The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Mermaid dance party

We celebrated Samantha’s 3rd party last weekend with a party at the place where she does dance. It wasn’t just any party though, it was a mermaid party!

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The whole thing was about as cute as it gets. The girls in tutus, the Little Mermaid music playing on the piano, Samantha twirling and twirling and twirling! It was all of my little girl dreams…ummm, I mean Samantha’s little girl dreams come true!  🙂

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dance

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All of her favorite people came…

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Including 9 other little girls and a few big brothers who proved to be very well behaved and helpful, especially with the parachute!

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The girls danced and galloped and skipped and jumped and hopped and walked on their tippy toes!

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dance party

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dance party

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dance

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dance

I had one very happy little birthday girl!

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Especially when it was time for cake!

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Happy birthday Samantha!!

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What a perfect way to celebrate our sweet 3 year old!!

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We love you Samantha!

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Boys 2 Men

After all the girly girliness of last week, how about a picture of 3 handsome guys to start the week!

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Don’t worry 2 of the 3 are finally getting haircuts tomorrow!

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Love my boys!! Happy Monday!

Rolllllll Tide!!

How about a little belated Roll Tide! We all enjoyed the totally crazy, totally stressful, but ultimately awesome National Championship game! Even though Robert had a ticket to go to the game in Atlanta, he chose to stay home and watch it with his favorite Bama fans (work might have played a role in that decision too but, we’ll just pretend he wanted to watch it with us!). Our cheerleader was ready…

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and so were our football players!

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Robert totally enjoys all the distractions when he watches the game! 🙂

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game

The first half of the game didn’t go as we hoped and, by the second half we were upstairs feeling pretty low. But, the 4th quarter turned things around! Maxwell tried to hard to make it to the end but he couldn’t quite last…

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Spencer did though! He was jumping up and down with me and Robert when they scored that overtime touchdown! He was pretty excited to wear his jersey to school the next morning…

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It was a fun night! 17! Roll Tide!

NYE in Naples

Happy Monday! Back to our Naples trip – our last day in Naples was New Year’s Eve and we spent most of it on the beach!

Everyone relaxed…

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Played in the sand…

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And of course there was football!

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The kids also discovered that, not only could you get strawberry smoothies at the bar, but chocolate milkshakes too! Score!

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No better way to end 2017, that’s for sure.

Our trip to Naples was fantastic…

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but sadly had to come to an end on the first day of 2018. We said goodbye to our favorites…

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and made the journey home!

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We got back in plenty of time to watch the Sugar Bowl. RTR! I’d say it was a perfect end to 2017 and a great start to 2018!

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X years

Today is our tenth anniversary! Ten years seems like a lifetime and yet it also seems like yesterday we were doing this…

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The traditional tenth anniversary gifts are tin and aluminum…I think I’ll take sand and sunshine instead!  🙂

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A decade is quite an accomplishment and you’ve made it pretty easy on me! So many great things have come out of the last 10 years. I’m so proud of us and the little family we have created. I can’t wait to see what the next 10 hold in store for all of us! I love you, Robert. Happy TEN YEARS!!

All anniversary posts here.