The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

School fun

The school morning photos continue but they more often look like this as Maxwell can’t wait to get off to school…

school

Occasionally I’ll catch him still on the porch…

school

school

Then I’ll often get a picture of “those left behind!” ha!

school

Baby loves to play on the porch in the morning and she’s always looking cute – both on her non-school mornings…

porch

and school mornings!

school

They all love school! Even baby can’t wait to get into her class in the morning…and wants to carry her bag all by herself!

school

and after school she LOVES to go get Spencer!

school

They should love school because they have such sweet friends there!

Maxwell’s class…

maxwell class

maxwell

Samantha’s class….

baby class

and you’ll just have to believe me that Spencer’s class is just as much fun even if I don’t have a picture of them!  🙂

Have a great weekend!

Spencey!

Doesn’t he just make you smile?

spencer

spencey

I love this little boy.

spencer

Make it a great day!

15 years!

Last weekend I headed over to beautiful Nashville for my 15 year Vanderbilt reunion. I saw lots of familiar faces and got to spend time with some of my favorite girls! It was a glorious fall weekend and we walked around campus, went to the tailgate, ate some good meals, and, of course, hit up the honky tonks on Broadway.

Before the class party…

nashivlle

Dinner at Le Sel…

nashville

Walking around campus and the Tri-Delt swing…

campus

tridelt

Lunch at Pinewood Social…

pinewood social

The tailgate…

vandy

Robert’s!!

roberts

and, finally, some random bar after Robert’s that I’m too old for!  🙂

bar

Nothing beats Nashville in the fall! Robert ditched me and Nashville to go see Phish in Atlanta and had a great time with his friends. The kids didn’t miss us one single second because they were at home with GJ and Daddo eating candy all weekend. Well, maybe not all weekend but they did make a Halloween candy house and I’m pretty sure Baby ate as much as she decorated with!

candy house

slide

A fun weekend for all involved!

Celebrating 40 with a BANG

For Robert’s big birthday this year, I planned something that actually turned out to be pretty great, if I do say so myself! We went out to Pursell Farms with Ronnie, Jenny, Mary Beth and Holland for some golf (for the boys), spa (for the girls), and shooting (for all!). It really was a fun trip and, coupled with a blowout win for AL over TN and it was the perfect getaway for the birthday boy!

pursell farms

It was a bluebird day and the guys had a fun (albeit slow!) game of golf while the girls got a massage…

golf

and then we headed to our awesome cabin to watch the game and hang out…

pursell

pursell farms

pursell farms

pursell farms

and then into our golf carts to head up to the clubhouse for dinner!

pursell

The next morning, we all went out to do 12 rounds of clay shooting. The guys LOVED it! Jenny had to leave a bit early so passed on the shooting but MB and I had gave it a go. Mary Beth is a sharpshooter! Me? Not so much. I did hit 6 clays though…out of 100. ha!

pursel farms

pursell farms

pursell farms

Regardless of anyone’s score at the end, we all had a really fun time. Thankfully, Susan was keeping the crew safe and sound back at home so we didn’t worry about them one bit.

home

It was a very special trip for a very special birthday for a very special person!

40

pursell farms

pursell farms

We love you Robert!

Celebrating Spencer

We obviously already had Spencer’s big birthday party (Hulk Smash!) but had to celebrate him again on his actual birthday!

He took some awesome cookies to school the day before his birthday… (not made by me!)

hulk cookies

and had a breakfast fit for a 4 year old on his big day! Chocolate sprinkle doughnuts!

doughnuts

4th bday

Baby wanted it to be her birthday!

cry bby

Don’t worry though, she got a doughnut too!  🙂

doughnut

That night, Spencer requested pizza for dinner (the big triangle kind, not the square kind!) so, pizza it was followed by a cake decorated by the birthday boy himself!

cake

Cake was, of course, followed by a few presents including his favorite, Ton Ton, one of the Dinotrux! We were so happy to have GJ and Daddo in town to help celebrate!

birthday

It was a very happy birthday for my favorite 4 year old buddy!

spencer

We love you Spencey!