The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Easter morning

We woke up Easter morning to see that the bunny had paid us a visit!

bunny

bunny

bunny

The kids were pretty excited!

bunny

We then headed outside to hunt some eggs! Orange for Maxwell and blue for Spencer…

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We then got dressed up in our Easter finest. Everyone looked so sweet, especially Samantha who was wearing my christening gown from 36 years ago!

christening gown easter

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The boys looked so sweet too despite the itchy, swollen allergy eyes!

easter

I really wanted some good group shots and while Maxwell is always my willing model…

mbb

getting the other two to cooperate is a different story!  🙂

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I did get some cute ones of Robert with 1, 2 and 3!

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And when we got to Montgomery for lunch, I even managed to get a picture with all 3!

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and then we got a picture of our little family of 5! An Easter miracle indeed!

easter

More pictures from our day in Montgomery to come tomorrow! See you then!

The hunt!

As I mentioned yesterday, the boys and I went to Naples for spring break. We got back home in time for a fun Easter weekend though. I’ll blog about Naples later but wanted to round up Easter first! On Saturday, we headed down to Wetumpka for the annual Inscoe egg hunt.

egg hunt

Samantha got to wear this pretty little smocked dress made by GJ and Susu…

egg hunt

We all thought she looked so pretty – especially Maxwell!  Peekaboo!

egg hunt

I thought my whole crew was looking pretty sharp!

egg hunt

egg hunt

egg hunt

It was a beautiful day for an egg hunt – not too hot with plenty of sunshine!

hunt

egg hunt

We got to see lots of friends and Robert’s family…

egg hunt

The boys had a blast…

egg hunt

egg hunt

The cousins all had fun together…

easter

easter

and the scary Easter bunny was there as always!

bunny

bunny

It was a great start to the Easter weekend!

easter

See you tomorrow!

Visitors!

First, happy 2 months to my baby girl! I’ll get the 2 month photos up soon.

Second, we had some fun visitors this week! Lulu and Granddaddy stopped by earlier this week and we were so glad to see them!

lulu

lulu

lulu

Happy Friday!

Little more Naples

Just a few more pictures from our week in Naples…

naples

I definitely think a change of scenery and some warm weather did us all good! But, as wonderful as it was to be down there (seriously, when are we going back?!), it was just as wonderful to get back home and see Robert! Nothing like a running, Spencey hug as a greeting!

naples

See you tomorrow!

Naples

So, last Sunday, the kids and I hopped a plane down to Naples!

naples

I flew by myself with all 3 kids and it really wasn’t bad at all. Robert was able to go to the gate with us in Birmingham and then we had a direct flight to Tampa where GJ was waiting to load us up into the car to drive to Naples! The boys got an A+ on the trip and Samantha snoozed through her first plane ride! Success!

flight

Once we got to warm, sunshiny Naples, it didn’t take us long to get on our short sleeves and head outside!

naples

We spent a full week down there and managed to fill our days with a good mix of plenty of fun and a whole lot of doing nothing! Perfect! We definitely hit up the beach…

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

but the boys honestly loved the pool more.

pool

Both boys did a great job swimming. Spencer would stand on the steps and swim to me and then swim over to the ladder, climb out, and do it all again – about 50 times in a row! Maxwell is a bona fide swimmer now and I barely had to help him at all. Our second day out he even took some dive sticks and would dive down to the bottom of the pool to get them. I was SO proud of both of them!

Other exciting outings included a trip to throw money in the fountains…

waterside

Skillets for pancakes…

pancakes

and a visit to the movies! We saw Paddington Bear and, I have to say, it was a really, really cute movie.

movie

Mostly, we just enjoyed doing plenty of this…

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and hanging with these people!

naples

As Maxwell said to me one day at the pool, “The water is warm, the music is singing, and everything is just delightful!” I couldn’t have agreed more! Now, when are we going back?!