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3rd Birthday Party!

August 27, 2013

Maxwell is all about firemen these days so we decided to have a firemen birthday party!  Our local fire station was just completely rebuilt and is walking distance to the tot lot so we invited a few buddies from school and some family friends to come tour the fire station and have cake at the tot lot after!

mbb party

Maxwell was so excited!  When he woke up that morning, we were talking about his party and the first thing he asked was “Can I hug the fireman?”  Oh man, I love that kid.

mbb fireman party

Our group met at the station and got a mini tour from the firemen perfect for 3 year olds!  They got to see where they keep their uniforms and where they all eat together.  Then, all the kids got to climb all over the firetrucks and even sit in the driver’s seat!  So FUN!  Then one of the firemen came out dressed in his full uniform!  So cool!  The firefighters could not have been nicer or more generous with their time.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – some days I feel like we live in Mayberry.

Maxwell was so excited to have so many of his friends there, including Lila!

mbb fireman party

He also had a blast with William.  These two were making me laugh all day!

mbb fireman party

He loved getting to climb up and check out the truck!

mbb fireman party

In the driver’s seat!

mbb fireman party

Doesn’t get much better than this!

mbb fireman party

Look at that smile!  My very happy birthday boy!

mbb fireman party

He loved getting to hang out with “real firemen”!

mbb fireman party

But, when one of the “real firemen” came out in his full uniform, Maxwell wasn’t quite so sure he wanted to give that hug anymore!

mbb fireman party

ha!  He was trying to play it so cool.  Look at him checking him out!  Such a mix of awe and hesitation all in one..

mbb fireman party

Then William came over too but he wasn’t so sure either…

fireman party

Too funny…

mbb fireman party

Then I came over there by him….

mbb fireman party

and he finally decided he needed to check out that uniform up close!

mbb fireman party

Spencey just wanted to get everything in his mouth, not surprising!

mbb fireman party

After plenty of fire station fun, everyone walked a block to the tot lot where GJ was holding down the fort (thanks GJ!) with our table full of goodies…

mbb fireman party

Maxwell couldn’t wait to get his hands on those flaming cupcakes so we lit the candles…

mbb fireman party

sang Happy Birthday…

mbb fireman party

and made a wish!

mbb fireman party

The kids then had free reign to eat cupcakes and play on the playground!  Perfect!

mbb fireman party

Spencey was having plenty of fun too!

mbb fireman party

I just love all the memories that were made that day for my little guy and his buddies.

mbb fireman party

I took a bazillion pictures so here’s a bunch more from the party…

mbb fireman party

mbb fireman party

I could not have asked for everything to go better.  I just wanted Maxwell to have FUN and I know that he did.  That night I asked him what his favorite party of the party was.  His answer?  The giant firetruck balloon!  ha!  figures.

Happy Birthday Maxwell…here’s to all the firetruck balloons a 3 year old could ask for!

mbb fireman party

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Birthdays!

August 5, 2013

Sending out some big Happy Birthday wishes to LuLu and Granddad this week!  Hope the year ahead is the best one yet!  🙂

In honor of your birthdays, thought you both might like to see some pictures of the awesome son you raised.  Thanks for raising such a nice guy who is a fantastic dad!

dad and spencer

As you can tell from these pictures, Spencer is just crazy about him!

spb and robert

robert and spencer

and so are me and Maxwell!  🙂

robert and spb

Happy Birthday Lulu and Granddad!

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More Naples

July 11, 2013

Again, we had a great time in Naples.

I loved going up to Waterside for coffee, shopping and checking out the waterfalls.

waterside

We rode bikes…and Spencer even got in on the action!

bike

Maxwell learned how to drive the race car all by himself and then Spencer got to take it for a spin too…

spencer race car

ha!  I love that picture!

spencer race car

Maxwell also learned how to pedal his bike!  big stuff!

But, the best part of the trip was getting to hang with my boys…

me and my boys

me and my boys

and for the boys to get to hang with these awesome people.

daddo

gj

Can’t wait for the next trip!

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Naples!

July 10, 2013

We headed down to Naples for a little Independence Day vacation and, man, we had a good time!  As I mentioned earlier, Alabama was a wash-out the whole time we were gone so we’re so glad we got to escape the rain and soak up some FL sunshine!

We flew down on Wednesday the 3rd and the flight was great.  Thursday morning we took advantage of the pretty weather and headed to the beach!

naples

naples

Maxwell was sure to take proper hand wear to dig in the sand!  ha!

naples

Friday morning, we once again got lucky with the weather and Robert and I played some golf.  And when I say I played, I mean I drove the cart and yelled “get in the hole!” after each of Robert’s putts.

naples

I think it helped.  Robert disagreed.

naples golf

Saturday morning we headed back to the beach where Maxwell really got into digging and swimming!  so fun!

naples beach

naples beach

King of the hill!

king of the hill

and just a little proof that I was there too!  🙂

naples beach

When we weren’t out and about, Maxwell and Spencer had a blast playing at home, especially since GJ and Daddo had all sorts of new toys for them.  Yeah, these boys aren’t spoiled at all!

A new trampoline…

trampoline

some awesome (and slightly dangerous) frisbees…

frisbee

and new trucks!!  Including an awesome cement mixer.  Maxwell and GJ mixed up some Cheerios cement and made a road…smooth,no bumps!

cement mixer

Yes sir, boss!

boss

Spencer perfected his crawling while we were down there.  As a result, we got to hear Maxwell yell “no no no, ya-ya!” many times as Spencer crawled straight for Maxwell’s toys.  Somebody is gonna get a big lesson in sharing soon!

spencer

Some other funny things…

Spencer tried out some knee pads on the rough floors…

knee pads

Maxwell discovered the joys of vanilla ice cream with Hershey’s syrup!

ice cream

and he also discovered the joys of his brother’s jumperoo!  ha!

jumperoo

It really was such a fun trip.  I’ve got a few more pictures to share but I’ll wait until tomorrow.  See you then!

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Spencer’s Baptism pictures 3

July 3, 2013

Continuing on with the last of the photos from Spencer’s baptism.  Here are all the ones of Robert’s side of the family…

browns

lulu

browns

mb and holland

robert and spencer

browns

browns

mb and spencer

It was a fun day of family!

maxwell

We were so grateful to have everyone together.  See you tomorrow!

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