The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Irma aftermath

Irma was still making herself known around here yesterday. Birmingham was under a Tropical Storm watch so they cancelled school for Monday. We spent the day in the best way possible…

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Yep, those positions were assumed by 8am! Around lunchtime we did put on our hurricane gear…

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and ventured out for some food, including some gooey brownies! ha!

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But then we were back home to assume our positions for the remainder of the day…

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Now, it was a bit ridiculous that school was cancelled since it was barely even raining all day with virtually zero wind. They changed the forecast from a Tropical Storm watch to just a wind advisory by mid-day. However, the school system still decided to go with a delayed start today. Better safe than sorry I guess! Bye bye Irma…for good this time!

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Irma

Hurricane Irma is not our friend. My parents left Naples Saturday morning to go to my brother’s house in Jupiter to ride out the storm. Thankfully, everyone is ok and my brother’s house sustained minimal damage. We do not yet know about Naples and our house there. I’m writing this Sunday night and the storm surge is still to come.

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Unfortunately, Irma is seemingly making its way into Alabama with Tropical Storm force winds. Hopefully nothing bad will make it to Birmingham but we could have trees down and loss of power. I will update as I get more information about my family, our house, and Naples. Go away Irma….and don’t come back!

Monday afternoon update: Our family friend, Marc, was able to check on the house and it looks good! A little damage including roof tiles gone and landscape and screen enclosure damage but it’s all minor and fixable! The storm surges were nowhere near predicted levels and we had no flooding! It’s all pretty unbelievable considering the eye wall of this monster went right over Naples. So thankful our wonderful Naples fared so well! Bye bye Irma…and don’t come back!!

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The rest of the birthday

Maxwell’s never ending birthday finally wrapped up on Wednesday of last week with his real, actual birthday day! He got to celebrate on Tuesday afternoon with Susan who is always so generous on birthdays…

ssan bday

and again on Wednesday morning with the traditional cinnamon roll breakfast of birthday champions…

7 breakfast

and again that afternoon at school when he took football cookies.

football cookies

His class does a “birthday blessing” where each student makes a card for the birthday kid and they go around in a circle and either read their card or say something nice about him. I got to go up there for it and it was pretty sweet to watch. 🙂

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I then got to have lunch in the cafeteria with my favorite 7 year old!

bday lunch

That night we all went to dinner at Mexico Lindo with GJ and Daddo in tow. We then went home for icebox cake – Maxwell’s choice!!

cake

Pretty much all of Maxwell’s gifts were AL football related, including some cool football player pjs that I got for him and Spence. I realized that morning that I had not gotten anything for Samantha and I knew she needed a present to open too so I sent GJ to Target to find some and, just our luck, these “beautiful” Frozen pjs were on the clearance rack with one size 3T remaining! They sure are ugly…and she sure does love them! ha!

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The next day Maxwell went to school with just about all of his AL gear on his body. Love this kid.

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A BIG happy 7th to Maxwell!!

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Catching up

It’s our first day back after a long weekend of vacation and we’re all a little worn out. We had a great time at the beach but need some time to catch up on rest and on life…

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See you tomorrow!

Labor Day

Happy Labor Day from my crimson crew…

maxwell

mbb

crimson

It’s officially football season after all! Roll Tide!

roll tide

See you tomorrow!