Dad is 84 and going strong..
I think he was a bit surprised with the turnout. I know Leda and I were!
A few weeks ago, Leda came over to plan with Donna and their nieces, a celebration of my father-in-law's 84th birthday. His actual birthday was July 15 but the closest they can do it was yesterday, Sunday July 19 because a) Leda had a catering gig the day before and b) niece Paulet and her family are coming on vacation from Dubai the same day. So Sunday it is.
As usual, we borrowed extra chairs from friend and neighbor Bong Naguit to complement the few we have here and we still have Leda's round tables that she brought over from Muntinglupa for a previous celebration. They assigned dishes to be prepared by everyone and it all came through Sunday morning in a big bang. There was actually a lot more food that shown below. I took these pictures as an afterthought.
Donna and I took advantage of the rain water brought over by the typhoon and scrubbed and cleaned out our driveway of accumulated bird poo last Saturday. After lunch Cindy and sister Gay came over to help us clean up some more and they also brought out all the chairs and tables from our utility room. We went to church at the 6 pm mass so we'll have more time to prepare for the lunch party Sunday.
At close to twelve, guests literally came in droves. First to arrive were Donna's 'school' mates and Ate Pie's walking buddies. And it was chaos after that!
Atching Alice (Daddy's niece) of Partyland and group also came along with her son Jon and wife of Bale Capampangan as well as Cong Eddie and Malou of Fisherman's Grill.
Our walking buddies also came; Jojo Naguit and wife My-My, Bong Naguit, Doret Tombo, Ferdie Angeles and wife Rona, Bong Dungao and wife Recy, Marny Castro, Connie Guiang, her son and his wife, as well as soon to be neighbor who's house across the street is almost finished, Joe Esguerra and wife Odette along with their two boys.
A few friends and classmates were also in attendance; Myrna and husband Vir, Alice (Puno) and husband and a oh-so-cute grand daughter, Nita Tiomico along with daughter and son-in-law, Dan Asuncion, with wife and daughter and of course Boy with wife Remy and daughter MaryJo who're in town on vacation. Speaking of vacation, Amanda and Tan happened to be here as well and made it to the party.
Our friend and Donna's nursing classmate and Eph's Ninang Didi and family came also. We invited Mergine as well but she left for Germany last Friday.
Of course, the event was capped with a session of kwaho! There's no room for Donna here so she had to wait until later to play one on one with Leda.
The music room was so busy the whole time with hours of Karaoke and two DVDs - Beauty and the Beast for Jay's kids and The X-Men 2 afterwards.
A few weeks ago, Leda came over to plan with Donna and their nieces, a celebration of my father-in-law's 84th birthday. His actual birthday was July 15 but the closest they can do it was yesterday, Sunday July 19 because a) Leda had a catering gig the day before and b) niece Paulet and her family are coming on vacation from Dubai the same day. So Sunday it is.
As usual, we borrowed extra chairs from friend and neighbor Bong Naguit to complement the few we have here and we still have Leda's round tables that she brought over from Muntinglupa for a previous celebration. They assigned dishes to be prepared by everyone and it all came through Sunday morning in a big bang. There was actually a lot more food that shown below. I took these pictures as an afterthought.
Donna and I took advantage of the rain water brought over by the typhoon and scrubbed and cleaned out our driveway of accumulated bird poo last Saturday. After lunch Cindy and sister Gay came over to help us clean up some more and they also brought out all the chairs and tables from our utility room. We went to church at the 6 pm mass so we'll have more time to prepare for the lunch party Sunday.
At close to twelve, guests literally came in droves. First to arrive were Donna's 'school' mates and Ate Pie's walking buddies. And it was chaos after that!
Atching Alice (Daddy's niece) of Partyland and group also came along with her son Jon and wife of Bale Capampangan as well as Cong Eddie and Malou of Fisherman's Grill.
Our walking buddies also came; Jojo Naguit and wife My-My, Bong Naguit, Doret Tombo, Ferdie Angeles and wife Rona, Bong Dungao and wife Recy, Marny Castro, Connie Guiang, her son and his wife, as well as soon to be neighbor who's house across the street is almost finished, Joe Esguerra and wife Odette along with their two boys.
A few friends and classmates were also in attendance; Myrna and husband Vir, Alice (Puno) and husband and a oh-so-cute grand daughter, Nita Tiomico along with daughter and son-in-law, Dan Asuncion, with wife and daughter and of course Boy with wife Remy and daughter MaryJo who're in town on vacation. Speaking of vacation, Amanda and Tan happened to be here as well and made it to the party.
Our friend and Donna's nursing classmate and Eph's Ninang Didi and family came also. We invited Mergine as well but she left for Germany last Friday.
Of course, the event was capped with a session of kwaho! There's no room for Donna here so she had to wait until later to play one on one with Leda.
The music room was so busy the whole time with hours of Karaoke and two DVDs - Beauty and the Beast for Jay's kids and The X-Men 2 afterwards.
posted by reyjay @ 8:07 PM
1 Comments:
At 1:36 AM,
joe said…
Hi Rey,
good to see your blog up and running again. thanks for sharing photos of the family. i did copy eddie's(golly...he's not getting old) & atching alice's photos to add them in my picasa album. keep blogging. warmest regards from poughkeepsie.joseph.
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