Cinco De Mayo - Mom's Birthday Fiesta

I have the best mother in the world, and that is a fact. One of her main goals in life is to make sure that our family stays close and connected. And she has her job cut our for her, let me just tell you. Some of us are more or less cooperative than others at times in helping Mom with her goal.

Last year, when Mom turned 50, no one really made a fuss over it or her like they should have. As the oldest child, I'll take the responsibility for that one. My bad. So, I tried to make up for it this year. And I thought thing that my mom would want the most for her birthday was to have her family all around celebrating with her. So we siblings planned a party. And since Mom's big day also happens to be Cinco De Mayo and my mom's favorite food happens to be Mexican, it wasn't very hard to come up with a theme for the party :)

Everyone pitched in a brought something, we had fresh mango salsa, Hispanic music galore, awesome decorations, 7 layer bean dip, Cafe Rio pulled pork burritos, and the most delectable dessert I've ever tasted in my life, but can't remember the name of, but basically it's fried tortillas sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and boiled sweetened condensed milk on top. It was to die for. All the food was. It was grand fiesta, and I may never need to eat again.

We also had a pinata...to spice things up a bit. :)

And the big boys enjoyed helping Gramma Tam blow out the candles on her cake.

Ivan, Gramma Tam, Graham, Lincoln

Happy 51 Mom! Here's to 51 more.