Mommy's 50th Birthday: Part 1 of 2
Another overdue post. Lol. My mom's 50th birthday was last May 21 but it was a week long celebration so I divided the blog post into two parts. This is my beautiful mommy! ♥ We woke her up at around 3AM to sing her a happy birthday and to give her our gifts. :) Papa gave her the usual bouquet of flowers and letter. I swear my dad is the sweetest! There's no birthday that he did not gave mom a bouquet of flowers! As in "walang palya". Hahaha! It's a bouquet of 50 long stemmed roses by the way. :) And the Gucci bag is also from him. I gave mom an Aldo bag; my little sister gave her a long letter; and Ninang 1 gave her a blouse from Bayo. =) We had our "paalay" that day. Paalay is when you offer flowers to Mama Mary with a group of people singing songs of praise. Then we had our merienda/dinner right after the paalay at our Grandma's house. The day after mom's birthday,