Canton Weekend

Quite a few of our Gainesville friends came to visit us in Canton this past weekend!

We grilled baby back ribs Friday night with the Whit, the Curtis family and a few neighbors. I made hashbrown casserole and a trifle, Britt made an awesome broccoli casserole and Whit fired up some veggie skewers.

On Saturday, we spent the day at the pool, playing corn hole and waiting on Alyssa and William, the Sims, Dally and Chad, the Sligers, and Christy Xmas to arrive. After the pool, we grilled mini hamburger sliders and sat around on the back porch while the guys played corn hole.  I still can't get over all of the amazing food everyone brought.  I had leftovers for two days...sure wish all of Ash's mac & cheese hadn't been eaten.

Chad & Aus

And although I love, love, love my back porch - or any back porch for that matter - I have surely paid for it this week. My ankles, feet and arms look like I was attacked by mosquitoes. This was even after my back yard was sprayed, citronella candles were lit AND bug spray was applied.

I spent most all of Sunday being lazy.

This can probably be blamed on the fact that Alyssa made me stay up until 6:30 in the morning.:)

Thanks to everyone that made the drive to Canton!

Sol and Chris

The girls! (minus Christy and Whit(

Weekend Re-Cap, Gville Supper Club

My relaxing weekend was spent with neighbors and Gville Supper Club friends. As usual, it went by entirely too fast. How can it possibly be Monday again?

On Friday, I kicked off my weekend by having a few glasses of vino with Brittney and Amy. How nice! Afterwards, Austin and I went to dinner with Emily and Matt Rollins to celebrate Matt's 31st birthday! We shared calamari and oysters rockefeller and Austin and I split the broiled seafood platter. After dinner, we went over to the Duncan's for a few (more) drinks. Emily, Lisa and myself stayed up talking until 2:30. Needless to say, I slept straight through my yoga class Saturday morning.

I spent Saturday doing all things domestic - laundary, dishes, antique shopping, painting a table, planting flowers, etc. On Saturday night, Austin and I made the trip to Gainesville for Supper Club!!! It was our turn to host - and since my mom had just returned from the beach - we decided to treat everyone to dinner at SideBar, a new Mexican restaurant on the square.

Allgood's, Curtis', Potts, Hav/Austin, Nix's and the Blevins'!

With the Parks girls :)

 I so enjoyed catching up with everyone! After dinner, we headed over to Luna's for a few drinks - and dessert! Looking forward to next month's SC hosted by the Potts!


After breakfast in Gainesville...and another breakfast in Dawsonville with the in-laws...I spent the rest of my Sunday at the pool with all of the neighbor-friends. :)

An Antique Table & Crackle Paint

I've decided that my back porch needs some help.

I went on a mission this week to find an outdoor rug, which wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. After searching at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, AND TJ Maxx, I finally found one at Bed, Bath & Beyond on sale for $44!

My new rug!

Next on my list was to find an antique table for my potted plants, which I found this morning at a local antique store in Canton. The guy even knocked the price down to $25!

Before

Before #2

After my table purchase, I went over to Home Depot and found exactly what I was looking for - Martha Stewart Crackle Specialty Finish! That Martha. She thinks of everything.

Crackle!

After priming and applying the Crackle goo..and a little bit of sanding...my antique table was complete!

Here is the finished product with my potted plants!

Complete!

Happy Saturday! Austin and I are headed to Gainesville for Supper Club!