Birthday!

It was my birthday last weekend, and even though I tend to say this every year, I think it was the best one ever. My very gracious boyfriend hosted all of our friends at his apartment for a pizza party complete with my favorite Rubirosa pies, a gorgeous vanilla birthday cake, and my favorite snacks including (but not limited to) salt and vinegar chips, pretzel M&Ms, lots of pastel-foil wrapped Easter candy, and homemade stove-top popcorn with lots of butter. And then a couple of days later, we took a road trip to the North Fork for some wine tasting and a delicious lunch at Love Lane Kitchen. AND finally, we went out to a decadent dinner at the Carlyle Hotel accompanied with a jazz performance by Woody Allen (possibly my favorite famous person of all time) and his band. I'm a lucky girl. xo

Birthday flowers from the flower district! Anemones are my favorites.

Cutest street sign on the North Fork.

Woody Allen at The Carlyle!

Birthday Cake

It was my birthday on Friday, and I had so much fun with all of my friends that I didn't take a single picture. Luckily, Harry Beee snapped this one as I was blowing out my birthday candle. I grabbed a bite to eat at home-away-from-home, Soho Grand Hotel, with a bunch of friends for a big, cozy, yummy dinner, then hung out in the Club Room for the remainder of the night.

Among my birthday gifts? Lots of cookbooks, a psychic reading, a tooth necklace (a funny tribute to the chipped tooth incident of last week), and a pasta-making class. My friends know me so well. xo

The other picture of the night (there were only two!) taken with David's blackberry. Emerson, Kristian, me, and David outside of the Soho Grand.