Easter Weekend

Here are a few highlights of our past week and the Easter Weekend!

On Tuesday night, we celebrated Colby's 27th birthday at Kiku here in Gainesville with the Hughs and Smithsons!  

On Friday, we had a cookout at my parent's house with friends! Griffin and Allison were in town, Amy and Chris came, as did Clayton, Brince, William, Lane, Josh, and John.

David grilled us delicious burgers and we all enjoyed dinner around the dining room table! Alli made an awesome dip for an app, and Amy made a great pesto pasta salad. We had the burgers with asparagus and fries.

This is Ollie. He lives with his family out at the farm. He's an adorable beagle and really likes to hang out in your car.  He was super friendly while David, Brince, and I were there poking around the barns on Saturday.

It was a beautiful afternoon at Walking Water Farm!

Later on Saturday, the Easter Bunny came a day early for Brince since he and Laura Lyn were headed to the Master's on Sunday.

The Coody clan attended church on Sunday morning and afterwards snapped the requisite Easter pics.

We missed Brince-O, but Wesley was a Coody for the morning.

Abbye and I got matching linen rompers! Hello Summer!
We have the best Easter bunny!

Coody/Hardin lunch was at my Aunt Jill's this year....here are her handsome boys Hugh, Chandler, and Ivy with my cute bro Asa.

Everything looked so pretty!

And the food was fantastic!!!

Abbye's deviled eggs were delicious!!!

And the kiddos were excited to fix their plates!

We had an awesome weekend visiting with friends, spending time with family, and celebrating the Easter holiday! 

A Toast to the Bride-To-Be!

We've been planning Lauren's bachelorette party for so long! And we were all so happy when the big weekend finally got here! The weekend was hosted by her bridesmaids, and we all worked so hard to make it memorable and special for the bride! We wanted everything we did to be fun and perfect....I think we pulled it off! Here is a breakdown of the weekend -
A Celebration for Lauren's last days as a Single Girl!!!

We began our Friday with a FlyBarre class - it was so hard! A mix of strength training with Pilates using the ballet barre. 

After our barre class, lunch, and grocery shopping,  we split between the apt and Hollie's. Jill, Kim, and I cooked tea cakes and crescent rolls for Sunday's brunch. 

I was so excited about helping host La's special weekend. Most everyone split between my grandmother's apt and Hollie's. Lauren spent Saturday night with me, so I wanted to make sure everything looked extra special for her time here!
Here are a few of the girly decorations I had around:

Jill's AMAZING survival kits for everyone were so cute!!!!!! 

First on the agenda for Friday night, a meet and greet and vino back at Casa Hill.

Next, a wine tasting and delicious nibbles at Pour in Brookhaven. We love our wine! :) 

Afterward, a sweet finale to the night at Ryanne's, hosted by Renee and Ryanne. R&R did such a pretty job with it all!

There were cupcakes, chocolate and strawberries, sangria, and lots of pretty pink bags for Lauren to open! 

On to the Saturday events...

We had a fantastic lunch at Georgia's house hosted by Meghan and Georgia. There were sandwiches, fruit pizzas on cookies, and a great salad with a mimosa bar!

After lunch, we all headed to E nails in Buckhead for a little pampering!

And after mani/pedi's we surprised Lauren with a blow out at DryBar! SO Fun!

After all having our hair done, we were ready to slip on our black dresses (white for the bride!) and head to AJA for a delicious dinner!

I had a limo come grab us from dinner and take us out on the town!!! We hit The W's Whiskey Blue, The St. Regis bar, and ended at The Ivy!

On Sunday, before the festivities were over, everyone gathered at Hollie's house once more for brunch.

Her back deck's table was set beautifully!

It was a perfect ending to a fabulous weekend filled with love and laughter! We all are so excited for the wedding, Lauren! 

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!