The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Miami Heat

While down in Naples, we took a little drive over to Ft. Lauderdale to eat at Houston’s! Totally worth the trip to get that spinach dip…

trip

trip

Well, maybe that wasn’t the only reason we went! We stayed in Ft. Lauderdale and took the Brightline train into Miami to go to the Heat v. Lakers game!

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heat

Of course Spence had to get some swag…

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and we all were pretty excited to see Lebron!

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The boys were also excited to see Jimmy Butler and Russell Westbrook. It was a fun game and the Heat ran away with the win!

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What a fun night with my favorite people!

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Naples

After Christmas we headed down to Naples for some rest, relaxation and sunshine! Despite a delayed flight out of Bham, we made it to Ft. Myers with no problems mainly thanks to a full speed sprint through the Atlanta airport! Phew! The kids were happy to get to open some more Christmas gifts…especially when those gifts consisted of cleverly wrapped cold hard cash!

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cash

cash

Leave it to GJ – she’s the best!

gj

gj

We didn’t get to to go to the beach while we were down there. It’s still being put back together after the hurricane, but that didn’t bother us!

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Gary the Gator even came by to say hi!

gator

We did enjoy some dinners out…

dinner

and tried some new foods!

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But consumed lots of chicken fingers and fries too! ha! We also did a little shopping…

shopping

shopping

and made cookies, of course.

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As always, the trip was too short and we can’t wait to go back!

naples

See you again soon GJ!

Where we headed?

Another thing we did over Christmas break was get passports for the kids!

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passport

passport

passport

No trips planned as of yet but now we’re ready! Where we headed?

Christmas day

On Christmas day we headed over to Mary Beth’s to see family and enjoy a Christmas meal!

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It was fun for the cousins to get to hang out and play together.

xmas

We enjoyed seeing family and catching up…

family

and then went back home to rest and relax. Some choose to relax a little differently than others!

xmas

Ha! Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning

Excitement was high at 6am! I thought we had set a “no earlier than” time of 6:30 but they were all up and ready to go by 6am so…Santa time! Maxwell had even already showered…gotta get that hair looking good for pics of course. 😉

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xmas morning

They were happy to see that Santa came!

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santa

santa

There were some pretty fun surprises included!

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xmas

xmas

xmas

Everyone had fun checking out all of their Santa haul…

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Robert and I both managed to surprise each other…a grill and Gucci! Merry Christmas!

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gucci

The kids then to open the presents from us. Boys first…

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xmas

xmas

xmas

Yeeess! Tickets to see the Heat play the Lakers in Miami! Then it was Samantha’s turn…

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swift

A Taylor Swift t-shirt! Yay! but wait…an envelope?!

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swift

swift

Tickets to see Taylor Swift in concert in Atlanta! Woohoo!!

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We had some happy little elves Christmas morning. They were also happy because no one had to rush to clean up their stuff because we weren’t hosting Christmas lunch! That made me a happy elf too! We tried out new Christmas gifts…

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took time checking out all of our gifts…

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pancakes

xmas morn

and enjoyed pancakes cooked by Maxwell!

pancakes

A very merry Christmas morning!