happy.canada.day.long.weekend.
Posted: July 2, 2012 Filed under: Food., People., Things. | Tags: almonds, appetizers, bread toaster, chips, desk area, filipino barbecue, food, home design, kitchenaid mixer, lemon pie, living area, meat on skewersa, office area, peanuts, spaghetti bolognese, work station 7 Comments »Happy Canada Day Everyone!
Our home is finally officially “open for business” after 2 weeks of unpacking and drilling into walls and what not! 
We celebrated and concluded the Canada day long weekend festivities with a family barbecue.
Our newly painted living room wall. We used the colour “Caribe” by Behr.
We had some almonds and peanuts and chips for appies.
I just had to sneak this photo in. I’m loving this red part of my kitchen!
Our new work station/ office area.
Dad, slaving away and cooking the barbecue for all of us!
Kyla chameleon. She totally disappears against our wall!
Pork and chicken barbecue marinated by mom.
Angel hair pasta with bolognese sauce.
Kyla’s lemon pie.
Kyla preparing the booklets for our “ethnic whispers” (originally called “Chinese whispers”) game.
Hanging out after dinner, having coffee and tea.
Playing Ethnic whispers.
We had so much food! I think if we summed up all the meat that we prepared and ate today, it would be around 4 kg of meat plus the pasta, fish, (which I didn’t get a photo of) rice, dessert and coffee.
This concludes our Canada Day celebration.
Hope you all had a great one despite the all-changing weather!
Have an awesome week! (Hopefully warmer.)
I love your place Joy! So pretty! I love the colors! =)
BTW, we have same “good-for-two” gas griller. Lol. <3
Ja, it’s not even ours!!
it’s my parents’! 
we plan to buy at the end of the season to get the sale price! 
Send some of the left overs here! =) They all look yummy!
all the food photos are all just left overs except for the dessert!! i’ll FedEx them your way!
Love your new home… all the best wishes. Beautiful, vibrant and now must be smelling of the awesome barbecued food:)
thanks!
you’re totally right! i had the range hood fan going most of the night because of the food smell! 
lol!
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