Birthday Dinner number 1

Ever since I was little my birthday's have been a long celebration. My Mom is terrible at keeping secrets, so as soon as she would buy me a present she would give it to me -- she just couldn't wait! My Dad always teased me that it was like Hannakah. So, I named it Annakah. And it does last a long time! Last night was the first dinner of Annakah this year:

We made New York Strip steaks with mushrooms, roasted asparagus, baked potatoes, two kinds of cookies and we had lots of wine! It was awesome.

Here is Tim cooking the steaks
Here is the wine - Keenan Cabernet 2003:

Me cooking (actually using my Grandma's double boiler that I haven't ever used before!):

Our table! And my flowers Tim got me to start Annakah 2007:

The Peanut Butter Surprise cookies and the Chocolate Snappers (SO YUMMY!):

Tim in jammies opening Ice Wine for our dessert: