My big 35

These last few days have been very busy for me, Monday, my actual birthday day was a nightmare running around at work. The company that I work for merged with another office this week, so just think about phone issues, fax issues, printers, auxilio!! to much to handle for a newly 35 year old costarrican girl. OK, I will stop complaining now. On Sunday I had a BBQ in my apartment, nothing too crazy, just family and a few friends. We enjoyed a beautiful sunny day . Here is Cami with her friend Zolie, this adorable little boy is the son of my good and talented friend Tina, check out her blog at http://www.indigowings2008.blogspot.com/, she makes the most beautiful cards ever and gave me as a present a set of cards with my blog name hand written and stamp by her.

Here is me cutting the cake with my future assistant. I just hope that by the time she becomes my assistant she won't be the one holding me.

Food..yummy!! A week before I had asked the famous Cooking Photographer for help regarding my side dishes, I am not a good cook, so I need it something simple, easy and delicious. God answered my prayers and so did Laura, who send me the most detailed email with tons of overwhelming ideas. This was a cold caprese pasta salad. Laura rewrote the recipe in her blog, but this recipe idea belongs to Patricia from Butter Yum. You can see recipe and of course, better pictures here:

http://butteryum.blogspot.com/2009/04/caprese-pasta-salad-basil-tomato.html
http://www.thecookingphotographer.com/2009/05/caprese-pasta-salad.html

This delicious pasta was a hit!! And I am very PROUD TO SAY that I have been the first one to make it, after Laura of course. Laura told me that she created this recipe for a competition, it is very original and it has the best flavor ever, bacon, cream, Parmesan cheese..heaven!. I followed the recipe every step of the way and it was well worth it. Here is the link, so you can tried too. See, I am good sharing, something that Camilla needs to star learning pretty soon.