The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! The kids all have parties up at school today and took in their Valentine boxes and cards last week. Samantha and I worked so hard on her box and it turned out FANTASTIC! We bought the Narwhal parts off of Etsy and had fun covering the box (well I did that part!) and decorating it!

narwhal

narwhal

box

box

Maxwell didn’t have to make a box but he wanted to and made a cool Gorilla Tag one. Nice job!

box

Spencer isn’t really into this sort of thing and luckily his box from last year – that Maxwell made most of – was still around so he was more than happy to just re-use it! Perfect!

box

valentine

Samantha used these cute Valentine cards with Fun Dip…

cards

and the boys both re-used the cool Alabama valentine cards with their favorite candy!

valentine

valentine

Hope it’s a LOVEly day today!

love

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Naples

After a great Christmas and a trip to Atlanta, we packed up and hopped a plane down to Naples! Woohoo!

plane

We were so happy to see GJ and Daddo and celebrate some more Christmas! Including new iPads for the kids!!

xmas

xmas

xmas

iPad

We then got down to the business of enjoying Naples!

naples

naples

maples

beach

We even had a return visit from our gator…

gator

and made friends with two turtles on the beach!

turtle

turtle

turtle

Off to the beach!

beach

beach

Lots of sand castles!

sand castle

beach

beach

Lunch volcanoes…

beach

and dinner out!

dinner

Roll Tide! SEC Championship!

sec

Sing 2! So good!

sing2

sing 2

Ice cream!

ice cream

and CCCs of course!

ccc

Fireworks for 2022!

fireworks

fireworks

More adventures to come!

Falcons

We gave the kids tickets to the Falcons game the day after Christmas so we were up and out the door early on the 26th to drive to Atlanta! It was a beautiful day for some football and they had the dome open!

falcons

falcons

flacons

falcons

Our seats were great and the Falcons actually brought home a win! Rise Up!

falcons

falcons

A fun after Christmas treat!

Christmas Day

We had the Brown family over for Christmas day lunch and it was a great afternoon all around! My crew begrudgingly cleaned up their Santa haul and we were ready for company!

xmas day

xmas day

xmas day

Samantha made place cards! 🙂

place cards

place cards

Self timer family selfie!

selfie

This is more like it!

selfie

All the cousins had fun together!

cousis

cousins

xmas

xmas

After our Christmas for 5 last year, it sure was nice to have a house full of family to celebrate the day!

cousins

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Morning

The kids were up bright and early – but they had to wait until the first number was a 6 before coming into our room! They were there exactly at 6:00! Excitement was high!!

xmas morning

Santa delivered on just about everything – with a few surprises too!

xmas morning

xmas morning

It was so fun to watch while they checked everything out!

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

When Samantha noticed the Ms. Pac-Man Machine!

paceman

paceman

clapper

I think this was Maxwell’s favorite present despite his face here – his new Greenlight card!

greenlight

Samantha’s new dress up shoes!

dress up

Authentic 1980s Totally Hair Barbie!

barbie

Everyone had fun with Ms. Pac-Man!

paceman

paceman

We then opened the presents from each other. Maxwell was very proud of the gigantic present he wrapped for Dad…

present

present

which turned out to be a tiny chapstick! ha!

present

Robert and I provide our middle-ageness by getting each other Theragun products! Our aching bodies need help!!

xmas morn

Samantha wasn’t excited at all about her present from us…

lol

and that’s when she thought it was just LOL pajamas! Then she saw that she got tickets to see LOL Live on Stage!! Woohoo!

lol

lol

The boys then opened one of our presents and they got tickets too! Tickets to see the Falcons play the next day in Atlanta!! Rise up!

falcons

They then watched a special video from Boban Marjanović, a player for the Dallas Mavericks telling them they’ve got tickets to see the Cavs play the Magic in Dallas in January!! Headed to the Big D!

dallas

It was a fantastic Christmas morning with lots of smiling, happy faces…like this one!

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That’s Samantha with some of her new makeup out of her caboodle!!

Merry merry indeed!