My Birthday Bash Celebration 2016

My Birthday Celebration Escapade!:)

Sweet Greetings Everyone!

  

You guess it right! Its my birthday bash celebration (excitement overload!)  Since, I started blogging  (4 years ago) I always do a blog post about my birthday celebration ...little late this year though :) As you may all remembered my (last year's birthday). So, this year is no difference. Get that excitement coming because I am taking you with me on my birthday bash birthday escapades. Join me as we celebrate this awesome birthday celebration, where we can experience delicious food recipe, birthday ideas, and all fun stuff. 

Lets start the birthday festivities, shall we? Cheers for another year better! (wink)

..............Celebration with Friends...............

- It so much fun when you have your great friends on your birthday. Devouring delicious Filipino food, wonderful company, glorious gifts, and all fun stuff. My friends made delicious food which are all my favorites, like roasted chicken, eggplant salad, menudo, ginataan na may isda, fish paksiw, spanish bread. Yum! and of course Rose made me a birthday cake (three layered cake) 

.............Birthday Dinner Date with Hubby and Kids........

Hubby know me BEST! He treat me to my favorite steakhouse in celebration of my birthday. I ordered all my favorite drink which is Mango Passion Rita. Followed by Loaded Bake Potato Soup 

(so good!) and the main course which is Steak and Sweet Baked Potato. I also got a free ice cream courtesy from steakhouse (wohoo!) Perfect way to finished up our delicious dinner.

Thank you to my hubby and kids for such a nice birthday treat and for generous birthday gift. (wink)

 ............Join Birthday Celebration with my In-laws..........

Lastly- A join birthday celebration with my beloved in-laws. We had chicken noodles, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, and bread. It was best meal ever! Delicious indeed. Also, my mother in-law made me a chocolate cake with white icing. Scrumptious!

I would like to thank you my in-laws for being so generous, loving and just simply wonderful. I LOVE you all!:)

....... SPA Escape and Lunch with In-laws.....
As part of our join birthday celebration (my sister in-law Tacy) treat us to wonderful SPA Escape and Lunch. We we out (all four of us) with my sister in-law Tacy & Kindra, Mom in-law Cheri and Me. for such amazing SPA escape and followed by scrumptious lunch. I enjoyed my facial experience!
It was great spending time with my wonderful in-laws. Just fantastic day.:)

 

My birthday was surely a very special and unforgettable. Its something that I will cherished for the rest of my life. I would like to say big Thank You to my lovely family and friends who greeted my via offline and online and making my birthday extra special. I'm truly blessed to be surrounded by wonderful and amazing people in the world. I LOVE you all!:)

And that's how I celebrated my 28th birthday! :)

I'll see you in few days for more fun blog post. Stay wonderful everyone! Don't forget to SMILE :)

xoxoxo- Melgie 

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Happy 6th Anniversary, Sweetie- Updated!

Six Down, Forever to go...:)

Our 6th Year Anniversary Celebration 

 

"I'm excited and stoked because today is my 6th wedding anniversary. Yup! It's been an amazing six year being  with my best friend, partner, lover, husband and soul mate. I couldn't ask for more in life. You are very supportive to everything I do and always encourage  when I'm down. I'm so lucky to have you in my life. I love you, Happy Anniversary!!"- Original post 6/14/2014- UPDATED!

Hello Everyone!
It's been an extremely hectic week for me but a fun one. Talking about fun, I'm taking you with me starting off with my 6th year anniversary and hopefully you get some sweet romantic ideas that you might want to do on your anniversary or date night. Here we go!

Special Breakfast/ Breakfast in Bed-  I always love to prepare my hubby with his favorite breakfast ( hash brown, eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy) but Since, we woke late hubby fix light breakfast for us and ate snack/lunch and send the kiddies to their Grandma's and head to dinner.. yahoo!

Anniversary Gift- I always think ahead of time when it comes to gift and I always make sure it is personal  where I can express the creative side of me ( heheh). I made him a card, cute love bottle and little sweet thoughts ( his favorite chocolate )
It is very simple yet my hubby LOVED them!

 

The most awaited and exciting part. The Dinner Date for TWO:) As you all know that I'm such a foodie lover and I love to eat...( hahaha )

Perfect Place-  Picking up the perfect place to dine in is so easy! We always go to the same place for over 5 years now. This year is no different! We are heading to Outback Steakhouse. Yum! this is also one of my favorite restaurant to celebrate my birthdays. See the post HERE and HERE. 

Food, Drink and Dessert-  We start it off with my summer fist/tropical sangria ,seriously I totally forgot the name of my drink but it was so good and refreshing. We have garden salad and free bread
The entree's is pretty easy pick but we did take our time to order in that way itt gives us time to eat our appetizer and the bread compliment from Outback.

Tsadaaa! You guess is right my friend " Steak Galore"  Isn't it looks appetizing?  I did ordered a Ribeye Steak, steam mixed summer veggies and Baked Sweet Potato with brown sugar and cinnamon while on the other hand hubby got  fries and outback special.:) I wish, I could put into words how delicious it is.. hehehe:)

Lastly, The Dessert- After eating the steak, I wasn't sure if I'll go for the dessert but this pecan brownie with vanilla ice cream, whip cream and hot chocolate fudge is just calling my name.. ( hahaha) So, we hit GO for it and It was DELICIOUS! that's how we end our perfect anniversary dinner... and the fun was continued! That's how we celebrated our anniversary:) wink!

P.S-  To my Sweetie-Thank you so much for everything for being so kind, loving and generous as always. I love you so much!
Enjoy the rest of the day and I'll see you soon for more fun recipe's that I made on Reyna's birthday celebration and Father's Day special.:)

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Holiday gift Ideas#3- Gift Wrapping

Gift Wrapping Ideas

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Ho!ho!ho!Ho!ho! Yup! a week from now its gonna be Christmas! yippee!! I'm excited seeing my kids getting excited, you have no idea how many times my kiddies ask me everyday when the Christmas gonna be. So, Are you done wrapping all your presents? If not, I know at some point this week you probably gonna start wrapping. I'll do mine at the very last minute or probably 2 days before depends on the mood. I'm not even done with my shopping yet! Yup!! Kinda slow this year but I'm getting there! For meantime,  Let me share my personal gift wrapping ideas and some money saving tips along the way as well. I love wrapping presents, it makes me feel like Mrs.Claus, do you feel same way? (wink:) Let the excitement come begin! C'mon lets start wrapping those Christmas presents... and be ready for Christmas.,,:)

GIFT BOX -

 The most popular gift wrapping of all time for the reason that it is the simplest way to wrap present. Be creative with your wrapping and add some bows and ribbons! Whoala!!   

TIPS:-When your shopping for clothes, shoes, books or even toys. Don't forget to ask the cashier for gift box. Some store give free gift boxes especially this holiday season. By doing this, you can save money buying gift boxes. This makes your gift wrapping so much easier and it look so nice as well.

Money Saving Tips:

- Recycled- If you have wrapping paper from last year use those!

-  BUY it when its on SALE- Especially now that Christmas is getting close they usually go on sale. Take advantage of those:)

-  Ribbons/Bows-Put a little perfection to your gift by adding cute bows or ribbons.

 GIFT BAGS

This is the easiest wrapping gift ever, WHY? simply because you just carefully put everything in a gift bag put a tissue paper and whola! best wrapping ideas ever!!!:) This is perfect for toys, clothes, anything you can think off as long as it fits on the gift bags. They varied on sizes so also perfect for jewelry and gift cards.. 

Money Saving Tips: 

- Buy Gift bag in bundle- this way you can save money instead of buying by each. Also, look closely how much the individual gift bags are, maybe they are much cheaper compare to the bundle ones.

- Gift bags doesn't require tapes, bows or ribbons. ( pretty cool)

Giant Bag/ Giant Bows-

This is perfect for BIG STUFF. My in-laws gave us TV ( 2 years ago) and this is what they used to wrapped the TV (Giant Christmas Bag)- Just ask the store if they sale this kind of bag, I've seen few at some stores. Also if you can't find any Giant Bag  big ribbons will do! 

Some gifts are already in the box itself and no need to put them on gift boxes or gift bags like books, perfume and some toys. Just simply wrap the gifts and Whola! Merry Christmas!

I hope you learn something new and If you have some cute gift wrapping ideas please do share! I love to know what you come up with. See you guys on Saturday for some sweet inspired treat for meantime keep browsing for your favorite recipes.:)

Holiday Gift Ideas # 2

Inexpensive Holiday Gift Ideas

Hi! Its Wednesday once again and as I promise I'm back with another Holiday Gift Ideas. This week I wanna talk about the inexpensive gift that we could make or we could buy at the store. Holiday season is the busiest day of the year and also the most expensive one. Have notice that when you go to the store, Christmas songs are play it because when you hear Christmas it means giving gifts and you ended up buying stuff not suppose to be on your list, but this week we gonna make something cute and amazing without spending much. This gift ideas are so perfect for our friends, neighbors, teachers and even my kids love this idea. Just be creative on this holiday season and let's transform the boring flour and sugar from our pantry into a delicious treat that everyone will love, the regular apple and orange into cute little basket that can touch someones heart and sending some love and warm this Christmas with personalized coffee mug.  Lets be merry this coming holidays, check out my holiday ideas below....:)

SWEET BAKE GOODS

Tell me who doesn't love bake goods? I made this cassava cake last year for my friends and surely they LOVED it. Also along with this scrumptious cassava cake are coffee mug with hot chocolate on them. You can also make something different like fruit cake, cakes, brownies and cookies. Another one is little fruit pies or just pies..:)

- The IDEA wrap their favorite bake goods in a clear plastic so that they can see clearly whats inside, put ribbons and whola..!!! Happy Holidays! I know! not all of us knows how to bake but Hey! lot of bakery have delicious sweet treat this holiday complete with beautiful box and ready to go. Just simple grab some and bring it to your friends or neighbor house...:)

FRUIT BASKET

 How about a fruit basket complete with your favorite FRUITS? I'm sure your friends and neighbor will gonna love and appreciate what you do. This is so simple you can just put 3 kind of fruits in a basket depend on how fancy you want it to be.. Or you could use a nice bowl or basket whatever you feel like.. 

The IDEA- Buy 3 kinds of fruits, different color and shape and little basket that you think the fruits could fit, wrap it with clear plastic put big red ribbon on top.. WHOLA! 

HOT CHOCOLATE MUG / JAR

I think hot chocolate mug, so far this is the most easy and super inexpensive one, but this is also the most cute and heart warming gift idea. So, if you have friends who love hot chocolate? LIKE ME!!! Oh yeah! this is so perfect or if your friend like Coffee you can totally change it into COFFEE MUG instead.

If you know his/her favorite drink, BUY IT couldn't be that expensive I think. Also on your list is Little Marshmallow,  Chocolate Chips. I'm getting excited right hahahah! and of course the coffee mug of your choice ( green, red and white is perfect holiday color theme) but feel free to get whatever you think she like you can also use JAR

 BRIGHT IDEA- if your using a reusable jar pour the hot chocolate mix, add some chocolate chips and on the top is the marshmallow. Put the lid and seal it tight. Put a nice ribbons and RECIPE TAG

 If your using a MUG put her favorite hot chocolate drink , chocolate chips and marshmallow. Cover the whole thing with clear plastic wrapper. Tie it on the top with ribbons and attached the RECIPE TAG ( below is a recipe tag I made )

CHOCOLATE BARS

This is perfect for everyone! Just simply buy a big chocolate bar. All you have to do is tie the chocolate with your choice of ribbon and attached  with gift tag.

Hope everyone is having fun this week. I'll see you next Wednesday for more holiday gift ideas and I'll be posting also some recipes in few days. See you around!

Party Favor Idea

 Birthday Favor

( Binangkal )

I do love creating some party favor idea myself. As food enthusiast party food favor is way to go. I made this birthday favor for my friend Rachel, her little princess turned one couple weeks ago..So, I insisted to make this party favor for my fellow friends. As you know me I like to style my food, package them with CUTE stuff that you can easily find it at your home. The birthday theme is Disney princess, white and pink balloons and such more princess stuff. The birthday party was wonderful every one is just having FUN..:)

 I made this Binangkal ( sesame balls- as my hubby called it ) for the party treat, my friends loved them and so do I.. If you want to know the recipe for binangkal just click HERE very easy to make with few ingredients.. This is like an idea for party favor, I would say just be creative and you got perfect treat for your guest every time. Below is the procedure on how to make this cute party favor. Check it out.. (wink)

Notes: 

-Make sure to make the binangkal little smaller to fit on the mini cupcake cups.

-It is personalized party favor, so feel free to use your favorite treat.

-Be creative.. used your favorite color and theme for packaging.

Things you'll need:

12 pieces Binangkal

12 pieces mini cupcake cups

Clear plastic wrap

Colored napkin- I used orange 

Pen

Scissor

Colored paper

 String/Ribbons

Directions:

 1.) Place the mini cupcake cups on the plate. Cut the colored napkin into little triangle and place it on the center on the cupcake cups. Then place your treat on the center;

2.) Cover it with using your cut off plastic wrap; make sure you wrapped every single part of the treats; Then using the plastic string tie the whole thing; slip the notes on the side and tie it one more time.

3.) Enjoy the party and don't forget to grab some party favor.:)

(Party favor ready for you to take home. Grab some!)

Gift Ideas

Sweet Bucket Treats

"When I count of blessings, I count the time we spent together"

 

Last week, I celebrated my 5th wedding Anniversary. I was stoked how things turn out, It was simple yet so sweet. It's kinda strange feeling not hearing any whining or screaming in the house, but I'm so glad my mother in-law keep the kids overnight, so that we can go out and celebrate. 

Below is some ideas on how we celebrate our anniversary.

1.) Treat Ourselves- Hubby went out to get hair cut, while I shopped at the store. I got new perfume and little cute dress... then went back home get dress and head out for dinner.:)

2.) Dinner at Outback Steakhouse- We had dinner at our favorite steakhouse, get some drinks and the food is just divine.

(My drink- Mango Sangria)

3.) Movie Night- After our dinner, we pick up some movie at the store. The perfect movie night just the two of us.

4.) Homemade Gift for HIM-  I made my " Sweet bucket Treats" for my hubby, So, everything inside the bucket is just all about him...:)

Things you need:

Unused bucket/ basket

Gift wrapper

Magazine

Ribbons

Tape/ Glue

 Directions:

1.) All you have to do, is cover the bucket with unused gift wrapper. Put some special touches. Make it look good that fits on his personality. Keep simple!:)

(Finish product)

Making the perfect Anniversary Gift:  What's Inside the Bucket Treats?

*Personalized Bucket- check

* Love coupons- I put together 5 questions behind the love coupons, unforgettable events during the course of our 5 year marriage. If he got the answer it right, he can claim the coupon anytime with no expiration.. wink:)

example: Traditional Anniversary that represent "WOOD" something like that and much more.

* Anniversary Card-  When he opened the card,  the music played .. 'I don't wanna missed a thing'

 and he smiled.. this the song you sang the very first time I called you.. and the reason why I sang to him is simply I don't understand what hes talking.. hahaha

He asked me? How long it took you to find this card?! I just laughed.. 5 years? 

* Candies/ Cookies/ Brownies-  I bought (5) of his favorite candies, His favorite fudge brownies, .and then I bake (5) big chunk  his all time favorite  chocolate chip cookies 

 -That's how my anniversary celebration went,  I hope you get some sweet ideas for your special someone.. and surprise them with this cute, simple gestures. I know they gonna love it!

Thank you for all the greetings, guys! I love you all:)