Thomas won tickets to the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, which is a three-day food and drinking extravaganza that runs from Friday morning through Sunday evening. We only participated in a small fraction of the events, but really enjoyed everything we did. We got a sitter and went to a dinner Friday night, but on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we got together with the other Fowlkes' and each gender got an afternoon away.
Thomas' company also hosted a festival on a property they own on Saturday, so we also did that.
And Carter performed at church on Sunday.
And I did some much needed shopping.
And I made a lot of baby food.
And John learned to crawl.
That doesn't seem like TOO much in words, but really, it was a crazy weekend. So I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
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| Friday Night: Food & Wine Festival (FWF) dinner at JCT Kitchen. Where I met my new favorite cocktail: vodka, lime juice, maple syrup, white pepper and a tequila floater. Seriously. So, so, SO good. |
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| Saturday morning: Festival at Riverview Landing Playing in the sand ring Carter says, "Mom, is there anything better than sand?" |
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| Exploring the river Anything to distract Carter from his demands that we take a dog home with us (it was a dog-centric festival) |
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| Saturday afternoon: the Fowlkes men head to the FWF Ashley and I take four children under the age of 6 to the mall All children survived and were allowed to ride the train John opted to skip it in favor of milk with mom Ashley and I actually manage to shop (briefly) And we only buy one thing that's exactly the same (pretty amazing for us) |
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| Thomas sends a photo of his point-of-view from the FWF The "wine" part of the name is a bit misleading There was wine, but there was also an abundance of beer, bourbon, pisco, vodka, tequila, moonshine, etc etc etc |
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| Later that afternoon, the cousins had some good outside fun |
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| While I got busy steaming a LOT of veggies in preparation for smushing them for John I'm pretty sure that this was my last batch of mush By the time John eats all of this, I think he'll be on to all finger foods! |
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| When Thomas returns from the FWF, the glass around his neck is empty |
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| He takes a nap in the midst of the chaos (remember: 4 children under 6 running about) |
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| It really doesn't seem to bother Thomas |
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| He did eventually perk up in time to eat again |
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| Sunday morning: We're all up VERY early for Carter's last choir performance (in my opinion, a big mother's day scheduling failure on the part of the church) Carter did great, in part, (I think) because his ability to choose whether or not to be part of the choir again next year was predicated on him doing well. So he did. And I suspect that was his final performance. |
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| Saturday afternoon: Our turn at the FWF Happy Mother's Day to us! |
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| Thomas and Park weren't able to do this on Saturday, so we got our glasses waxed by the Maker's Mark people |
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| Can we do this for Mother's Day every year? Seriously. |
5 comments:
This post has made my day. That is all.
What excellent documentation all along the way. Grandparents love this stuff.
Yes we do. The boys forgot to tell me they got an afternoon off as well. Sounds like a great weekend!
And yes. I mean seriously!
You made the Food & Wine Festival sound fun! And how are you smushing veggies for John? Our food processor isn't up to the task.
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