The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Roll Tide for Maxwell!

Maxwell had his birthday party last Friday at Urban Air and it was all AL football themed! No surprise there!

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We, of course, went all out with the AL theme and dressed accordingly! Maxwell even got a new Derrick Henry jersey for the party!

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al party

He had tons of buddies there and everyone loved running, jumping, playing dodgeball, being ninja warriors, and everything else you can do at Urban Air.

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We even had eye black for everyone! Gotta look the part…

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So tough!

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Samantha had a blast just running around on her own. That girl never slowed down!

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mb party

Maxwell requested a football field cake so we had just that! We added some of our own AL players to it and it turned out great.

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I love this “I’m trying not to smile but I really want to smile” face!

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mb party

Happy Birthday Maxwell!

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I love celebrating this awesome SEVEN year old!!!

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See you tomorrow!

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Weekend

The weekend started on Thursday night when I decided we all needed to go out to dinner and for ice cream. Why not, right?!

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Saturday brought a special early birthday treat for Maxwell. Lulu and Granddaddy came over for a birthday lunch and a trip to Dick’s! Just what my sports loving almost 7 year old wanted!

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club

We stayed in Saturday night but did have quite the dance, dance, dance party at home!  💃🏼

Sunday was the kick off to the fall Sunday School season up at church so it was a fun morning to go because they had a bounce house and ice cream! Robert and I are going to be sunday school teachers for Samantha’s class this year. Well, us and 3 other sets of parents! We’ll take a good rotational job!

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I also did some major closet clean-outs! 🙌🏻 A great weekend all around! Now who’s ready for the eclipse?!

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Meanwhile….

Happy Monday! Phew…it was a busy and FUN weekend! and it’s going to be a busy and FUN week because Maxwell starts school tomorrow! Lots to catch up on but I first have to reassure you all that while Maxwell and I were gallivanting all over New York City, the crew back home wasn’t suffering one bit! Robert did what was necessary to survive on Friday night…

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and then went down to Montgomery on Saturday to get a little help!

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There was even cake and ice cream! Happy birthday Lulu and Granddaddy!!

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Sure, there might have been cake pops for breakfast…

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and Samantha’s dress might have been on backwards…

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but they made it just fine! I don’t think they missed us one bit! By Monday morning we were all happy to be back together though…

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and I might have even let them get a cake pop for breakfast that morning too! 🙂

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cake pop

See you tomorrow!

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on to Arkansas

After our fun Memphis stop, we headed on to Arkansas to see some family! Our first stop was in Augusta to give Susu a big hug!

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susu

Here we’ve got 6, 2, 4, and 94! Pretty impressive!

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We then had lunch at the Bulldog…

bulldog

and then hung out at Susu’s a little more…

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while the boys played golf. My dad played for the first time in years! woohoo!

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That night we all got together at John and Cara’s house in Searcy where the cousins loved getting to play…

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and everyone loved getting to hold baby Bennett!

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The next day was July 4th and, before heading out, we were treated to a fantastic magic show by the one and only Uncle John! The crowd was excited…

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and the illusions were great! Everyone loved getting to participate too!  🙂

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I even got cut in half! oh no!

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magic

Thankfully Uncle John was able to put me back together. Phew!

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The crowd thought the whole show was awesome!

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It was also awesome to see Granddaddy with almost all of his great grandkids! Just missing Nate, DeLaney, and baby Isaac. Granddaddy is 93 and holding strong!

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The three Maxwells!

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We then checked out John’s plane…

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and said our goodbyes before loading up and making the drive all the way back to Birmingham.

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It was a fun road trip with just enough adventure for all of us. A good way to spend the 4th of July weekend!

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see you tomorrow!

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The Beach

While down in Naples, we spent the majority of our days swimming at the pool at the house. The beach club pool was under construction so there was little motivation to go down to the beach…until I saw this one morning on the door!

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Maxwell decided it was time to head to the beach so we did just that!

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Everyone loved getting their beach fix!

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We made it back to the beach once more during our trip…

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beach

The boys got pretty adventurous out in the water on their own! I was proud of them!

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Samantha loved digging for shells…

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beach

The beach was great but it just isn’t as fun without Robert! By the end of the two weeks, we were super sad to say goodbye to some of our favorite people…

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but were super excited to get home to our other favorite person!

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Btw, the plane ride home was the first time Samantha flew without her carseat! She did GREAT! bye bye car seat!!

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See you tomorrow!

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