CHRISTMAS 2013

It was white Christmas for 2013...White was the theme color for this years Christmas party in Katarungan..

Terrified to spend Christmas alone in Lagro, I decided to  celebrate it in Katarungan with my sisters family whom I consider as my 2nd family too. I had to comply though to this years theme and that is, we should be in white top and jeans. No sweat..

We started out with the children's christmas party in the afternoon. The kids from the neighborhood were invited. So they came bringing presents for their exchange gifts.  I got busy helping out preparing food for them. Kiddie stuffs..cupcakes, candies, pansit, spring rolls and more..the trick was, we adorned the cupcakes with superheroes to make it more enticing for the kids. Childrens party is no fun without games..Divine took in charge of this.  The moms brought gifts and some cash too for the prices. After the tiring games, we served them with their food, the adults joined too in savoring the kiddie meals.  Afterwards, they continued with the party with dancing and other kids sang too.  The kids went home happy, bringing gifts they got from their monitos and monitas.

By 9pm we all dressed up for the mass. After church was the noche buena.  Aaron led the prayer thanking the Lord for the food and the blessings.

food...

It was minimal but sumptuous dinner prepared by Byne and Don.  Pastas were spaghetti with the filipino sweet style sauce and baked mac loaded with cheese.  Main menu was baby back ribs, then for dessert there were the mango flavored cake and choco merangue cake.  As a pasta fanatic, I was heavily into the baked mac. Yummy treat....

 

The Opening of gifts..

After dinner, the rest of the night was spent on gift giving. Took us hours because of so many gifts to give and to open. Everyone was upbeat to give and to receive but nothing compares to Aarons joy when it was his name being called.  Christmas is indeed for kids, and true enough that gifts will bring joy to them.  Aaron been hinting that he wants a ninja turtle prior to Christmas.  So from his lolo Pamboy and lola Thelma, he got Michaelangelo ninja turtle and he got a 3d ninja turtle book from me.  My nephew was so thrilled accepting the gifts.  The more he was getting, the happier he was.  His lola Inda bought him bike, his papa and mama bought all sort of action figures, heroes and villains.  His daddy Don bought ninja turtle sword and mask as present, and he got boxing gloves from his amune.The most awaited part of the gift giving was to whom the grand present will go. Grand because it was in cash form.  Brett sponsored it.  So our names were put in a bowl, and whoever Brett picked from the bowl will get the money. This year Divine got the prize.  It was almost 3am...so we ended our party..everyone was contented, I myself had a blast.  Merry Christmas!