Last year for Kev's birthday, we basically sat around twiddling our thumbs waiting for Miles to decide to make his grand entrance. Well, that didn't actually happen until 8 days later. Amidst it all, we didn't really celebrate Kevin's 30th birthday as we should have. That's a major milestone and it deserved more attention than it got. So I decided that we needed to do it right this year.
What is an appropriate birthday present for 31? Something Kevin has been talking about lately was starting to drink scotch. With the help of our friend Mike, we got him to try scotch to see if he liked it. He did, so I bought him a bottle of Macallan 12 year and a book by Michael Jackson (not the one you are thinking of) all about single malt scotch. The perfect gift from his son, a book about running. From Miles he got the book "The Perfect Mile." It is about the race to run the mile in less than 4 minutes. A gift from the 3 year old...a Nerf gun that shoots suction cup darts...what was I thinking on that one?? He loved all the gifts.
We also decided to completely indulge at our meals for the day! We started off the day with good gourmet coffee and cinnamon rolls. While enjoying that, the breakfast casserole I made cooked in the oven. I tried a new recipe that had potatoes, ham, sour cream, and cheese. It was ooey and gooey and paired well with the citrus fruit salad. A few hours later, I started to prep for dinner. For cocktail hour, we started the evening with hors d'oeuvres of a port wine cheese ball and crackers and sausage stuffed mushrooms. We enjoyed Prime Rib, perfect fingerling potatoes, warm goat cheese salad, and yorkshire pudding. Dessert was Birthday Cake Ice Cream from Vale Wood Farms.
The weekend was nice and relaxing. Unfortunately for the birthday boy he came down with the flu and eventually strep throat on his birthday. So the actual day wasn't as happy, but I think we did a good job over the weekend celebrating Kevin's 31st Birthday.
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