The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Expressions Art Contest

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, both boys entered a photograph in the school Expression Art Contest this year. I have mixed feelings about the contest after what happened to Maxwell in Kindergarten (really, how hard would it have been to call me to come up there and trim 2 inches off?!) but, I definitely wanted to encourage them to participate. We had time to kill with an underwater camera and my iPhone in Naples so I printed out some of the photos they took and we entered them. I’m glad we did! Both of these boys won first place in their age division!

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photography

photography

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Spencer’s winning photo…

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and Maxwell’s!

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So proud of my artists!

School stuff

Just some fun school stuff – mostly for Spencer!

A classmate’s new dog comes for a visit…

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With his reading buddy on PJ day…

pj day

Dress like a book character day (that we didn’t dress up for!)…

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100th day of school!!

100 day of school

100 days

And, finally, their entries into the Expressions Art contest. Photography!

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School fun!

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.

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

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

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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!

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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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!