Summer BBQ for Papa's Birthday

An intimate and casual BBQ was held for the weekend of Papa's (Father in Law) Birthday.

Our BBQ are evolving. It used to be Pork and Chicken BBQ. Now, we have Rib Eye Steak with Bell Pepper BBQ as well...

* Marinated BBQ ready to grill

* Eron with Kiddos

* Special guest Sabrina :) with Kimi

* Birthday cake from Maxim's courtesy of Auntie Felisa and Family

*Chua Family Picture

* Hands on the cake... :)

*... and into the mouth

* Stone and Twins sampling the slice

* Love birds.... Flamingo birds... hehe!

* Xavierians unite...

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HAPPY 59th BIRTHDAY PAPA

Canada Day People... part 3

* Kimi manning the Lemonade stand

* Uncle Stone doing his Quality check

* First cutomers... $0.02 !!! and counting...

* The Expecting mom :) and the expecting aunt

* Eron is the appointed Kimi guardian for the day

* Everyone is hovering for more food...

* Serious Cook...Chef pala

* Canada Flag... Si Les ang pole :)

* Kenzo training for Azkal team... 

* Practicing for baby shots... Baby-razzi EJ

* Waiting for the corn

* Watermelon carrier Jason

* Flex those muscles Bert

* Relatives came to join the BBQ too

* Caitlyn and Kimi enjoyed the bike

* Kimi making silly poses

* Taking a breather from all the noise in the garden

Canada Day Menu... Part 2

* The Setup

Kimi`s flag in frames served as tray for the brownies :)

* Little labels for the desserts

* Popcorn maker courtesy of Les and EJ 

* Kimi`s Lemonade Stand :)

Freckled Lemonade

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Lemonade Minute Maid

Strawberries

Mint

Sugar

* Cheese Ball Monster

* Pork Barbeque and Sausages

* Veggie Kebabs from Steph and Nico

* Rib Eye Steak Beef Skewers by Jason...

* Stone and Twins Sausauges

* Corn courtesy of Steph and Nico :)

* Made with love brownies 

* Les made this..had these in one sitting... YUMMY!

Wasn`t able to take pictures of the others...

Sorry... Everything was soo good!

Canada Day Preparation...Part 1

We decided to do our own Canada Day celebration at home this year.

It actually started with Kimi asking to copy the Lemonade stand in her favorite cartoon, Max and Ruby.

The plan started to form from there and escalated to a full on potluck BBQ with the Ican group.

* Kimi tried her hand with her kiddie scissor and cut the stripes

for her flag

I had to fill this up with Pork BBQ sticks... ready to cook mode 

* This is overwhelming especially if I have 2 kids to look after while making the sticks...

Starting time: 10am

End time: 2 pm

Result: Lots of painful pokes in my fingers :(

* Finely sliced strawberries for Kimi's Freckled Lemonade

If she is selling lemonade, it should be more than just a regular lemonade ;)

$ 0.01/ cup.... 

* 80 pcs estimate of pork goodness....

* Uncle Stone came early to do the special lemonade ;)

Thanks STONE! and TWINS too :)

Being an expert in the kitchen, Stone insists that they had to bake the strawberries and mint...

I was planning to make the basic lemonade only! But.... I am so glad we did this `complicated`

lemonade ... YUMMY!

* Baked Strawberries and Mint

* Straw Toppers to add a fun element to the cool drink

* Freckled Lemonade

The brownies was baked together with the strawberries in the same oven...

We were finally able to use our oven again he he!

* Popcorn brownies

Salt and Sweet popcorn topped the sweet brownies

* Twinny assembled this flags to decorate the brownies ;)

Now, we are ready to grill!