The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Faces of summer

I know school has started back for many, but we’re still doing summer around here. Hot, sweaty, sticky summer…

summer

summer

Most of this hot and sweaty is thanks to a trip to the field with Dad to practice some soccer. They then came home and went straight to the sand table!

summer

summer

They don’t care about all that sand sticking to their sweaty skin…they’re too busy digging!

summer

summmer

summer

sand

And they especially don’t care about it when they get to strip down and play with the hose in the yard to wash off afterward!  Gotta love these final days of summer…

summer

I’m gonna miss them (but maybe not the hot, sweaty, sticky part!).  🙂

The week

Had a good week around here…

We went to the grocery store in full fireman gear…

fireman grocery store

Naturally.

We’ve also done LOTS of art projects this week. Susan and the boys have been on a creative kick and I love it! I now have more pictures, drawings and paintings around here than I know what to do with!

art

Spencer continues to be our official creative taste-tester!

markers

And Maxwell has been working really hard on his letters! Love this picture he drew of himself and Spencer and look how great he did at writing his own name!!

self portrait

go Maxwell go!

It’s been a great week and now we’re ready for a great weekend!

Thursday

It’s Thursday and I’ve got nothing.

How about some pics of the boys playing with trains before bed?

trains

trains

train

Pretty exciting, I know. That’s how we roll!

See you tomorrow!

More Highlands

After our Firetruck fun, we all attempted a nice lunch together with the kids…

highlands

While the food was nice, let’s just say we didn’t pick the most kid-friendly option in town! But, we survived.

Maxwell’s favorite part of lunch was getting to see sweet, baby Evelyn! He was so excited to see the little, bitty baby and it made me really excited for him to be a big brother again! 🙂

evelyn

We spent the rest of the weekend just enjoying being in the mountains…

park

boys

And we especially loved getting to hang out with Lulu and Granddaddy!  Even better that we got to give Lulu a special birthday hug while we were there!!  Happy Birthday Lulu!!!

highlands w lulu

Let’s do it again soon!

Weeoooo Weeeooo

We went up to Highlands, NC this past weekend for the annual Firetruck Weekend! Each year for a Saturday in August, the local volunteer fire department pulls out all of their trucks – and some other, antique ones too – for everyone to come climb on, sit in and check out. They even give people rides around town ON TOP of a firetruck!  So fun! I have no idea what the liability is for that but I just climbed that 12 foot ladder and didn’t think about it!  🙂  Needless to say, our firetruck loving boys were in heaven!

fire truck

fire truck highlands

fire trucks

fire truck highlands

fire truck

The best part was that Robert’s great friend, Patrick, was there with his family.  He has a little boy, Henry, who is just 2.5 months younger than Maxwell so they had a fun time playing together.

robert and patrick

Soon enough it was time to climb on to the top of the truck!

fire truck highlands

fire truck

fire truck highlands

firetruck highlands

We got to sit right behind the lights and the siren and Maxwell was like the king of the castle sitting on top of that truck waving to everyone in town as we drove around!

fire truck highlands

It was awesome. And can we please discuss Spencer wearing Maxwell’s old 2T jeans?

jeans

The cutest.

Just when we thought the day couldn’t get any better, Maxwell said, “Momma, I see Santa!”  What?!  Sure enough…

santa in august

I guess Santa decided he needed a break from the workshop to come check out the firetrucks!

santa highlands

It’s never too early to start your Christmas list…and I already know that another firetruck is on Maxwell’s list…again!  🙂

More pics from the weekend tomorrow!