Photos from Nia's Birthday Party

I don't know why I cant link my shutterfly album to this site, well actually I can, it's just that you can't view the pix, so I deleted the link! Will try to find another way of linking the album here, meanwhile here's some of my fav pix of Nia from the party:

Post Party Depression

Not quite, really. On one hand, I'm so glad the party has come & gone in a wink, on the other hand, I have no more projects to do!! (Well, actually I do, we need to do up Nia's room already, she can't continue sleeping with us, hubz & I need some time to ourselves too!) *evil laughter*

Here's Nia attacking the balloons first thing Sunday morning.. with morning breath and bedhead hair and all..

Anyways, I personally think the party was a success. Abby has worked especially hard the whole time the party was going on, keeping the children busy with games and prizes and whatnots. I really do not know what I would have done without her. (Thanks B, love ya to bits!) At the end of it, we packed up all the games we bought for them to play and gave them away for the kids to take home. What in the world are we going to do with all those stuff anyway? As you can imagine, most kids went back happier than I expected, which is definitely a good thing!

Nia was oblivious to the whole brouhaha, all she knew was that her Da-Da & Da-Di were there, there were plentiful of balloons which she seemed to love, and she'd been carried and passed around the whole time and there were host of people keep coming up to her saying, "Oh, you are so pretty" which she loves the best! Hahahaha, SO very much like the father - vainpot.

Hubz was complaining the cake wasn't big enough (for him), as he only get to bring back less than a quarter of the cake, which was a 8-lbs cake, fyi! Looks like I'd have to order the same cake for his upcoming birthday so that he could have ALL of it just to himself!

Even after boldly printing on the invite asking our guests NOT to bring Nia any pressies, she still got some from some stubborn but sweet folks. All of them were toys, fortunately toys that she does not have, some of which we were looking to get for her ourselves. So, here's a HUGE thank you for all the cute and very useful pressies that Nia can't seem to keep her hands off from!

This is from hubz friends at work.. No one else is allowed to touch this, she even tries to carry it herself!

Pretty party dress from Auntie Jesse - thank you! Nia's mummy's lovin this dress while daddy's lovin the box it came in! Talk about being superficial :oPP

I'm freakin out!

The nearer it gets to the day, the more freaked out I am about it! Nia is turning ONE next Tuesday, isn't that exciting? But everyone keep saying she's so thin, she's so petit etc, and I don't like that one bit although she is in fact a little skinny albeit the tapioca thighs! That's the only part of her body which seem to be so adorably tembam! I bite them almost on a daily basis!

I digress.

No, I'm not at all freaked out about Nia turning one, I'm freaking out thinking of the party that's happening on the 25th! We're two weeks away and we don't even have the invites ready yet!

There were some production delay from the original supplier ;o) we commissioned the cards from (che wah!) so I called up a friend (who was a vendor of mine in my previous capacity, now a friend) to ask for a huge favour to print out the invites instead, in like, 1 day. He said YES! Oh, thank God! So the pretty cards which were originally intended for the invites are now the Thank You cards instead! I couldn't be happier! Saved me from cracking my brains designing them! Thanks Pipah! :oPPP

1. Party space - a
2. F&B - a
3. Birthday Cake - a
4. Canopy - a
5. Balloon - a
6. Nia's party dress - a
7. Weather -r anyone know of witch doctor who could make the rain go away on the day? Not asking for much, just for a couple of hours.. PLEASSSSSSSEEEEEE....

Apart from the weather bit I think I got all of it pretty much covered except:

1. Decorations for the space consisting of Pocoyo cutouts and balloons - I'm still working on it, maybe will get it done by this weekend.. maybe..
2. Party loot bag for the kiddos - bags are here only the loots missing.. :oP
3. Kids game - Abby (my sis) is taking care of this bit but we've got colouring pages ready and some crayons too, the rest is up to Abby..
4. Kites - Abby is also supposed to help buy some colourful ones on her way back from Perhentian ~ I 've not been to a beach in almost TWO bloody years ~I hate u B!~But hurry back :oPP

I went over to Balloon Buzz formerly known as Balloon Bouquets in Sect 14 earlier today to order the balloons for the party. I used to order balloons from them so often while they were still a kuchirat and has not started 'franchising' their business, the lady Colleen is very amiable and helpful. Unfortunately now that they are BIG, things are a little different..

I walked in to their retail outlet and asked about the centerpieces etcetera and showed them my sketch of what I wanted, the girl handed over an album and said "these are all the things that we can do". That means "we don't get creative here, we don't care what our customer wants, these are the things we could do, so choose 1". *Sigh* whatever. So i just placed my order on the colours and number of balloons I wanted and I'll get it done myself on the day. Well, good thing they CAN deliver, imagine if we have to stuff 120 balloons in our little japanese sedan?! *Shudders*