Samantha's 1st Birthday

My Sam-sam grew up so fast I did not even knew it was a year now. Her birthday is April 22, this blog of mine is just a bit too late LOL. SO we had her birthday celebrated at Shakey's Olivarez Plaza on a Sunday afternoon. Too bad, daddy was not around but he made sure everything will work out just fine for her lil daughter. (We love you Daddy!) There was actually a lot in my mind for planning this birthday but I wanted to be really wise and spend not much but still get my visitors entertained and go home with happy tummy. My eldest child Sofia had her 1st birthday at our village's clubhouse. It was a bit expensive with the catering, videography, magic and hosting, and other stuff. Since I'm a grown and more experienced mommy now, I choose practicality over spending.

Shakey's Pizza offers a free use of their venue. I just add a party fee on top of the food I ordered, I think its around 3,900. for the hosting, party amenities which includes balloons, back drop, all the table settings, prizes and goodie bags for the kids. The goodie bags has nice things on it too.  It is a Justice League Girls theme for my baby Sam. I still bought some additional prizes though but they are just a hundred and below toys from Toy Kingdom.

For the food, I ordered 6 of the Shakey's Monster Meal Deal for 2,400 net each. Each of the Monster Meal Deal composes of 2 Family Pizzas, 2 Super Family Pasta (Spaghetti Bolognese and Carbonara Spaghetti) 12 pcs Chicken, Basket of Mojo potatoes, garlic Bread, 3 pitchers of Iced tea. But on the day it was not enough so I ordered another set. My in-laws brought in some Chocolate Revel bars for everybody too baked by James Oliver Lozano you can find him on facebook for your orders this Christmas!

The cupcakes are ordered from my kumare Melina Janda-Baquir, you can find her on facebook so you too can order your cupcakes for special occassions, for only 35 each . The cake for blowing is an Oreo Cake from red Ribbon which I bought for only 500 something.

It was a very nice 2 and a half hour party made lively and fun by Sonny who hosted the entire program and Captain Shakey's appearance.

It was a worry free, "bawas pagod" party!

Affordable and Enjoyable Birthday Party at School

I was thinking before if ordering set of meals from McDonalds or Jollibee would be more affordable and enjoyable for Sofia's 4th birthday,since she is on Pre-School now at Le-Sil Montessori School, I decided to celebrate her birthday at school.

So instead of buying set meals, I went to the grocery and bought the following:

2 Kilos of Spaghetti and Spaghetti Sauce
1 Kilo jumbo hotdog for Spaghetti and 1 kilo jumbo hotdog for Hotdog and marshmallow on stick
1 kilo ground pork
Cheese
2 Kilo chicken leg
breading, cooking oil, seasonings.
Marshmallows, sticks
Birthday banner, invitation cards, birthday hats, lootbags,stationary and pencil ( all in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme)
Candies, biscuits, erasers small toys for lootbag contents and game prizes.

So I cooked Spaghetti, Fried Chicken and Hotdogs on Stick and C2 Solo for the drinks and of course RedRibbon Chocolate cake for everybody!

It was a fun filled celebration for all of them, and for my Pia, her baby sister Sam also joined the party. It was am enjoyable event without hurting your pocket too much!