The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Easter

Hoppy Easter! The kids woke up Easter morning happy to see the bunny had visited! He brought Legos (of course), Lion Guard and Minnie Mouse plates, and some cool jungle animal hatching eggs! Fun!

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The bunny also left a note that, because of the rain, all the eggs were hidden in the garage and under the covered patio. Thanks Easter Bunny!

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Because of the weather, missed naps, and enduring coughs, Robert and Maxwell were the only ones to make it to church. They went to the early 8:00 service while Spencer, Samantha, and I stayed home. We got the house ready for all of our Easter visitors that showed up for lunch! Since everyone was coming to our house, we didn’t get dressed up in our Easter “finest” but we still tried to look cute!

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This dress is the one that Susu and GJ made for baby and she wore to the egg hunt last year. She was basically too cute for words in her pretty pink dress!  🙂

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We had a house full and had a good lunch with plenty of visiting!

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We were so glad everyone could make the trip to be together. Happy Easter!

Egg Hunt

On Saturday we all got dressed in our spring colors and headed down to the annual Inscoe egg hunt outside of Wetumpka. We go every year and it’s always fun for the kids and good for Robert to see some old friends. Years past… 2015 and 2013 and 2012 and 2011.

My crew looked cute and ready for Easter!

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It was a beautiful day – not too hot with a mixture of clouds and sun. Although, we seemed to have found the most sunny spot for this picture!

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That’s better…

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Baby loved stomping all around the place with as many Easter baskets as she could hold…

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and she might have found an egg before the hunt officially started! I don’t think anyone minded.  🙂

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The boys loved running around during the hunt to find eggs – and everyone got plenty of eggs this time around, thank goodness! The Easter Bunny later threw out little stuffed animals and Spencer and I managed to snag a lion for him and a cheetah for Maxwell! Perfect! The boys favorite part of the day though? Getting to play with Katie and Anna of course!

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We tried to get a pic of all 5 cousins together but baby wasn’t exactly cooperating…

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She wanted to be roaming around eating candy!

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It was a beautiful day for hunting eggs!

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See you tomorrow!

 

Dyeing eggs

The Easter fun started on Friday when we dyed eggs!

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Maxwell was very meticulous with his leaving them in the dye to soak for a long time to make brighter colors and then decorating a few with Sharpies.

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Spencer took more of the drop and move approach! Each of his eggs went into several different cups several different times!

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Poor baby was sad to be missing out on all the fun.

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As a consolation, I gave her a chocolate Oreo.

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She was a fan! and the boys were glad to have her out of their way!  🙂

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Our egg masterpieces and the proud artists!

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I thought they turned out egg-specially pretty this year!  🙂

Happy Monday!

We’ve dyed eggs, hunted eggs, and eaten eggs! We visited with family, saw some friends, and had a great weekend. Lots to catch up on this week!

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Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

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Happy almost Easter!

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We all made it up to church for Palm Sunday last weekend and for our church’s egg hunt. My crew looked cute, at least in my opinion!  😉

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Spencer wearing “big boy” church clothes is almost too much for me…

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Baby wore her pretty blue dress again because it was much colder than we expected that morning!

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We then headed up to church for the egg hunt…

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I’m just going to state that I might never again attend our church’s egg hunt. It’s just not set up well – the areas for the little and big kids are separated – but the boys wanted to be together – and then it’s hard on the parents to have to go with kids to different areas  – and they make them all get into one big photo and then everyone has to file out basically single file to get to the egg areas – and, well, it’s just never the fun it’s supposed to be.

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Spencer was especially having a rough day. Granted, he didn’t feel good and ended up at the doctor the next day but, still. He wanted to go with Maxwell but then couldn’t see him in all the group of kids. He then wanted to go to the egg area for 3 and under but by the time we got there all the eggs were gone. He was pretty upset having only 1 egg in his basket. Other kids (urged by their parents!) were very nice to share a few eggs so he didn’t go home completely empty handed.

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I’m thinking the egg hunt at our house on Easter morning will be more his speed!

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend!