December happenings

It's the last working day of the year, and in another 2 days it will be 2018! December was quite a busy month for us, with me going on my firm's retreat, 3 weddings to attend back to back and Christmas!

Speaking of weddings, here are some pictures from the weddings we attended in December, 3 Saturdays in a row:

Regina's wedding @ Vistana Hotel:

Elson's wedding @ Olive Tree Hotel

Hubby's cousin Lay Koon's wedding @ Copthorne Orchid Hotel:

After all the weddings, it was Christmas! We didn't go anywhere this year, so we had a small party at home on Christmas eve with our good friends the Tans and the kids' favourite Uncle Steven! He really was Santa Claus that night with all his presents as he walked in the door!

And that big box was for Helene! Inside was a huge teddy bear!

We had a very Asian Christmas dinner - steamboat! Hubby did a fantastic job of setting the table :)

The hosts:

The hosts and guests :)

The hosts and guests and kids :)

Kids with their favourite Uncle Steven!

From our home to yours, have a blessed Christmas and best wishes for 2018!

Lim family celebration

Hi everyone! I am Helene and I am going to post this blog entry :)

So as you know, Chim Poh looks after me while Mummy and Daddy are working. Just recently, my Ah Chik (Chim Poh's son) got married. His wife is from Myanmar and I call her "jie jie". However Mummy says now that she is married to Ah Hong Ah Chik, I need to call her Ah Chim. But anyway I digress.

As a form of celebration, Ah Hong Ah Chik decided to have a small family gathering to introduce her to our relatives and for her to serve the customary tea to the elders of the family. He used to work as a chef at Sunway Hotel, so the party was held there.

Hannah jie jie, Heidi jie jie and myself got all dressed up in our pretty dresses, and I was so excited! Mummy had to catch me for a nice picture before we left the house. See how excited I was!

See my both jie jies' pretty dresses. My dress and Heidi jie jie's dress were given by Aunty Sue.

And this was my dress. At first Daddy and Mummy thought it would be too big for me, but it fit me just nicely! So it seems I have grown taller :) Since I was wearing a pretty dress, I decided to give a "performance" to entertain everyone haha.

Heidi jie jie and Pei Zi jie jie didn't want to be left out. They couldn't decide if they wanted to sing or dance though :p

Here are our pretty dresses again, Hannah jie jie and Heidi jie jie are posing so nicely for the camera.

But I was too busy running around clapping my hand excitedly. I was so happy that night!

Mummy and Daddy took some nice pictures together too!

And here is Mummy and Daddy with the happy couple:

As a customary tradition, Ah Chik's wife served tea to her in-laws and to the elders. Such a coincidence that her dress and Chik Kong's shirt had the same design! :)

Here is our big happy family, missing a few people though, like Ah Beng Ah Chik who is in Bangkok.

And here is our mini happy family haha :)

Of course, no party would be complete without selfies! Ah Ying jie jie had plenty to share with us :)

Congratulations again to Ah Hong Ah Chik! Wishing you lots of love and happiness now and always!

Adeline and Robert's Wedding

The official wedding photos of my sister and Robert's wedding were out some months ago, and she had posted them all on Facebook, but I never really got to sharing them on the blog.

It was a beautiful wedding, and the wedding photographer was well worth every cent they paid for him!

Here are some of my favourites, not in any particular order:

Official wedding photos

We recently received the photos from the official photographer at my sister's Penang wedding and reception and here are some from the reception at E&O Hotel. There are not many of us, since we were running around most of the time, and we totally forgot to even get a family photo of all of us.

Here are some with us in it, and I must say that the photographer did a pretty good job! I like these 2 the best:

Only Heidi was in the pictures above as Hannah was busy running around with her cousins and Helene was being passed around from one doting relative to the next :p

Hannah with some of her cousins:

But for the most part, Helene was my little koala.

This was Heidi's first time as a flower girl, hence the perpetually worried look on her face. We were worried that she couldn't make it all the way to the front of the ballroom, but she did a very good job and there were no breakdowns or meltdowns! Hannah re-wore her flower girl dress from the Australia wedding and we cut the purple sash in half, so Heidi could have one too.

Here are some of my sister's friends who came all the way from Australia to attend the reception. Hannah was especially fond of Brie, the girl who was holding her.

And Hubby's friends came too:

And here is all of Hubby's extended family: