Saturday night my husband and I hosted the June monthly gourmet group at our home. Since they were all coming to the dinner, I decided that we would honor two of our members for their milestone birthday's that they shared. One was my sweet husband and our friend, Tom Sawyer.
We had such a great time celebrating even though right in the middle of appetizers in the back yard it started to rain. So...we pulled the party in the garage. We had 39 people in attendance so it's not easy to host that many for appetizers in my home. Everyone came to the garage where we quickly set up tables and brought the appetizers inside. The rest of the night was spent celebrating with good friends and good food.
Our menu was some of the boys favorites:
Salads
Italian Pasta Salad
Italian Green Salad
Main Course
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Chicken Spaghetti
Lasagna
Italian Green Beans with Bread Crumbs
Desserts
Birthday Cake of Course!
Vanilla Ice Cream
Homemade Blackberry Cobbler
(made with handpicked berries by our scared fingers)
Sweet Potato Pie
We started the appetizers out in one of the living room of our yard. There is a love seat, two chairs with ottomans and bistro table with chairs out there so people can mingle well.
Since our theme seemed to end up Italian we started with table decorations that lend that way. I put large baskets of loaf bread for that olive oil and balsamic vinegar to be enjoyed on the table. This is our deck and as you can see before the rain it would have been a great night to watch the stars while eating!
Our friends also gathered by the fireplace area where there is additional seating and another table to seat more of our friends. Notice the wooden painted cupcake that was painted by my friend, Lauren to help celebrate birthdays.
It was a nice place to gather as people arrived through the back gate to the party.
This is a pic of our kitchen table showing our bread baskets before dinner.
The dining room was also decorated with the paper lining each side of the tables. It was a nice addition since it helped keep the olive oil and vinegar off the table cloth. Check out the vase of tomatoes from our yard on the table.
The airplane was decided upon because my husband works for
Express Jet and both men love to travel via Express Jet and Delta.
The birthday cake was made by a friend of our at our church, Shirley Tyler. She always does a great job and love to use her as she is retired and local. She also makes cookies and other items as things to give guests as they leave afterward.
Blowing out the candles for a mile stone birthday was pretty easy surprisingly.
Tom looking pleased with himself after giving those candles a work out!
I set up the desserts in the kitchen and served from there.
Look at that huge pan of Blackberry Cobbler, Yum, Yum!!
This chest/coffee table was my moms hope chest and we had it painted 3-4 years ago. We had to put up a table in the den to seat some of the guest. It ended up holding our going away tray of bread that we gave departing guest. AS you can see I wrapped them on white paper and tied them with jute.
One thing I forgot to mention that during our appetizers we played a game with our old childhood photos. I previously asked everyone in our gourmet group to text/email me their photos between the ages of 5-10. I put them in a word document and printed them out. Everyone had to guess who the photos were and it was a lot of fun. There was a winner that missed less than 5 people out about 25 photos. Madelyn Alexander you ROCK!
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