The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

More pictures

I have so many more pictures I want to share – so I’m going to do just that! Someday I’ll scan in every single picture that is in all those containers in Naples but, for now, these are some more of what I have.

Little Stevie Patterson…

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Butterball!

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Up, up and away!

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Engagement party in Montgomery…

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the race car!

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Two of my very favorite people…

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Birthday boy at Disney!

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Gotta love my long high school hair! Just about as long as it is now!

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Obviously the cars were washed by hand!

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Little Stevie Patterson had quite the dance career on stage, or so I was told!

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The bunny ears…

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and the retaliation!

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The three Maxwells!

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Holding court with my Vandy girls!

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Merry Christmas!

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He did always love Christmas time!

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Daddo and baby Samantha…

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Good times at the Bass Pro!

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Baby Delaney!

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Rooooar!

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Ferraris all around!

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He was a really good golfer. I am not.

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Steve the engineer!

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Looking sharp at John’s house!

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New car!

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Just missing miss smiley Samantha!

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I’m thinking this note was stuck in a package sent to me at college. I love this so much.

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So many good memories, so many good times!

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This is what I posted on social media yesterday. It’s so hard to sum things up in a neat little post but I did my best.
I am heartbroken to say that my dad passed away yesterday. He died on 4.4.22 at 11:11 am which, if you knew him, is very fitting that he chose such a precise number. We miss him so much but feel so lucky that we got to love him and be loved by him for as long as we did. He was extraordinary. He believed in hard work and did just that his entire life to give us the best of everything. Incredibly smart and always curious, he spent his life learning about things that he loved. Whether it was Lionel trains, Ferraris, or watches, he never did anything halfway! Being our dad was the thing he did best though. Despite everything he had to do in life and career, I always knew that home with us was the place he loved to be most. He loved Christmas; he loved working in the yard; he loved building things whether it was our awesome treehouse or shelves for my dorm room; he loved taking us to Disney World. He loved me and my brother and my mom.
He and my mom were married for 48 years and she was his best friend. They were always quite the match – two of the kindest people you will ever meet. The love and care she has shown him over his lifetime, and especially the past few years, will serve as a shining example to us all about how to treat the ones you love most. My dad lived with Parkinson’s for almost 25 years and, despite all the hardships and being forced to give up things that he loved, I never once heard him complain. Never once. That just wasn’t his style. I will continue to live my life trying to make him proud. I will forever hear his voice in my ear asking me if I’m using my best judgement. I will tell my kids how much I love them and how proud I am of them just as he always did with me. My entire life people have told I’m just like him. I can think of no better compliment. How lucky am I to be Steve Patterson’s daughter?

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I could only include so many photos on Facebook and Instagram…but I can put as many as I want here! 🙂

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trains

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snow man

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Man, he was the very best.

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My dad passed away yesterday on 4.4.22 at 11:11 – which, if you know him, is very fitting that he’d pick such a precise number! I have lot of thoughts to process and much more to say but, for now I will just say that we miss him very much and feel unbelievably lucky that we got to love him and be loved by him for as long as we did. One thing is for very sure, Daddo sure did love these babies…

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and these babies too.

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We will miss him so very much.

School Stuff

Got this picture of Maxwell at school when I was helping with yearbook photos…

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and look at this cute crew!

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Samantha brought home her book about soccer and it was awesome and informative!

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And I loved Spencer’s story on parasailing!

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I had the kids’ teacher conferences last week and all got GLOWING reviews. I mean, truly glowing. They’re smart, they’re respectful, they’re well-rounded. How did I get so lucky?!

Campout

Last weekend Maxwell went on his first official Boy Scout campout!

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They got to go explore a cave and it sounded pretty cool. I think it’s safe to say this crew can have fun just about anywhere.

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Robert had to miss out on this campout to stay home and coach Maxwell’s baseball game that he missed! Ugh. But, there will be many more campouts in the future for these two to do together. Maxwell had a great time and seems to be excited about his new troop!