The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Boo Bash

The Halloween fun started on Friday with Boo Bash at school! Samantha decided early on what she wanted to be and she nailed it!

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What, like it’s hard?!

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Best Elle Woods ever!

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It was then off to the most fun day of non-stop fun at school!

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I loved helping with the 6th grade pizza lunch…

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and then off to the parking lot party!

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Best teacher costumes!

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Photobooth at the end of the day with the backdrop falling down…perfect way to end our last Boo Bash ever. ha!

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After school we headed out to watch the parade…

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Best day before Halloween ever!!

RTR

Last weekend everyone got to cheer on the Tide! It was a PERFECT October day!

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Don’t worry – Spencer was having fun watching the game with his friends too! RTR!

Lots of Halloween fun planned for this weekend…it’s basically a 2 day event this year! BOO!

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Sunday evening we put on our nice clothes and took some potential Christmas card photos. I appreciate my family indulging me!

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Not going to be the Christmas card…

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What I wish could be the Christmas card – but they’ll never let me!

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It does not get cuter than this!

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After photos Robert went to get a massage at the spa while the rest of us enjoyed the game room…

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We then had a wonderful final dinner at the Dogwood. Robert and the kids headed out early Monday morning to get back for football practice but GJ and I stayed for the cooking demonstration with Chef Joe.

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It was informative and entertaining! and despite the fact that I had eaten a full stack of pancakes at breakfast, I still ate every bit of the delicious lunch he prepared! A fantastic way to end the trip.

It was such a special weekend at a very special place. I feel so fortunate I got to experience it and cannot wait to go back!

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On Sunday we had a full breakfast…at different times! Everyone got to sleep in and be on their own schedule. But we did take advantage of the farm!

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The kids loved having their own golf cart to drive around in!

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After lunch we headed over to the fly fishing area to get suited up!

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We had a short lesson…

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We then divided into groups and headed out to fish!

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Everyone except me caught a fish! One guess who caught the most fish and the biggest fish?!

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Samantha! She wouldn’t touch it though. Love her. Lots of impressive catches…

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After fishing we enjoyed the scenery…

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and thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon! More Blackberry tomorrow!

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Robert and Maxwell made it up to Blackberry in time for a delicious lunch and then we headed off site to go clay shooting!

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Our instructors could not have been nicer and everyone got as many turns as they wanted to shoot on the course!

Target practice…

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Now on to the clays!

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The whole course was great with plenty for these boys – and girl! – to shoot at!

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Shoot out!

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We then headed back to the farm to enjoy the pretty scenery…

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That night we had an epic 5 course dinner at The Barn…fully enjoyed while the boys watched the Bama game on their phones in their lap. ha!

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A pretty perfect day! More tomorrow!