The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Cabin fever

By Sunday morning, we were all ready to get out of the house! We decided to venture out to Starbucks and were glad to have a place to go!

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You should definitely get cake pops for breakfast when you venture out in the 20 degree weather early in the morning!

ice storm

That afternoon we even went down to the frozen playground. The kids had fun and we all got a kick out of throwing rocks into the frozen creek and trying to break the ice!

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Thankfully no one fell in!

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By Monday it was starting to melt away and while Spencer and Samantha still didn’t have school, Maxwell just had a delayed start until 11:00am. Hard to believe one week later we were outside in short sleeves! Crazy AL weather!

Ice Ice Baby

What a BEAUTIFUL long weekend we just had – sunny and 72 degrees in January! Even crazier is that we were covered in ice one week ago! Yep, last Friday the kids didn’t have school because of the impending winter weather. Now, nothing started falling until Friday night but when it started, it stuck! We woke up Saturday morning to 16 degree temps and everything covered in ice. Unfortunately it was just ice – no snow at all – so not a lot of fun for the kids. That didn’t stop them from wanting to get out and at least try to play in it…

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It was bitterly cold. I think it was in the low 20s when we were out there playing. I used to live in NYC and could handle some majorly cold weather but I guess my bones are too Southern now because it was almost more than I could stand! It didn’t seem to bother the boys at all…they stayed out there forever trying to dig holes in the ice!

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I love these pics of Spence…

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and I really love this picture of Maxwell. If you zoom in you can even see his breath in the sunshine…

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All in all the ice was fun, not as much fun as snow but we’ll take it. Of course, my favorite part was definitely this….

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The first day of ice was fun…by the second day we were all going a little stir crazy! More to come tomorrow…

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Brrrrrrr!

Blues

We wore our Sunday blues yesterday…

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but we don’t have a case of the Monday blues because we’ve got the day off! Woohoo!

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Well, 4 of us do. Robert has to work. Booooo.

Enjoy the day off if you’ve got it!

Double take

My parents definitely have favorite pictures from the blog that they’ve remembered through the years. One of my Dad’s very favorites is this one of Maxwell from January 2012:

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Not really sure why he remembers it but he does and he loves it. Susan decided we should recreate it with Samantha and, well, it’s pretty darn cute and funny too!!

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That’s for you, Daddo! Hope it starts your Friday off right!! Nothing cuter than babies in hats and boots…and nothing else!  🙂

Have a great weekend!

ps – Friday the 13th?! Spoooky!

Smooshed

When you’re in FL and there are 3 car seats and 4 adults crammed into a suburban, someone has to take one for the team and squeeze in the way back between two of those car seats!

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Nowhere I’d rather be than smooshed between these two!

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Please note that’s Maxwell’s hand by Spencer’s in the second pic. My fingers aren’t that small! Peace out!