26 on the 26th: Breakfast for Dinner Party

For my 'magic' birthday this year, the year you turn the same age as your birthday, which only comes once in a lifetime, I knew I wanted to throw a party. Especially since my birthday happened to fall on a Saturday. That gave me a 3-day weekend, with all day Friday to shop and prepare, and all day Sunday to recover.

Since I could eat breakfast foods anytime, and for every meal, I decided to throw a breakfast for dinner party. PJs required.

We had bacon-wrapped pineapple and a gourmet garlic-broccoli quiche, fruit salad and mini-blueberry streusel muffins. The pineapple was to die for! The quiche was a good first try, but I need to get better at making crusts and not use whole-wheat flour, even if it means dropping everything to go to the store when the cold butter is waiting in the food processor. It still looks delicious:

We had friends:
And crazy family:
And one of my favorite newer friends (he is so tall!):

We did boil-in-bag personalized omelettes, and personalized pancakes made by my darling husband. Everyone was able to customize the omelette they wanted, and we cooked 4 at a time in a big pot. We had a lot of OJ, with mimosas and screwdrivers, which most preferred with the cherry vodka. It was a wonderful time!

Afterwards we changed into our normal clothes and headed out to the Glass Cactus on Lake Grapevine for some dancing.

Well, us girls danced. The boys held down the table. They missed out big time on Le Freak:

And we took approximately 13.5 photos of ourselves, and this was the best one, complete with the greasy bang streak across my forehead.

I had a wonderful day with several great surprises.

Liz and Louis left me a hilarious inside-joke video on Facebook that made my face hurt from laughing so hard.
Mike and Terri made the drive in, and brought an amazing gift with them, something I wanted so bad but told Bean as a joke because it's over the top:
A Cricut! It cuts paper, and all sorts of other stuff. Get ready for some awesome homemade cards! My cousin Anna got one and I fell in love with it. Now we can swap cartridges without having to buy each one.
And Bean told me that he has been researching dogs to get me one for my birthday. There is nothing I want more than a dog, but he convinced me a couple of months ago that it was a bad time for us to get one because of our schedules, and the hassle, and travel plans, and I finally believed him. I really didn't think we would get a dog until our kids were in school or something.
So I was shocked into contemplating a new addition to our family, and my only concern is this little one sleeping in the chair with me:
How is she going to react to a dog? We decided to do some research and our anniversary gift to each other will be a dog. That way we can decide together and make sure it's exactly the one we want. It has to be medium sized, calm temprement (minimal barking/yapping/hyperness), short-(ish) hair, and probably a baby, and probably mixed-breed. I think that's the only way Eucie will accept it, if she knows it's a baby.

Any suggestions?