Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Lovliest Weekend on the Plains

This past weekend was spent with our best friends, both old and new. Danny and I headed down to Auburn Friday afternoon. We started off with the traditional Nifer's dinner with our group of Auburn and Florida friends from Atlanta. Danny can't visit Auburn without eating fried pickles and corn nuggets, and this time he tried out their fishbowls, which is now a favorite as well. We discovered that Tim Tyler & Lane Wood, the musicians that played at our wedding, were at Skybar, so we just had to go! Some of my dear girl friends, the Italy Girls, met us there and we enjoyed a late night singing and dancing along.Saturday morning started off at Amsterdam's with an Italy Girls lingerie shower for Netherland, who is getting married in December. The food was great, they even had a Bloody Mary bar, and Netherland got some super cute gifts!I met up with Danny to make the rounds at some friends' tailgates for the rest of the day. We ended up watching the game at one of them and enjoyed the evening with my college friends celebrating Auburn's win over UF. Danny and the boys had hilarious high-five/chest bump competition. I guess you had to be there...but let's just say they made every game-goer's walk back from the stadium a treat! :) I love that my husband can make every little situation enjoyable.Sunday morning the Italy Girls celebrated again, this time a double baby shower brunch at Ariccia, for two of our mommies-to-be. Ashley S. and Jenny are due with their first children, a girl and boy respectively, the first of the year. Ashley W. is having a baby too, a few months later. We're so excited to welcome three bambinos to our growing group! After the shower we strolled down college street to see the celebratory tee-pee in Toomer's trees and had a little photo shoot on Samford Hall's lawn.
As always, it was a fantastic and special time with the Italy Girls; we're so lucky that all 8 of us could get together. Our husbands being there added even more fun to the mix. I am already looking forward to celebrating with them again at Netherland & Will's wedding. Having our Atlanta friends in town made the weekend even more of a party! We will join them (and a bunch more football fans) in Jacksonville for the annual Florida/Georgia weekend in just two more weeks. Let the fun festivities of Fall continue...

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