The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

USS Alabama

This past weekend the boys got to go sleep on a battleship! Maxwell’s Boy Scout troop took a trip down to Mobile to spend the night on the USS Alabama and, because I was out of town, Spencer got to tag along.

use

uss

They did a scavenger hunt to explore the ship and then had pizza and watched a movie.

ship

They then settled in for a comfy night’s sleep in their cozy bunks! ha!

ship

ship

I’m not sure there was a whole lot of quality sleep that night and they were up and out of there by 6:30am the next day!

battleship

A pretty cool thing to get to do…and a thing I’m glad Robert got to do instead of me! 🙂 We love the scouts!

Iphone dump

Time to clean out some pics!

iPhone

iphone

Good times all around!

While the cat’s away

The mice did play! As I said, I was out of town for work all last week and I’m not sure my crew missed me too much…they were too busy having fun! There were movies…

movie

Boy Scout meetings (that everyone got to go to, not just the boy scout!)…

scouts

and haircuts and basketball practice and even PJ day at school! Robert did a great job getting everyone up and ready in the morning…

3 kids

even if Susan did have to do Samantha’s hair everyday! ha! 🙂 While I know they had fun, I do think they were ready for me to get home. Samantha’s teary voice on Thursday night asking me if I was going to be home by dinner on Friday just about did me in. I sure was glad to see these 3 on Friday afternoon…

friday

We celebrated with pizza and ice cream and there was no place else I wanted to be!

all 3

A huge thank you to Robert and Susan for doing all the jobs so well last week! I couldn’t get by without you both!

 

1 and 1

1 and 1 makes 2!

1 and 1 also makes 11! I’m so happy I’ve gotten to spend these past 11 years with my number 1. I love you, Robert! Happy Anniversary!

More Naples

More Naples?! Yes, oh yes! We just had too much fun at the pool…

naples

naples

seeing Mary Poppins (loved it!)…

movies

getting ice cream…

ice cream

ice cream

and, of course, the beach!

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

naples

I sure do love these three. As I posted on Instagram on New Year’s Day, I’m excited for new adventures in 2019 but I would do 2018 all over again because I am acutely aware that these days, these ages are magical. I can’t wait to see who these kids become but I sure do love who they are right now, silly faces and all.

beach

naples

Anyway, back to Naples – we even shot fireworks on New Year’s Eve!

nye

fireworks

The boys picked this poop emoji firework which was a surprisingly good and dazzling choice! Who woulda thought?

poop

Sadly, like all good things, our trip had to come to an end. We said goodbye to GJ and Daddo on New Year’s Day…

gj daddy

naples

and thankfully had an uneventful flight home even with a connection in Atlanta. We’re always so glad we get to go to Naples…and we can’t wait to go back again!