On Sunday we made plans to do what we originally planned to do on Saturday – Burts Farm!  We planned to meet up with Andrea and Ryan over in Dawsonville at a huge pumpkin patch called Burts Farm.  We go there every year as it is tradition now.  Each year we go it is busier and busier and let me tell you, this year was NO different! 

Bobby came over to our house in the afternoon and we headed up to Amicolola Falls as he has never been there.  We grabbed subs and chips for lunch at Publix and brought a 2L bottle of my homebrew to have a nice lunch at the falls.  We headed up and were very rudely awakened when we hit traffic damn near the entire way up there.  With the rain on Saturday, I think everyone rescheduled their outdoor North Georgia activities for Sunday.  It was insane! 

Once we got up there we headed straight to Amicolola Falls to have lunch and then head up to see the falls.  I will certianly admit that we far underestimated how chilly it was.  We were actually quite cold!  We ate lunch right next to a mini water fall as the water was racing beside us.  It was awesome!  We then walked up towards the base of the falls.  Alisha would have had a very tough time getting up there as the walk is quite steep, so she stayed near the base as we hurried up to get back to her.  The falls were awesome!  There is so much more water coming down now with all the rain we have had recently.

After the falls we headed back towards Burts Farm to meet up with Ryan, Andrea, and the kids.  Holy crap was it packed!  I have never seen anything like it.  They have tons of parking… well maybe I should say they had lots of parking… before we got there lol.  It was insane.  People were EVERYWHERE.  The hayride line was almost through the entire pumpkin patch!  Once we got in we had a great time as always.  We took a TON of pictures of the boys for Ryan and Andrea as well as some with all of us.  We then headed to pick out some pumpkins.  Bobby picked one up, I picked up too and Ryan and Andrea got a few including one MASSIVE pumpkin.  That darn thing was so heavy we could literally barely lift it off of the ground to get it into the wheelbarrow.  It was a great time as always!  I cant believe that October is almost over already

Anthony's Cake!

Holy cow!  Anthony is already four years old.  If feels like not long ago Andrea was telling us that she was pregnant…wow!

We took the drive out to Douglasville (AKA D-Vegas) to spend some time with Andrea and Ryan to join them in celebrating Anthony’s 4th birthday.  The theme was transformers so it was Transformers everything – especially the cake which their friends baked for them.  It was awesome!

We had a great time spending time with the DiRocco’s and their friends and family. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY!!

Paul Sliding Down

On Wednesday Alisha had a busy day but it still looked like fun.  She had plans with Aubree to spend some time in the back yard of Ryan’s house and play on this inflatable water slide and Anne decided to bring Paul over so that he could play with Ryan as well. 

Water Slide

On Tuesday night Andrea called to see if Alisha could watch Nico and Anthony as she was hired to be Katherine Heigel’s hand double in the movie being filmed in her area called Five Killers (at least right now it is).  Her husband Ryan dropped the kids off with Alisha on Wednesday morning bringing the kid total to 4.  She had a handful but they still had a great time.  This slide looks awesome!  I want one!

We ate a quick dinner and then headed out to the park that is in their neighborhood.  They live in Tributaries in Douglasville GA which is an excellent neighborhood.  The people are great and the neighborhood is gorgeous.  They have all of these little parks and stuff throughout the main phase that really leads to people being social and becoming friends.  They were doing a movie in the park last night so we grabbed our beers and blanket and headed out to grab a spot. 

By the time the movie was over and we headed back to Ryan and Andrea’s house it was about 11:00 so we headed home.  It was a good time as always at the DiRocco’s.

It was hilarious!  We had a nice evening.  It was great seeing all of you!

On Sunday we went down to Florida, I mean Douglasville to spend the day with Ryan, Andrea, and the boys!  It was great to see them again as we have all been so busy that we have not been able to see each other as much as we wish we could.

The ladies went shopping, the guys watched football and played Tiger Woods Golf, Nico ate Pop Rocks, and Anthony wore fuzzy boots.  We had a great time with them and can’t wait to see them again on Saturday night at Maggianos for Ryan and Alisha’s birthday dinners.

See ya next weekend guys!

Don’t forget to check out our photo gallery for pictures of Anthony’s Birthday and the Cumming fair at pictures.neilnatic.com .

Wow.. What a day!  After being a little groggy from the night before, we got up and headed out to Douglasville to celebrate Anthony’s 3^rd birthday at Ryan and Andrea’s house!  He had a pirate themed party which turned out really cute.  It was great to see Ryan and Andrea again (they had to leave early from the homebrew party).  The whole party was very cute.  Anthony got the coolest toy ever!   It was a remote controlled dinosaur that was so awesome!  I want one! 

After the party Alisha called Aubree to see if she had taken a pregnancy test.  Alisha had been saying that she was pregnant for about a week and she was really hoping that she was.  She just wanted to have someone else go through the same things that she is about to and why not make it a good friend!  Aubree had taken the test and guess what.. PREGNANT!  Aubree was pretty skeptical and refused to believe it so they made plans to come to our house, buy some good ones, and have Alisha use the cheap ones that Aubree was using.  Both came out pregnant!  Congrats guys!  This is so exciting!!

After finding out the good news, we headed out to the Cumming Fair to meet up with Hector, Reagan, Bobby, and Jen.  We headed to the petting zoo to see all of the animals there and ended up getting separated from them for the rest of the night.  L  Sucks we were not able to hang out longer, but it was great to see them again.  We’ll have to catch up with them next weekend after Edwin’s Oktoberfest or something.  We spent some more time walking around the fair and checking out the … well… locals and just having a good time. 

It was a fun filled day and we had a great time.  These weekends go by so fast L

When we got there we cooked out on the grill and enjoyed some beer.  We all ate, drank, and had some desserts (mmmm S’mores brownies!) and just talked for a few hours.  Before long Matt, Jessie, Gary and Bradelle headed home and we stayed to enjoy the rest of the evening with Ryan and Andrea.  We chilled around the house talking and then played some Wii.  We then headed out so that Ryan and Andrea could try to get us to move there with them as we went through many of the houses that are still for sale in Tributaries.  Me and Ryan were drinking before we left so of course we had to bring our unfinished beers with us.  With two car seats in the back we fit Ryan (in Anthony’s car seat), Nico (in his car seat), Andrea and Anthony in the driver’s seat, and Alisha and me in the other front seat.  It was ridiculous :crackup:  Soon after me and Ryan decided to walk but Andrea offered the trunk to us.  Both of us ended up inside the of the trunk with it open while drinking beer and touring the neighborhood.  We then recruited a neighbor to come down and hang out with us while we cooked up some of the left-overs.  It was a great time!

It was great to see Ryan, Andrea, and the kids again.  We look forward to doing it all again sometime very soon.

Saturday afternoon we headed down to Douglasville to spend the day with Andrea, Ryan, and Anthony.  Andrea enticed me with her amazing pumpkin cookies if we came and brought our Kitchen-Aid mixer.  I obviously agreed… I could not resist her cookies and a day to chill with them to see their new neighborhood.

Andrea and Ryan recently purchased a house in Tributary in Douglasville and wanted to show us the awesome amenities and future plans for the neighborhood.  When we got there Ryan and I headed out for the essentials (beer) and groceries while ladies prepped to make the cookies and relaxed.  Once we got home it was football time as we rooted for opposing teams… I was favoring Georgia of course!  Ryan… not so much… he is a Florida Gators fan.   

Around halftime, we headed out to check out the neighborhood.  It was amazing how large it was and what amenities they were planning to build as well as what was already there.  The place was REALLY nice.  Everything from little town square size parks to dog parks to nature trails were part of the shocking amenities.  We returned to Andrea and Ryan’s and watched the rest of the game while the ladies made the pumpkin cookies. 

By the time the game was over, a large amount of the cookies were done thanks to Andrea’s new bad ass ovens.  These things are SWEET!!  Anthony got curious over what was going on at the island and decided to make some of his own confections.  He mixed sugar, flour, nutmeg, baking powder and cinnamon in his mixing bowl and even tasted it a few times to make sure he liked it.  It was so cute!!

After he finished mixing, he headed to the living room to steal the cushions and make a sofa fort.  He would bury himself in all of the cushions and pop up like peek-a-boo.  He was getting such a kick out of it. 

We ate dinner and relaxed for a while before heading back home.  It was a ton of fun, as usual and we can’t wait to see them again… except next time there should be a new family member with them as Andrea is expected to deliver the new baby over Thanksgiving!!!!

We went to Anthony’s birthday party first around 2:00 and spent some time with Ryan, Andrea, Anthony, and their family and friends.  We took all of our pictures with Andrea’s camera so this was all we had of the event. 

We all celebrated as he opened presents and ate his awesome cake!!!  Andrea made his birthday cake out of Rice Krispy Treat with a mixture of marshmellow and chocolate for a filling in the middle of the two layers.  It was AWESOME!!! 

After leaving from Anthony’s party, we headed to Alisha’s dad’s house so that Alisha could spend time with Tiffany for her birthday party.  I left with Danielle, Paul, and Alisha’s dad while Alisha stayed to hang out with the girls.  While the ladies had their fun, while we went out to eat Cuban food at From Havana to U.  If you havent been there yet, you are TOTALLY missing out!