Hosting Our 1st Party!

Now that we've been settled in for almost a month, we decided to host a sortof housewarming. We decided that we'd provide all the food, and just let everyone come and enjoy. It was a heck of a lot of work - the appetizers consisted of shrimp cocktail, spinach dip, and a vegetable tray. The main course was the traditional filipino affair - Pancit & Lumpia, along with good 'ol American Grilled food; BBQ chicken, Bubbas, and all beef franks - consider that a practice run for July 4th! The dessert menu consisted of pecan tarts, Rice Krispy treats (by special request) and of course, Cicely's famous Chocolate-Strawberry passion bowl.


Here is Cicely cooking up the Pancit that morning - her mother will be so proud! Notice how she's got 2 pans going...now she understands why her mom has those huge, 'take up the entire stove'-sized woks!



Mike assuming his husbandly duties of running the grill - he started way before the party just to get his first [of many] beer in his hand!


Although it's hard to believe, Cicely made all this from scratch - nothing store prepared here!















Here's Cicely with all the girls who attended our quaint get-together. Most were Japanese workers from Mike's work, some were wives. Everyone had a great time - but where were all the guys? One of the girls found out while the rest were looking at our wedding album...















The Man Room! THe XBOX 360 w/ HD LCD TV was definitely a hit - for everyone!

A word from Cicely about the Man Room.... So the XBOX was SUPPOSED to be Mike's birthday present, but when he saw that the Exchange had a shipment in last week, I let him go ahead and buy it because popular things like that go pretty fast around here and it's hit or miss as to when new shipments come in. He wasn't supposed to open it until later, but he convinced me that opening it for the party would be entertaining for the guests. But every time I walked into the Man Room to check on things, it was Mike, not the guests, who was playing. I think I may have been tricked.... hmmmm....maybe this whole "Let's have a housewarming party" was just a ploy for him to open up his new toy....