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Home » Uncategorized » Event Recap: 40th Fiesta Party!

Event Recap: 40th Fiesta Party!

May 5, 2016 · WCC Administr@tr · Leave a Comment

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This past weekend was quite a party packed one! I celebrated my 40th birthday on Saturday with a Fiesta theme (a nod to the upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebrations) and it was beyond amazing. Patrick did a great job planning and hosting my special day while allowing me to provide some input since he knows how much I love to plan parties and entertain friends and family. I especially loved this on the invites sent…

Señors & Señoritas, grab your sobrero and SALSA over to Casa de Kenny… Join us as we celebrate with a festive birthday fiesta! It’s NACHO ordinary fiesta – the salsa will be hot, the margaritas will flow, it’s great to be 40 years old, you know! 

We’ll have a Mexican inspired feast, plenty to drink, a bounce house for the kiddies, candy filled piñata, possibly some karaoke (you know how she loves to sing) and a great time for everyone in store. TACO ’bout a party! Hope you can make it!


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Patrick also insisted to have the party catered so I can enjoy some time out of the kitchen lol. Since it was a Mexican Fiesta, he had the party catered by our favorite local Mexican restaurant, Alcapulco Mexican Restaurant. They did an AWESOME job providing our taco bar which included: rice, beans, carne asada and chicken tamales. We also had some pork carnitas from another local Mexican place especially known for their carnitas, Carnitas Don Roy.

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We had a tower of toppings for guests to dress their tacos – by the way, sour cream is awesome served out of a squeeze bottle with little to no mess! The toppings also was used for our Nacho Bar (unpictured). We had a big galvanized tub full of fresh tortilla chips, also from Alcapulco Mexican Restaurannt, along with a triple crock pot of dips – nacho cheese, chili cheese and taco joe dip (made by my mother in law, Marnee.)

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And what’s a fiesta without salsas?! We had a good mix of salsas too which added lots of fresh color and a nice variety of flavors from mild, medium to extra hot!

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I love having guests get interactive with food so we also had a DIY guacamole station. Aside from avocados, we had mix ins available including fresh cilantro, red onions, jalapenos, garlic infused oil, house seasoning (garlic powder, salt & pepper) and fresh lime juice

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My friend Angel gets into his customized batch of guacamole using my stone molcajete…

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And of course, we had a nice sampling of hard ciders and Mexican beers… olé!

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For dessert, we had a buffet table set up to hold all our sweets. I loved how festive this looked!

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A tres leches cake seemed fitting for my birthday this year, which was topped with white chocolate and fresh fruit.

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We also had a tower of filled churros – strawberry, vanilla and plain – with some dessert sauces for drizzling (white chocolate, caramel and dark chocolate.)

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I also made a Dulce de Leche cheeseball, served with cinnamon graham crackers. Friends loved it and said it tasted like a caramel cheesecake. Recipe coming soon!

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To balance the sweets out, we had a fresh fruit salad as well. So fresh and colorful!

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We had more drinks aside from the beers and in these dispensers, the bebidas included horchata (cinnamon rice milk), agua de sandia (watermelon juice), and limonada (limeade).

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And here are the real party drinks – Margaritas! We made 3 pitchers of margaritas – pineapple, mango and peach. Guests were also welcome to make classic ones too. And quite a few folks lifted their shot glasses filled with Rumchata with birthday wishes for me lol.

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The obligatory pic with friends while sporting my ’40 birthday’ hat lol…

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And a great shot of some friends just hanging in my favorite part of our house – the kitchen!

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Overall, it was a wonderful celebration. With friends, family and great food surrounding me, I wouldn’t have wanted a better way to celebrate. So party it up for Cinco de Mayo just as we did for my birthday this year! 

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