30 blows!

30 blows was the theme for my husband's 30th birthday party. I found some inspiration via Pinterest and went to town. Originally I wanted to do a southern BBQ food menu with a pig roast, some bails of hay for seating, and adorable food markers. Well things changed quickly and I decided to have a food truck. How awesome right??

We kept the menu BBQ theme. The party started with apps. I made bacon, apple, onion custinis, which I saw on Rachel Ray. I made the mistake of cooking it in a crock pot, which in turn, made it less crispy for the toast, but the toast off set it. Kind of like a bruschetta. I made a buffalo chicken dip, always a super delicious no fail. And we also served veggies, dip, crackers, and cheese.

On to the food truck menu. Plan b-stro did the catering. They pulled into our driveway and set up shop. The food was amazing. They served pulled pork sliders or buffalo chicken fried chicken, with sides of Asian coleslaw, horseradish potatoes, and baked beans. I am so thankful for my genius idea. Honestly though, when we were wedding planning a knottie bride had one at her rehearsal dinner and I thought fab idea. Magically a year later two food trucks came to town in port. Seriously we never had one and now we have two. Had they not come to town I would have been cooking. Ha.

So dessert. I thought since we were doing BBQ why not have a pig blowing out a candle on an apple. Except I do not bake. Also I found adorable pig faced cake pops but w everything going on didn't have the time to give that a whirl. We hired the woman who did the bee cake last week for the pig cake. She did an amazing job. It was red velvet with buttercream and fondant. I had a Wife fail and forgot to buy candles. But we had sparklers, left over from the wedding. I stuck a sparkler in the pig and we sang happy birthday.

Decor: so back to the theme. I made centerpiece a with blow pops and cut a piece of card stock w the cricket that read 30 blows. Then I made a 30 blows banner. I had a hard time running a theme through it, but they got the idea. It's not like you can go BSC for a 30 year old guy the way you can for a child's party so mom brought balloons for something extra. The best part of the party was the food truck. I tried to keep it a secret from Matt, but ya know I couldn't contain myself and told him anyway.