My birthday was Thursday, which means I am by no means finished celebrating yet. However, most of the celebrations that have taken place so far have involved cake. That is a situation that definitely meets with my approval.
It started out on Wednesday when I co-hosted a taco dinner with another friend who shares my July 7th birthday. I bought two dozen giant cupcakes from Takes the Cake Bakery, six each of four different flavors, and they were all delicious. I think my current favorite is the almond cake with raspberry buttercream icing.
Don't judge the squooshed-looking red velvet cupcakes in the back. I dropped the box while I was trying to open it.
The next day I went to work even though my company lets you take a day off for your birthday. We were doing a company field trip to LIVESTRONG Sporting Park and I didn't want to miss it. It's good that I went into the office because a co-worker made me a batch of tiny chocolate cupcakes that were sitting on my desk when I arrived. Woohoo!
Later that evening, I attended a Social Media Club of Kansas City board meeting and look what the prez got me:
Hashtag, Twitter handle and everything. Yes, the underscore is missing, but I'm sure the grocery store bakers were confused enough as it was.
The pièce de résistance of my birthday celebration plans was a trip to the first annual Westport Food Truck Festival last night. I'd told my husband that I wanted to have my birthday dinner there, so I threw the invitation open to all of my friends and we ended up with a core group of seven, wandering the festival and trying the deliciousness.
I ended up having a mini meatball sub, a tamale, two limeades, two beers, half of a rootbeer cupcake and some hummus that I partly aspirated and almost choked on. As you can imagine, I was finished after that.
It was a beautiful evening and I kept running into other friends throughout the festival. We took it at a slow pace and spent the majority of the time relaxing outside and chatting. It was a very pleasant way to finish out a day that was supposed to have been my day off but ended up being a full workday after all.
Tonight my sister is having a game night at her house, so the celebration will continue. Which segues nicely into a little discussion of my birthday gifts. My aunt sent me a game called Literati Challenge, and I can't wait to play it. I treated myself to the Awkward Family Photos board game as well. I can never resist a blog tie-in.
My husband's gift to me was a bottle of Kate Spade Twirl perfume, which I'd discovered in last month's Birchbox shipment.
One of my best gifts was a blog post that Cagey wrote for my birthday. It was SO nice, even though it makes me sound way more interesting than I actually am.
So that's my birthday so far. Yes, all the cake is probably contributing to my middle-aged weight struggles, but I'd rather be happy than thin this week. I can worry about my food intake next week as I settle into my new age.
yes the blog post was nice... but you ARE that interesting!! Happy Birthday week! :)
Posted by: Melanie | July 09, 2011 at 09:49 AM
This sounds like one of the most fantastic birthdays ever. I had no idea Westport was having a food truck festival. My gosh, that's brilliant.
Posted by: Julie @ mamamash | July 09, 2011 at 11:24 AM
I absolutely LOVE your blog! I just added you to my blogroll. Thank goodness for BlogPaws! If I hadn't been given your link I might have missed this gem!
Happy Belated Birthday!
Posted by: caren gittleman | July 09, 2011 at 01:17 PM