The Brown Brick Road

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Birthday Party!

We celebrated Samantha’s birthday last weekend with a little party, just the 5 of us! There were balloons, presents, and cupcakes from Olexa’s! Perfect!

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skb bday 1

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This picture cracks me up because they were looking up to see…

skb party 1

silly Dad!  🙂

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Everyone loves a party hat!

party hat

We were all excited to celebrate our favorite baby girl!

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1 bday party

bday party

skb bday party

After lunch, we opened presents! Well, Maxwell and Spencer opened presents. They’re such helpful brothers!  🙂

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frist bday

presents

presents

Baby was loving all the help and all the attention!

presents

presents

After that, it was time for the main event! Cake and a pink candle!

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Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!

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Happy birthday Baby Mantha!
Happy birthday to you!

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Make a wish! (and I love love love this photo!)

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Then grabby hands 1 and 2 went in for the steal!

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Samantha got a perfectly pink strawberry cupcake for herself!

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And she had no trouble getting that thing into her mouth!

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Ohhh….so good! 🙂

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cake

Smash it in! Yum!

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cupcake

cake

The boys were loving how much she was loving the cupcake!

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and they were loving their own chocolate cupcakes!

cupcakes

It was the perfect little celebration for my perfect little girl!

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Happy Birthday Samantha!

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Now, back to the cake! 🙂

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See you tomorrow!

Itty Bitty

Happy Monday! We had a good – and cold! – weekend around here. It started with a little wintry mix of Friday. Luckily it wasn’t cold enough for anything to stick – but it was cold enough to not want to be outside! Instead of letting the boys sit around on their iPads all day Saturday, I threw them in the car and we went up to the McWane Science Center to go to the Itty Bitty City. They loooove it up there and I can’t blame them – it’s really neat!

In Itty Bitty we played in the water area…

itty bitty

Cooked up some food in the restaurant…

itty bitty

Climbed all over…

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and also went to the Vet’s Office and drove the Fire Truck! Once our time was up in Itty Bitty, we explored McWane a bit and dug for some dinosaur bones…

itty bitty

and of course spent time mesmerized by the ball machine in the lobby!

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A fun way to spend a cold morning! Now we’re ready for a great week ahead celebrating a certain baby girl’s FIRST BIRTHDAY!!

TGIF

Happy Friday from…

Maxwell (who got to wear his pjs to school yesterday!)

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Spencer (who really wanted to wear his dinosaur rain coat with the hood up despite no rain!)

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and Samantha (who stood by herself for a good 10 seconds yesterday!)

samantha

Make it a great weekend!

Long weekend

We definitely enjoyed our long weekend last weekend. It started off with a bang for Maxwell when Robert took him to the Lego BrickFair at the BJCC!

brickfair

lego fair

He even came home with two GIANT boxes of Legos – both of which were completed within a day and a half! He’s a Lego machine!

legos

legos

The rest of the weekend? We enjoyed the beautiful weather on Saturday with a neighborhood stroll…

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stroll

and bundled up for a much chillier stroll on Sunday!

stroll

stroll

Maxwell missed that walk because he got to go bowling with a buddy!

bowling

It was nice to just have an extra day to lay around in our pjs…

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eat cake pops for breakfast (thanks Dad!)…

cake pops

and watch more of the iPad than we should!

cake pops

We even had special visitors on Monday! Aunt Messy and LuLu!

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All in all a great long weekend. I wish we had 3 days weekends every weekend!!

Week in review

Around here the last week…

I had to go down to Naples unexpectedly last Friday. GJ had a little procedure but happy to report she is now heart healthy! There were no worries back in Birmingham because Robert held down the fort tremendously!

bham

bham

I got back into town in time to watch the big Championship football game on Monday night! We were dressed in our colors…

roll tide

and ready to cheer Roll Tide! It was definitely a good game and we were all very pleased with the outcome! Maxwell has especially gotten into watching football with Dad! He asks a LOT of questions…not sure how much Dad was enjoying all those questions during the first half of the game Monday! ha!

Also this week, Maxwell built the Lego Police Station he got for Christmas…

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and has been very proud getting all of his Legos displayed in his room!

legos

Spencer has had a little cold (KLEENEX!!) and stayed home from school Tuesday. But, he was feeling better by Thursday so got to go play with Jairus and Sebastian at school.

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Samantha has been all over the downstairs in the walker we brought inside. Video here. She’s loved it!

That’s a wrap on a great week! Here’s to a long weekend ahead!!

samantha

Happy Friday!