Italian food, a gala, and choir singing

Our weekend was spent between Gainesville, Dahlonega, Atlanta, and John's Creek....about a 50 mile radius of where we live. It was just one of those fun, random weekends where we get to see our friends and family and do some fun things too.

On Friday night, we had an impromptu double date with our friends Brian and Callie Hughs at the great Italian eatery Piazza in downtown Dahlonega. We gobbled up our fair share of carbs, and went to hang with Callie's brother Jake, who's a student at North GA. As we were leaving to come home, he and his friend were heading out....ahhh, college. 

On Saturday, David and I had a fun time skipping around in Atlanta...we stopped by to check on Hollie, we perused the real estate on West Paces, we shopped at DSW....all before we met our friends Lynne and John at the Ritz Carlton. Lynne is a client of mine, and we've become friends too. Her husband John's company bought a table at the fundraiser gala for the American Heart Association and we were lucky enough to be asked to join he and Lynne!

Everything looked beautiful in the ballroom!

Here's our fruit and greens salad - it was delish. We then had a petite filet topped with crab meat, and a lemon pie with meringue for dessert. 

The Head Coach for the Falcons, Mike Smith, was our speaker.

One of the larger prizes up for bid was a day spent playing golf with Coach Smith and Matt Ryan, sitting in the coach's box at a game, and calling the first defensive play....pretty cool prize!

We didn't bid on any of the larger items, but it was fun to listen to the auctioneer and see what everyone bought! They were able to raise over $1,000,000 last night for the American Heart Association.

The band was awesome - this is later in the night as people were leaving! We didn't want the band to quit!

I thought the programs were so pretty...

And was really diggin' the faux bois pattern of the paper.

We may not be hanging with the Falcons any time soon, but David won his bid on a TV - yay us!!! 

 To round out the weekend, we spent Sunday morning at John's Creek Presbyterian's church service. Amanda is singing in the choir, and our little Ben is in the kid's choir. This particular morning, the adult and kid's choirs sang together....it was so pretty! I wish I had been able to snap a pic of Ben singing in front of his mommy - too cute!