The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Scouts

Catching up on Scouts from the spring and summer…

City Council meeting for the Communications merit badge…

city council

and for Citizenship in the Community…

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Volunteering at the library summer carnival and packing lunches for Avondale Outreach for Citizenship in the Community hours…

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summer

Lots of important learning going on – Maxwell and some older scouts did CPR at the Fire Station and Spencer and some younger scouts did the First Aid badge! I feel safe.

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cpr

cpr

cpr

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Cleanup at MBE for conservation service hours…

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Getting his name up there – and it’s going to moving on up the board soon!

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Really proud of these boys.

More lake

Last weekend 2/5 of us got to go to the lake again and see the baby! Robert and Samantha met up with the extended Brown clan for a fun day. They might have even gotten stuck out on the lake in a jet ski and a tube but you’ll have to ask Robert about that! Thankfully everyone made it home safe and sound.

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baby

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lake

I missed out because I was back home picking these two up from a week at scout camp!

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Lots more on that to come later!

Out to dinner

We’ve had some fun nights out this summer! While Spencer was at McCallie, the rest of us tried out the new-ish Little Betty…

little betty

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it did not disappoint! Our after dinner selfies on the other hand….

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little betty

This one’s not so bad!

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When Spencer was back he got to have a fun night out for Henry’s bday at the hibachi place…

hibachi

while Robert and I tried out the new Current Charcoal Grill in town. Another excellent meal even if they did get our entree order wrong twice!

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Of course there’s been a few girls dinners in there too…

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girls dinner

No one wants to cook in the summer!

Lake

Last week we made it out for a day at the lake with Ms. Susan and Mr. Barry! It was the most perfect day and we had so much fun!!

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Barry was so kind to pull these kiddos around and around and around the lake on the tubes…

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and skis! Yes, both boys got up on skis! I was so proud of them!

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flamingo

It really was a beautiful day with the most perfect temps!

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lake

This darn flamingo gave us fits all day…

flamingo

but, don’t worry, Samantha and I finally conquered it!

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Barry grilled out some hot dogs for dinner and then we tried our luck at fishing!

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fishing

fishing

fishing

We weren’t having much luck with the minnows so stuck some hot dogs on the end of the lines and….success!

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fish

Samantha caught a catfish!

catfish

It was the BEST day with the BEST people! Thank you for an epic day on the lake Susan and Barry!

More McCallie

They got to do all kinds of fun activities while at McCallie including going white water rafting (Spencer said it was COLD!), and a track meet and swim meet…

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swim

mccallie

swim

swim

They also went to play paintball…

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paintball

They also had a dance with a girl’s camp! Spencer even made it on the girl’s camp social media! 🙂 Of course he found the girl in the AL jersey!

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The most fun is that they got to go to a Braves game on the 4th of July!

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It was a great two weeks of sports for Spence!

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sports

sports

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spencer

spencer

spencer

We were all ready to see him by pick up day! He and Maxwell hadn’t seen each other in 5 weeks at that point! The gang was back together!!

mccallie

I missed my buddy!

mccallie

They had a nice closing ceremony where Spencer got the VIP award for soccer (!). Harvard came in second place in the Ivy League narrowly missing 1st by only 4 points. Go Harvard and Go Spencer!

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I’m so happy they all got to have fun summer adventures but I’m thankful to have everyone back together again.

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