One thing significant during my birthday celebration last May 25 of this year was the fact that it coincided with our housewarming and the enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ten days before that, on May 15, we had the house blest with only family members in attendance. We did not want to spend the night in the new house without it being blest. So right after we transferred we called in Fr. Gerry, our parish priest to bless the whole place.
On the day of my birthday, I decided to have the image of the Sacred Heart enthroned. The early visitors who made it to the enthronement were Nards' classmates coming all the way from Candaba, Pampanga and members of my TOC Community in Project 4.
Fr. Gerry giving a short homily during the rite. Standing beside him is my husband...
The view from the loft....
A
prayerful moment....
My TOC Community came in full force....
With my siblings and cousins ( L-R): Manay Lolit, Violeta, Manoy, Bebot, Malou, who came with her son.
With friends, cousins and siblings. Seated (L-R): Remy, who served as my caterer for the occasion and Serena. Standing (L-R): Malu, Mila, Peng, Manay Lolit, Bebot and Violeta.
With Glo and Edil, close friends from the village.
Noreen and her colleagues at The Medical City
With Nards' highschool buddies...
More highschool classmates from Pampanga
And more.....
Pretty nieces in a row.... but Salsa is the prettiest of 'em all!
Salsa was well-behaved at the loft area....
I was not supposed to blow any birthday candles. I had no intention to. The cake was brought by my TOC sisters. I even forgot to blow my cake while visitors were still around. When only my two sisters, Bebot and Serena were around - that was when I remembered I had a birthday candle to blow.
There is no chance to hide my age anymore.... It's all there for everybody to see... But I have never tried to hide my age anyway. After all I don't feel growing old. I am always young at heart.
And then there was nobody around except for Serena and family. They were going to sleep over for the night because they were leaving very early in the morning for Fontana and Nikki was going with them... 
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