Wednesday, December 25, 2024

(Dec 25) Christmas Parties and Gatherings

Christmas Party at Linear


LOL, so I uploaded these photos a month ago and was supposed to do the write-up and totally forgot all about it...so...on 30/1/25, the second day of Jan...ah...the memories of sweet December


The kids came over early and had their pizza dinner


Mama gave them magnetic socks haha.


The cute little ones with their funny looking socks


Papa mastered the 0.5 shot


Ah...everyone was really happy with their gift exchange presents


Jie got a Hermione plush toy which was given by JJ and flown all the way back from Australia!


Birthday cake for Ah Gong who turned 70!


Ah Gong and his beloved grandkids



Mat Ah Gong and Ah Ma live to a ripe old age!



Ahem...the old folks


Another December baby, who felt utterly honoured to be sharing in the birthday celebration with Ah Gong...



Ah Gong giving away the shou tao




LOL, hilarious photo taken by the other birthday boy


Games time! The kids had to untangle themselves



They boys' team managed to do it really speedily! Wonder if they cheated...somehow ...haha


Look at those faces of utter bliss at beating the girls


Hmmm tried again as one big group but it was a dismal mess


Stayover at Triplets' home


They were pet-sitting for a friend! It was a most friendly dog and even Jun was not scared of it!


It was like a mop of fuzzy hair


Jun usually would run away from the dogs but he really liked this tame and gentle dog



Ah.. dinner time


Stock of instant noodles

Ice cream too


Mei fell asleep...haha


Supper time




Movie time



LOL...more food for the midnight feast





Ah... how lovely it was to have cousins...one's very first friends...oh You You said he wanted to have 4 children..so Jun said he would have kids too so You's kids could have cousins...ah such sweet childlike talk...



Mei still wanted to stay awake in the wee hours


So apparently Tong and Jayron stayed up till 5 am...then finally caught a little bit of sleep


the girls all snuggled and nestled cozily


Birthday celebration for the Jan babies!



Ah...such unadulterated joy and family love

Visit to the Aquarium


At Tong's request, we went to the aquarium! There was a promotion so we got tickets at half the price!




Why did Jie like taking these ugly photos!


Ah...Papa and I would go about talking about how yummy all the sea creatures would be as seafood...LOL




We had a good time!








Christmas at Papa's friend's home



LOL, little Mei charming the socks off everybody at the party once again



Mama with her RV friends




A hearty toast to 30 years of friendship!








First Day of the New Year 2025


2024 was the year when God turned our marriage from water into wine.. it was a really apt time for us to finally focus on the marriage now that Mei was in kindy and the kids were more independent and could let us have couple time again!


New Year celebration with Papa's HADC friends!

So...2024 was wonderful to us... we hoped for a dazzling 2025!