well, to start:
thanksgiving day is dedicated to mi familia alura. This year our festivities were stationed all the way in Lakewood at my Auntie Myrna's house, but, since my mother was working [so that she can have CHRISTmas off] my father thought it best that I drive to Chino Hills and ride with my grandpa since he seems to be missing me and my siblings dearly.
So, at approximately 2:00pm I loaded everything in the car from food to garrett and cassie and went on my merry way to the casa of Fernando and Josephine Alura.
Haha, so I just have to say that my grandparents are the two funniest Fobs ever. haha On our drive there, Garrett and I had resigned ourselves to sleeping in the car, but I could hear my Lolo and my sister talking about the food at the party when he mentions, "Oh, you know your aunties. They love der hors divorce."
Right away my sister was like, "What? Hors divorce? What is that?" And my grandpa just laughs, "You know, da spreads and the crackers and all of that hors divorce." And it took her a while before she started laughing and turned to shake me, "Ate! He means hor d'oeuvres!"
Yeah, that pretty much woke me up.
The laughter continued as we finally made it to the house and took part of consuming multiple foods of the american kind from prime rib to turkey to salad etc. etc. My dad's side is always good for a slightly more traditional holiday. It was nice to see my family again, seeing as we only get to be in contact once a month, sometimes twice, but my aunts are always good for a talk about my life and a praising of my supposed accomplishments and my younger cousins (i am the oldest of all of us) are good for a few laughs.
Oh they grow up so fast.
I got to talk to my aunts about school and work, about what's going on in my life and only felt a slight pang of sadness that my Auntie Jhona and her family were not present. I even got to have a heart to heart with my uncle Dino about making time for myself and staying healthy. [that was a little unprecedented] Anyway, It really is nice to be with them, I miss them a lot of the time and sometimes am disheartened by the fact that we don't get to see each other as often as the Ormeo side.
Anyway soon enough it was time for the evening to close, I felt thoroughly blessed by the entire evening, but couldn't wait to get home and sleep since my auntie ruth's amazing mashed potatoes seemed to be weighing me down especially in the eye-lids area. But, moving on, the conversation back home was even better than the "hors divorce" story.
My lolo relayed the story of the first time he had bought fast food in downtown LA. It went like this:
"Oooooh ate. You know i wsss so hangry apter wrk dat i pound dis pood stand I uh...I uh tink it wss cohlled "Big Boi" but ah...enieway, I waited por so long in da line and pinally got to da pront and ordrred my hamburjer. I wss so ecsited! So ecsiiiiited. But den da guy in da stand said to me "To go?" And right away I said, "What? I waited in dis line por all dis time and you want me to go? No! I don't go! I come! I don't go! I COME!"
Again. fantastically hilarious story.
It was just the icing on the cake that was my evening and right away I called RJ on my own drive home and regaled the story to her. Haha I was glad she appreciated it. =P
then...DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING
is always the Ormeo Family Thanksgiving. And... like always we started off singing. That's always heartwarming for everyone.
we don't like turkey haha our meal consists of chicken, fried rice, green beans, and ham. haha
Oh. and you can't forget palabok. there is always palabok. (hehe helen i thought of you)
Of course no event would be complete without desserts, but even the desserts were non-traditional. Haha I mean, rice cripsy treats? Who does that? Gotta love it though.
The happy faces of all the little kids present was enough to count this as a winning dinner. Haha winner winner chicken dinner!
Okay. So Noah doesn't seem that enthused in the last one, but it was a start. Anyway, Ava seemed exuberant all night. She was going crazy with her crazy uncle kurtz. Hah. "you're crazy wildcat"
And finally, bringing our evening to a close, as tradition for the Ormeo family we have a little mailbox where we put in our prayer requests for the coming year and each thanksgiving we open it and read them aloud to see what God granted us.
As to be expected there were some things God blessed us with and some things God blessed us without; some things God blessed us in the way we were hoping and others were unexpected, but in the end it was a fruitful and bountiful thanksgiving. Then, came the second part: writing new prayer requests for the new year.
After all was said and done we filled the little mailbox again and put it aside for next year.
I guess we'll all see how it goes next year.
thanksgiving day is dedicated to mi familia alura. This year our festivities were stationed all the way in Lakewood at my Auntie Myrna's house, but, since my mother was working [so that she can have CHRISTmas off] my father thought it best that I drive to Chino Hills and ride with my grandpa since he seems to be missing me and my siblings dearly.
So, at approximately 2:00pm I loaded everything in the car from food to garrett and cassie and went on my merry way to the casa of Fernando and Josephine Alura.
Haha, so I just have to say that my grandparents are the two funniest Fobs ever. haha On our drive there, Garrett and I had resigned ourselves to sleeping in the car, but I could hear my Lolo and my sister talking about the food at the party when he mentions, "Oh, you know your aunties. They love der hors divorce."
Right away my sister was like, "What? Hors divorce? What is that?" And my grandpa just laughs, "You know, da spreads and the crackers and all of that hors divorce." And it took her a while before she started laughing and turned to shake me, "Ate! He means hor d'oeuvres!"
Yeah, that pretty much woke me up.
The laughter continued as we finally made it to the house and took part of consuming multiple foods of the american kind from prime rib to turkey to salad etc. etc. My dad's side is always good for a slightly more traditional holiday. It was nice to see my family again, seeing as we only get to be in contact once a month, sometimes twice, but my aunts are always good for a talk about my life and a praising of my supposed accomplishments and my younger cousins (i am the oldest of all of us) are good for a few laughs.
Oh they grow up so fast.
I got to talk to my aunts about school and work, about what's going on in my life and only felt a slight pang of sadness that my Auntie Jhona and her family were not present. I even got to have a heart to heart with my uncle Dino about making time for myself and staying healthy. [that was a little unprecedented] Anyway, It really is nice to be with them, I miss them a lot of the time and sometimes am disheartened by the fact that we don't get to see each other as often as the Ormeo side.
Anyway soon enough it was time for the evening to close, I felt thoroughly blessed by the entire evening, but couldn't wait to get home and sleep since my auntie ruth's amazing mashed potatoes seemed to be weighing me down especially in the eye-lids area. But, moving on, the conversation back home was even better than the "hors divorce" story.
My lolo relayed the story of the first time he had bought fast food in downtown LA. It went like this:
"Oooooh ate. You know i wsss so hangry apter wrk dat i pound dis pood stand I uh...I uh tink it wss cohlled "Big Boi" but ah...enieway, I waited por so long in da line and pinally got to da pront and ordrred my hamburjer. I wss so ecsited! So ecsiiiiited. But den da guy in da stand said to me "To go?" And right away I said, "What? I waited in dis line por all dis time and you want me to go? No! I don't go! I come! I don't go! I COME!"
Again. fantastically hilarious story.
It was just the icing on the cake that was my evening and right away I called RJ on my own drive home and regaled the story to her. Haha I was glad she appreciated it. =P
then...DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING
is always the Ormeo Family Thanksgiving. And... like always we started off singing. That's always heartwarming for everyone.
we don't like turkey haha our meal consists of chicken, fried rice, green beans, and ham. haha
Oh. and you can't forget palabok. there is always palabok. (hehe helen i thought of you)
Of course no event would be complete without desserts, but even the desserts were non-traditional. Haha I mean, rice cripsy treats? Who does that? Gotta love it though.
The happy faces of all the little kids present was enough to count this as a winning dinner. Haha winner winner chicken dinner!
Okay. So Noah doesn't seem that enthused in the last one, but it was a start. Anyway, Ava seemed exuberant all night. She was going crazy with her crazy uncle kurtz. Hah. "you're crazy wildcat"
And finally, bringing our evening to a close, as tradition for the Ormeo family we have a little mailbox where we put in our prayer requests for the coming year and each thanksgiving we open it and read them aloud to see what God granted us.
As to be expected there were some things God blessed us with and some things God blessed us without; some things God blessed us in the way we were hoping and others were unexpected, but in the end it was a fruitful and bountiful thanksgiving. Then, came the second part: writing new prayer requests for the new year.
After all was said and done we filled the little mailbox again and put it aside for next year.
I guess we'll all see how it goes next year.
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