A grown up birthday party

Two days after my official birthday, with my older two kids away (thanks Mom!), I threw myself an adult birthday party. The baby was upstairs sleeping, while 16 friends came over and enjoyed champagne, food, and dessert. I bought most of the food from a specialty market to keep everything extra easy for me. The only thing I made was smoked salmon deviled eggs, which are just deviled eggs with smoked salmon in them, so yummy, and they were all gone before the end of the night.

These are Trader Joe's frozen macarons. I had initially ripped out a recipe for making them at home, but decided that day to just buy them and make my life easier. It was a party after all. And we still had to clean up.

I love a good cheese plate. I even labeled each cheese by using place cards.

Scotch for the boys.

Champagne for everyone.

I love that we used our candelabras which haven't seen use in five years. Although, it looks a bit     Halloween-y in this picture.

Store bought Curry Chicken Salad in mini martini glasses.

Chicken liver mousse, I'm still swooning, it was that good.

The smoked salmon deviled eggs.

And like any good party, here are the empty bottles at the end of the night.

I link to these awesome parties:

Sunday: I Heart Naptime, Nifty Thrifty Things, Inspired Honeybee, Nest for Less, Delectable Home, It's Overflowing  Monday:Between Naps on the Porch, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Thrifty Decor Chick, Alderberry Hill, Debbie Doo's, Home Stories A to Z, Home Savvy AtoZ , Tuesday: Coastal Charm, Tip Junkie, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Carolyn's Homework, Made in a Day, Our Delightful Home, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Get Your Craft On, Kurtz Corner , Organize and Decorate, Natural NestersWednesday: Savvy Southern Style, Mommy Solutions, Power of Paint, Newlyweds Recipe Linky, Southern Lovely , Home Happy Home Thursday: The Shabby Creek Cottage, Made in a Day, House of Hepworths, the 36th Avenue , Bloggeritaville Craft, Scrappy, Happy, 52 Mantels Friday: One Artsy Mama, Serenity Now, Tatertots and Jello, The Shabby Nest, Thirty Handmade Days, Addicted 2 Decorating, Funky Junk Interiors, Financial Friday, Furniture Friday, At the Picket Fence, The Rooster and the Hen