Scenes From Our Weekend : Rosemary Beach

This weekend we headed two hours east of our hometown to a little beach called Rosemary.  It was our friends 30th birthday party and they planned a spectacular weekend for five couples to attend the annual Rosemary Beach Wine Festival.  

We arrived Friday evening and they had reservations for all of us at this amazing restaurant called Paradis.  The food was incredible and the atmosphere was perfect.  They even had the cutest decorations for Halloween outside which made for the perfect photo ops.  

The girls

On our way to too much fun already...

The birthday girl

After our dinner, we tried one bar for a night cap; but they already called for "last call" so we headed home for a competitive game of Jenga.

Saturday morning we started with breakfast and mimosas.  The girls enjoyed ourselves outside on the beauitful balcony's and the boys parked themselves in front of ESPN game day and football for the morning.  

The festival started at 2pm, so we walked into town a little before that and then got our wristbands and were ready to guzzle sip some good wine and eat yummy food. 

One of the booths had this amazing pumpkin spice vodka.  They mixed it with equal parts vodka to apple cider and it was OUT OF THIS WORLD.  They also made a pecan vodka that they mixed with Coke, but none of us cared for that at all.  Do yourself a favor and find that pumpkin spice vodka for your family at Thanksgiving.  They will love you.

This was just weird...And I had to take a picture.  She was lying outside of the sushi restaurant that was participating in the festival and smiling and swinging her little mermaid tail.  Our birthday girl was not impressed at all and refused any pictures with this crazy mermaid.

A look down main street of this adorable town.  We felt like we were in Europe...

Cheers!

We probably should have been bringing ourselves home about this time...

All and all, it was the perfect weekend.  

Great food, great wine, and great friends!!

Oh, and did I mention that I left my precious baby boy at home for the first time??  Well we did.  And I did great, Matt did great and the Grandmother's did great as babysitters.  He looked entirely too grown up when I got home and he was cuter and sweeter than ever and I'm not sure he even knew I was gone.  I hope babies are like dogs where they have no concept of time that has elapsed...because it didn't seem to phase him a bit :)

Linking up with Sami's Shenanigans and Life of Meg.

Scenes From Our Weekend: Pumpkin Picking

We headed to see our friends in Mobile (about 1 hour away) this weekend who moved into their new house recently, so we were dying to see that, and also for our little boys to meet again.  The Dad's had a fishing trip planned, so us girls and the babies were left to our own devices.  

We got there Friday evening and sat with the babes outside on their awesome back porch with the big screen TV and visited and relaxed for the evening.  Bella (the dog) made herself right at home.  

Saturday morning we had a leisurely morning and all hopped in the King size bed and watched game day and played with the babies.  Their little boy is 9 months old and Brody is 3.5 months.  Last time they were together, Brody was only 2 weeks old (aka a sack of potatoes) and Baylor was 6 months old so there wasn't a ton of interaction.  This trip, Baylor was interested in Brody for sure; but Brody still couldn't provide a lot of entertainment back to Baylor.  It will be fun to see them together each time in the future.  

Around lunch time, we dressed the boys in their fall attire, packed them up in the car, and headed to their church where they had a great big pumpkin patch.  It was so cute to see the boys checking out all the pumpkins, snap a few photos, and then head to lunch. 

The Boys

Packed up in the car

So, the Mom's might have had more fun at the patch then the boys did this year; but next year, I am sure they will appreciate it :)

Brody seemed to take it all in at the pumpkin patch, but I could not get a smile out of him for anything.  Oh well!

We took the kids to lunch and headed home for naps after a fun afternoon of pumpkin pickin'.  We made it home in time to watch the Gator game and then the Bama game and had a quiet evening at home with the babes.  

Holiday's sure are more fun with a doll kid to dress up and tote around!

Charlotte Trip

Annabelle's 1st Birthday Weekend:

I got to Charlotte on Friday evening and went straight to Karen's house to see Annabelle and Kate and Ben who were in town with Ms. Ella who is just 2 months old.  I was so excited to meet her.  We hung out around the house on Friday night and ordered pizza and visited as we got ready for the big birthday celebration on Saturday for this little cutie:

Annabelle turns One!

 

 The happy parents!

Annabelle deciding what to think of this cupcake

I was excited to hang out with Kate and the baby.  Little Ella is so cute and sweet.  I could have held her the entire weekend.  How adorable are those little baby Uggs???

The babies...

 

Little angel

Me with the hostess, Karen!

Holding little Annabelle whenever she would let me!  She's getting quite mobile.

And then on Saturday afternoon after the party was over, we had this crazy snow storm in Charlotte.  I have never seen flakes so big in my life. I swear, even in Colorado.  It was so much fun.  We went out in Karen's front yard and watched all the kids have a blast in the snow. 

How adorable is she all bundled up in her snowsuit???

The kids were actually sledding down their front yards. It was so cute.

Sorry for the poor quality photos, but we had a great weekend.  I was so glad that I could make it for the festivities.  It was great to visit and catch up with old friends and also meet and play with their little offspring.  I still can't believe we're married and having babies when just a few short years ago we were wondering what bar we were going to go to on a Tuesday night and what boy we were going to bring on our sorority date function....times have certainly changed.

Charlotte Bound

I am so excited to be heading to Charlotte today to go meet two of my best college girlfriends and their adorable little girls.  We will be celebrating this adorable little piglet's first birthday party (I can't believe she is already one):

And I will be meeting this little bundle of love for the first time!  She is 2 months old now and I can't wait to give her lots of kisses from Aunt Annie:

And mainly, I just can't believe that this reunion trip consists of a momma with a one year old, a momma with a 2-month old, a married Meggie (we will miss you, Meg; but have a blast with your fam),  and a pregnant ME (in that order for picture).  If you would have told us in college 7 years ago that this is where we would all be at the same time, we would have never believed ya!!!

Lots of exciting things happening in our lives and I can't wait to celebrate with you girls this weekend!! 

xoxo,