The Birthday Boy

Happy late birthday to my darling hubby who turned the big 3-1 last week!! Since last year’s shin-dig was such a big deal, we kept things a little more low key this year while celebrating, but still had a lot of fun!!

Price loves surprises, so when he came home from his trip to Starkville last weekend, I surprised him with a little homemade Reese’s cake and a craft beer tasting game. (You may also recognize some recycled decorations from last year’s party!) I don’t know where the tasting game idea came from (I’m sure I saw something on Pinterest or something that planted the idea seed in my brain!), but it was a lot of fun!

(By the way, you may or may not notice that some of our Christmas decorations are still up… I love Christmas so much that I have to put up the decorations in phases. I tell myself that these are simply “winter decorations” now that the stockings, reindeer, and snowflakes have been removed. We keep things festive around the Donahoo household as long as we possibly can!)

The cake was pretty easy and fairly tasty if I do say so myself! I just did a german chocolate cake mix, sprinkled some PB2 (peanut butter powder) into the batter to add some extra flavor, and beat some heavy whipping cream into thick whipped cream, also with a little PB2 sprinkled in, for the icing!

The game was also fairly simple in concept but Price really seemed to enjoy it! I went to Fresh Market and bought a little myriad of craft beers with the Create Your Own 6-Pack option (and added in one that we already had at the house.)

I poured little tastes into 7 small cups, each of which had a straw with a number in it. I had the corresponding numbers written on the backs of the bottles, so Price would taste one, guess which one it was, and he got a little happy with each one he got right! (I raided the dollar section at Target for the happies!)

It was fun 🙂 And we learned about a couple of beers that we will definitely buy again, and others that we will probably never touch again with a 10 foot pole…

Very educational!

As for celebrating on the actual day, we went for a steak at Ruth’s Chris after work that day. SO GOOD!!

It was a great birthday and I’m excited to celebrate many more with this handsome man-o-mine! 🙂 Sure do love my hubs!!!! <3