The Brown Brick Road

Hannah in town

July 14, 2017

One of my favorite days of the summer – when Hannah and her family pass through town on their way to the beach! Just like last year, they got into town early evening and we had dinner, let the kids play, and stayed up too late catching up!

The kids couldn’t wait for our friends to get there!

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Sadly Robert was out of town for their visit this year. We all missed him – especially Ryan who had to play baseball with the kids all by himself! ha! It was fun to see our growing crew of kids together…

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These two little girls were cute together…with matching haircuts! 🙂 Caroline was teaching Samantha some dance moves!

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They packed up early in the morning to head on to the beach but I’m so glad they always make the effort to stop and visit! It’s the best!

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Can’t wait for next summer’s visit!

Have a great weekend!

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The force

July 13, 2017

The Force is strong in our house…

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and Susan often gets greeted by a surprise light saber attack!

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard that the dark side Elsa is the fiercest of all!

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Happy Thursday!

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Hump Day

July 12, 2017

Well, it’s a new look around here! The old blog had been around almost 5 years (whoa!) and I decided it could use a little facelift. There’s still some touching up to do but I hope you like it. I think I do…I just have to get used to it! 🙂

In the meantime, happy hump day!

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The Beach

July 11, 2017

While down in Naples, we spent the majority of our days swimming at the pool at the house. The beach club pool was under construction so there was little motivation to go down to the beach…until I saw this one morning on the door!

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Maxwell decided it was time to head to the beach so we did just that!

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Everyone loved getting their beach fix!

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We made it back to the beach once more during our trip…

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The boys got pretty adventurous out in the water on their own! I was proud of them!

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Samantha loved digging for shells…

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The beach was great but it just isn’t as fun without Robert! By the end of the two weeks, we were super sad to say goodbye to some of our favorite people…

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but were super excited to get home to our other favorite person!

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Btw, the plane ride home was the first time Samantha flew without her carseat! She did GREAT! bye bye car seat!!

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See you tomorrow!

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Naples

July 10, 2017

Happy Monday! Circling back to our Florida trip last month, after 3 great days at Disney, the kids and I headed on to Naples with GJ and Daddo. Sadly, Robert had to go home to work but the rest of us enjoyed an extended vacay! As always, we did a whole lot of nothing in Naples! and it was glorious!

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