Allson Lorenzo's 3rd Birthday Celebration

The original plan was to celebrate Allson's birthday at school. But since he isn't coming to school lately, we decided to hold his celebration at home. 

I have a meager budget, so I have to come up with everything that's budget-friendly. This was my intial budgetary guideline: 



I woke up at around 3am to make som cuppies, and my eldest helped me out on these.

I started invading the kitchen to cook these quick and easy recipes: 

Then picked up the balloons just before noon. 

Our Ate Ganggang set up the balloons all over the living and dining area. (We love you, ate gang!)

Then we picked up Allson's cake afterwards. 

My little boy was excited. This is his first ever solo birthday party! (he always joins his ate's birthday celebration kase since their birthdays are just a week apart) This time, he has a celebration for himself alone :) 

We got him a cars-themed cake, like the first one on my peg. And some red and a few yellow balloons. 

I got him his birthday polo for only 155peso powers. Hehe... Such kuripot mommy.. But hey, the polo looked smart on him kaya! 

Let me share again, a few shots from our simple celebration: 

My little boy enjoyed his big day. I thank you people for coming. Even if Yolanda was on your way. (sheeeshh... remembering Yolanda makes these tears fall again.. the kids, the people in Visayas. Oh, God, please bless them, help them...) 

For the love of my three little indians, 


Lorie 

xoxo 

Preparing for My Little Man's Big Day

A week after Ate's birthday would be Allson Lorenzo's. My boy is turning three and his mom is now busy preparing for his day. 

The initial plan was to celebrate his birthday at school. But my little boy is not coming in to class for the last 2 1/2 months now, and I think his classmates don't know him anymore. So we'd rather do it at home. Hehe... We'll have a simple thanksgiving with the family and a few close friends.

And since this little man is so much into Cars, we'll make it a Cars themed celebration. Here's my peg for his cake:

Kahit ano jan. Basta Cars, I'm sure he'll love it.

I have Ninang Lia to sponsor some chicken and mom's friend, tita cora and lani, 2 large trays of maja blanca :) 

I had a morning trip to Divisoria to buy some cute back packs (@28ea)* and coloring books (@8ea). I got Cars for the boys and Hello Kitty for the girls. 

Candies, lollies, gum, marshmallows, and corn puffs too, too: 

For the loot bags (backpacks, coloring books, crayons, straw cups, and candies), I spent 1094 peso powers. Just enough for 20kids. :) I also have some boxes of Alaska 3-4-5 to give out. I got them free from Alaska. :D

As usual, I have a strict budgetary guideline for this. I'll hope for the best. Ajah!

Xoxo,

Lorie