The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Happenings

Around here lately…

Saturday mornings are spent at basketball and Maxwell is doing great. I’m so proud of how hard he hustles and goes after that ball! He’s a rebound machine and will dive to the ground to fight for the ball! Go #9 and Go Bucks!

maxwell

Last Saturday I did an extended 5k at my gym and I’m putting it in here because I’m really proud of myself! ha! I’m not a runner but I completed it – we ran 6 half mile increments with mini-workouts in between each. It was tough but I’m so glad I did it! Here I am with my friend, Mary, who won in her division…

gym

Go us!  🙂

We’ve had unseasonably warm weather around here and it has been glorious! Last week we made it over to the park in short sleeves and bare legs….

park

park

park

and Sunday we spent the morning at the school playground in short sleeves for some…

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and pj’s for others!  🙂

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Finally, look who now gets to sit facing forward in the car!

car seat

She stayed backward much longer than Maxwell (turned him at 17 months) or Spencer (I guess I didn’t post when we turned him?!) and I think she’s enjoying the new view!

See you tomorrow!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day! I know I’ve got 3 little loves that are excited for the day…and were excited for yesterday because they all had their school Valentine parties on Monday. We made our Valentines again this year just like in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and I thought they came out so cute…

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Spencer’s was tricky – he really wanted a printed out dinosaur to color so I finally got him one that he colored and we cut out and glued it onto another card and then he added all the hearts! Maxwell did his all on his own, of course. I made Samantha’s. 🙂 Because Valentine’s Day is basically equal to Halloween in terms of candy consumption, we added treats to them. Spencer picked Skittles, I added gummies for Samantha’s, and Maxwell’s had Star Wars jelly beans (which I was very proud to find and had to go to 4 stores to get!)

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Also, just so I remember, I did a Target gift card for the teachers.

I was the treat mom for Maxwell’s class so sent these chocolate dipped marshmallows. There is a girl in his class that can’t have gluten so this was the best gluten-free treat I could come up with. It doesn’t hurt that all my kids loooove marshmallows!

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Samantha taste tested and approved!

marshmallow

The kids all came home with some fun loot…

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valentine

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I sure do love these 3 little Valentines!!!

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And this big Valentine too!

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Have a LOVEly day!

Valentine Program

Happy Monday! Spencer’s school did a little Valentine Program and art show for the grandparents to come and visit (and give money!). It was super cute and I loved getting to see Spencer up on stage again! We got lucky and he had a little solo at the beginning so was front and center…

valentine program

He was ready to shake those maracas!

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Well, until it actually came time to shake them! Ha! He was much better at tapping sticks and did great singing and giving me a thumbs up!

We were so glad Granddaddy and Lou Lou could make it up for the program!

lou lou

lou lou

Spencer was very proud of his art…

art

and we were very proud of him!

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Love this little guy!

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Happy almost Valentine’s Day!

blue skies sunshine

73 degrees in February? We’ll take it…and head to the park!

park

park

Have a great weekend!

Happenings

Around here…

Fun at the airplane museum for Spencer and Samantha…

airplane

airplane

A cool indoor climbing birthday party that Maxwell got to go to…

climbing

and a fun night at McWane for the Beaker Bash for all of us!

mcwane

mcwane

mcwane

mcwane

Well, fun until Baby fell and came running up to me with the bloodiest mouth you’ve ever seen. Hoping it was mostly just her lip and not her teeth but only time will tell. Can we please have NO MORE mouth trauma drama??!!!