The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

McCallie

Spencer decided to try something new this year and went to McCallie Sports Camp in Chattanooga for two weeks. They got to play sports all day, every day and stay in air conditioned dorms and even have snacks in their room! Needless to say, Spencer had a great time.

He and I drove to Chattanooga the night before drop off and stayed in the hotel with lots of the other Mountain Brook kids that were going. I then dropped him off in the morning and off he went!

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Spencer was in the Ivy league and team Harvard! I always thought he could be a Harvard man!

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Every day they would play a different sport and the teams would compete for overall points.

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Lots of sports, lots of smiles! More pics tomorrow!

MWW

Apparently Maxwell didn’t get enough paddling at camp because as soon as he got home he figured out a way to get back in the water! He, Jude and Spencer (who has never paddled before!) headed down to Montgomery Whitewater to do a 3 day kayak camp.

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It’s a really cool facility. They focused on skill development but Maxwell and Jude got to do some more advanced runs with the instructor and had a great time all week! Spencer caught on quickly and had a fantastic time as well.

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Huge thank you to Lulu and Granddaddy for hosting, entertaining and feeding these boys!

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And, yes, Maxwell now has “kayak” on his birthday list!!

4th of July

No cute red, white and blue photos today but I do have some pics of my all-American kids playing some all-American sports!

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Happy Independence Day! ❤️

Only child

Today we’re picking up Samantha from camp! Hooray! I’ve got my buddy Spencer along for the ride and I think he’s going to be a little sad to give up his only child status. It’s just been him for the past two weeks – and just me and him the past week!

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He had football camp this week and his team took home the championship! MVP QB right here!!

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He also got to knock out some service hours at the library for scouts. I’m going to let you guess which activity he enjoyed more! 😉

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Love this kid.

More Yard Goats

After the final OTM game the boys still had one more practice so we made it a fun parent/son baseball/kickball game. I got a hit both times up to bat, I kicked the kickball straight down the 3rd base line, and Spencer said his friends said “your mom is really fast!” Phew. I didn’t embarrass him! It was a really fun afternoon with some sweet boys.

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We then played in one final tournament that weekend and had some good spectators!

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The first day went awesome with two wins including a game where Spencer got to pitch! He got in and shut the game down just like I knew he could. I was so proud of him and he was so proud of himself!

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Unfortunately the next day we had a tough loss in the semi-finals to end our season. But, no complaining – it was the very best season all around and one loss can’t damper that. The boys finished with 28 wins, 17 losses, and 1 tie!

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That’s a pretty good record I’d say. Go Goats!!