Posts Tagged ‘Birthday

Xianelle celebrated her 7th Birthday at Cafe Ceramique last Friday (June 4). It’s her first time to have a party in Qatar since we came here 5 years ago so she was really excited about it. Her actual birthday is on June 17 but we decided to celebrate it earlier since some of her friends [...]

This is the cover of Xiane’s Birthday invitation. The Belle dress was bought in Hong Kong Disneyland as a present from her Lolo and Mamita. She would be wearing this on her birthday party as the party is themed. All kids invited were requested to show up with their costumes. We’re expecting and confirmed 190 [...]

Birthday Season

In: Personal

25 Sep 2006

How many of the people we know were born during this month? I’ve always wondered why a lot of people celebrate their birthdays in September. In Christian’s family alone, 3 of them have their birthdays this month. His sister celebrated her birthday on the 22nd, then Christian on the 28th and his mom on the [...]

I’m Turning 30!

In: Personal

19 Sep 2006

I’m turning 30 on September 28! Yay. 30 years of existence, of being. That’s a huge number. 30. It’s not like when I turned 20 where my recollections were of me being in high school and getting past my first years in college. My outlook for the next 10 years was of getting past college, [...]

Where have we been?

In: Personal

16 Jun 2006

Well, since Mavis and Xiane arrived, we’ve been quite busy especially that it’s going to be Xiane’s 3rd birthday tomorrow. We’ve been preparing a bit since we’re going to invite some friends over for dinner. Mavis and I have been staying up late and going to sleep at 1 AM the past couple of nights. [...]


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