The Brown Brick Road

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Thanksgiving in the Mountains

On Thanksgiving morning, we loaded up and drove to Highlands, NC to spend the long weekend with Robert’s parents. It was a GORGEOUS weekend and we had a great time! We loved getting to bundle up in our coats but still feel the sunshine on our face. We had a fantastic Thanksgiving meal thanks to LuLu, a great dinner out with our good friends, Patrick and Liz, and even made a trip to a Mexaurant! All the kids slept better than I could have hoped. We hiked and ran around the golf course and even saw Santa Claus light up a giant Christmas tree! The only disappointing thing? No mountain lions were spotted…much to Maxwell’s dismay!  🙂

highlands

highlands

highlands

highlands

I took some new Christmas pjs for the kids to wear on Thanksgiving night. A good kick-off to the holiday season!

christmas pjs

On Friday, we hiked up to the top of Sunset Rock with Patrick and Henry.

sunset rock

sunset rock

sunset rock

sunset rock

On Saturday night we went into town (Robert even left the tv halfway through he Iron Bowl! Shocker!) to meet up with the Woods to drink hot chocolate, sing Christmas carols, and watch Santa light up the tree right in the center of town! So neat and quaint! 🙂

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ps – that’s not the tree. 🙂

Here’s a few more pictures from the fun weekend.

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It was a great Thanksgiving and I’m so THANKFUL we got to spend it in the mountains! Thanks for everything Lulu and Granddaddy!

highlands

See you tomorrow!

Thanksgiving

This year I am so, so thankful for these two little boys…

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this sweet girl…

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and this handsome guy.

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These photos are from Samantha’s baptism at the end of August. I can’t say we got the best shots but that’s ok. I’m thankful for these babies, smiling or not!

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I’ll be sharing more of the baptism pictures tomorrow and Monday so check back if you’d like to see!

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I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family, friends, and pie. 🙂

Indian Chiefs

Maxwell had his Thanksgiving feast up at school yesterday. I say Robert’s old button down never looked better!

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Maxwell’s Indian name? Chief Orange Coywolf (yes, it’s real. Half coyote, half wolf. Ask him – he’ll tell you all about it!)

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Maxwell said he was thankful for tigers, foxes, and Samantha! ha! Sorry Spence!  🙂

I think the other two need Indian names for Thanksgiving too.

Presenting Princess Pink Sunshine…

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and Chief Green Silly Pants.

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Happy Thanksgiving from my tribe!

Happy Monday

Hi!

baby mantra

ps – I know it’s not even Thanksgiving yet but we started to make it look a little like Christmas around here! 🙂

xmas tree

xmas tree

pps – Spencer is being a “kimass” tree in that picture. He makes me laugh.

See you tomorrow!

 

Halloween!

Thankfully Maxwell was feeling much better by Saturday afternoon and was ready for a fun Halloween night! Unfortunately, the weather forecast was not in our favor! We were planning to go to the parade, the neighborhood party, and then trick-or-treat. But, with the rain coming, the neighborhood moved the party up to 4:00 so we went straight there and skipped the parade. But, we obviously had to get plenty of pics on the porch first!  🙂

Piggy was ready!

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and so were her chubby cheeks!  🙂

piggy

Spencey was being a little pouty at first…

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But then he perked up and gave me a good lion roar to match tiger Maxwell!

tiger maxwell

We walked over to the party and it was fun – they had two bounce houses and little train to take you on a ride around the neighborhood. In hindsight, I think we might have had more fun at the parade but….live and learn. The party had a lot of “big kids” and it made it difficult for the boys to enjoy things. Here they are crammed into the train car with lots of “big kids”…they look a little overwhelmed! ha!

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Still, they managed to climb and bounce and enjoy themselves for sure!

halloween 2015

halloween 2015

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Samantha enjoyed the party from our arms! She really, really wanted to get Robert’s bottle and was almost successful a few times. She’s got a grip!

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halloween pig

halloween 2015

Around 5:00 it was starting to rain so we headed out to trick-or-treat before it really started to come down. Maxwell and Spencer walked up to the first house right beside the party and as soon as the lady came to open her door, her two giant dogs bolted out the door barking their heads off and scaring the boys so bad I wasn’t sure they were going to make it. Maxwell was terrified. It was scary. From them on, we had to check to make sure there were no dogs in the house before Maxwell would go up to the door! ha! He got braver as we moved along though and managed to hit up plenty of houses for lots of candy!

trick or treat

trick or treat

By 6:00 it was raining harder and we were wet and headed toward home! The boys were super excited to sort through their loot…

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halloween

but I was super sad to realize I had dropped Maxwell’s mask somewhere in the last block before home. Robert went back out to try and find it that night with no luck but, the next morning, look what we found laying in someone’s yard! hooray!

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It was soaking wet but totally fine!

Overall, it was a fun Halloween but, man oh man, I’m hoping for dry weather next year!

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Happy Halloween!