Pinkberry?  or Both? 🙂  

Always happy to be with the cousins 🙂

Beautiful rosary giveaways with the pope scapular which were handmade and lovingly given by Tita Ching Soriano![email_link]

 Fat! Fat !fat !! A shower of BAAlessings comes your way this Sunday February 15 to celebrate CNY – Year of the Sheep at Pirate & Sea Princess Temple at 7:30 PM Chinese lauriat, fortune reading by Marites, Chinese healing by White Flower, charms and all the lucky stuff with the Lion Dancers ! All five elements present this year!  Come in any one of the 5-element colors with a touch of sheep fur ! Fire (red), Wood (green), Metal (white), Water (blue/black), Earth (cream)  Baaa baaa baaa with a bag of garage sale clothes (our charity) to purge for new fortune to fill your life !!!  Kung Hei Fat Choy ! Super enjoyed Chinese New Year with Dennis and Tessa this year ! 🙂  If not for them we would not have celebrated at all!  Thank you for always sharing your happiness, your love, your abundance and your luck with us and all your loved ones.  Always good vibes! 🙂

A peek through the window 

Registration

As soon as you enter – there is already pakulo 🙂  Write your name and birthday and wish

Then put it in any envelope in any tree around the house – I put mine in the Year of the Dog since I am a Dog 🙂 This is the Sheep tree though

 Then they have us this paper which we was for a game ( though I did not reach it anymore )

You could buy lucky Charm Bracelets by Liza Bustamante who was seated in the den upon entering

All over the house were giveaways, trees, etc

Upon registration, they will tell you what element you are based on the year you were born

Then it will correspond to a prize in the tent by the garden!  

Metal – pick an amp envelope and if it has a coin inside you win a Chinese New year cupcake

Fire

Wood – you get a lucky bamboo plant and Water you get a box of Hope in a Bottle bottled water

Earth – you get these beautiful orchids 

Love these charms hanging in the living room

 Happy guests 🙂

Main dining room

 Taho 🙂

Prize area 🙂  

The den with the lucky wishing balloons

You get the color corresponding to your element.  

I had to capture this balloon with all the hearts 🙂

Hi Dennis!!  I see Joy and Love on his balloon 

  Everyone was so busy writing so many things on their balloons and you will see the usual- Peace, Love, Happiness, Joy, Money, Prosperity, Money and Money and Money  haha!!  

 Joey and I were metal for the year 1970 ( now you know our age haha).   The most busy one was my friend Joey. She was so serious writing so many things on her balloon I could not even talk to her! I needed to borrow her pentel pen! haha ! That balloon of hers was full after awhile! Happy to be with Paolo, handsome brother of Tessa 🙂

  Good thing I could not think of so many because there is not much really. GOOD HEALTH and LOVE.  I only wrote two things! Of course LOVE  – ALL WE NEED IS LOVE. And I added one important thing which I always forget to pray for – HEALTH. Dad de Jesus always wishes this for all of us. We should always wish for good health. I have been having stomach pains every night for the past year and I am wishing it will go away. I can’t sleep well when the pain is there.  We need to really take care of our health and we should not forget to pray and wish for this. So I wish this for all of you and for me!

We all went outside and they told us to chant and then we let go of the balloons

Dragon dance from the street going inside the house of Tessa

Cute 🙂 Mini heart cake with our names

If you had your photos taken you would have gotten this giveaway – how nice!

Fortune cookies!!! YAY! I love them!  Eating them!

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The Bootcamp gang get together finally pushed through!

Previous entry:  Bootcamp Christmas Party 2013 December 26, 2013

Scotch Bar for Laura haha!! 🙂

Lechon Wrap 🙂  

Juampi brought his homemade chimichurri sauce which we wanted to try!  It’s authentic because Juampi is Argentinian 🙂

The theme was Christmas!  🙂  It’s a delayed Christmas get together for the Bootcamp group, so it’s a New Year theme which actually can be Valentine already! haha!!

 I love it that people are game to wear the decor 🙂 and be in theme

Dinner

Bacalao from Manang Flor 🙂

Roast Chicken from Bambi

Lance’s Yakitori which is available at Salcedo Market every Saturday

Bryan Flannery Dry Aged Roast Prime Rib – to go with Juampi’s chimichurri 

Cakes by Miriam – Ferrero Malteser Cake 

Sans rival brought by Nelson and Siuping

 Green Tea Belgian White Chocolate Torte from Roshan

Group shot 🙂  Everyone got the memo to wear black except for three!

Everyone always gets a giveaway when dining at our house 🙂 

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