A Double Birthday Celebration

I think having the person who means the world to you celebrate his birthday a day after yours makes your birthday twice as special.  After the initial “I don’t believe that its your birthday on the 15th”, we’ve settled into a nice routine for our birthday celebrations -Begin the day with mine and bring in his at midnight

This year too I had a party, though unlike last year I only invited a few close friends.  I haven’t been in my element of late coupled with the facts that my extended family was not in the city and that i had a fever and a runny nose a day before, did not make me a very enthusiastic party planner :( 

Anyway here is what I did do this year

For the Invitations, I tried my hand at Iris Folding. Since I was having a sit down candle light  dinner, I used the wine glass template.

For the Dinner Table I decided to have a “Red and Glass” theme, so the candles, place mats, centre piece and serviettes were red and all the crochery - glass.

Snacks included biscuit shells filled with two tyoes of fillings - Deviled Eggs and Cheesy Chicken and potato chips with a Blue Cheese dip.

Dinner too was a home cooked affair (it becomes easier to cook for a smaller group of people) with Ceasar Salad and Grilled Chicken as the first course, followed by the main course of Macaroni-Cheese-Chicken Bake, Spinach Pie & Tomato Pulao.

Dessert was a lovely fruit trifle - which Ajay put together (good job!), followed by an after dinner liquor.

The cake  was made of dark chocolate sponge with a “handkerchief” drap of white chocolate (which we cut both on the 15th and at midnight to bring in Ajay’s birthday ….. yup I was a little tired to make another one … but then that’s what sharing is all about after all )

I think we had a nice evening, with easy conversation and Virgil accompanying the singing on the piano. (which incidently also landed him the accompanist role at Pri’s wedding)

We finally cleared up, chatted for a while and went to sleep at around 2 in the morning.

Thank you guys for being there. Love you.

Spent the 16th at Ajay’s place with his family.

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