A daughter, a wife & a mom :): August 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Renae 1st Bday by Grandpa - Part one

These are pictures from my Dad & Renae's party.

Daddy is suppose to sit back & relax on his special day but we still caught him red handed snapping away - that's my dad :)

So these are just some pictures snapped on my dad's camera.

Bits and pieces here and there.

Do stay tuned for the more complete version of the birthday celebration!!!!! :)

This is my fav decor created by the head chef - Har Mo.

It took him a lot of time and effort to carve this just for Renae.

So beautiful and so detailed.

Let the buffet begin!!

We hope everyone enjoyed the food..

Renae with father and mother in law :)

Daddy only manage to snap like the 1st 30mins of the evening. After which more and more guests turned up and he started getting busy with the guests :)

Thank you to all our friends for the gifts.

Renae got a beautiful necklace hand made with love by Richard's daughter.

So sweet!! Renae loves it, she didn't take it out all night. Normally she is miss itchy fingers and would start pulling out anything that we put on her.

"Happy 1st Birthday to our Beloved Princess Renae!"

"Happy Birthday Daddy!"

Few pics of my friends.

Thank you ladies!!
(*Rest of my friend' s pics in upcoming post.)

The next section is dedicated to all my daddy'd friends who came.

Thank you so much, my dad had a great time and enjoyed himself very much.

(*Sorry we could not capture every single one of you but we appreciate each and every one who came)

Birthday celebration part 2 by Dad's Spyder friends.

My dad is one happening guy with happening friends! Haha.
A lot of people ask me, "Where does your dad get all his energy from?"
Well, my dad is forever young!

This picture is very funny, u reckon?

My dad looks like he is celebrating his 1st birthday with all his happy bikers :)

Haha.

*Hahaa sooo cool, who put an and pao on my dad's bike?

HUAT AH!

My dad specially reserved lots just for Syper bikes.

I had to park so far away. Haha.

Spyder gang - the 1st to arrive & the last to leave!

To Daddy:

I hope that you enjoyed your birthday celebration this year.

Every year on your birthday it gives us a chance to THANK YOU for your love & sacrifice for this family. We all love you daddy!! You are the Best dad ever! *Muackz*

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Renae & Daddy's Birthday Preps.

My daddy and Renae shares the same birthday : 18th Aug.

This year as Renae turns one, i decided to help my dad celebrate his birthday too.

why not? It would be so fun & meaningful.

About 2months before, i started searching for bakers to bake their birthday cakes.

It took me quite awhile to find a baker who could take up the challenge to bake my dad's cake.

My dad's cake was complicated because i wanted to a 3D design of his new Sypder RT bike. And because it was meant to be a surprise i had to secretly take pictures of his bike and accessories.

Haha, sneaky me!

Ok this is my daddy's bike.

(Front View)

(Side View)

Hubs fooling around while i took pics.

Accessories.

It took us awhile before it all came together.

So i really thank you Rachel for your time and patience.

We had a few drafts of what i wanted before we finalized the design.

(This is one of the drafts)

For Renae's cake i decided to go with Hello Kitty.

Why?

Well we didn't really know what Renae likes as she is too young to have any preference. So we thought, since most of her stuff are hello kitty - from her blankie, to her cup and pacifiers.. We shall go with the Hello Kitty theme. Plus her birthday outfit is Kitty too :)

Ok so both cakes are settled!

Now onto the photo frame that we bought.

We thought it would be quite meaningful to cut out pics from when Renae was a newborn till 12mths old. Hubby was busy at work so the other man in my life gladly helped me out.

I went over to my daddy's office to print out the pics.

Dad and me took ages to choose pics because Renae has thousands of pictures taken by my daddy. We couldn't decide which ones to use and we needed to find pictures that were of right sizes too. Looks simple but its so tedious and a lot of trial and error.

My daddy is a perfectionist and insist that all cutting to be done by him! LOL.

Look how serious is he.

I would show this to Renae when she grows up.

The very reason why i decided to blog,

so that Renae knows how much we all love her and the effort we put in for her 1st birthday :)

Finally done! We took a total of 7hours to complete this. Honest!

(Plus an hour lunch break in between.)

On the actual day Preps.

There were sooo many many things to be done and lots of co-ordinating.

HOURS before…

We started with ballons decor.

I engaged a gf of mine who does balloon decor for parties and my hubby helped her out because we were afraid that the decor could not complete in time.