i am 7!

"and that is the sludge-of-a-birthday-cake my momma made" :)
joaquin on his 7th birthday

{still can't believe our baby is now seven}

31

years fly so fast. you don't really notice. 31 years old.

a day before Christ's birthday was when i turned 31.

it is a day of thanksgiving.

a {very} wonderful birthday-Christmas present

i am a {very} happy Babe :-D

lots'a birthdays!

what a happy month this is :-D ... why?

plenty of birthdays and birthdays are happiness, presents, joy, parties and a lot more happy adjectives. :-)

happy birthday to these wonderful people: diane (technically, august), michelle, gracie, joanne, sheryl (of bookoto), yoyin (technically, october)

he is now 6

our little boy is not so little anymore. :-D

he is now 6 years old. :-D

hubby and i have [long] planned a mini vacation [at least that's what we call it when we take a leave of absence from work] to celebrate our son's birthday. we were not able to get away [an out of town] but we partied [with special people in our lives] and for me, that was a blast.

we started it with a get together with the gang on the eve of his birthday. we are rarely complete and so it was an opportunity to spend some time with friends. [JP took this photo himself. :-D ]

and on his birthday, we had him choose his gift. we went to Toy Kingdom and bought him a remote control race car that he had been eyeing for a long time already and a small metal race car that daddy bought as a bonus. [such a fan of cars, especially race cars] we [with my apo - yes, JP's great grandma] had a simple dinner at Rumpa. JP has been wanting to dine here ever since he saw the place and so we made it a point to fulfill that wish. isn't that a happy boy (waiting to devour his dinner)?
[tired afterwards and won't even give me a smile]

and how else would you wrap the day up but with a birthday cake (especially made by mommy) and a picture of the three of us (and his birthday presents - to remind us how lucky we are for life's blessings)
and that was not the end of it. the next day, he received another gift. this time it was from isa. a hotwheels starter set [to add to his collection of cars].

[picture of isa's present to be inserted here]

and on monday, it was a celebration with my family.

it was as if the celebration does not end but we were glad to have taken time off work to make sure that JP was happy on his 6th birthday.

[ daddy: mission accomplished :-D ]

it is diane's birthday!

happy birthday diane. :)

because it's her birthday, she is doing this contest.

the PRIZES are: $10 paypal money for the first winner and $5 for the second. and she will pick 4 people to win my 12 scrapbooking magazines (this is already used magazines). [ooooooh! i would so love to win these :-D ]

here are the mechanics of the contest:

1. blog about this contest and put all diane's blogs on the post

A Handful of Surprises
My Paper Scraps
I Am a Nikon Girl
Digitally Diane
Somewhere Over the Rainbow

2. comment at diane's blog when done posting the contest on your blog. [you can increase the chances of winning by posting this contest on all of your blogs. 1 entry per blog.] oopps! i only have one blog. :-x

3. deadline will be on September 2, 2008, 12 pm(Philippine time). the contest will run for 5 days.

so go and post this contest and win!!!

happy birthday diane. :)