This weekend was the most perfect weekend ever! I had so much fun and I’m so excited to usher in a new year. Luckily, I had a long weekend, which means it was chock-full of crazy shenanigans, laughs and lots of bubbly. John and I had people over on Friday night (the actual) birthday for champagne and dessert and it was amazing! Also, we’ll never run out of champagne again but I’m definitely not complaining.

So anyway, let’s get the fun stuff out of the way: the giveaway winner.

 
Congrats Shawna – you’ll be getting an email from me later today! Huge thank you to everyone for entering!

Now on to other stuff…

birthday lunch

The party: I tried to have treats and bubbly all around the house. There was candy (and treat bags for folks to take home), brown butter rice krispie treats, snickerdoodle cupcakes, Salem Baking cookies (my favorite), and s’mores dip. There are tons of ways and variations of the s’mores dip, it’s crazy easy and the perfect party dish!

We had two drink stations: one for DIY mimosas and classic champagne cocktails and the other for a honey badger cocktail, which I don’t have a photo of. So. Much. Fun. The party then continued to our favorite little bar, The Bitter Alibi.

birthday lunch #2 with the in-laws

BRUNCH!

Words can’t even describe how perfect this weekend was. We also celebrated another friend’s birthday Saturday evening so this weekend was full of fun, celebratory activities. Sunday, John and I headed to brunch and then to the movies to see Straight Outta Compton. Great movie – go see it!

Thank you to all of my friends and my super-cute husband for making this birthday extra special…’til next year!