To celebrate Coleson's birthday, we spent last weekend down in Atlanta. Most of the events were a surprise, so that was fun. We dropped the kids with Nana & Pop-Pop at about noon [thank you!!] and started our adventure with some delicious pizza at Taste of Italy. It could have something to do with being pregnant, but that was some good pizza :) From there we headed to Atlanta. We first went to the World of Coke. I tried my best to come up with something fun, but not too touristy since we do live in Atlanta and all [and Coleson refuses to do the segway tour with me!]. So seeing as it's been at least fifteen years since either of us have been to Coke, we've never been together, and the kids wouldn't enjoy it, it seemed like a good choice. It was nice to do something just the two of us. We saw the vault that contains the secret recipe, a 4-d movie [fortunately since I'm pregnant we got to sit in the stationary seats; those things looked wild!], and lots of Coke memorabilia. We sampled Coke from all over, which was a lot nastier than I thought it'd be! By the time we got to North America and classic Coke, my taste buds were shot. While lots of fun, it's crazy to think that you have to pay them to advertise to you all afternoon long!
After that we headed to our hotel - the Intercontinental Buckhead [thank you to Barbara & Jim for hotel points!!]. It was a beautiful hotel and pretty cool to realize we'd been there before for an Imedex Christmas party. We relaxed for a bit before heading to Maggiano's for dinner. It was the closest place we could walk to and the food was very good. We were surrounded by high schoolers on prom night which we hadn't expected; that'll make you feel old!
The next morning we walked to breakfast at Caribou Coffee and then to Buckhead Church. Buckhead is part of Northpoint, just like our church Watermarke. The building itself was amazing - set back in a surprisingly lush area with beautiful trees. To use the space best, they built up with four or five stories and floor to ceiling windows. The music, lights, effects were all crazy good and the opener was right up there with any concert I've ever been to. Of course it's too far away and we love our church, but I'm so glad we got to visit and now I'm even more excited for our future, permanent location!
Thanks again to Barbara and Jim for making Coleson's birthday surprise possible! We really appreciate the hotel points and the babysitting!
Coleson's actual birthday was yesterday. We celebrated with a big family brunch and my awesome mother made us hiffakickles, yummmm! Thanks to Dad for manning the griddle of bacon, sausage, & eggs and to Mom for the hiffakickles. After Abby's party on Saturday, I was exhausted and I couldn't have pulled off brunch without their help. And as an added surprise to Coleson, the Isbell family showed up. Thanks for driving all the way out to Canton; I know it meant a lot to Coleson to have David there to celebrate with us [and I got to see Farah, yay!]. After the gang all left, we collapsed on the couch, watched some tv, took naps, and just tried to recover. We had a nice, casual dinner at the Mexican place. Coleson's mom was able to join us for that and we all had fun singing Happy Birthday to Coleson, trying on the sombrero hat, and sharing bites of his ice cream dessert.
So now we are both officially in our 30's and old! I hope you had a wonderful birthday my Dear and I look forward to many, many more fun birthdays with you! I love you!
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