¡Ajuuuuuuuuuuua, bebé!

My sister Frances and her fiancé Estevan are having a baby girl. My niece Adeline Rose aka “Adi” aka “Florecita” aka “rositafresita” aka “muñequita consentida”... will be arriving early December.

Since it’s their first baby and the very first granddaughter for both sets of grandparents— everyone’s super excited and wanted to celebrate the mommy-to-be with a special celebration.

Frances chose to have a Mexican-themed drive-by shower where all guests would be greeted in their cars with Mexican food, music and the union of two cheery families from the Mexican states of Jalisco (The Marquez family) and Zacatecas (The Flores Family).

My dad Juan Marquez with his food set-up. The tamales were delicious!

My parents took care of the food, which included tamales and champurrado. My dad even made miniature pan dulce puerquitos (piggies).

We had mariachi and Frances booked our amazing friend Jose Celendon (Check out his Charitable Balloons foundation here) to create an artistic balloon installation to add color and festive vibes to this warm Saturday social distancing festivity.

A fun, festive morning it sure was! The mariachi began playing, the cars started pulling up, the soon-to-be-grandparents started dancing, I started drinking champagne and everyone was just happy and excited to see each other— even if it was just through car windows with our masks on!

We are living in some crazy, weird times, friends...but this drive-by was a major shower of love for my sister Frenchee and broski Estevan and our Baby Florecita, who by the way, is expected to arrive near my birthday (first week of December)... yay!

Here with my mamita linda, Lupe Marquez

Thanks for reading friends!

Xo,

-Anabel M.