February 28, 2012February 5, 2015 The Green Garden

First Birthday Delight

Albie’s birthday parrty was a peach of a day – filled to the absolute brim with family and friends and food and music and love, love, love. Albie was rightly spoiled rotten with chocolate cake and a billion amazing presents. It was the best way to celebrate his first wonderful year.

birthday5 — My beautiful niece Elida and the Albinator hanging out

birthday7 — Aunty Judyne (Mum’s sister) and my Dad

birthday8 — About to try on his first pair of sunnies – Thanks Pam!

birthday34 — Everyone singing ‘Happy Birthday’

birthday14 — Albie just soaked up his Happy Birthday song

birthday17 — “I’ll just stamp that out, rather than blow it out, thanks”

birthday29 — A new kind of party aftermath

birthday28 — No lost cellphones or wallets – but two misplaced sippy cups. The times they are a’changing

Thanks to Jason and Jules for all the work in the kitchen preparing exceptional food for us all to enjoy, to the Brown family for boosting it down from the Naki to be with us and help set everything up – including Asher who appears to be a young origami crane master, to Dad for also getting down from Taranaki for the day – it was amazing to have you here, and to all the birthday wishes from near and far.Thank You. Albie is a lucky, lucky, lucky Birthday Boy and we, as a family, are blessed to the hilt to have you all.

11 comments

melanierc says:

February 28, 2012 at 6:40 am

The old cake in the eye – hate it when that happens! Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day x Love you guys

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- mrwrigglesworth says:
  
  February 29, 2012 at 2:34 am
  
  I remember you get cake in your eyes all the time eh Mel – its the old eye/mouth confusion, I know, its tricky!!!!! xxx
  
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  - melanierc says:
    
    March 3, 2012 at 10:02 pm
    
    AAaawwwwwwww! now everyone knows 😦 And I was hoping you thought it was just a twinkle in my eye x
Helene says:

February 28, 2012 at 6:45 am

Aw, thank you for sharing your lovely day with us. The birthday boy looks nicely tuckered out after the fun 🙂

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Meg, Ty & Gem says:

February 28, 2012 at 6:50 am

How relaxed does he look munching on his cake?! Beautiful photos of a clearly beautiful day! Lots and lots of birthday love x x X

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- mrwrigglesworth says:
  
  February 29, 2012 at 2:33 am
  
  Thanks honey – lets skype again soon, loooooooved the birthday video message. Gem Squash is too divine! xx
  
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Jason Johnson says:

February 28, 2012 at 7:25 am

Sooooooo jealous I couldn’t be there with all you lovelies! Sloppy kisses to all, hope to see you soon.
🙂 x0x0x0 😉

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Lizy says:

February 28, 2012 at 8:00 am

Such beautiful photos Sarah, I love getting updates from the Albinator, but this birthday special was particularly O for awesome!
So much love !

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- mrwrigglesworth says:
  
  February 29, 2012 at 2:32 am
  
  Thanks honey – looking forward to seeing you soon! xxx
  
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A says:

February 29, 2012 at 9:34 am

Was magic to be there!

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Kalala Malo says:

March 27, 2012 at 11:20 pm

Sorry for the late one – it was an AWESOME celebration – thank you SO MUCH Albie, & mum and dad for inviting us to your COOL party with your COOL family & friends – Immanuel had an especially good time playing on Albie’s swing pushed by Anna & Ants. Hope Albie got some good rest after an action packed day!

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