A more relaxing week/weekend

This past week was a bit more relaxing since I worked from home but still VERY full of excitement.  Monday evening started with a bang and we had visitors come to see our place!  Since Joe's grandmother and aunt were in town we invited them to dinner at our place so that they could see our new home and enjoy the beautiful weather we have been having.  Although we didn't plan out what we were doing for dinner, Joe made the suggestion to grill everything for fajitas since that was quick and easy.

Joe's family got to our place around 5:30 so after showing them our new home, we headed to the rooftop so that we could cook dinner and relax.  It was such a great meal and everything was so good!  We realized we absolutely love having people over and entertaining because we didn't really get that opportunity when both of us were living in Johns Creek.  We had such a good time hanging out on the roof top, watching a beautiful sunset, and just enjoying everyone's company.

The rest of the week went by way too fast and before I knew it, it was the weekend.  Friday evening, after Joe got home, we had cleaning time and took about an hour and a half to clean our house.  I am so lucky that Joe doesn't mind cleaning because it makes everything so much easier.  After cleaning time we headed up to Andy's house to spend the night up there so that tennis Saturday morning was a bit closer.  Saturday morning I attended Joe's first tennis match of the season and enjoyed the BEAUTIFUL fall weather!  After tennis, one of his teammates gave us VIP passes for a charity even that had all you can eat burgers and all you can drink beer, so we figured why not go!

After picking up one of Joe's friends, we headed to midtown to Battle of the Burgers Benefiting Embrace.  There, they had about 20 or so restaurants that were giving out burgers of all different kinds!  One of Joe's favorites was a PRB batter fried burger stuffed with blue cheese...which if you know Joe is a lot of his favorite things combined into one burger!  My personal favorite was Taco Mac's burger which had two different sauces on it, as well as goat cheese spread and arugula!  There were also ones with kettle chips on there, lasagna stuffed burgers, BBQ burgers, and so much more!  We ate a lot of burgers (I ate mine without a bun so I could eat more) and hung out enjoying the music and watching football!  Towards the end of the even I was pleasantly surprised to run into Blaine (a coworker and friend of mine!) and we had so much fun catching up and planning ;)  Before we knew it, it was time to head home.  After heading to the gym to get a workout in and burn some of the burgers off, we decided to just watch the Tech game, and before it even ended we called it a night after a long day outside enjoying the fall weather!

Sunday morning I woke up and made brownies so that Joe would have some desert while I traveled this week.  In the meantime he took my car to get a much needed car wash (I know we lead exciting lives) while I laid around and wrote my blog :) After car washes we made the lasagna for dinner then headed on a long walk around the city since it was so pretty outside.  Then we did a bit of shopping before an early dinner because I had to head to the airport!  Dinner was a spinach artichoke lasagna that was AMAZING and the recipe is still to come!  But, now it is time to head to the airport and head out to Texas/Arizona for the week!  Happy Week everyone!

Drinking for Charity!

This week was a long week at work full of learning that will help me become more proficient at my job :)  We had our National Sales Meeting in Atlanta this week which was nice because I didn't have to travel, but it was also a VERY important meeting because our owner from Germany was coming in town.  WIKA is a privately held company headquartered in Klingenberg so it's not often he pays us a visit!  I got the pleasure to speak to him a bit one night at dinner and I must say not too many people my age and in my position get that opportunity!  I even got the opportunity to do a presentation for him (at the time I'm not sure I was quite as excited to do it but I was MUCH more nervous) which I am very proud to say went very well!  Wednesday night at the sales training we went to the Gwinnett Braves Game with our whole sales team and customer service to mix and mingle!  We had a blast and it's always a pleasure to relax with the coworkers!

Braves!

:)

 The meeting ended Thursday evening so Friday was used to catch up with emails (somewhat) before enjoying another relaxing weekend in Atlanta! Friday evening was another game night and dinner cooking night!  Kellie Ann and I made lasagna from scratch (using her mom's recipe which I unfortunately don't have!)  and it turned out amazing!  This time we had a few more people over so there were 8 of us to play games following dinner!  It was a quite a low key night because we knew Saturday would be a long day!

Fish Bowl!

:)

 Saturday we had signed up to do a charity bar crawl for Camp Twin Lake during the day at the Virginia Highlands since one of Joe's good friends work there, Kristina.  After getting up in the morning and walking 7.5 miles we headed downtown to start the day!  Sunday was Tareq's birthday so it was going to be a full day of celebrating his birthday!  As you can see in the pictures below, there were different color teams and we were team orange!  Results are still to be determined but whatever team tweeted/instagramed the most with their appropriate hashtag won!  Below are some pictures of the fun filled event!

Team Orange!!!

First of 5 Bars :)

Love this picture :)

 After the bar crawl we headed to the Red Pepper for some dinner then went back to Reza's new place in the highlands to get ready for the evening!  We had a fun night out on the town and even got to see an ex-coworker on the job!  There was a damper put on the night when Reza's key's were lost and we had no way to get back into his apartment but it all worked out OK since Joe had his keys on him and we were able to simply drive home to his place and sleep in our own bed :)

True Love :)

Although it is blurry we were excited to see  Brandie so I had to post it!

 Sunday has been quite a relaxing day!  I went to church in the morning and the pool later on in the day.  We are about to head to my apartment to start packing to move me for the 5th home in just about 1 year so that we can say we did something productive!  Next week is a week from home for work so I am very much looking forward to catching up on emails and getting some good phone calls in to move some of my bigger opportunities to the next steps! Happy Week :)