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Our Small Garden

My future dream house would have to have these three: a library, a nook, and a garden! The thought of harvesting vegetables or fruits from my own garden appeals to me. I will plant pechay, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, sili, and a lot more. That would really give me pleasure. For now, I just have to be content with our small garden at our small house.

 

 

Riley's Game Show Party

Recently, I threw a birthday party for my son. He is already two and my mother said why bother having a party? The fact that I have to save every penny I earn and parties always mean mon-ey! But this is my son we're talking to. I just have to make it SPECIAL. Special but practical. It's hard but it can be done. Every possible way that I could save on, I did. I even bought the toys at Divisoria. As the saying goes, if there's a will, there's definitely a way!

here's the birthday boy with his two outfits for the party

Since the party's theme is game shows, we had games like Pinoy Henyo, PNV (Pambato ng Videoke), and All for Riley, Riley for All segment. If you're a fan of game shows you know all these games are inspired from Eat Bulaga. We also have Kendeng-Kendeng dance contest and Putukan Na from Wil Time Bigtime. As I've mention, I bought most of the prizes from Divisoria. The Pinoy Henyo t-shirt I customized. I like to give gifts that kids would really love. There's the house (with no lot), cars, appliance like electric fan, there's cellphone which is sight sensitive (that's a joke of course!), PSP, and my son's giveaways are S.O.S. (flashlight and whistle) and a chocolate that's worth a million dollar! :)

A party is not complete without singing "Happy Birthday" and blowing of the candle. I made this tuxedo fondant cake and please don't make fun of it. It's my first time to make fondant out of marshmallow and the moment I started kneading, I know I was in deep trouble! Haha! I have high respect to all the bakers who have done this and truly you are a master of your own. Anyway, good thing our guest are mostly kids and they didn't care as long as they have their cakes! That's all that matter! :D

my son loves blowing the candle!

We also had fun posing at the photobooth:

Most importantly, in any celebration that I planned for my my son, I make sure he enjoys it. My son is most happy when he is with his friends so I limit the guest to whom he is comfortable with. After all, it's HIS birthday. Not mine! 

And that concludes his Game Show party. Having this kind of party is really fun. Who knows what might be the theme for his next birthday? I hope I can think of something when that time of the year arrived again. Say, he loves Ben 10 so much next year, then all I have to do is hire an alien from outer space! Mothers! 

Busy Bee

I've been absent from the blog world for a while because I am so busy with my son's 2nd birthday party preparation. And when I plan a party for him, I am just too occupied and my mind doesn't work properly. I can't think, I can't function, I can't focus except all about the little detail of the party. Hehe. After the party, then I am normal again. Speaking of the preparations, here are some of the things that I have already accomplished:

the invitation

the tarp

the money (do you expect a game show without cash prizes?)

the overlay for his photobooth (sorry the model is too busy to fix herself) 

That's all for tonight! I will now create a video so my son's friends will have something to watch after all the games and food that they will eat. Oh I hope they will enjoy the party. I am really crazy when it comes to detail. (I think obsess is the word) But hey, kids are easy to please right? More blogs about my son's birthday in just few days. Bye for now! Muah!!!

P.S.

Black and white is the motif for his birthday if you haven't notice yet ^_^