Lia's first birthday party!

Eighteen December Two Thousand Five, we celebrated our little girl's first birthday!

The night before, James and I stayed up till 2am to put up the balloons. Light pink and pearl balloons, with silver curly tails. =)



We placed this at the entrance to our house... =)



The cake arrived... =D
(3 kgs of Empress Dowager @ $S 232.50!)



The spread!
Besides the buffet food by Neo Garden, we also had homemade curry, fried chicken wings and agar agar, by my mom and mother-in-law!



Mike, he was the first guest! Sprang a surprise on us because we weren't even ready yet! He was leaving when I took this picture, was feeding the little girl her lunch half-way... ; p



The early ones, my relatives...



Crowd's warming up...



My maternal grandmother and Lia.



My aunty Irene and Lia.



My aunty Annie and Lia.



Some of my ex-colleagues...
From left: Nick, Koh and Eileen



Crowded already!



James' friends...



Some of our neighbours...



My sister-in-law and her kids (just 3, not all!) and James' second sister and her hubby...



Melissa and family!



Baby Tara!
Amy, what a pity that I did not get to take a picture of you and Bob and Tara together... : (



Lia's birthday cake!



Close up view... We were disappointed that The Patissier have overlooked an important point; the weight of the figurines. =( The cake was made with layers of sponge, fresh raspberries and cream and thus, it is very soft in nature, the Strawberry Shortcake figurines were literally sinking into the cake and they could not stand well (you can see from the picture, it is really obvious). A good way to describe: Strawberry Shortcake trapped in quicksand! HELP! And also, the strawberry house wasn't built right, it was slanted. My cousin tried her best to position it but to no avail. =( *Sign... I have yet to write in my feedbacks but I definately will. Because, the cake doesn't come cheap...



Here's our little girl with her birthday cake. The *chor-lor* one has to put her knee up...



The three of us... =)



My family...
Front row: My mom, Lia and my dad =)
Back row: cousin Eric, cousin Luvenne, aunty Annie, aunty Irene and Claire, cousin Alex's (not present) girlfriend.



James' family..
Front: big sister's second son, big sister's younger daughter, Lia and my mother-in-law
Back: Big sister, second sister, me and James.



Last but not least, here's Lyn and her elder daughter Gladys. She was my shake-hands-buddy and we were the severe chiong-sters back then! How I miss those days... ; )

I still have two videos by Claire, but I am really tired (it is 1.56am now... yawnz...) and I will put that up later ya...

Special thanks: James the hubby for the spring cleaning before the party and the putting up of the decorations (and also for putting up with me, the fickle-minded designer), my dearest mommy for cooking 2 big pots of curry chicken, my mother-in-law and big sister for the chicken wings and agar agar, and big sister's domestic helper for the clean up after the party, and Claire, the wonderful one whom helped to do the videoing. Claire, you have given us something that is really memorable! Not forgetting the SLBs, Joyce whom came by just to pass the ang pows and even brought Jonas despite the fact that he is sleepy already! Melissa, thanks for coming by! There's also Wenn and Dainty, whom couldn't make it but their ang pows did! : D Amy too, I gave you such a short notice but you've managed to turn up! =) And to everyone else whom made efforts to attend our party, thanks for your time, and presents and ang pows, we deeply appreciated it!

Mommy Gene
Thank you all for making it happen! =D