The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Eclipse

We had our glasses, we sat outside, we experienced the eclipse! It was pretty cool…short, but cool! At Maxwell’s school they were going to keep the K – 4th graders inside to watch a live stream on tv. I gave him the option of checking out to see it outside with us but he chose to stay at school with his friends.

The max coverage in Birmingham was at 1:31pm. Even though we had glasses for Samantha…

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we decided to go on and put her down for a nap and not try to keep her up. I didn’t want the pressure of trying to keep her glasses on! Spence was ready to go though! We actually tied his glasses onto his head so they wouldn’t come off! ha! Susan was good and brought out the Children’s Bible to read the story of how God created day and night. Very fitting!

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Let there be light, indeed!

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Love those crescent shadows behind Spencer’s head.

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Now we can all say we’ve seen an eclipse! Check check!

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Weekend

The weekend started on Thursday night when I decided we all needed to go out to dinner and for ice cream. Why not, right?!

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Saturday brought a special early birthday treat for Maxwell. Lulu and Granddaddy came over for a birthday lunch and a trip to Dick’s! Just what my sports loving almost 7 year old wanted!

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We stayed in Saturday night but did have quite the dance, dance, dance party at home!  💃🏼

Sunday was the kick off to the fall Sunday School season up at church so it was a fun morning to go because they had a bounce house and ice cream! Robert and I are going to be sunday school teachers for Samantha’s class this year. Well, us and 3 other sets of parents! We’ll take a good rotational job!

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I also did some major closet clean-outs! 🙌🏻 A great weekend all around! Now who’s ready for the eclipse?!

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Good hair day

As you know, Maxwell has an impressive head of hair. His hair cut lady has even dubbed him “Hollywood Hair”! At the beginning of the summer, Maxwell told me he wanted to grow his hair out long. I figured, “why not?!” so he didn’t get a haircut ALL summer. And because I was too lazy to take one without the other, Spencer never got a haircut all summer either!  🙂 Things were looking pretty shaggy around here by August!

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I actually liked Maxwell’s hair a little longer. He can sport the shaggy do!

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Spencer? Not so much. I’m not sure he could actually see half of the time! ha!

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I finally took them to get a haircut last week before Maxwell started school. Spencer told Misty he wanted his short like before (thank goodness!) and she cleaned him up nicely! He went from this…

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to this!

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Sharp!

Maxwell told Misty that he only wanted a “hair trim” and not a “hair cut!” Well, she only trimmed it, that’s for sure. He went from this…

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to this…

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After we walked out I was definitely thinking I should have asked her to take off a little more but, Maxwell was happy. I can always take him back in a week for another “hair trim!”

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Handsome boys!

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buddies

Spencer has the three cutest buddies from his class last year – Christopher, Stephen, and Wade-O! (it’s really just Wade but then he became Wade-O Potato and now they all just call him Wade-O!). Unfortunately they all got split up for this year and will each have a different teacher. We’ve gotten them together to play a few times this summer though. They were at our house last week and they really are the sweetest bunch of boys. Christopher was a little late so Samantha happily posed as the stand in!

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We got another good one once the whole crew was there!

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I can barely handle the cuteness in that photo. I loved seeing Spence with his buddies without Maxwell around. He’s quite the little leader!

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Silly, cute buddies!

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One last summer hurrah!

Today is a big day – Maxwell starts first grade!! It’s been a fantastic summer and while I’m anxious to get back into a routine, I’m going to miss these summer days. The kids have done so many fun things from exciting trips, to adventures with Mrs. Susan, to lazy days at home. Most importantly, they’ve all played so well together. I love seeing my 3 little buddies being the best of friends (most of the time!). I know it won’t always be like that and I’m so appreciative for this summer and how much they have enjoyed being together at this age.

As a little farewell to summer, we hosted a neighborhood party at our house on Sunday night. We have some fun families on our street that all have kids of similar ages. We had gotten together with most of them at Easter and I thought we needed to do it again. I ordered up a bounce house/water slide, got some chicken nuggets and plenty of watermelon, corn, and tomatoes, and we had a great party! I think all of the neighbors were excited to get together!

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The only minor hitch in the evening was when Spence slipped and knocked his cheek on the brick step. Ouch!! He hit it pretty hard but, after a period of pitifulness, he rebounded and got back on that water slide! thank goodness.

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His face actually wasn’t as bad the next morning as I thought it was going to be. I’m just so thankful he hit his cheek and not his eye, nose, or mouth!

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Anyway, aside from the fall, it was a great party. The best part about having the party at your house? You get to keep going down and down and down the water slide even after everyone else has left!  🙂

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We finally pulled them off of it at 7:30 and tucked 3 worn out babies into bed.

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Long live summer!!

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