Birthdays...a Walk down Memory Lane....Wedding Shower.....and Valentine's Day

February was a busy month....but loads of fun. We started off the month heading to ATL for 9 days. My Mom's birthday was first on the social calendar. Forgot to take pics, but all 15 of us had a blast. We went to a great breakfast place.. Buttermilk Kitchen....YUM. Mom is amazing...and we really enjoyed brunch. Then we went back to Brooke and Dave's for cake and presents, and to see their new deck addition...looks great. Will be a wonderful addition, and ready just in time for Brad and Cindy's couples shower. It was not only Mom's birthday, but was Super Bowl Sunday...so we headed back to Mom's to watch the game.
I'm not much on football, so after a bit I headed to bed.....good bye football for another few months.
 I had to work the next morning...and i could sleep just fine without knowing the outcome of the game. I had to go into my office one day, which made for a long day. Denny was happy to stay at Mom's near the fire...it was chilly in ATL. We did get lucky enough to be there in between the 2 Feb snow storms.....thankfully.
We were also there to have dinner with a friend turning 50...so off to Papadeauxs for dinner one nite....I also decided to take 1/2 day off and we drove up to Lake Lanier and Dahlonega to eat at The Smith House. Many years ago we had a boat docked on Lake Lanier so this was a fun trip to see the lake and how things had changed. The Smith house is well known for the family style country cooking....fried chicken/country fried steak/corn/okra/sweet potatoes .....you get the picture...it was sooooo good. Again....I forgot to take pictures. On our 2nd Sunday in ATL we attended a shower for Brad and Cindy.....it was a "help them go on their honeymoon" shower....it was lots of fun and we hope the kids got some extra $$$ for the trip.
It had been a busy good week but it was time to head south....was good to get home to the sun. The first weekend we were home we headed to the beach, it was wonderful....I took off Valentine's Day and we had a great day.

We sat here a while and just enjoyed........Casey Key is so wonderful

I got tickled at these signs....

Denny had planned Valentine's this year and he had plans to take me to Pacific Rim...a great sushi restaurant...

I am a very happy camper with my plate of sashimi....thanks honey.....Happy Valentine's

The rest of this long weekend was a mixed bag of work and fun. We had a 70th birthday party to go to, our 3rd birthday this month....then we had a dinner after church and on Monday a little doctoring for Denny. But we did manage some R&R too....it was a great weekend.

Our 4th birthday was sister Kelley's....that meant a phone call and singing the birthday song....hope she had a good day. she was in Boone, NC with her family on a ski vacation.

Our next weekend was much work getting the pool area cleaned up and ready...Mom and friend Brenda were coning to town soon. We got it all done, but we were whooped ....but it was a good tired.
We planned to do some playing when Mom got here so we needed to get ready for that!!!