The Birthday Brunch Tradition Continues Today...

My good friends, Teresa and Colleen, and I were all in a homegroup Bible study together several years ago when we lived in San Jose. And the women in that group always made a special "to-do" ("ta-da" ?!?) with each other's birthdays. Time brought change, as time typically does, and now we three all live in SoCal, and we still delight to make a to-do over each other's birthdays.



Now, I must admit, I'm no domestic diva. And entertaining is not my forte. I have a hard time making things (food, decor, etc.) pretty. But I'm quite tickled with what I've come up with for this lunch for my buddies. A couple days ago I found these sunflowers at Trader Joe's and thus spawned the beginning of a vision...

Here's some of what I pulled together yesterday:


Recipes (including Heidi's Blackberry Gingerbread Cake), food prep, my idea page torn out of the Crate & Barrel catalog, preliminary dining room set-up, and assembling the photo cards I made them as a gift.

It's a good thing there's only three of us. Because I only have three yellow plates. Why only three? Cause here's the rest of the set (don't look at the crumbs on my shelf - I lack the pride and patience to photoshop them out):



I'm so looking forward to this morning with my friends. I just hope I time all the food correctly. :-}