The Brown Brick Road

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Yes, more naples

Happy Monday! You didn’t think the Naples posts were done, did you?! Nope, there’s more! Some other fun things we did…

Trips to the beach club…

pool

Swimming with cousins…

swim

We saw a turtle!

turtle

We bounced!

bounce

We got lots of good rest (swimming wears you out)…

rest

and we biked around the neighborhood!

bike

biking

Mostly, we hung out with our favorites, GJ and Daddo, who were so nice to put up with us!

gj daddo

GJ

We had lots and lots of good fun, that’s for sure.

naples

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. On July 4th, we put on our red, white, and blue and made our way home with no problems.

red white blue

trip

red white blue

Ready to go back again!

All the Naples fun

Once we got to Naples, we quickly jumped into all of our favorite things – and some new things because these kids have a LOT of energy!!

We rode bikes to the tree…

tree

tree

We went to see movies – The Incredibles 2 and a free screening of Captain Underpants!

movie

We went for ice cream (and made cookies and cakes!)…

ice cream

ice cream

We dug out ALL the toys!

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toys

We got crafty after a trip to Hobby Lobby…

crafts

and went to story time at Barnes & Noble.

story time

We even got creative (desperate) with a trip to the trampoline park! Gotta run out ALL that energy!

trampline

trampline park

Of course, there was a trip to Target for some treats from GJ!

naples

Mixed in with all of this was lots and lots of swimming!! More to come tomorrow!

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Weekend fun

We had a great weekend around home. Friday night we had dinner at Otey’s where Samantha owned the stage! ha! Don’t know where she learned those moves?!

Saturday morning we found a new pet in the yard – a caterpillar named Calvin – and bought him a new home.

caterpillar

We then had the best lunch visitors ever! Keath, Jen, Nate, and Delaney stopped by on their way to Wisconsin. We loved having them here for lunch and getting to show them GJ and Daddo’s new house – from the outside at least. Cutest cousins ever!

cousins

Saturday night Robert and I left the kids with a sitter and went to dinner with some friends. When we got home, I couldn’t resist a peek at my sleeping angels…

asleep

Sunday fun around the hood – bikes and scooters for the win!

hood

Summer weekend are the best!

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Mother’s Day

After a fantastic Saturday, it was Mother’s Day on Sunday! Maxwell brought me breakfast in bed and then they pulled off a hilarious surprise with the help of Mrs. Susan…

susan

susan

Ha! My little Daisy Duke!

We then went over to surprise Mrs. Susan in our pjs! She’s as much mother to these kids as anyone so it was only right to show her some extra love that day!  🙂

mothers day

After that it was down to Montgomery for lunch with the family.

mothers day

mothers day

cousins

The boys were looking sharp and Samantha was the cutest thing around with her pigtails!! I sure am one lucky momma!

Sweet baby girl was worn out from all the fun…

asleep

A great day for all! Happy weekend!

Mother’s Day

We have the very best Lulu….

lulu

the very best Susu…

susu

and the very best GJ around!!!

target

Ha! that picture seemed fitting because I think we somehow end up at Target every single time we’re with GJ! Isn’t that what grandmothers are for? Toys at Target? 🙂

This one is a little cuter…

gj

How did we get so lucky? Happy Mother’s Day to our 3 very favorites!!! We love you!