Jan 2010

Well, my year of 2009 ended with family and 2010 began with family. Is there any other way to start? January has been a full month for me. We entered new year at my house and my daughter had some friends over for a sleepover so they could wish her a happy birthday at midnight. She chose a snickers cake and rec'd presents that only she could appreciate. Like a jar of dirt, monster drink, wristband that says I love zombies. yep that's my daughter, she rec'd a mp3 player and a brand new casio keyboard with a stand.

On Friday the 1st she went with her dad for the weekend and me and my sisters had breakfast, again at my house. headed over to a thrift store to see what we could find. Later me and Mira headed to the casino in Okie. No luck but had fun.

During the two weeks that followed, I had alot to get done in time for Tobi's 15th birthday party which was on Jan 16th. There were decorations to buy, cake to pay, and centerpieces to make. I finally decided on centerpieces after much looking around and trying to think of something to put together. So I bought all the decorations and had everything done.

Well, the big day arrived and I was up at the crack of dawn, loaded my truck with all the stuff i needed for her party, decorations, centerpieces, all my 'banquet' untensils, coolers. Headed to my first stop, pick up the cake by 9am.

Why did it not surprise me that the first thing of the day and it didn't turn out the way it should have. The cake I ordered and the cake I was looking at were different and by that I mean in size. So I explain to the lady and she fixed me up with a 1/4 sheet cake right away so that I could have enough for everyone. I got the cake at Lakeview Bakery in Rowlett on hwy 66. Good job on the cake!

Next, headed over the the Days Inn in Mesquite to decorate the dance hall. Tobi's stepmother and sister were going to meet me there to help me out. Well, next upset was that Sonny the manager had told me not to worry about tablecloths he would provide them. I'm like ok where are my tablecovers? He says no I said to bring your own and I'm like no and the look on my face showed that I can cancel this and move it fast. So he piped up, I'll give you some money and you can go buy them and just bring me the receipt. FAIR

I wanted to finish everything by 2pm so I could get home and cook the food for the party, pasta and garlic toast. Got home, sister Daniela, arrive shortly after and helped me make the toast. I think we made like 8 or 9 loaves of bread LOL. Made the pasta penne and rotini with some ground meat mixed in with sauce. I noticed that I wouldn't finish cooking all the pasta by 5 so headed next door to ask my cousin to cook a pot of pasta for me, whew what a life saver. We finished and i jumped in shower.

the invitation said 6pm and i was jumping in shower at 5! Finally arrived at 6:05, DJ was set up, people had already arrived too. Set up food table and everything went smoothly.

My daughter looked so beautiful. I have never seen her look more beautiful than she did that night. What I think every daughter should have is a daddy daughter dance and she got hers :)Thanks to my sister, Daniela and her husband Gabino, I have pictures to look back on and a video :)

She had a head table with 14 of her friends to accompany her. All of her friends are so awesome. They all had a blast on the dance floor too.

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Another 15

Enjoyed music, food, dancing at my sister's neice's 15 on Saturday. She is so beautiful!

Virgen de Guadalupe

Dec 12 of every year is celebrated on the eve of this day. It's the day that the Virgen of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego on his cloak in 1531. That was 478 years ago. This year is my first year to attend the midnight mass in her honor. I've always been curious to know what exactly this day meant to the Catholic community and why they would say it was my mother's "dia de su santo". Well, the history behind this is that the Virgen of Guadalupe appeared to this pheasant miraculously on his cloak after gathering flowers on her request to take back as a sign of what he had seen that early morning. My friends would tell me that my mother was a special woman having the name Lupe. Until this past Friday did I understand what they meant. The song goes to say 'ser Guadalupana es algo especial' ('being Guadalupan is something special'). My mother always believed in the powers and miracles of the Virgen. She would always tell me if you pray to her and promise something in return you have to hold your end of the promise. I have heard of stories where people walk on their knees to her shrines all over the world to fulfil their promises of taking her flowers on knees for answering there prayers.

Wedding

No not my wedding, wish it were but oh well. :) We traveled to Oklahoma City, OK on Saturday for a cousin's wedding on Al's side of the family. We left at about noon and arrived at 3pm, showered, changed and headed out to the reception hall. Before we headed out, we took a photo of me and my inlaws. :)

(l-r) Chuy(BIL), Mari(SIL)& her husband Alex, Miguel(BIL), Isabel(MIL), Me, & Alonso(Mis ojos) LOL and believe it or not but me and my mother-in-law get along great. Actually, from what I heard she gets along better with me than with her other two daughter-in-laws :)

We were the first ones there and the first thing I saw was the cake. It was gorgeous, IMO, I loved the way it was tiered separately and the colors, the whole set up was really beautiful and next to it sat a table with fruit displays. The tables each had two bottles of champagne with a picture of the couple kissing and stated "Recuerdo de nuestra boda" "memory of our wedding" along with a hurricane lamp cover center piece.




The single men formed a snake line and danced around the dance hall and the girls did the same thing. I have never seen this before but I really enjoyed watching.




My little nieces were dancing about and posing when they would catch me with the camera. silly girls


Over all, we had a great time dancing and laughing, but after all these days of getting to bed late it caught up with me and I headed to my truck for a nap while everyone else continued parting and dancing. Everyone finally came out about 1am and we headed back to the house. Arrived home sunday and I was completely worn out. headed to bed early. My Thanksgiving holiday was loaded with family, friends and people I haven't seen in 20 years at the wedding.