The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

NOLA

Two weekends ago, Robert, Samantha and I traveled down to New Orleans for the wedding of Robert’s friend, Lem. It took a lot of coordination to get us out of town but I’m so glad we made the trip. The boys got to go have a fun weekend in Montgomery with Lulu, Granddaddy, Jenny, Ronnie and, of course, Katie and Anna! It was their first time to stay away from home without us and they did great. On Friday, Robert and I dropped Maxwell off at school and then hit the road to Nola. Spencer stayed with Susan who then picked Maxwell up from school. Lulu and Ronnie then drove up to get the boys and take them to Montgomery for the weekend. See, lots of coordinating going on! 🙂

When we got to Nola, we had the very best babysitter in the world waiting there to keep Samantha in the hotel all weekend…

GJ

GJ’s the best.

Robert and I had fun at the party on Friday night…

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and then had more fun exploring Nola and being tourists on Saturday morning! Beignets = yum.

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Also, babies in hats = adorable.

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I hadn’t been to Nola in years and, while it’s a fun city, it’s pretty dirty and just not really my scene. It was also crazy humid all weekend. Apparently, it was also exhausting…

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Completely exhausting..

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Still, we loved getting to see good friends and explore the city a bit.

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Meanwhile, back in Montgomery… the boys weren’t missing us one bit! They were having too much fun eating at Moe’s, camping out in sleeping bags, and going to the zoo!

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sleeping bags

zoo

zoo

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A HUGE thank you to all the Mgm Browns for making the boys’ weekend SO fun!!

In Nola, Robert and I got all dolled up to go the wedding on Saturday night…

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where we had a great time and loved getting to celebrate Lem and Evie!

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lem and robert

lem and evie

We even made it to the after party where some people danced on top of a pool table!

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But, I don’t know much about that. 😉 Sunday morning came way too early and we hit the road. Robert and I were both wishing we could have been doing this on the drive…

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But, we made it to Montgomery and were so happy to get the boys and all be back together again!

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It was a super fun weekend that would not have been possible without the help of our awesome families! Thank you again!

Weekend recap

We had a great long weekend around here. We had no plans but we did have some visitors! And everyone got to love on Baby Mantha!

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Things are just more fun when GJ and crew are around!

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Especially when she takes you places like this!

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We walked out of Toys R Us with a few treasures for all, including this archery set for Maxwell.

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He had it mastered by the end of the day!

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We also got a new trike for Spencer…

trike

and a scooter for Maxwell!

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We got a 2 wheel scooter as opposed to a 3 wheel one and, while it’s challenging for him, I think it will be good for him and I have no doubt he’ll be zipping around the neighborhood by the end of the summer!

We got Samantha a swing for outside that we need to get hung. But, we also pulled this out of the attic for her to play in!

jumperoo

The rest of the weekend was spent playing outside…

outside

outside

Riding the new toys to the park….and letting Robert carry them back!  🙂

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Grilling out and eating watermelon…

watermelon

Acting like tigers (of course)….

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Getting ice cream…

ice cream

and sadly saying bye-bye to our visitors.

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It was a great long weekend and I wish it didn’t have to end. Back to work!

3 little monkeys

3 little monkeys playing on the bed!

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monkeys

monkeys

monkeys

monkeys

Thankfully no one fell off and bumped their head!  🙂

ps – that little monkey in the middle has slept ALL NIGHT again the past two nights!

baby girl

I mean, could she be any sweeter?

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any more adorable?

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any cuter?

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any more squeezable? 🙂

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any prettier?

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No, I don’t think she could. She’s perfect.

She’s even more perfect now that she’s slept from 8pm to 6am two of the past three nights!  🙂

Mr. Maxwell

Maxwell is the best. The best. He’s such a little grown up in a kid’s body. I love to hear the things he says…One day he wanted to know something about a specific big cat and I didn’t have the answer so he told me just to go to bigcat.com and look it up! ha! He’s always telling me to “just order it off Amazon, Momma!” A few weeks ago he started telling me how to do a flower rubbing picture and I asked him where he learned that and he said from tv and then followed up with “Momma, even tv can teach you things!” So true, buddy, so true. His vocabulary is crazy. In the yard last week he asked me if something was still “viable” or not. That’s my smart boy!

Other Maxwell things lately…

Last week he got to go to a Barons baseball game with Robert…

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Robert said he had a blast and was very entertained – and being very entertaining too!

barons

I asked him that night what his favorite part of the game was and he said, “The race between the hot dog and the taco!” ha!

Maxwell also got some new shoes. His other orange and grey tennis shoes were tie and he said that Mrs. Kathy “hated” that she always had to re-tie his shoes at school so we got him some more velcro ones…

new shoes

Looking sharp in his new shoes and the tshirt he got at the Barons game!

Finally, Maxwell got to take a trip to Toys R Us with Robert to spend his hard earned allowance money! After checking out all the aisles, he finally decided on this tiger rescue set-up….

allowance toy

He had $25 and it cost $29 so Robert told him he’d give him an advance on his allowance by 1 week so he could buy it! 🙂 He took his wallet to the store and paid with his own money and everything. Cutest. thing. ever. I’m so proud of him! My sweet boy even shared the toy with Spencer when he got home…

allowance toy

As my mom said, “He’s a special little boy.” Yes, he is indeed.

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I sure do love him.