The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Orange is his favorite color

When I got back to my hotel in NY Sunday night, I had a text from Robert that said:

This is what happens when you ask your 2.5 year old to keep busy while you put the other to bed.  Orange all over legs, arms, you name it!

orange marker

Oh my goodness.  I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time!  Thankfully it was washable marker.  Thankfully he only drew on himself and not the furniture.  Thankfully I was in NY and could just laugh and know that Robert had it handled!  🙂

By Monday night, I think everyone was ready for Momma to be home.

home

Happy to be back where I belong!

Thomas the Train

Three weekends ago, we took the boys out to The Heart of Dixie Railway to ride Thomas the Train!  It was supposed to be a nice, spring morning but the weather decided to be disagreeable and we were met with cold rain the whole time we were out there.  Definitely not fun.  I think Maxwell was still excited to see and ride Thomas…even if he kept saying he didn’t want to ride the train!  Luckily we had two umbrellas with us and raincoats.  I hadn’t stuck in a coat for Spencer as it wasn’t supposed to be that cold so he got to wear Maxwell’s extra jacket.  That 2T jacket fit him just fine for a few hours!  🙂

thomas the train

thomas the train

thomas the train

thomas

thomas the train

Overall it was a fun day.  Not sure we’ll do it again, but fun to do once!  😉

We did get our official picture taken in front of Thomas.  My scanner isn’t working right now so here’s a great picture of the picture!  ha!

thomas the train

Choo-choo!

Sweet baby boy

Spencie had a rough day yesterday and just wasn’t feeling so great.  Without going TMI, I think the introduction of all these fruits and veggies was having an adverse effect on his tummy.  Hopefully we’re on the up and up now.  But, he was needing some extra love yesterday and so I wanted to share these pictures today so he could get a little more love from all of you.

I took these pictures about 3 weeks ago also for my Light + Life class that I mentioned yesterday…

spencer

spencer

spencer

spencer

spencer

and something about this next picture reminds me of me as a baby…

spencer

My mom disagrees though – and I guess she would know!  She actually said it reminded her of a picture of Daddo as a baby.  Whoever he looks like, he sure is cute!

Metering

I was practicing for my Light + Life class on metering and got these shots…

metering

metering

He’s a much more willing model than Maxwell.  Mainly because he can’t move yet and doesn’t have a choice!  🙂

metering

metering

Love this little guy and his baby blues.

metering

See you tomorrow!

Weekend

We had a beautiful weekend here. It was supposed to rain all day Saturday and Sunday but the rain held off until late Saturday night. We were able to get out Saturday and enjoy the Habitat BBQ with Robert and soak in a little sunshine.

The highlight of the weekend came on Friday afternoon though. The boys and I went for a little walk and came upon this…

yellow trucks

A whole row of yellow trucks! Heaven for Maxwell! I was kinda surprised that he actually wanted to get out of the stroller and stand on one but he did and I happily obliged…and took his picture of course! 🙂

We then walked down the road a bit and saw that the new local firehouse had the truck parked in the garage with the doors open! There was a fireman out there who told us to come on in and even gave Maxwell a new firehat.

firetruck

He was one happy little boy that afternoon!

While Sunday was a very rainy day, I did capture this on my phone…

brothers reading

Sweet, sweet brothers enjoying a little book.  Hope you all had a good weekend too!