Joyful Moments With Family - Celebrating My Cousin's Birthday

There’s nothing more heartwarming and joyful than spending time with family. These days, it becomes a ritual for our family to gather every weekend and spend quality time. Most of us are grown and starting to realize how family is really important in our life. Though, the celebration was pretty humble, we got the most fun out of it and for the first time, we even celebrated Reno’s birthday with a cake. It is quite special because after many years separated, we rarely even have this joyous family time & he rarely wanted his birthday to be celebrated too. So, we consider this was such a rare moments.

For the decoration, we used the recycled decoration from my birthday. We put it up and while Reno was still outside with his girlfriend, we made sure that the house has the birthday vibe. Ray prepared a simple cake for him and I prepared some snacks & drinks. This is Ray’s after finishing with the simple decoration. Our family always find ways to make simple things interesting and make the most of it.

When Reno arrived, we turned off the lights in the house and sang happy birthday. It was really fun because all of were there. My mom & dad, my uncle, my aunt and also my cousin. My niece was also there eventhough she was sleeping through the whole celebration. By the way, we didn't really prepare a table, so we just grabbed this stool as a table 🤣. Obviously, the cats are invited. As you can see below, Cici also wanted a piece of the cake.

In our family, usually after blowing the candle, we cut the cake and distribute it to the parents and then another eldest member of the family.

Reno’s girlfriend was also there and she had fun with us. As a big sister, I am so proud of how he’s grown and finally matured. He is also happier these days and I find that truly heartwarming and I only wish he'll always be happy.

He also got a lot closer to the family because he’s pretty closed off and he rarely talks. Strangely, we all got along pretty well these days.

After the celebration, we talked about fun stuff and we planned on going on family adventure. Since Ray has a baby daughter, he seemingly wants to always take her around on a mini vacation. Also, since the baby daughter with us, our family got even closer and we all felt like she was blessed to us to replace our grandmother that bonded us together.