A Festive May!

Kevin and I have really enjoyed doing fun things on the weekends this past month!  It has been so nice to be free to pick and choose what activities we wanted to fill our weekends with.  The past couple years have been filled with many wonderful weddings, and while I have cherished those times, I must admit I'm happy our weekend schedules haven't been as dominated by wedding activities lately!  So, here's what we chose to do in our "free" time:

1. Art-B-Que in Avondale Estates (near Decatur).  An art festival and bar-b-que competition with live music?  We're in!

2. This was a work conference in Orlando - which was actually pretty fun, but I also got to see my friend Courtney and two of my favorite kiddos!  (and I got a great dress at the J. Crew outlet thanks to Courtney taking me off the hotel premises)

3. Taste of Alpharetta!  I flew in from Orlando Thursday afternoon after my long work trip and weighed the options of going home vs. going to Taste of Alpharetta, and I'm glad Taste of Alphartta won.  A few of Kevin's coworkers joined  us and it was one of the best "Taste of's" I've ever been to - it featured really good restaurants and it was actually a deal (not overpriced) on trying tastes from their restaurants!  Really excited to be moving closer to this area :)

4. Dunwoody Beer Fest!  Well this is the last year we'll be able to go to this and walk a quarter mile home, so we took advantage of it once again!  Kevin's coworke Steve joined us and we enjoyed walking around and tasting all the beers.  Two favorites included: 1: jalapeno margaritas (not sure who was giving tastings of this but they were pretty good) and 2. Cripser Cider - (recently bought by Miller, but still pretty darn good!)

5. Beer and Pancakes in Decatur - you really should read more here

6.  Mother's Day.  My parents came up for church and then they and my grandparents came back to our apartment for a lunch that Kevin and I prepared (it was delicious I must say!) and then Kevin and I headed to Newnan to hang out at his grandmother's house, go to church with his family, and go to dinner at Zaxby's!  Very thankful for all of the mothers in my life! Especially (of course) my mother and my mother-in-law :)

Kinda forgot to get a picture of the most important people, but I did get a picture of the food!  Kevin grilled delicious steaks (like seriously, he does them better than top restaurants, in my humble opinion) and I made a pear and goat cheese arugula salad with homemade caramelized onion salad dressing!

Floyd, dressed in his Mother's Day best (I even got a Mother's Day card from him!)

7. On our way home from Beer and Pancakes, we notice something going on in Perimeter Mall's parking lot - Kevin (being a tranportation engineer) remembered that they were running a demonstration of the new/upcoming DDI (Diverging Diamond Interchange) for the Ashford Dunwoody 285 exit (our exit) - so he talked me into stopping by and we got in a golf cart and practiced, and I got a cookie and a t-shirt :)

8.  Party in the Park!  Of course The Flaming Lips can get me to sign up for anything!  This has been one of my favorite bands since college and I've seen them several times now, but it was really fun to see them for the 2nd time with Maggie and for the 1st time with Brianna! What?!  I got to see one of my favorite bands with by two best friends?!  Finally!  And even ran into one of my best friends from college (who failed mention he would be coming to this concert, ahem) and got to meet his girlfriend!

We hung out and ate dinner at Park bar while listening to AWOL Nation  and then joined Party in the Park in time to see Young the Giant and of course the Flaming Lips

Pre-concert tradition :)  

The husbands came, too :)

For all the people dressed as hippies at the concert, you would think there would be less trash afterwards...make me cringe!

9.  Day in the park to celebrate babies!  You should read more about this fun here!

10. Of course there was a Braves game thrown in there!  Kevin asked me one Friday afternoon if I felt like going to the Braves game that night, so we called up friends Zack and Katie who said they could join and it was a done deal!  (thanks to tickets from Kevin's mom that we got in our Easter basket).  And we got to see Kevin's brother Keith there too, which is always entertaining :)

11.  Memorial Day Weekend!  We celebrated Memorial Day weekend with some packing  and pool time!  Memorial Day was certainly a little more meaningful for me this year.  Can't believe I know people who have been so personally impacted by war...my heart just hurts and I really have the upmost respect for not only what their loved ones have given for this country, but what my friends (as girlfriends, wives) have given and continue to give.

Pool time with Maggie!

So, it was a very eventful May!  And I really need to go on a diet now :)  Just having too much fun.  The first weekend of June we really began packing, as we will be going to the beach with my parents this Tuesday, and then closing a week later on Wednesday 6/13, and then moving in a week later on Saturday 6/16, and then going to the beach with Kevin's parents the next day!  Yikes, how did June get here so quickly?!  Really excited for June, but really glad we spent our weekends in May doing exactly what we felt like doing :)