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To celebrate her birthday, Sam wanted to make a cake shaped like a turkey. So we did that. Down to the homemade Oreo buttercream. We, and by we, I mean I, started several days ahead and made enough chocolate cakes […]
Happy Birthday Sammy! This year, for her 7th, she asked for just a small party — more like a play-date, really. So Yumi and Penny it is! First thing, a craft! This is a variation on the patriotic T-shirts we […]
A neighborhood party for Campbell! The album cover: Happy Birthday! Related posts: Campbell’s Birthday Party Happy Birthday Claire! Happy Birthday James! Happy Sixth Birthday to Claire!
This is the kind of birthday party I can get behind: kids play games, adults drink wine. Seriously, though, Pat and Jane did a super job making a carnival theme for Claire’s sixth birthday. A can toss, gum ball count, whipped-cream eating […]
A Star Wars birthday party for baby James. Who isn’t much of a baby anymore, we have to say! Cool stormtrooper marshmallows! May the Fourth be with you! Joaquin and Gregory: Otis in the house! Sara and Katie: Tom, Michael and […]
Happy Birthday to Samantha! We threw another brunch party, with bagels and bloodys. And what is now becoming my famous strata. Entertaining: Breakfast Strata recipe Cocktails: Best Bloody Marys For entertaining, we asked Lisa Karrer to come and make musical […]
It must be rough to be a magician, and have to perform at the party of the daughter of Mario the Magician! I don’t envy you, man! But all was great! Even the adults had a good time. Delishy cupcakes, […]
A birthday party at Holly’s house! Related posts: Happy Birthday Claire! Happy Birthday Nina! Happy Birthday Claire Happy Birthday, Leigh!
When the matriarch of your family turns 90, you celebrate! Annie put together a party for Doris, who was the toast of the town. Everyone from long lost cousins to the mayor of St. Peter stopped by with well wishes. […]
Sam! You’re four! Grammy and LeighLo came over to celebrate. We toasted you with Manhattans. We ate pork and polenta. We opened presents. And you ate dinner at the table with us, sat in a big-girl chair and used big […]
Oh frabjous day, calloo callay! Sam is four! The night before her party, we blew up helium balloons! Festive! And this year, it’s warm enough to have her birthday party outside. We borrowed the bouncy castle from Susan. We made […]
How is is possible that these little girls are turning four!? Katie and Mario held Gigi’s birthday party at a sweet little place called Circle on the Farm, right on a farm behind the old Udelco building (for you longtime Rocklanders). […]
It was a neighborly Labor Day weekend! After our cocktail party on Friday night, Faye threw Campbell a birthday party the next afternoon. A few shots: Related posts: Matt’s 40th Birthday Party at the Pearl River Hotel Carol’s Birthday Party […]
How is it possible that the little girl across the street — the one who was just six months old when Samantha was born — is turning four? But there you have it. She is. And it’s another fun birthday […]
The usual cast of characters at SCF, celebrating another milestone: Irene’s birthday. Lots of delicious food and drink, of course, and a special present wrapped in with delicate goldfinch flowers. How’s that for book club friends? Blood Orange Flip! […]
At Alain’s Bistro, a delicious dinner to celebrate Mom’s birthday. A big one, too (don’t ask and I won’t tell). Manhattans to start! Then some delicous foie gras terrine: French onion soup: Country pate: And moules marinere! For dinner, […]
Our friends Ken and Jessica threw a fabulous, fun Christmas-birthday party. No surprise, really, since they, too, are fabulous and fun. Ken, being a former chef and current food photographer, put together a delicious menu that started with these unbelievable […]
Wow! You’re three! We invited the neighborhood kids and a few friends from day care to celebrate. It was a mess. It was loud. It was lots of fun. Painting! Ashley helps Maloaa. Isa, Ella, Julia, Claire and James: Amol, […]
A little morning birthday party at Susan’s to celebrate our little girl’s third (can you believe third?!) birthday. Hats for everyone! Related posts: Happy First Birthday, Samantha! Samantha’s Birthday (The Real One!) Happy Birthday, Leigh! Happy Birthday Claire!
Happy third birthday Gigi! Katie and I met at a breastfeeding group when Sam and Gigi were just tiny babies. Today, they go to day care together, and have become fast friends. One of Gigi’s favorite spots to visit is […]
Ashley and Amol invited us over to celebrate Maloaa’s third birthday. A sweet little party with a kiddie pool, a hammock and some delicious cake. Here are a few pics: Related posts: Matt’s 40th Birthday Party at the Pearl […]
For Sam’s second birthday, I took carrot cupcakes with maple-cream cheese frosting over to Susan’s and had a little party with her day care friends. Rachel helped them with Pin the Tail on the Donkey and afterwards, we all headed […]
All Matt wanted for his birthday, he told Vanessa, was to hang out, have a few beers and play some pool. The Pearl River Hotel it is, then! A bunch of his friends raised a glass in honor, and a […]
Each December, Irene’s sister, Carol, comes visiting from Chicago. We usually get the chance to celebrate her birthday in style, and for us, with luck: a dinner birthday party prepared by Irene. And we’ve celebrated enough birthdays with Carol now […]
Our little girl turned one. A few photos from the evening, after the jump. Related posts: Celebrating Greg’s Birthday with Lamb Shanks and Polenta The Gates are Up, and Samantha Is Not Happy Happy Sam! A Party for Scott and […]
Another day in May, another birthday celebration! This one was for Emily. She and Ed threw a party: half Derby Day, half birthday. I promise, one of these days, I am going to get back in the swing of really […]
So for the final portion of our BDoF, we went to Irene’s “It Ain’t 50!” birthday party. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any photos of the host — who looked ravishing, by the way! — but I did get a couple […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
