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Aunt and Uncle Messy

April 16, 2013

Last week we also had a visit from Robert’s sister, Mary Beth and her husband, Holland – affectionately known as Aunt Messy and Uncle Messy!  🙂

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We treat our guests right around here and were sure to give them the most comfortable seats in the house!  🙂

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Maxwell had fun playing football with Robert and Holland…

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and Mary Beth had fun loving on Spencer!

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We got the tunnel out…

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and then Robert did this and I laughed.

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Then Maxwell had to do it too, of course!

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Funny boy.

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We always love seeing Aunt and Uncle Messy!

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See you tomorrow!

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Egg Hunt

March 29, 2013

Last Sunday we went to the egg hunt at church and Maxwell had a ball.  We’ve been having egg hunts around the house for about 2 weeks now so he was ready for the real thing!  🙂

Looking cute and Easter-y!

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Spencer and I met Robert and Maxwell up at church and all of Maxwell’s Sunday School friends were very interested in checking out the baby!

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Luckily big brother Maxwell stepped in to save Spencer!

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I don’t think Spencer minded sweet Anne checking him out though!  🙂

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It was then time to head over to the hunt which they had moved inside because of the soggy, wet ground.  While waiting, Maxwell got his basket stuck on his head…

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I laughed and took another picture before finally helping him get it off!  🙂

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Spencer enjoyed the hunt from the comfort of his stroller…

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But Maxwell was on a mission…

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His goal wasn’t to get as many eggs as possible though…

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No, his goal was to get all the ORANGE eggs he could find!  He only wanted those orange ones!

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He knows what he likes!  He ended up with a pretty full basket with mostly orange eggs plus a few red and yellow mixed in.  Not a blue or green in sight!  He was even more excited when I showed him the eggs had candy in them!

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Even though he looks upset here, he’s actually just smiling through a mouthful of chocolate and trying not to lose any!!

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My cute little egg hunters!

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Happy Easter!

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Spring Fling

March 11, 2013

What a BEAUTIFUL weekend we had!  It was a little flirt with spring!  I don’t know if these nice temps are here to stay but, man, I’m going to enjoy them while they’re here!  On top of the nice weather, we had GJ and Daddo in town!  Can’t beat that!!

The weekend started off Saturday morning with some snuggles in bed…

and then we met up with GJ for a trip to Home Depot to get more “yellow dirt” for Maxwell’s sand table.

Home Depot always provides entertainment.  Who knew a guy using a saw could be so exciting?!

We then got home and put together a little project.  Maxwell was a big help…

Our completed masterpiece!!  Tada!

Al fresco dining now available at the Brown house!  🙂

This next picture just makes me laugh…

I have no idea what they’re all looking at on the ipad but even Spencer is into it and they crack me up all sitting on that little bench together!

Maxwell was outside just about all weekend long playing, playing, playing…

Spencer got plenty of fresh air too…

and some good snugs from Daddo!

That night, GJ and Daddo nicely stayed at the house while Robert and I went out to eat.  Spencer, who is always dead asleep by 8:00 and never wakes up until much later in the night, decided he didn’t want to go to sleep that night.  I finally put him in his bed still awake when we left for dinner at 8:15 and when we came home at 10:15, he was still awake!  GJ said he was just as wide awake and wiggly as could be!  I guess he knew that his only chance to play with GJ was when Maxwell was asleep so he wanted to take full advantage!  I was finally able to get him settled down and snoozing at about 10:30…

Unfortunately, he didn’t sleep great.  He keeps rolling onto his belly and then wakes up crying because he can’t flip himself back over.  We’ve stopped going in to roll him back though because he will eventually either flip back over or go to sleep on his belly.  I think he woke up 3 different times between 5:00 and 8:00 am on Sunday morning.  Not fun.  But, it was nice that everyone slept until 8:00 with daylight savings time!

On Sunday, Maxwell and Robert went to church…

My handsome boys!

The rest of the afternoon was spent outside enjoying the longer daylight and blowing bubbles!

Maxwell even thought baby brother needed some bubbles on him!

What a great weekend all around!!  I’m officially ready for spring!

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Visitors!

March 8, 2013

We’ve had some fun visitors this past week.

Last weekend, the boys got to hang out with LuLu and Granddad all morning…

and then Spencer got to meet his cousin Mary Ellen for the first time!  fun!

Then GJ and Daddo stopped by for a couple of days on their way to Arkansas.  Someone was really excited to see GJ…

and really excited to get some M&Ms from Daddo!  🙂

GJ and Daddo couldn’t wait to squeeze on Spencer…

I then had fun showing off Spencer’s squeezable physique!  🙂

The next night, GJ and Daddo got to hang out some more and read some books…

and blow it up before bedtime!

We loved having everyone here and wish we could see them all every week!

Have a great weekend!  Don’t forget to spring forward on Sunday!

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Maskers 2013

February 19, 2013

Like last year, we traveled down to Montgomery this past weekend to go to the Maskers Ball.  Our niece, Anna, was a princess in it this year and we had a great time hanging with the fam “uh-gumry” as Maxwell calls it!

The weekend started off right for Maxwell with a new Thomas the Train book…

Spencer got a fun little giggle toy too!

thanks Lulu!

That night, Robert and I got all dolled up and left the kids with a sitter upstairs in the hotel.

We had a great night celebrating this pretty princess!

A few more pics from the night…

The next day we enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and went to the Maskers lunch…

and then snuck in a cute cousin pic before it was time to head home!

A fun weekend all around!

ps – want to know more about what Maskers is?  read my post from last year where I explain it a bit more.

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