B-Day Bash!

Last week was Dan's birthday which we celebrated over 3 days. On his actual birthday morning while Dan was getting ready I put up this great little banner I found to surprise him when he came downstairs. They are letter pressed circles with a fun ribbon linking them all together. I picked this up because it reminded me of birthday's growing up in my family, we always had a "Happy Birthday" banner hanging on the window and balloons swirling from the ceiling fan.




That night we stuck to our regular routine with working out at the gym since we planned to celebrate on the weekend instead. Friday night we had friends over for an appetizer party. Dan took the day off work and cooked up a storm. He made hand pies from a Williamsburg recipe which are virginia ham, ground sirloin and traditional spices in a pie dough. They are super yummy!



He also made mediterranean shrimp salad, stuffed in endive on a tray with other chopped veggies and pastry cups filled with a moroccan couscous salad.




The best part of all the food though were the cupcakes, Dan made devil's food with salted caramel frosting topped with bacon and banana-walnut cupcakes with maple cream cheese, butter cream frosting topped with walnuts. YUMMERS!




I wanted to color coordinate the drinks and straws, with flowers etc. Orange being Dan's favorite color was the obvious choice.



Dan got lots of fun cards from family and friends.



All our friends brought appetizers to share, which were equally as yummy. We have amazingly thoughtful and talented friends.

Saturday Dan and I went out to Bick's Broadview Grill for dinner and to see a movie, Unknown. It was a great flick and a fun evening. Our big birthday celebration for this year though is going to be seeing Mary Poppins in May which is why we didn't do gifts this year.

It was a fun way to celebrate the birth of my amazing sweet husband.
Love you babe!