My family always makes my Christmas Birthday special. On my first birthday I received the little girl music box in the picture above. It has my name and my birth date on it and plays "Happy Birthday." The music box has slowed down over the years and plays too slow to sing along, but every year we get the music box out. As a child we celebrated St. Nicholas Night. On the night of December 5th, St. Nick would fill the stockings or shoes with small treats. Along with the small toys and candies I received my birthday angel. I received an angel from the time I was 1 until age 16. Now I have to put two angels together to get my age! If you look carefully you will see the birthday angels in the picture above.
This year Ken held a Christmas Birthday Party for me at our house on Saturday, December 26, the day after Christmas. The party was for close friends and my parents. Ken's parents left earlier that day to visit Grandma Talley in Kentucky so they were unable to join us. The picture above shows the yummy food Ken helped prepare and the special Holdiay Punch he made. The recipe is his mom's and it is featured in our cookbook. Everyone loved the punch! We used the crystla punchbowl and cups Ken's sister Patricia and her family gave us on our wedding day.
My yummy birthday cake came from Lubely's Bakery. It is the bakery that made our wedding cake. We love the family bakery and get all of our special cakes from Lubely's. I always ask for white cake with raspberry filling. My cake was decorated with Christmas colors and musical notes.
I was happy that many of my friends could join me to help me celebrate my 38th birthday. The guests that showed were: Liz & Kyle, Jason & Ginger, my mom & dad, Colleen & her mom Judi, Jeanette, Tonya, and Jaime.
Ken surprised me with a beautiful red Prada wallet. He bought the wallet at the Prada store when he was in Italy on business this year! He told me that the Prada store was closed when he walked past it while in Italy. He even took a picture of the closed store, so you can imagine my surprise when he presented me with a Prada box! What a special gift. Jaime reminded me to use the wallet everyday instead of only on special occasions. After all, she said, everyday is a special day.
It is tradition to take a picture from the upstairs balcony. We do this at every party we have
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