This past weekend (Ok so really our travels started on Thursday) we headed out to Atlanta so that I could attend and speak at Haven Conference. We had a super early flight because we wanted to enjoy the most of Atlanta on my free day.

Hudson was big help at the airport. He carried his own backpack and was pretty good walking around and helping us.

Asher was a different story. Let’s just say this kid isn’t going to be a frequent flyer any time soon. There were lots of tears and fits on our short flight to Atlanta.

Once we arrived we picked up our rental car and headed out for breakfast. After a little googling we ended up at West Egg Cafe, which is known as one of Atlanta’s best breakfast spots.

It did not disappoint. I ordered the fried egg sandwich and it was amazing! It had a tomato jam on it that really elevated the meal to another level.

After breakfast we walked around Westside Provisions District, which made me fall in love with Atlanta. It was a perfect mix of restaurants and shops all housed in an old meat packing factory. So there is exposed brick and large scale paned windows that just exude charm.

I was lucky enough to stumble upon Ann Mashburn’s shop which is amazing shop filled with clothing that is designed and produced by them and only available in their shops. They do not wholesale anything.

Here is a peek inside:

I loved everything they carried especially all of their dresses that featured a lot of bow details, which I adore.

After a little window shopping we drove over to the aquarium.This is the main reason my men decided to join me on my trip

We had a lot fun. Both Hudson and Asher and let’s face it Jon are obsessed with fish so they were in awe of everything!

I think Hudson took at least 100 shots of the whale sharks. My camera is just full of them.

Our day just continued because later that day I had a welcome party to attend for Haven, then dinner with the family and then finally time to sleep!

Friday was the official start of Haven and welcome speaker was Jon Acuff. To be honest I had no idea who he was, but after his speech I was ready to go out and buy all of his books.He just has this way about him that is very personable, funny and let’s face just plain old charming. He injected lots of humor and bits of his life into this speech and it all really worked. He knows a lot about blogging, social media, being happy in your career and how to connect with your audience. Big fan!

After his speech all of the classes started to I headed over to a session about publishing a book! After that you have a little free time during lunch so you can around and check out all of the sponsor booths and talk to brands you might be interested in working with. I work with Home Depot a lot, but have never meet any of the time before so I headed over there to say hello.

After that my session was quickly approaching my nerves were getting to me so I met up with my guys at the pool and tried to relax a little bit.

Then came session where we were in one of the larger sized rooms. I was both hoping no one would show up and that it would be packed at the same time. There were 7 other sessions going on at that time and we ended up with around 20 people, which was a nice size and calmed my nerves a bit.

Tomorrow I will share all about what I spoke about, because this post is getting pretty long.

After my session I just had enough to go back to my room and change and then head out to a special Home Depot dinner I got invited to.

Saturday went pretty much the same as Friday with a variety of sessions to attend. I went out in the morning with my guys to do a little more site seeing and ended up at Sublime Doughnuts.

They such a mix of unique flavors that I really wanted to buy a dozen, but I resisted and just got half a dozen and Jon and I proceeded to eat them all while the boys napped in the car!!!! It was worth it!

After my part of the session I ran out to catch our flight. It was a fun couple of days where I learned a lot, hopefully taught others something and got to meet some new friends!