Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
First, yesterday went well and Samantha’s big yucky tonsils – and adenoids! – are gone! She’s pitiful but recovering. I think a day full of hearts and love – and maybe some ice cream too! – will make her feel better!
She took her Valentines to school on Monday and they were Taylor Swift themed, of course!
Spencer took the same Valentine he and Maxwell have taken the past few years – why mess with success?!
Roll Tide and Happy Valentine’s Day!
On the first day of 2024 we got up, put on our crimson and headed to the Rose Bowl! Roll Tide!
We ended up taking the light rail out to Pasadena and then hopping on a shuttle bus to actually get to the stadium. It worked great!
Everyone was excited to see the stadium and we took lots and lots of pictures!
We had great seats and the sun really warmed everyone up – and made it a little hard to see but we managed!
It was a great game – lots of highs and plenty of lows.
While the game didn’t end the way we wanted, I’m so glad we went. Robert checked off that bucket list item and we all got to see what ended up being Saban’s last game. We were there for the end of an era and that’s pretty cool.
Sometimes you just have to say “yes” to crazy ideas and this is one I’m so glad we said “yes” to! We flew home the next day landing in Birmingham at about 10:30pm. It was a rude awakening for school the next morning but definitely worth it. Roll Tide!
After Christmas…before California…time to crash and finally rest up!
Tried out new Christmas presents…
Had a sleepover – with Tecate of course.
Wore some new kicks!
and got a needed haircut!
After all the go go go it was nice to have some down time…before we went again!
After all the fun of Christmas morning, we had everyone over to the house for a wonderful meal and lots more presents! It was nice to have the whole Brown fam – plus GJ! – together.
The very merriest of Christmas days!!
We were up early Christmas morning and were happy to see that Santa stopped by!
Everyone had fun inspecting their loot!
Lululemon!
Flying LOL!
But the most fun was when they gave each other presents – or really when Maxwell gave out his presents. He got very into the act of giving this year and it was fun to see.
Samantha was pretty pumped about her new kicks from Maxwell!
And Spencer was really excited to get his gift – which was going to be EXTRA cool had a real life Grinch not stolen the Nike Grinch shoes off of our porch while we were in Paris! Ugh. But, we handled it, got a refund from Nike, and Spencer got a promise to get his shoes whenever we found them!
Of course, opening GJ’s present is always fun! Samantha’s face – haha!
And even though we told the kids that Paris was their big present for the year, Robert and I had one last trick up our sleeve.
You see, Robert’s got a bucket list and one thing on that list was to see Alabama play in the Rose Bowl. How could we not?! California or bust!!! A very merry Christmas morning for sure!