The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Mother’s Day

After a fantastic Saturday, it was Mother’s Day on Sunday! Maxwell brought me breakfast in bed and then they pulled off a hilarious surprise with the help of Mrs. Susan…

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susan

Ha! My little Daisy Duke!

We then went over to surprise Mrs. Susan in our pjs! She’s as much mother to these kids as anyone so it was only right to show her some extra love that day!  🙂

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After that it was down to Montgomery for lunch with the family.

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mothers day

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The boys were looking sharp and Samantha was the cutest thing around with her pigtails!! I sure am one lucky momma!

Sweet baby girl was worn out from all the fun…

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A great day for all! Happy weekend!

Egg-cellent!

While down in Naples we decorated Easter eggs – but instead of dyeing them we made cool designs with markers using these Egg-mazing Egg Decorators!

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My mom ordered them and they really were fantastic. We were decorating fake eggs and they worked great on those. Nate and Delaney used them the following week with real boiled eggs and reported that they worked even better with those.

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eggs

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The kids had a blast with them and made some of the coolest looking eggs I’ve seen!

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eggs

It was WAY less mess than dyeing eggs – I hope this tradition sticks around!

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Easter

Easter morning we woke up and were happy to see that the bunny had been by!

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bunny

All kinds of goodies for my crew! and plenty of candy too! We then got dressed in our Easter finest to head down to Montgomery for the day. While I was helping the boys get ready, Samantha disappeared and then re-appeared crying “I sorry Mama! I sorry!”. When I saw her, I knew why she was sorry…

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Yep, that’s ink. She took apart an ink pen in Maxwell’s room and was covered head to toe. That was after she had drawn on the back of Maxwell’s chair. I guess my kids just have a thing for furniture art! Thankfully she didn’t get much at all on the carpet and, even more thankfully, she didn’t have her dress on yet!! He dress was super special because it was the same dress that I wore for Easter when I was 3!

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So cute I can barely stand it!! A few more from Easter 1981…

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easter

And my sweet 3 year old in the sweetest dress!

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The boys were looking super sharp too…

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easter

The best looking trio around!

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easter

easter

We had a great day in Montgomery – lunch at the country club and then plenty of visiting and cousin play time at Lulu and Granddaddy’s house afterward. I also got a few more good group pictures….

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easter

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A wonderful day, indeed!

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Egg Hunt

I’m going to go backward and recap Easter before Spring break. On Saturday, we put on our best spring outfits and drove down to the annual Inscoe egg hunt. Everyone was looking very, very sharp! (in my opinion!)

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I mean…the cutest.

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egg hunt

We had a great time at the hunt. The weather could not have been more perfect and we saw lots of good friends and family. Samantha was a bit cranky when we first arrived and seemed to be attached to my leg, but she eventually warmed up and was chasing boys around and loving getting to play with baby Margaret!

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hunt

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egg hunt

egg hunt

egg hunt

Love this pic of the whole Brown crew! Just wish Spencer had his eyes open! ha!

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A perfect day for egg hunting!

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Egg Hunt 2

After our church egg hunt, we had another egg hunt that afternoon with our awesome neighborhood! The rain was threatening all day but it held out and we all had the best time! Look at this cute crew…

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The big kids hunted eggs across the street in front of the school while the little kids stuck to one of our yards. I didn’t take any pics – was too busy having fun!

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So thankful for our awesome neighborhood!

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