The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

All decked out

First, Happy October!  My favorite month!  🙂

Second, I may have all boys but, as you’ve seen, playing dress-up is very serious business around here. It happens daily.

We’re construction workers…

construction workers

Policemen giving out tickets…

police

directing traffic…

police

and putting trouble makers under arrest!

arrest

We also save the world as superheroes…

superheroes

But, most often, we’re firemen…as if there was any doubt!

fireman

fireman

fireman

fireman

And don’t think the dressing up is limited to home. Oh no, our outfits travel sometimes!

fireman

fireman

And apparently dressing up at school is the most fun too!

dressing up

I love this age.

Soccer Game 2!

Last weekend we had Maxwell’s second soccer game and thankfully got to be on the shady side of the field!  Score! Maxwell had another great game and really hustled up and down that field!

Baby brother helping him warm up…

soccer

and really wanting to be able to play with him!

soccer

Let me tell ya, trying to entertain Spencer during these games is definitely the hardest part of it all!  But, we survive and I still manage to get lots of good pictures of my star soccer player.

After a few drills…

soccer

soccer

and a little pep talk from Coach Dad…

soccer

Maxwell was ready to play!  He got in and scored a GOAL!!! right away! Go Maxwell!

soccer

soccer

There was plenty of running up and down the field…

soccer

a water break…

soccer

a pep talk from Coach Mike (who is a real firefighter!)

soccer

and then it was back in the game to score another GOAL!!!

soccer

After the game, both teams shook hands…

soccer

and Maxwell was pretty pleased with his performance!

soccer

Game 2 and 2 goals!

soccer

Go Maxwell go!

Monday

Happy Monday! We ended up having a beautiful weekend around here. We spent it doing the usual stuff…

Playing dress up…

spencer

Getting decked out in fireman finery to go to the coffee shop…

fireman

Please note his new red “spenders” that he is most proud of! He has a VERY official fireman uniform now!

“Helping” Dad outside…

outside

and enjoying the sunshine!

outside

outside

I’m thinking all that time outside is a large part of the reason Spencer is all snotty and congested now. Oh, allergies.

outside

Hope you all had a good weekend too!

Catching up

Welcome, Monday! We’ve got a lot to catch up on. I was actually gone for half of last week and, as much fun as adventures away are, I sure missed my boys. I flew out to CA on Tuesday, spent the day in the office in San Fran on Wednesday, and flew back on Thursday. Phew. Big thanks to Robert and Susan for keeping everything running while I was gone!

A few pics from San Fran – me actually wearing real work clothes, my view from the office for the day, and my awesome dinner at Pacific Catch (it was worth photographing if only to make Robert jealous!)  🙂

san fran

Meanwhile, back at the dude ranch, the boys had a great time going to school, gymnastics and swim and even getting special treats from the Fire Station!

boys

But, as I’ve said before, the best part of going away is coming back home…

back home

A few other things to catch up on.  We got a new car two weeks ago – one with a 3rd row to make room for #3!  It’s an Acadia and, so far so good!

acadia

After Maxwell’s birthday party, we wrote thank you notes for all of his gifts and he wrote his name on every single card – in orange pen of course!  I was super proud of him and only had to bribe him with a few handfuls of Pirate’s Booty!  🙂

thank you notes

(also have to note that he was super disappointed that his stationery doesn’t have firetrucks on it. In my defense, I ordered this before he could even talk so had no idea the love of firetrucks would be so strong! On that note, anyone seen any cute firetruck stationery? My usual go to, Minted, is failing me.)

Two weekends ago, Robert and I went to the AL game and had a blast in our (thankfully shady!) seats. Roll Tide!

al game

The boys stayed home with Ms. Jen from school and didn’t miss us one bit! and yes, I wore Maxwell’s Big Al hat to the game – fits great!

Maxwell’s getting really good on his bike and the past 2 weekends we’ve gone on long walks where he rides the whole time!  Go Maxwell!

bike

We went to eat at The Club on Friday night and the weather was perfect. The boys loved throwing all of my change into the fountain…

the club

and I loved getting a picture where they were both smiling (and looking off to the side, but, I’ll take what I can get!)…

the club

Finally, I don’t have a picture for it but Robert started a new job Monday and had a great first week! He’s back at the company that he started with when we moved to Birmingham and we feel he’s just where he should be.  We’re all super proud of him!  We love you Robert!

Phew, feels good to be caught up a little. See you tomorrow!