What's Up Wednesday

1. What we're eating...

Sunday: Chicken meatballs (randomly made them with onion soup mix, SO good!)

Monday: Grilled chicken parmesan & corn

Tuesday: Chicken alfredo (AJ made TWELVE pasta dishes and froze them last week. All the praise hands for easy dinners during the week.)

Wednesday: Chipotle lime salmon & asparagus 

Thursday: Cornish hens & roasted potatoes

Friday: Date night!!!

(And here is a picture of our cutie girl eating seaweed salad with chopsticks. TOTALLY my kid. Give me all the seaweed and sushi, every.single.day.)

2. What I'm reminiscing about...

 Beverly's super fun bachelorette weekend! You can watch a fun video I made of it HERE.

3. What I'm loving...

Well what Maddie Jane is loving.. her new microphone that sings Let It Go! Of course our microphone loving friend, Kayley gave MJ her first one. And pretty sure she hasn't put it down since! 

And yes, she insists on signing into the wrong end, haha! 

4. What we've been up to...

This weekend we hosted a house warming party for all our our friends to come see our new place! I made these little "Our life would SUC without you" succulents as favors.

A big bucket of beer and white wine on this side, and red over to the other. I was running around so frantically beforehand, I totally forgot to take pictures of the food. We kept it easy with several finger foods.. 

Our house was full to the brim with some of our very favorite people. My heart was just BEAMING. We have waited so, so long for this. LOVE our people and being back home.

Maddie Jane sure did love all the attention too. Not sure how many people she talked into pulling her around in her red wagon. 

Sweet Kell Bell helped me pull all this together (We have a rule to not go more than two weeks without seeing each other now.. living our best life.) And finally reunited with my other college bestie Allie. She lives less than three miles from us!! 

And a huge majority of AJ's pledge brothers all live in Atlanta now too. I know I'm a broken record but y'all... life is good.

We started the party at 4pm, so everyone was gone by 8pm... and we all collapsed on MJ's floor immediately after! 

5. What I'm dreading...

 Pollen season! All three of us are already sneezing and going through multiple tissue boxes per week. We need to get medicated STAT.

6. What I'm working on...

Our landscaping! Before the party, I got our window boxes planted, and the little area by the front door. Next on our list is getting pine straw and mulch down as well. 

And this one has been a big help carrying our pail around each afternoon to get everything watered.

7. What I'm excited about...

Finally having our fence done! So now Molly and Maddie Jane can come and go outside as they please! This particular day I was watching Maddie slide, and AJ cook, and a warm breeze was blowing in, and I had an ice cold glass of Kim Crawford. Ahhhh.

 We are enjoying this window of perfection before it is 100 degrees! (Girlfriend rocks these high heel Minnie Mouse shoes any chance she gets!)

And Molly is in HEAVEN. We have a ton of work left to do cleaning out the backyard. But waiting on my Stepdad to come up to help with all that in a few weeks.. 

8. What I'm watching/reading...

 I listened to The Wife Between Us driving to and from Bev's Bach and Y'ALL.. IT IS SO GOOD. Like, best book I have read in the last year. Go now! It's not your average chick lit - you will constantly be surprised. 

I also read Andi Dorfman's Single State of Mind this month. I read her first book, It's Not Okay, and had this bad boy pre-ordered! Reading her book is like chatting with a girlfriend.. I was so sad when it was over! I kept looking back at her insta to match up the stories with pictures, which was really fun!

9. What I'm listening to...

We've had The Lumineers Pandora station rocking lately. Solid playlist to wind down the evening.

10. What I'm wearing...

I took a grand total of ONE outfit picture this month. Blogger fail. But it is something I am doing a lot lately.. "winter white"! I have been rocking my white jeans with light sweaters as we are transitioning into warmer weather.. 

Also wearing THIS polish! I just got my own gel light and I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. I was going every two weeks to get my nails done, spending a ton of money, and not always liking the finished product.  

Now my nails are done for free, it takes 15 minutes, and if one nail messes up, I can super quickly re-do it. My gel light is HERE for reference. I feel like it's such a steal and great quality. (Thanks to Elizabeth Holland for the recommendation!!) 

11. What I'm doing this weekend...

I'm going on a date with this hunk! We snagged a babysitter for Friday night, so we have plans for wine tasting and robata! Saturday I have some girl time planned with Kelley at the Beltline and taking it easy the rest of the weekend! 

12. What I'm looking forward to next month...

 We have a lot planned in March, but fortunately, it's mostly close to home. My mom and stepdad are coming up to help with some house stuff, my step sisters are coming up to go to the zoo, we have a neighborhood Easter egg hunt, Brit and her fam are coming up to go to the aquarium, and finishing the month off back in Sandersville for a shower I'm helping host for Kelli and Easter with the fam! 

xoxo, 

Anna-Grace

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Bev’s Bach!

Last weekend we went to Highlands, North Carolina for Beverly's Bachelorette party. It was the perfect combination of relaxing, partying, fancy clothes, and pajamas. It doesn't hurt that our littlest friend is pretty easy to please! Love, love, LOVE celebrating this girl and her stinkin perfect match of a man. Here is a little video I put together along with a big dump of photos. Enjoy! 

CLICK HERE: Bev's Bach Video

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Valentine’s Day

Valentine's Day started off with quite the bang when Maddie Jane came downstairs to find Daddy had gotten her yet another elephant, ha! I introduce to you Elphie IX. Little girl is so so obsessed with all things elephant. We then FaceTime'd Gigi because she had left her this cutie little outfit and her all time favorite.. STICKAS!



Age and I did a quick little gift exchange (thanks babe!!!) and we headed out the door on our way. TOTALLY didn't expect these beauties to show up in my office. So thankful for that man of mine.



At work we were tasked with making old school Valentine's boxes for v-day swaps. I was super lame and used a bag instead. Andddd Maddie and I shared the same box of unicorn Valentine's cards. haha!



Maddie Jane had a big party at school complete with allllll the sugar and pizza! And was pleased as punch that she got ANOTHER balloon from her teacher!



Nine years ago we had our first Valentine's dinner together in Athens, GA. We ate chicken nuggets on plastic heart shaped plates.. we have had MANY fancy date nights in between.. but now we've pretty much come full circle. We would much rather save date nights when restaurants aren't packed with pre-set menus and hellooo, not on a Wednesday. So dinner at home it was! Shrimp (for me), steak (for Age), and creamy mushrooms on heart shaped plates from the Target dollar spot.



And that's a wrap! Short and sweet. I'm about to head to Highlands, NC for Beverly's bachelorette weekend! So, so excited to celebrate this super special friend of mine. 

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Weekend Scenes

Friday afternoon I picked Maddie Jane up from school and she was PUMPED to be facing forward for the first time. (Well in my car.. earlier that day on the way to school in AJ's car, she cried hysterically...) Now every day she excitedly proclaims, "I'm a big girl!!"

That evening we had AJ's sister Alix and her boyfriend over for drinks and dinner. We popped some rose and had some amazinggg scallops! 

Saturday morning sweet pup and MJ took it easy while I was checking off my to do list around the house. Love their sweet little friendship (or maybe I should say MJ dictatorship, ha!)

Left Maddie Jane home to nap with Age and I met up with two of my favs! Kell, Allie and I had brunch in Buckhead then perused Target. It was THE perfect way to spend my Saturday. 

That evening the dinner parties continued and we had Beverly and Ben over! 

We had pork tenderloin with a blackberry ginger glaze (holy yum) with polenta and allll the red wine. Bev made to-die-for bacon wrapped dates for an app, as well as fruit pizza for dessert!

When we were house shopping, I plugged every address in to ensure it was 5 miles or less from these guys. Anddd now, we gloriously live 3.1 miles from our fav couple. #framily

Beverly brought over these gorgeous tulips too! I can not get enough of these things lately - I have multiple vases of them throughout the house!

Maddie Jane tried to stay up to hang with our company, but eventually had to crash. Found her like this when I went to check on her later that evening, ha! 

Sunday's forcast was for rain all.day.long. So when we woke up to semi clear skies, we took advantage of that small window and headed towards the park! 

This park has been closed for awhile now due to some storm damage, and I was pumped to see it was back open. We you can find us here every weekend until it gets 95! 

After a change of clothes, lunch and a nap for MJ, we went on a little Target shopping trip. 

And I came home and made ALL the food. I am going to Bev's bachelorette this weekend and signed up for dinner one night. SO I made a lasagna and an alfredo bake for that (and stuck it in the freezer), then made an alfredo bake for a family in our neighborhood that just had a baby AND we had lasagna that night for dinner. It took several hours, but totally worth it that all that work is behind me! 

We wrapped up our Sunday with some painting by Picasso Maddie Jane. She LOVES to paint and we weren't too upset to be outside some more before the rain came. 

I hope you guys are having an amazing Valentine's Day! I will post all our love day hoopla soon. Spoiler alert: Maddie Jane may or may not have received her 9th stuffed elephant. 

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