The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Christmas Eve

Happy Monday! Back into the full swing of work – boo. But, who’s ready for some Christmas recaps?! me!

First up? Christmas eve! GJ, Daddo and Susu were all in town and that made it extra fun.

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xmas eve

Robert, the kids, and I went to the noon service up at church. We were all looking pretty sharp so I had to get some pictures!

xmas eve

xmas eve

Love, love this family shot GJ took!

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Please notice the bare legs and sleeveless dress. It was about 75 and muggy! ugh! The boys did great in church. Samantha actually did really well too. She just preferred having me or Robert stand and hold her versus sitting in the pew!  🙂

That night we had a traditional Christmas Eve dinner of burgers 😉 and then opened special presents from GJ and Daddo!

xmas eve

xmas eve

The boys got new iPads! I helped GJ get them all filled up with new movies, games and apps to play with. I even put a picture of a tiger as Maxwell’s screen saver and a picture of a lion on Spencer’s! They thought that was pretty awesome. We also got them the headphones for when we fly places but they thought they were so cool they just put them on right then!

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It was a wonderful Christmas eve…

xmas eve

and truly a silent night!  🙂

xmas eve

xmas eve

Who’s ready for Santa?!!

2016

Happy New Year!! 2016 better be ready because it has a lot to live up to! 2015 was pretty great!!

January…

january

August…

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December…

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I think it’s gonna be the best year yet!  Have a great weekend!

Dentist, playdates, and NYE

Lots of fun stuff happened over the past week or so and I’m just going to go in order to get through it all. First up? The ever so exciting and fun dentist visit! ha!

dentist

On the 21st, the boys had their teeth all checked out and did great…even if Spencer didn’t love getting his teeth cleaned!

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teeth dentist

dentist

Great reports from the dentist are always welcome!

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On the 23rd, Maxwell got to have a little Christmas playdate and Max, James, and Lila came over to play and have lunch. They all had a great time…and especially loved it when Susan popped up some Jiffy Pop for them!

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playdate

They were quite the crew all piled up together on the couch.

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We even got to have our very favorite visitor over for the playdate!

gj

gj

It was a great kick-off to Christmas week! Lots of Christmas pictures to come but I hope you all have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve tonight! See you next year!!

Card outtakes 2

Just a few more pictures that didn’t make the card. After I had such little success on my two attempted photoshoots, I tried taking a few pictures of the boys before church one day. They didn’t turn out great for the card but I did like this one of Spencer…

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and this one of Maxwell.

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Love those boys.

And here’s a few more family shots from when we were in Highlands…

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highlands

Cheers!

Card outtakes

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We sure did! We’re enjoying the time off a little longer but will recap it all soon. Today, just a few of the outtakes from the hundreds (literally) of photos I took trying to get one for our Christmas card. We ended up using this one on the front…

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and this one on the back…

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I love them both. The one on the front was a total fluke moment that I happened to catch and it made me so happy.  🙂  Here are a few others that either made me happy but weren’t quite right for the card and a few that just made me laugh! Also, I didn’t edit all of these so some will be a little dark – and you’ll also be able to see the big cut on Maxwell’s head that I had to photoshop out of the pictures!

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card

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Those were all taken up at the church. We attempted some at home too….

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Oh, these pumpkins make me smile!

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Cheers!