I love throwing parties for my family and friends, but it was my turn to be doted on this weekend! While I may be used to the bright lights of television, being the center of attention had me running from the party. But my wonderful husband and blog designer turned friend Bobbi threw me an affair to remember. I was overwhelmed with love and gratitude that so many people came by to help me ring in the new decade!
They started the night off with an amazing array of delectable food, including shrimp, beautiful mini caprese salads, homemade slow cooked pork sliders, and of course my mom’s famous bourbon slush! Everyone walked in the door, saw her and asked for it immediately!
Bob scooping up bourbon slush for our guests!
They had lovely wine, beer, and a champagne toast prior to singing me happy birthday.
One of the highlights of the evening was the photo booth Bobbi created by simply adding streamers of crepe paper to one of our curtain rods! Add in a few fun props from Party City and voila, you have a cute conversation starter and the perfect backdrop for a fun evening of photos!
We ate, drank, laughed, and Periscoped! (Luckily I had only had a glass or two by then!)
La Voz of the Miami HEAT gives us the play by play of the party on Periscope!
Sorry I roped you into scoping Shappy!
Basically I had one of the most magical nights of my life surrounded by family and good friends.
And just when I thought the night was fading came the sweetest surprise. Yes, I’m a fireworks junkie and Bob put on a spectacular show!
Thank you to my husband for all of his hard work on this incredible event. And a heartfelt thanks to everyone else that celebrated with us! I am truly blessed to have so much love in my life. 
And a special thanks to Bobbi of Ready To Blog Designs, who not only is an amazing website designer, and photographer who took all of these photos, but an incredible friend and yogi as well. Check out her blog post of our fun day, which includes even more artistic photos!
I’m so glad you had such a great day! You deserve it. The photos are beautiful!!
What a bash! I am so glad that you had a magical evening! Love the photos.
It looks like a perfect party!! I love all the pictures and everyone looks like they are having a blast! I missed your ‘party’ scope, I only saw the one before so I need to go check that one out on Katch! 🙂
Aw, looked like an amazing party and you totally deserved this bash! So glad you had a great celebration 🙂
Whoot whoot. How absolutely wonderful. Love it love it…
Fantastic pictures, thanks for sharing…
Welcome to an amazing decade girlfriend. .
Xoxoxoxo
I promise that one day I’ll stop screaming HAPPY BIRTHDAY at you every time I see you, but NOT TODAY! Happy birthday, friend! Thank you so much for letting me take over your house to properly fête you! <3
Aw, it looks like you had such a wonderful birthday celebration!! That is so sweet of your husband to throw you such an incredible party. He did such a great job. Happy Birthday!!
Everything was beautiful! I’m happy you had a great birthday celebration!
See getting older can be amazing. I love, love, love the photos and you looked stunning!
Thanks for inviting us to be a part of your celebration. You deserved it! You make 40 look easy:)
I was traveling and totally missed saying Happy Birthday!!! So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It’s about time you didn’t have to make a birthday cake and one was made for you! It looks like you had a spectacular time! Many blessings on the upcoming year!!
Your smile is priceless, it looks like the most perfect birthday celebration! The pictures are fantastic as well! Happy Birthday!
It looks amazing, Kristen! Happy Birthday!! <3
What an awesome celebration for the birthday girl! I love the photo booth idea! Streamers as a backdrop… going to have to keep that in mind.
You look gorgeous. I loved seeing your celebration.
Wishing you a lovely evening.
xoxo
Wowza what a night! I am “favoriting” this one and saving this for my husband to use in a few years (not very many). I want fireworks and the whole deal 🙂
I am glad you had such an amazing night! You deserved it! P.S. You look beautiful!!
What a perfect night! Everything looks fantastic!! So, uh…bourbon slush you say? How does one make that?… Your cake was gorgeous!!
This is an awesome party! I love all the photos. I am so glad you had such a great birthday!
Cheers to you and happy belated! Looks liked so much fun and I love LOVE the streamer photo booth backdrop!!
I was gonna say – the photos look professional! They are!
Happy, Happy Birthday. You look truly glorious and happy in each and every photo. The food is making me hungry.
The fireworks? Icing on the cake.
Such a fantastic celebration! I’m drooling over those clear plastic picks (yes, small things like that get me excited). And how awesome to have fireworks for your birthday?!! Looks like you’ve got a great team behind you.
sounds perfect! i love the steamer off curtain rod idea!
Wowza. You look absolutely stunning and happy. Though the photos really capture the moment, I wish I was there. I’m glad you had a blast.
Kristin, it looks like it was an amazing party. (Can you just imagine what they’ll do for your 50th:)?) Happy Birthday!
Sounds and looks like it was a great time.
How beautiful! You throw a FUN party! I love that you persicoped too 🙂 Great pictures!