The Leaves Are Changing

So fall has arrived, finally!  It is finally starting to cool off in Atlanta.  Unfortunately with the cooler weather also came the rain, but the sun has come out again and leaves are falling.  We had a fall weekend here.

We started our weekend by going to Osteria 832 in the Highlands for dinner Friday night.  Osteria is a great little local pizza and pasta restaurant and if you have a family the perfect place to go!  It's very casual and trendy and the food is pretty good.  It is also extremely affordable - dishes range between $8 - $13.  The restaurant also has a super cute patio that you can watch all of the people walking along Highland Ave from.  We had a little issue on Friday, but everything worked out in the end.  We shared a Smoked Prosciutto pizza and the special pasta dish of the day.  D also ordered a seasonal pumpkin ale that literally smelled like pumpkin pie!

 After dinner on Friday night we decided to embrace the season and decided to carve some pumpkins.  This year, D is using a scary clown theme, so his pumpkin was a crazy clown face.  I tried painting a witch face on my pumpkin, which did not come out at all what I wanted it to look like.  So I moved on and decided to carve Riley's pumpkin, yes we do get a pumpkin for our dog - deal with it.  So we decided to go with a cartoon theme for Riley and I carved Jake from the Cartoon Network channel's show Adventure Time. 

Saturday morning I met a friend for brunch at a place I had never been before called Buttermilk Kitchen.  It is a super cute little house that has been converted into a brunch restaurant in northern Buckhead.  They have a small menu, but everything sounds so good!  My friend and I each got the same thing - the Fried Egg BLT, which was so good! After a nice brunch we went over to Hammond Nails for some manis and pedis.  Saturday night, D and I went to watch the Seminoles take on the Clemson Tigers at the neighborhood pub, Olde Blind Dog.  OBD is an Irish pub, but the interior design is what makes it so fabulous - they have built it out to look like an Irish town, with a life sized William Wallace statue in the center.  This is a great place to watch some games since it's never super crowded, the food is good and they have a ton of beers on draft.  What made the night even better was that the Seminoles really showed the Tigers who was boss.  Also, I won another $10 off my dad who insists on rooting for any of our rivals.

Sunday was just a calm day for getting some errands done and enjoying the fabulous weather.  This week is going to be a great one!