Atlanta Adventures

Between house showings, UT games, baby gender reveals, concerts (PS:  Chris is playing at Don Gallo tomorrow night, Friday night!), and photo shoots, we managed to squeeze in an adventure to the land of Hot-lanta.

Our friends, Joe and Keri, were getting hitched a little south of Atlanta,

so the opportunity arose to make a few pit stops on our way.

Our plan was to hit the Pottery Barn outlet heading down there, but after a quick phone call and realization that they didn't have the crib I liked online, we abandoned that idea and went straight to our other destination.  Luckily though, our plans changed (while eating one of the best chicken biscuits from Mrs. Winner's I've ever had).  Our other destination...  IKEA.

Good gracious!  I've been wanting to go for a while and it was a good thing we gave ourselves enough time.  IKEAs are HUGE.  I even got lost as I searched my way back to where Mr. Connell had plopped himself down in from of a game.  Note to self for the next trip:  Follow the path woven through the different displays.

Our mission:

pic found here

That would be the first item we've purchased for baby Elizabeth.  That and the stuffed bulldog (thanks to her father).  You can only pick those up in the store, so I touched base with a couple of friends to see if they'd like one as well.  Three high chairs later, we headed on our way.

Mr. Connell had another stop he wanted to make.

The home of the best hot dogs...

We ordered up some delicious dogs and fries...

and saved the orange cream shake for last!

We ate and ate and were stuffed by the time we needed to head to our main Atlanta event...

Joe and Keri's woodland wedding.

The setting was beautiful!

The guests were seated on tiers as we all watched our sweet friends get married.

The evening continued with dinner, yummy wedding cake, and lots and lots of dancing.

Chris, Joe, and the college guys...

Our other Knoxville friends who made the trip...  plus a crazy Las Vegas Kellan...  :)

We danced and danced late until the night!  I haven't danced that much in a while...  but loved every minute of it.  A girl's gotta let her hair down every now and then.

That was the end of our Atlanta adventures.  We had to cut the night a little short for our four hour drive home.  Mr. Connell did the driving...  I did the napping, at least until the last hour of the drive when I was afraid he might fall asleep.  He didn't, of course, so we just talked and sang all the way home.

It was a perfect weekend.

xoxo