Keeping with tradition, we celebrated Dominica's birthday at the Braves Opening Weekend game this past Saturday. Since its the third year we've done this, it's turned into quite the spectacle with friends from out of town coming in for it. What can I say? Dominica's a big deal.

Let's back up to the end of last week, first....

This little psycho learned a new trick called "Jump from the chair to the table and make noise until mom comes out and looks."

He also met his first baby at the dog park - it was instant love for both of them. Ruthie was so over Hank at the dog park. She's over all of the attention he gets. 

The celebrations kicked off on Friday night when some of my favorite out-of-towners arrived and we headed to Chuy's for dinner.

 After dinner, it only made sense for us to take Natalie, Whittney and Alex (no pictures?) to Mulligan's. Whittney spent a good chuck of change at the jukebox, and Natalie played a mean game of dice with some locals...

Love my friends! Wish you were here, Annie!

 Saturday was game day, and after a brief stint at a Wedding Shower we were off to the tailgate. We decided to take Uber and it was the best decision going down there - it only cost $35! (Coming back was a different story... nightmare.) Of course, Natalie got shot gun so Adam had to squeeze in the back with us. (Poor Alex came down with a stomach bug! But he met us at the game later.)

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! I love my friends. Even when we can't pull it together for a nice picture.

Birthday girl!

How amazing does this look? Natalie made Dominica 'Trash Brownies'... cookie dough, oreos and brownie mix all baked together. SO DELICIOUS... and so easy to make.

Adam and his newly engaged girlfriend.

Lindsay came!!!! Her whole family came to the tailgate, including her niece Rachel - who was the hit of the party.

How amazing are these wine chalices? It's how they serve wine at Turner Field now.

It was perfect weather for a baseball game... and the Braves won!

Adam is seriously the child whisperer...kids just gravitate toward him. After flirting with him all night, Adam had to break her heart and tell her he was married. Her response? "What if she dies?" Gotta love kids!

Sister wives! Love my Barb.

#westerngirls

And one more picture to seal the deal. Sorry, Madi! The rest of us look cute.

2nd Annual Braves Opening Weekend

For the second year in the row, we celebrated Dominica's birthday at the Braves Opening Weekend game on Saturday (this year it happened to fall on April 6). Rather than bore you with a lot of details about how much fun we had - I'll just resort to my usual photo dump.

Natalie came in town for the festivities!

So did Barb!

We had dinner at Ammazza on Friday night, and it was super yummy. (It's hard to compare to Antico, though.)

Couldn't have asked for better weather for the game.

Jealous of my wine purse? Join the club. (Courtesy of Kelly!)

And what a perfect way to end this post...

Happy Opening Weekend, Braves!

It's finally my favorite part of the year - Braves season! Adam and I weren't able to attend the Home Opener on Friday, since we were at the Hoochie, but we did go to Saturday's game. It was also Dominica's birthday, so it was a double celebration! In the morning, I had my last long run before the half marathon and Adam went to baseball. Then we all headed over to the Ted to tailgate before the game. The weather was (once again!) perfect, and the Braves won - so it was just a perfect day! We seriously have the most fun friends, and always have the best time together.

Rather than talk you through the afternoon - I'll just dump a bunch of pictures on you...

Dominica blowing out a lighter for her birthday!

Happy Birthday!

We gave away Dominica's birthday cupcakes on the way to the stadium...

We're looking forward to a summer full of nights like this! Go Bravos!