Do you really miss me...and this?

Ok so for those of you who miss me in Bham, here's an opportunity to see my face and hear my pretty voice! haha! Let it take you back to the days when you all used to live it up with me at band parties, Innisfree or whatever city we were conquering for the weekend...back in the day. This is me...still doing that! haha! (once I'm 30 maybe I'll go into hibernation and maybe realize I'm too old for this)

One of the bands at the St. Paddy's party was a band who played music from the 70s. At first I thought they weren't that fun but then they played this song...MY SONG! (just with a I instead of a Y) Hope you all sing loudly in your car today! (no one's looking just do it!) Please forgive me for the high notes and note when a girl walks past and I look at her like she's crazy for being so rude! LOL!

St. Patty's times 2!

As many of you know i love any excuse to dress up in fun colors, especially on a day that celebrates short folks like myself! haha! Well last weekend they had a Shamrock festival and this week was the Luckyfest at Park Tavern. Yes, we hit up both of them both weekends, haha! love it! Last weekend Haley, Mireille (it's french you say it like me-ray) and Valerie started the green party at 2. (Miereille is a friend of Megan, my college rommate, who moved last year away from ATL when she got married.) It was sunny and great for day time activity such as this. It was packed place! Then a few hours later I get a phone call from 2 guys I worked with this summer at the Pink Palace in Greece. One is Australian and traveling around the US, the other is a guy from Charlotte. They decided to come through Atlanta earlier than planned on their way to New Orleans. So I told them just to drive straight to Park Tavern. They didn't get there til about 9, which at that point in my day felt like midnight! ha! But I can't tell you how happy I was to see them. I mean I knew I missed my PP friends but seeing them just made it all come flooding back, especially Adrian with an amazing Australian accent! We dance to a great cover band and closed down the festival and then hit up one more bar before heading home. Of course everyone wanted to buy Adrian drinks b/c he was Australian, it was great! We left the boys car overnight b/c obviously we'd all be drinking.

So the next morning I take the boys to their car and as I'm about to drive off I see shock on both of their faces...their car was broken into! :( So so sad! We left it in a major, major intersection area and not a bad part of town. I think someone just walked by and saw all their bags and stuff in the backseat and broke the window. They found Adrian's computer immediately and then found Max's! So horrible! Needless to say the boys were devasated! Both their computers gone..Adrians with all his pictures from his 10 months of travel gone and Max's senior thesis paper/research gone! Not to mention they took Adrians bag with his tolietries, clothes, shoes,etc...the boy guy only had one pair of flipflops to wear. I felt so horrible since i had let them leave their car there but how was i to know. It was just an overall bad situation that of course put a damper on everything. They changed their New Orleans plans with Max driving home and Adrian re-routing his trip. After all the anger and cursing I did get to take Adrian to Wal-mart! He'd never been before & it was something he wanted to do while here in USA. It was funny showing him how big it is and all the many things you can find at Walmart! ha! I definitely miss them and all my PP friends! They're all so amazing!

This weekend the Luckyfest was dampered by the rain but we stayed strong and went and had blast! Even met some new people...yes that includes cute boys! :) And just had an overall great night in green! I"m slowly but surely getting used to this ATL world and I've only seen a smidgen of it. My friend Cooper just moved to ATL and i"m hoping to go out with him this week so that'll be fun too. Hopefully, soon I'll know hundrends of folks like the good ole Bham!

Bham b'days

itty bitty baby Averitt!!!

So weekend before last, I made a quick little trip back home, for 2 fabulous reason...one my mom's b'day and two baby Averitt was born. My parents did go to AU for a basketball game but that allowed me to spend time with my precious nephew (see last post!) and to see baby Averitt. I have been friends with Jeanne since we were in 6th grade or so. We did have brief "not talking" period due to a boy...haha!! (always think it's funny to add that in there!) She's been one constant in my life that I know will be there no matter what. She can read me like a book, probably due to the amount of gazillion phone conversations we've had in our lifetime (mostly while she's driving back home to chelsea and me to my other side of the town). Luckily her precious baby boy, got her maiden name, Averitt! Poor Jeanne has wanted to be a momma since I can remember meeting her and finally she was preggo but I must say she's had one of the worst pregnancies I've known of (believe me I've known of a lot in my short 28 years). So we were all so happy to have Averitt 3 weeks early in this world with us.

I know all that throwing up and massive swelling Jeanne went through is totally worth it b/c he is a precious lil doll!! Pretty much slept the whole time I was there but I can tell he's gonna love his Auntie Brandi a lot! :) I can't wait to see this boy grow up into an amazing man b/c of his awesome parents!

We also had a great b'day lunch for momma at Brio after church. Due to my sister having a lot going on, parents at bball game and me in ATL, it wasn't the normal b'day celebration but I think we were all just happy to be together! And dang, I forgot how delcious Brio is for brunch! It was totally weird not having a "place" to go home to besides my parents house. I went by my old house and hung out on the couch for old times sake. Definitely miss the comforts of Bham a lot!!! But then again if I got too comfortable there I'd never make changes that were well overdue!

Wishful Wednesday

He loves to pull out anything from my purse this was one of those days!

Haven't done one of these in a while... and after this weekend in Bham and seeing my precious nephew Sawyer and how much he's changed in just 3 weeks, this seemed appropriate! Sawyer started walk in December but he'd rather crawl most the time so finally when I went home this time he came walking towards me! I mean he just melts my heart when I see that dimplely smile! He tries to say my name but he misses the beginning and kinda just goes with Ndi...haha! His newest "trick" is you say Sawyer how does the wind sound and he sucks his breath in. ha! So my wishful Wednesady is that Sawyer could come hang out in ATL with Auntie Brandi more! Love him!!!!! Got some of him on video so maybe later i'll be "blogger mom-like" and post that! :)