The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Oh Christmas Tree

Well, no visit to the tree lot for us this year. We’re traveling over the holiday and couldn’t leave a real tree in the house so I did something I swore I’d never do…and I’m not mad about it. Yes, we got a fake tree! Maxwell and I put it up ourselves, I didn’t have to string any lights, and it’s perfectly un-crooked! ha!

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It’s a beaut, Clark, it’s a beaut!

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I did miss picking out our tree like previous years, but, the lack of hassle involved with this one sure was nice. It even kept me distracted during the Iron Bowl – I was hanging ornaments and standing on the ladder when they went for it on 4th and 31! Roll Tide!

The rest of our house is looking very merry too!

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We’re ready for the big day!

Christmas fun

Lots of Christmas fun around here!

Samantha went to a Christmas craft camp and made some great creations…

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Spencer got to go caroling in the village with the 5th grade…

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Samantha was looking super swiftie for holiday sweater day at school…

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She had fun at her class party…

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and then I had fun watching her class during the teacher luncheon! We “elf’d” ourselves, played stick the nose on rudolph, and made it through a few exciting rounds on bingo!

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And can’t beat a Christmas PJ day!

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Finally I had some fun holiday lunches with friends!

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xmas

Holiday fun all around!

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All I know is we’re in the holiday spirit around here!!

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Thanks for the fun game Susan! Merry merry!

holiday program

Samantha performed in her final MBE holiday program this week. It was cute – mostly songs with a little bit of “acting”. I just love to watch her on stage. She shines! I went to the first performance on Tuesday and she looked adorable, obviously.

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She smiled and sang and nailed it!

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I also couldn’t figure out why her skirt was sticking out like this…until I realize they throw “snowballs” at one point and she was hiding two snowballs in that skirt! ha!

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Program day 2 and another cute outfit!

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These two got to see her perform in the morning!

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Samantha, once again, nailed it!

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I then went up to watch the afternoon performance. Maxwell was out of exams and promised Samantha he would come. I then agreed to pull Spencer out of class so he could see it. They somehow recruited Henry to sit with them. Trouble on the front row!

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They (mostly) behaved and Samantha did enjoy throwing her snowballs directly at them!

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snowballs

A cute holiday program – complete with a song about a piñata! ha! Merry merry!

Santa

Last weekend we saw the big man in red and put in our wish list! Well, no one actually put in a wish list because no one has anything they’re actually asking for. Don’t worry though, Santa always has surprises in his bag!! It was a fun night at the club!

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Hope we’re all on the nice list!!

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santa

Ho Ho Ho!