And here's a picture of sweet baby Madelyn...
Then, on Wednesday, Stacey (my other sis-in-law) and I head to Atlanta for the Britney Spears/Pussycat Dolls concert. We stayed in B'ham on Wednesday night and did a little shopping. Then, Thursday morning, headed off to Atlanta! We wanted to go to Lenox Square Mall to kill some time (and do a little more shopping) before we had to check in to the hotel. However, I don't know Atlanta very well and ended up just taking some random exit b/c I was afraid I had gone to far down the interstate. We pulled over to look up Lenox Square in the GPS and turns out, we were only 5 miles away. At the mall, we realized that the time changed and we'd lost an hour and that it wasn't just 3pm, but it was 4pm and our dinner reservations were at 6! So we hurry out of the mall back to car... put our hotel in the GPS... and nothing. It doesn't have our hotel in the system so I call the hotel and the lady tells me to get on "Spring Street' and stay straight.... uh, HELLO LADY, I'm in BUCKHEAD needing to get to Downtown... it's not that simple! So I hung up and called back, got a WONDERFULLY helpful man named DC to give me great directions. And after a few wrong turns (like I said, I don't know Atlanta very well), we finally get going in the right direction... however, it's 5:00 rush hour traffic! AHHH!! We were literally going 10 mph down the interstate and then if things couldn't get worse, we realize we're out of gas, the light goes off again, and again, and again... we were seriously going on fumes in this horrible bumper to bumper traffic. I finally make it to our downtown exit and call my new friend, DC back (for I think, the 18th time) and ask him, "WHERE THE HECK IS A GAS STATION IN DOWNTOWN ATLANTA?!" Fortunately, we make it, get back to our hotel (had to cancel our dinner reservation), and very quickly changed clothes/freshened up for Britney and headed to Phillips Arena. The concert was AWESOME! Even the Pussycat Dolls were great. I sang the entire time (and lost my voice). Plus, we had great seats, centerstage, 12 rows back. I loved her whole circus theme, the special effects, everything. It was by far the best concert I've been too.
Me and Stacey at the concert
Pussycat Dolls
Ms. Britney Spears
I got home on Friday (after getting about 5 hours of sleep and driving the entire way home) and immediately begin moving into the new house. My parents, Jamie, and I spent the entire weekend packing, moving, and unpacking everything into our new house (while my sweet sister kept Noah entertained). So YAY, we are finally moved in. Noah and I have yet to spend the night there, b/c they are still working on rebuilding the steps so I'm not really a fan of staying there while construction workers are running all over my house (not to mention being woken up at 7am by hammering) however Jamie has stayed there a couple of nights. I still have ALOT of putting away to do... I have pretty much finished all the rooms that I can, but there's alot of boxes in the guest bedroom upstairs that I need to take downstairs, however, I can't begin unpacking things that belong downstairs until the construction people are finished completely. So here are the "after" pics... please keep in mind, things are still out of place, boxes are laying around, and everything needs to be mopped, vacuumed, dusted, etc... but at least you'll get the idea!
I got home on Friday (after getting about 5 hours of sleep and driving the entire way home) and immediately begin moving into the new house. My parents, Jamie, and I spent the entire weekend packing, moving, and unpacking everything into our new house (while my sweet sister kept Noah entertained). So YAY, we are finally moved in. Noah and I have yet to spend the night there, b/c they are still working on rebuilding the steps so I'm not really a fan of staying there while construction workers are running all over my house (not to mention being woken up at 7am by hammering) however Jamie has stayed there a couple of nights. I still have ALOT of putting away to do... I have pretty much finished all the rooms that I can, but there's alot of boxes in the guest bedroom upstairs that I need to take downstairs, however, I can't begin unpacking things that belong downstairs until the construction people are finished completely. So here are the "after" pics... please keep in mind, things are still out of place, boxes are laying around, and everything needs to be mopped, vacuumed, dusted, etc... but at least you'll get the idea!
Before & After Entryway
Before & After Den -- the pictures are from different angles, but you get the idea.
Noah's room-- waiting on comforter to arrive (hopefully tomorrow) but it will match the sham that has the fish on it ... I don't have a "before" picture of Noah's room from this angle
Before & After of ofther side of Noah's room
