awesome day at the fair

a gorgeous sunny day, not too crowded, plenty of fun and plenty of funfair food to be had!

However next year we bring along a friend for C to hang with the only child thing bites at certain times and this would be one of those. He still had a great time overall but I think that was more to do with winning an air soft gun than anything else. He also won a little stuffed frog or something that we were trying to convince him would be smart to give to the girl he likes at school but I don't think he was quiet buying into the whole idea.

and so it begins

there is a girl....he's likes her but won't give up anymore information other than she is nice.
In the meantime I am trying my damnedest not to pepper him with a zillion questions

heading towards the finale..

the latest Top Chef season is drawing to a close and what with Project Runway having finished this past week I am about to enter a reality/competition conundrum!
Eli my favorite chef to start out with was eliminated just this week and his former boss and former Top Chef-er Richard Blais wrote a really great blog about him. I still really want to try out ENO and will hopefully get the chance in the not too distant future. As the season has progressed my loyalties did change and I have been a devoted fan of Kevin Gillespie whose restaurant I will be dining at as part of my birthday weekend in Atlanta and hopefully again when the girls road trip again in the new year!

once again

the Atlanta road trip with the ladies this time with photo highlights

more can be found here

stalking Richard Blais

I really don't mean to but being addicted to Top Chef and all one of the ulterior motives of the girls trip to Atlanta was to dine at a Richard Blais restaurant which we did twice in fact-Flip being the one he is currently involved with as well as Home which he had been involved with in the past. Fast forward to this season with 3 Atlanta based chefs making my list of favorites after the first episode and coincidentally my favorite chef thus far worked under Richard Blais, leaving me feeling sort of weird and stalkerish and yet eager to return to Atlanta to dine at ENO

a weekend full of fun & frivolity

the girl's weekend trip to Atlanta was fabulous there was much laughter, much shopping and all sorts of foodie experience the highlights are best summed up by Lady Retromodern over on her blog. I promise some photos one of these days

real housewives Knoxville head to the ATL

headed to Atlanta with my girls for a weekend!

eeeew!

we did the family cookout thing at MIL's house yesterday it was also a bon voyage for SIL who is moving to Las Vegas. Of course a family friend was there with her granddaughter T who is a year older than C. They have played together since they were very young, birthday parties, family gatherings etc. Not best friends or anything but they are together often enough to get along however I sensed a definite shift in things yesterday. C got water allover the jersey he was wearing & he took it off-not so strange he has always been a bit odd about that sort of happenstance if it's wet it's dirtyin his world I almost taught him how to do his own laundry when he was 3 but he couldn't reach the knobs to start the machine. Anywho yesterday wet jersey off and this left him in a plain white shirt okay fine except he spilled food on it now that doesn't bother him normally, wipe it off and go(and no I don't know why food junk on his clothes is okay but not water somethings I am better off not trying to understand). This time however he put his shirt on inside out to hide the stain from T I suppose???? When did we start caring what a girl thought? So big ewww I am so not ready for all that nonsense