SOME of the guys

Thanksgiving evening the guys in the family took a ride over to Sharon Springs Park in Cumming.  It is right around the corner from Edwin and Geni’s so it was perfect.  When we got there we found that it was a fully artificial turf field and was completely numbered!!  It was AWESOME!  Ever since that night I had been itching to play some more football with the guys.  It was a great time and was a great way to keep active.  My legs were SHOT after playing.

So last weekend I organized for a lot of the guys to get together and play and nice game of two hand touch / flag football.  While we played the ladies planned to get together at our house as well.  We had a great turnout of 17 guys!  A huge turnout even though the weather was in the low 30’s as a HIGH.  It was VERY cold but we all dressed warm and showed up to play a great game of football.  It was such a blast again!  We had some great highlights and just an all around great time.  Everyone got along very well and we had no injuries.  A total success!  I was sore for like 4 days after playing.  That sprinting over and over again really beats the hell out of inactive legs. 

After the game we all headed over to Taco Mac for some food.  The ladies and kiddos came up there as well to meet up with us.  We had TERRIBLE service (always do at 141!!!) but ohh well… we still had a good time.

Shirt Lin and Kara bought

After Taco Mac everyone kinda did their own thing.  We headed back home to hang out with Andrea and Ryan (and the kids).  We all just hung out and talked until about 11:00 or so and then they took the trek back to D-Vegas (Douglasville).

We had such a great Saturday.  Man did I have a great time playing football.  It was awesome!  We are hoping to get the guys together every other Saturday to play.  Hopefully we can make it happen!

The shirt that is on Preston is quite a funny story.  A while back Kara and Lin came over to watch a football game.  Lin and I were in the living room watching the game and Alisha and Kara were in the kitchen.  So Alisha must have caught a glimpse of two linemen pushing and shoving at the line and said, look at those two guys fighting at the hut-hut line LOL!!!!!!!!!  She was referring to the line of scrimage but did not know any better.  She will NEVER live that down.  When Preston was born Kara and Lin got him a shirt that says future member of the hut-hut line  on the front and Natic with a number on the back.  It was a perfect gift!

Well it is a damn good thing we brought that little coupon with us because we sure spent a bunch.  We still needed a bunch of stuff including bottles, sheets, and many other day one things and we are glad to have all of that checked off of the list of things to buy.  One of the major items was the video monitor which was like $200 but Iknew for a fact that I could find that online somewhere cheaper… yeah.. .great idea.  I picked it up for $117 shipped on ebay.  Daaaaamn riiiiight!

After shopping we headed to lunch at Qdoba on Windward pkwy (after finding out that Amandos Caribe had closed permenantly ) and then headed to the house.  Once we got there Phil and Krystle stopped by to drop off a gift (thanks so much guys) and hang out for a little bit.

It was a relaxing and rather uneventful Sunday and we are so glad to have everything that we need for Preston!

Us minus Phil at Stone Mountain

Last Saturday afternoon we headed from Andrea and Ryan’s house over to Stone Mountain to meet Aubree, Mike, Krystle, and Phil for some food and the laser show.  We stopped by Publix on the way and continued over to grab a spot on the lawn.  Soon after everyone else showed up.  We ate a nice sub dinner and got ready for the laser show to start.  I had spent a ton of time playing with our camera to get it to grab pictures of the laser show.  The lighting for the show is very poor (for a camera) so it was tricky getting the right ISO, aperture, and most importantly shutter speed setting.  You had to leave the shutter open longer to catch the light but beware of creating blurry images due to you holding the camera in your unsteady hands.  Taking pictures in auto came back with absolutely black images. 

Spooning at Stone Mountain

I had not been to the laser show in years but as always it was a great show.  Afterwards we spent time just talking and having a great time.  Before leaving we had noticed that one couple had been underneath the covers for a little longer than you would expect.  After a little bit of staring at them, we quickly found out that they were having sex in the middle of Stone Mountain!!!  Really?!?!  You could not take that to the house..especially since there are so many people around including many children?  People never cease to amaze me.

Foggy Uncle Shucks!

Friday night we got together with Bobby, Phil, Krystle, Kara and Lin to have some dinner and head to Uncle Shucks Corn Maze.  We love the fall so this is the beginning of our normal fall festivities!

We all met for dinner at a place right next to Gold’s Gym in cumming.  It is not a fancy place but had good food and good service so it works.  There were a lot of people there so it must be pretty good.  We had a great Mexican dinner and drinks and then headed out to Dawsonville to go to Uncle Shucks Corn Maze.  It was a nice chilly night and it got even better when it got extrememly foggy!  It was so cool to see the fog all over the corn maze as wel pulled up.

Uncle Shucks is a huge corn maze located off of hwy 53 in Dawsonville GA.  They have different designs every year and it is a blast to go to.  Not only do you have to find your way through the maze but you are supposed to punch your map with each of the 12 punches at each checkpoint.  It is great for families!  They have the two main mazes, a haunted maze, a kiddie maze and a hay ride.  It is an absolute blast.  Every year we take a picture with Uncle Shuck.  This year he had the ladies sit on pumpkins in front of the ”Do Not Sit on Pumpkins Sign” lol. 

If you have never been there, you need to.  It is a great time and perfect for the season!  We cant wait to continue our normal fall festivities throughout the rest of this month!

We met up at the restaurant and man were we shocked.  This place was P-A-C-K-E-D!!!  I have not seen a place this busy in a long, long time.  The parking lot was full, the dirt space beside it was totally full and people were parking on side of the road across the street.  We were thinking that the wait would be insane, but fortunately it was only like an hour long wait.

We had a great time chatting, eating dinner, and having a few drinks at the new digs.  The service was a little slow, but it was absolutely slammed!  You cant expect the best when they are that busy.  I found the food to be average but again they were really busy.  Will I return?  Yeah probably – but I am going to expect more when I do and if I dont get it, it will most likely be my last visit.

If you are in the area, check it out…. let me know what you think when you do.  Maybe you will have a better experience than I did and end up loving it.  I hope that you do!

After eating at Cookoo’s nest, Bobby and I decided we were not quite ready to call it a night.  We tried to get Alisha to tag along, but she said no way and told us to go by ourselves LOL.  You guessed it!  TACO MAC!!  We got there and had a few beers and called it a night.  It was great.  We sat with one of our favorite waitresses, Lindsay and just chilled.  While we were there a few friends from high school showed up including Drew, Krystle and Phil as they came back from a high school football game.  It was great to see everyone again and we had a great time.

Another solid Friday night!!

Happy birthday Tiff and Ash!

Spencer had originally wanted to go to a new bar in the Cumming area but unfortunately they did not get their liquor license in time to be open for the weekend.  Because of this, Spence decided to move the party to Taco Mac – you wont hear me complain!  Alisha was a little less thrilled but came out to spend time with good friends.  We had a nice sized group of almost 20 and had a great time just BS’ing and eating / drinking.  We didnt have the best service (okay maybe the worst ever) but we made the best of it!

After dinner, the guys headed downtown to spend time in Buckhead, the Highlands, and then back to Buckhead.  We started out in a bar that turned out to be the visiting football team’s bar of choice.  We had to get the HELL out of there!  We headed out to the highlands and had a few drinks at a few bars there before heading over towards East Andrews in Buckhead.  They still wanted a cover charge even though they were closing in about 30 minutes, so we decided to head out of there.  On the way home we grabbed food at IHOP before making it to the house.  It was a long night of fun and we made it back to the house at about 2:30 or so.

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The Group

Wow!  What another great Saturday with friends and family!

Phil, Krystle, Hector, Reagan, Bobby, Danielle, and Dan all met at my house in the morning to head down to pick up Amber and Jason before heading to lunch in Decatur.  As you may know, I am in love with Brick Store Pub and this was the perfect opportunity to head down there for drinks and some grub.  We got a table upstairs near the Belgian bar and had a great time talking, laughing, drinking, and eating some great food.  Everyone else seemed to have the same opinion as I as we were leaving.  You have to love that place.  It is excellent.  If you have never been, you HAVE to go.  It is incredible with a great atmosphere, huge beer list, great food, and good prices.  A complete hit!  Check out their site here.  Here is our blog entry of our first time at Brick Store.

Great times with great friends

After Brick Store, we headed up towards Sweetwater Brewery.  As you know I am a huge fan of supporting our local breweries and fortunately we have three great breweries in the Atlanta area that make it easy to support them.  You may have read about Sweetwater Brewery on our blog here and here.  It is an excellent microbrewery with excellent beers but due to some previously tough tour hours, we never made it out to check out the brewery.  After helping out with the blueberries down at Serenbe Farms, we were told about Sweetwater’s new Saturday tour hours from 2:30 – 4:30 beginning today.  They have a live band, excellent atmosphere, great crowd, and of course excellent beer!  For $8 they give you a souvenir glass and 6 tickets to get beer each of which allows you a half pint pour.  They allow you to sample all of their year round beers and whatever seasonal beer is on tap at the time.  We had a blast talking, drinking, and hanging out with great friends.  I highly recommend you make it out to Sweetwater Breweryand encourage you even more to support your local breweries.  Sweetwater as well as the others make it easy to do so by producing beers that are nationally recongized for their excellence. 

At Sweetwater Brewery

After leaving Sweetwaterwe headed back towards the house and had everyone back over to hang out.  Hector brought some games and people played, drank, cooked, and chilled for several hours.  Being that we started the day early, everyone got pretty tired and headed home around 10:30 or so.  It was a great day and a hell of a way to start off the weekend.  If you have never been to Brick Store or Sweetwater GO!  You will not be disappointed.  I don’t get anything for bragging about these great local places.  I love great beer, food, and people and establishments like these keep Atlanta excellent! 

The taps with liquid heaven

We had such a great time today.  Thanks to all that came as well as the guy rapping about “eight ball in my corner pocket” to himself walking around Decatur.  Peace up.  A-Town down homie!  – for our not so urban readers… A-town is Atlanta. LOL

Saturday morning we woke up, got ready and headed out to Roswell for Matt and Laura’s big day!!!!

Matt and Laura got married in Roswell at Founder’s Hall on Saturday afternoon.  It was a gorgeous wedding with their friends and family there to celebrate!  A few of our friends were in the wedding party and many others in attendance.  It was a great wedding.  We are so happy for them and wish them a lifetime of happiness together.

NO - She was not really drinking them LOL

Congrats guys!!!

note:  unfortunately we did not get to take many pictures.  We allowed family to be closest to them for their big day and were further away from most of the action.  If they post pics from their photographers I will edit this post and link back to them.