The Brown Brick Road

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Celebrating 40 with a BANG

For Robert’s big birthday this year, I planned something that actually turned out to be pretty great, if I do say so myself! We went out to Pursell Farms with Ronnie, Jenny, Mary Beth and Holland for some golf (for the boys), spa (for the girls), and shooting (for all!). It really was a fun trip and, coupled with a blowout win for AL over TN and it was the perfect getaway for the birthday boy!

pursell farms

It was a bluebird day and the guys had a fun (albeit slow!) game of golf while the girls got a massage…

golf

and then we headed to our awesome cabin to watch the game and hang out…

pursell

pursell farms

pursell farms

pursell farms

and then into our golf carts to head up to the clubhouse for dinner!

pursell

The next morning, we all went out to do 12 rounds of clay shooting. The guys LOVED it! Jenny had to leave a bit early so passed on the shooting but MB and I had gave it a go. Mary Beth is a sharpshooter! Me? Not so much. I did hit 6 clays though…out of 100. ha!

pursel farms

pursell farms

pursell farms

Regardless of anyone’s score at the end, we all had a really fun time. Thankfully, Susan was keeping the crew safe and sound back at home so we didn’t worry about them one bit.

home

It was a very special trip for a very special birthday for a very special person!

40

pursell farms

pursell farms

We love you Robert!

Backyard

What? More backyard pictures! Oh yes! When I was taking Spencer’s “official” 4 year pictures, I snapped some of the other two as well.

samantha

maxwell

I must say, we’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of this sand table!

sand table

I mentioned that Spencer was wanting to go “make a road” in the dirt…well, here he is making that road!

outside

spencer

dirt road

Pretty sure he’s blowing on the dirt through a straw here! ha!

dirt road

Baby tried it with less than stellar results!

outside

Loving this fall weather and pre-daylight savings time days!

More pictures

When I was posting Spencer’s birthday photos yesterday, I realized I still had some photos from when I took Maxwell’s birthday pictures that I never shared! I think these capture Spencer’s personality a little more accurately!  🙂

spencer

spencer

spencer

I mean…this kid! ha!

spencer

spencer

I also got some pretty darn cute ones of Baby too!

samantha

brothers

samantha

My sweet baby girl! These pictures were taken 2 months ago and it’s crazy how much longer her hair is now!

samantha

How did I get so lucky to get all these cute, good kiddos?

brothers

I don’t know, but I’ll sure take em!

I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!

It’s looking a little spooky around here!

spooky

As Spencer said, “Don’t worry, they’re just pretend. They’re happy ghosts!”

ghosts

ghosts

Phew. We like happy ghosts!

Also, seeing this picture makes me realize I’ve never told the full story on our front lawn redo. I will get to it someday but, this right here is why we did it…

lawn

My three pumpkins playing in the front in the grass on a beautiful fall day. Nothing better!

Around here

We did some really fun stuff around here last week and, unfortunately, many of the photos I took drowned with my phone in the potty! I was able to recover everything except about 5 days of photos so, overall, I was very lucky! Plus, I was still able to get a few of the photos back because I had texted them to GJ so she could just text them back to me!

On Thursday Maxwell had picture day at school. I didn’t fight the clothes battle because clothes don’t matter when your hair is on point!

hair

Mr. Hollywood Hair himself!

That night we also had the IPC Open House. I took so many cute photos of Samantha with Mrs. Laura and of Spencer with his classmates but…they’re gone. I did text this one to GJ though which I’m very happy about!

ipc open house

Later that night, Robert and I got dolled up and went to the Gala at the Garden – the annual black tie gala supporting the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. We had gotten the tickets for free so figured, why not?! It was actually really fun and I’m glad we went!

black tie

On Tuesday night of this week I had a little party inviting all of the MBE Kindergarten moms over. The house was looking party ready!

kitchen

I was especially glad the kitchen is nice and big because everyone stayed crammed in there all night. Also, note to self, don’t worry about food next time because nobody ate a bite!

Samantha had her school pictures on Thursday and she looked adorable, as always.

picture day

Spencer’s school pictures are today – let’s just hope I can get him in something besides his Hulk shirt!

Have a great weekend!