This year, we thought of planning a simple one, no BBQ but just get "lok lok" van and roast pork. I know some of my friends are looking forwards to the BBQ things, not to make them disappoint, on the very last minute we decide to have BBQ.
this is the "lok lok" van, we can have the whole van ourselves! hahahhaha
the food on the "lok lok" van......century eggs - my favorite. Too bad by the time when i had my meal, it almost finish, left only one small piece.
Beside than the "lok lok" and BBQ ribs, very last minute we boil some pasta, just in case our guest not enough food. We cook two type of pasta, this time other than our usual Bolognese sauce, my brother in law want me to try to cook Carbonara sauce. My first try, roughly know what is the ingredient, but still i called my sifu to ask for her recipe. After noted down, i start my experiment! LOL
Look! My first Carbonara Sauce with bacon and button mushroom. Not bad on my first trial, everyone said YUMMY!! *Beaming and do happy dance*
coleslaw by your truly....
roast pork....
BBQ ribs...
chef for the night.....
pork satay and ribs.....
mixed platter.....
Barb and Ashley....
This year i didn't invite a lot of my friends, since we are just do a small one, and most guest we invited are our relatives and close friends. Too bad, this year, Elaine miss out this party, she got an important dinner need to attend, and my good friend Vivian, she had food poisoning, that make her miss out this party also. So this year i only got Barb and my another good ol' friend, Penny, we used to worked in a hotel together many many years ago. I am glad that, we manage to keep in touch and keep this friendship.
Penny and her hubby and her prince.
All the kids and everyone can't wait for the most excitement moment, which is gift exchange. We told the guest that we invited, those would like to join us for the gift exchange fun, please bring a small gift.
gifts under the christmas tree, too bad, this is not for kids, but for adult gift exchange. LOL
Kids gift were way too big and too many to put it under the tree...
three born on the same day same year baby....
another picture of them....
Ok, i didn't take the picture the moment we adults gift exchange, too havoc and noisy!! Much noisier than the kids!
kids at one corner enjoy their gifts open moment....you can see most kids got Nerf guns as pressie this year, including my two boys.
i got this beautiful apron from Penny. Want me to be in the kitchen more? hahahhahahha
Pretty Ashley give me a Laura Ashley note book and Barb give me a mug, remind me to drink more water daily.
Thanks ladies for the lovely gifts. I heart them very much.
Party end about 10.30pm, since the next day is a working day. I took a day off the next day, because i got some activities with my boys. Want to know what we do the next day, please come back and check.