Sunday, August 30, 2009

Another week gone by

Just got back today from a weekend trip to the valley. This past week was dad's 70th birthday so we planned a surprise bday party for him. It was hard keeping it a secret because you know how kids can be. Alex almost let the cat out of the bag. But dad swears he knew nothing about it. anyways, it was just us the immediate family and a couple of couple friends. the guillens and the riveras from church. elias was also there, he's mom's cousin and he gets along well w/dad too. We got him a gift basket full of his favorite snacks and he absolutely loved it. the party wasn't until saturday afternoon but we got into town on friday at noon and we had to go see them beforehand without dad knowing about the party so we told him we were in town to give him his present.




the party itself was pretty good. we set up some tables and chairs outside and it was nice at that time of the day. it rained a little bit in brownsville but not in los fresnos, so it was kinda cloudy so at least it wasn't hot. may got him a pinata in the shape of a "70" and luis got him the cake. we ate carne guisada, rice, potato salad/mashed potatoe that susan bought and i made us a nice salad. As you can see, he was really surprised. i took lots of pictures, to take advantage of the time there.

This is dad and his friends, unfortunately, medina couldn't go at the last minutes, but he had fun. i also put an ad in the newspaper wishing him a happy bday and he loved that tool.

On the way home we stopped by to see Cyndi and her family, they're in corpus christi. Yesterday they had a party for oscar's bday so we were gonna be in the neighborhood so we stopped by real quick to say hi.
so now it's back to work tomorrow. friday was angela's last day because she was fired, but she left before 10 because sylvia texted me to tell me since i was scheduled off because we left from here friday morning to the valley. they left debbie in charge and everyone swears she is mean, but hey, so what. people come and go and that doesn't scare me anymore.
the next day off for us is labor day next monday. can't wait.

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