My Angel's 3rd Birthday..Sweet 3!

           

                My precious sweet baby Angela just turned three this weekend. She's no longer a baby anymore and she already understands what parties and birthdays are all about. On her birthday we wanted her to be the happiest and the prettiest girl. I decided to plan a birthday party that she would really love.

         
 About a month ago, I started to search on the internet for some party themes. I scouted, called, and messaged some friends to ask and seek for advices and opinions where to and how to. We decided to have a sweet party theme. I began to crack down, collect, and buy stuff that will be used for the party, starting from the invitation, giveaways, decoration, prizes, down to the ingredients of the food that will be prepared. I really enjoyed every step of the preparation and planning but got a little bit stress-out with the weather days before the party. Since the weather is really unpredictable, we decided to have other plans to make the party indoor.

            The invitations were made and designed a week in advance by her Daddy. I am really happy to see that the theme is really something bright, sweets, and fun! The location was in our church at St. Andrew's Parish Hall, where we attend service and fellowship. We celebrated her birthday on the exact day of her birthday with her friends in Sunday Bible School.

        I started to make the decoration two weeks before Angela’s birthday and each time I bought something new for the party… here are the decorations I made.

For cupcakes

For giveaways, party bag, and prizes 

for the party games.

Other decoration.

Decoration made by Sissy

Cupcake case from Friendship

Customize chocolate cover

            And for the food that we prepared, I am very thankful to my neighbor, Ate Bing, for the big help on the preparations of the sweet treats. To my sissy Janet for her work of art on my party girl's name and specially for my friendship Badeth with the deco'arts inspiration and for the cupcake/candy plastic case.

Chocolate Cookies baked by Ate Bing (my sweetest neighbor)

 Chocolate Cookies and Oreo Truffles 

The making of our  Rainbow Fondant Cake  and Cupcakes

             Celebrating Angela’s birthday is one of the most special occasions of our family. Although the weather isn’t that good that day, it never became a hindrance for us to enjoy and feel blessed with love and thankful hearts to God. Indeed, it was a happy, rainy yet blessed birthday party. All kids who went home with a big smile. Surely, they all had fun and enjoyed the night. We are all very happy and blessed with all the greetings coming from our friends, family, and to all who celebrated with us as we mark another year for our Angela who has filled our lives with so much joy and happiness.

Thank you for joining me on our Angela's sweet third birthday!

Blessing to everyone!

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Story of Our Holiday (Simple plan for Hari Raya Holiday)

What makes a holiday jubilantly splendid? Family bonding at its finest!That would be spending the whole day with your family and friends added with FUN. 

These made our holiday a joyous one. To my hubby, four-days of no work  is equivalent to a precious vacation to us. Relaxation and rest are the first on his list. We planned for the things we’d love to do. As we are excited for the coming holiday, we advanced our simple plans before the day itself. This is where our simple joys begin…

Thursday Night- The Smurfs 2 
Movie date with our lovable kiddos.

We watched their favorite all time movie- The Smurfs 2. It was a cheerful night to them. Watching while eating inside the theater is priceless. 

         After the movie, we headed to McDonalds for a cup of coffee and icey creamy sundae for our kids. To make the time more enjoyable, we gave the kids an hour to play by themselves.

Gloomy Fridays, TGIF! Hurry! Starts the day!

                       

Morning...Pause

              Ssshhhssshhh, as I stated earlier, first in my hubby's list is relaxation and rest but due to the not-so- convincing weather, sleeping is the better best way of relaxing. At around 2pm, I was forced to wake up co'z I am starving. I served the brunch at 3pm. At 5pm we drove to Empire Hotel, looking around the whole place again for the 'nth time. Somehow we missed the place especially the nights spent with friend and family.

As part of our Hari Raya Holidays, pure goodness and building family memories are often shared at home. As wonderful as those memories, we ate ice cream, DOUBLE DUTCH ICE CREAM, which we think is the best for our kiddos as our Friday holiday treat. 

Bright Saturday

         It wasn't totally gloomy either sunny, without casting an eye over for whether it will rain or not, we packed up our beach stuff, suits, tent, food (marinated pork and chicken), BBQ grill, water jug and a lot more. At 9am we drove to Tungku beach for another relaxing beach picnic.

 

Barbeque is the best meal for beach and outdoor outing specially with group outing. Everyone can enjoy grilling the bbq's while having a chat with friends at the same time getting hungry while waiting for it to be cooked and that's the best part. Getting very hungry that you can eat a horse before it'd cooked lol. After lunch, it's time for me to relax and for my kids and hubby to swim again and play. It was a bright Saturday filled with fun and happiness, but as the sun goes down, it is also the sign for us to leave. 

         By the time we arrived home the sky became gloomy and then rain started to pour. It was our prayer that God may bless our day and may keep us safe. We thank the Lord for answering our prayers. His timing is great! Praise God for a wonderful picnic.

 Rainy Saturday isn't over yet. Gone are the nights when the kids are supposed to stay in bed especially when surprises are made. I purposely made my kids melted chocolate over the choco-fountain. It was indeed a fun-filled, chocolatey, night for my sweeties.

Blessed Sunday

        Our Sunday became extra special with a fellowship of our very good friend Mdm Sheils. We spent the whole night together with her handsome prince/son Jacklord. First stop was in Paddington House of Pancake, another new food addiction in town. (maybe I could blog for this one next time) 

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        We talked a lot, shared future plans, revelation, chismax lolz and the good thing that we always cherish about her was she always share with us the good news. My personal spiritual consultant, how blessed we are to know her. Thanks a lot Madam.

Back to Paddington, 

         Another favorite place to dine, why? There's a huge play section for kids to play and enjoy, best part for families (like us) with small kids.

      After dinner at Paddington, we moved to Coffeezone for another coffee chat. Another hour of fellowship and inspiration from Madam, longing for this coffee chit chat for a longest time, thank you!

Monday Blues

           Our Monday was supposedly a whole day of rest, but since it’s the last day of our short holiday on Hari Raya, we visited the unveiling new display set up at NBT, their colorful refreshing, Hari Raya Eidil Fitri giant festive display. We huddle together with the other crowd to have some snapshots using our phone.

   Afterwards we decided it would be fun to take the girls out for dinner  with their favorite food Jollibee chicken joy and Ayam Penyet!

 And for the finale,  another half an hour of playtime.

               It's always fun for us to see our kids having a big smile  on their faces with just a simple bond together, it may not be a long holiday for us and it may not be done on a luxurious place or a new/unique place, but what's important is how we manage to make it enjoyable and valuable not just for my hubby's rest day but importantly, for all of us to enjoy the simple plans we made. Thanks be to God for the guidance and for the blessing we received every day.

           
           Thank you Addi! 
        The simple plan for the short Hari Raya Holiday was fun for the whole family.  

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