2gether4ever day!

Today marks our 6th wedding anniversary. We didn't plan for anything. We just bought a land (in the process again of building a new home) and even small purchases have to be reasonable at this time including my scrapbooking expenses.

(Yesterday, instead of buying an anniversary card - I thought I'd scrap what I want to tell hubby on this day. But I didn't have enough time to finish the layout, so I just told him the words that meant to go into the journalling. Hey, I'm trying to keep up my "expenses-reasonable". Although, I felt a bit guilty that I bought the scrapbooking magazine with free tiles instead of the greeting card.)

I know hubby doesn't fail to buy me a card on every special occassion. Yet, today, I felt I wasn't even going to get one. But I did... After having breakfast, I went inside our bedroom and saw the card lying on our bed. Oh, my loving hubby didn't disappoint me. My heart melted. And as always, words he wrote made me teary-eyed. Luis saw me and I told him mom and dad are celebrating their wedding day. And he said, "but I was not there."

We drove off to North Sydney to buy a cake from Red Mango and to Ikea for the Stocktake Sale.

Tonight, we heard Saturday vigil mass. Had sinigang for dinner. And to prove Luis that mom and dad married each other, I let him watch our wedding video - a tradition every June 24. And he quickly abandoned his toys and sat on the couch. He really had fun watching the MTV edited version. He had nasty comments on my looks while I was being made up and funny observation regarding his daddy's ears. Oh, this is going to be a new posting on my Parenting blog.

In case you wonder, these are the words I will put on my anniversary greeting layout, "After all these years of togetherness, hanging out with you is still my favorite thing to do."

28th of May PARTY

Luis celebrated his 4th birthday at Lollipops Playland with 31 guests. (You won't see all of them in the souvenir photo. A few were busy playing outside the party room.)

I didn't put too much legwork for this party. I'm saving it all for Leon's first birthday in August. (AS IF!). Truth is, I really don't have an extra hand to do "all the works". So Louie and I thought, it was much safer to do it somewhere where the kids and our little boy can play (and make all the mess they want) to their hearts' content. :)

Call-time was at 9:30 am. I knew the mums and dads would agree that it turned out to be the best time of all. Why, the partyland wasn't as crowded and the observant me knew that kids' are more vibrant (READ: cooperative) in the morning.

Luis, for the very first time, knew the meaning of having a party on his birthday. He was aware that he was the "star" of the day. He knew what the cake was for and the candle - why it was a number "four".

This party was more relaxing than the previous years. But I still ended up a little tired. Probably because we had two other parties the previous day.

SO I hope your kids enjoyed as much as Luis did. Until his next birthday party.

Hip hip hurray!