Our princess turns one

Happy 1st Birthday

A year as parents

       ♫ Happy birthday to you (2x)

          Happy birthday dear Persia

          Happy birthday to you ♫

TO OUR LITTLE EXPLORER

We thank our heavenly father everyday for our greatest gift! For choosing us to be your parents.
A year with you has been our greatest blessing!
Being first time parents can be challenging for some but you've been such an easy baby since you were born! (Thank you Jesus).You bring so much joy into  our lives; you're the reason we've come to experience this unconditional love we have for you.
You are so loved by everyone from both sides of the family but more importantly; mummy and daddy will always and forever love you darling. We look forward to many more birthdays with you our princess!

X O X O

Thank you to my mother in-law Janita Tukuitonga for our
Dora birthday cake. 

My brother, cousins and nieces with the birthday girl.

Love these cupcakes! they're so good! 
https://www.facebook.com/FlakesCakesAndMuffins/

Birthday banner - A year of my daughters life.

Birthday banner - It's her FIRST birthday ever! Deciding which pictures to use was probably the hardest part. ( haha)

Thank you to my handsome baby daddy Sheldon_bianchi
for providing all the heavy foods. Nockys takeaway

Thank you to my father in-law for the domino pizzas.
Also to my man again for all the savories too.

Desserts
Subway cookies! A MUST haha.
Also thank you to my mom Upu_manoo_huch & mother in-law for the cheesecakes and ice-creams; and to my sister Celina Galuvao for baking chocolate brownies and making your delicious banoffee pie. And to my cousin Alofa Tuúa for the kids rice crackles.

My in-laws. Blessed with the best.
Thank you to uncle Chaze and his wife Lorelle ; also their son 
Jay + his girlfriend Samantha for flying over from Australia as well.

My mother with her all her kids and only grandchild.

Birthday girl with her great grandma Mary 
Strickland and her aunty Leeana.  

Thank you to my brother and cousin
for flying over from Australia.
 (Left) My brother Niko (Center) My love
(Right) My cousin Daniel a.k.a godfather

Andy wonder
Thanks mom for hiring the magician. 

My daughter and my nana Phillies Huch Manoó

Dora the explorer

THEME: Dora the explorer - For our daughter, it was either Moana or Dora the explorer. Moana theme was used for so many of my nieces birthdays so we wanted our daughter to be different; so we chose Dora.

VENUE -Choosing a venue in winter is difficult in NZ because it rains so much; so obviously we had to have an indoor birthday. We hired Chipmunks because it had a gaming area, slides, ball pits and a playground for the little kids. The only problem was the hiring hours wasn't worth it and the staff didn't have the venue cleaned before we arrived to set-up! 😡 Luckily our families all arrived early and on time to help us clean up before we could set-up our birthday decorations and everything bday related. It was a bit stressful but we did it! I'm so grateful and appreciate everyone for their help

A BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE BY MY NIECE
https://youtu.be/B32cCs_J0kA