The Brown Brick Road

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a Party!

For Spencer’s first birthday we had a little family birthday party, just like we did for Maxwell – here and here.

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Decorations were easy with wrapping baby and balloons…

decorations party 1st

and a display of all of his monthly photos!  I loved looking at them all together to see how he’s changed…

12 month photos

We tried to get Spencer to wear the 1 crown…

1 crown

but that lasted about 2 seconds before big brother snatched it off his head!

crown

Crown or not, the birthday boy loved having everyone over to celebrate his big day!

family photo

Not so sure how he felt about that choke hold!  🙂  Still, he got plenty of loving from everyone…

birthday boy

1st party

1st party

high five

boys

spb 1st party

Maxwell loved getting to play with Katie and Anna…especially when Katie nicely agreed to play fire trucks!

katie and anna

and Maxwell also loved getting to do his favorite activity – jumping on GJ!

jump on GJ

While I think everyone enjoyed getting to visit for a while…

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visit

I know they were all ready for cake!  Especially Spencey!  Come back tomorrow for some major baby cake face!  🙂

Prelude to a party

On Sunday of last weekend we had a little family party for this birthday boy…

hat

Things got a little crazy!  ha!  Not really, but we did have fun! Lots of party pictures to come but, before the party, we had a fun weekend.  Spencer got a present from Mrs. Susan…

present

Jack in the Box!

present

Robert got his belated birthday present when we got to go to to the AL/AR game while GJ and Daddo kept the boys!

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We had a great time and even got to sit in the President’s Box thanks to Ronnie.

bama

VIP ya’ll!  It was really cool and we didn’t even care that the game wasn’t a game at all.  Alabama 54, Arkansas 0!  Roll Tide!

We finished the weekend with a present for Maxwell – GJ brought him a kit to make a Woody Pumpkin!

woody pumpkin

(please look at Spencey on his tip toes trying so hard to get up there and help!)

woody pumpkin

Howdy!  See you tomorrow with party pics!

Soccer finale!

On Sunday afternoon, we had our final soccer game of the season.  Maxwell did great and just ran his little heart out!  Coach Robert had the team ready to go for their final showdown against the green team!

soccer 5

soccer

Maxwell was really good and running up and down the field.  But, he didn’t care too much about actually kicking the ball!  This picture makes me laugh because it was pretty typical of the games with Maxwell and Riley down at the opposite end just checking things out!

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But, he did get up in there and go after the ball a few times!  🙂

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After the game (which was totally a Team Blue victory!) Coach handed out trophies to everyone.

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soccer 5

Maxwell’s first trophy!

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soccer 5

Yay for Maxwell and yay for Coach Robert!

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It was a great season for Team Blue!

team blue

Front row L to R: Riley, Nate, Maxwell

Back row L to R: Gray, Crawford, Coach Robert

Cruisin’

Wait, I get to sit in this car and Maxwell isn’t going to push me out?

car

This is awesome!

car

How do I look in it, Momma? I think red is my color.

car

haha!  I’m gonna go cruisin’ and bust outta this patio! Hit the open road!

car

What do you mean I need an engine to go?  Hmm…oh big broooother!

car

That’s more like it!

car

It’s about time I put him to work!  I’m almost 1 you know…gotta start showin’ him who’s boss!  🙂

car

Catch ya later, momma!  honk honk!

Soccer game 4

Soccer on Sunday was a little out of the ordinary because several kids were out of town for the Columbus Day weekend (I never knew that was such a big holiday with all the schools out?!).  But, we weren’t going to miss because we had our special cheerleader, GJ, in tow!  We were the first ones there and Maxwell had fun warming up with Coach Robert…

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Then Nate showed up and they had even more fun together!

soccer 4

soccer 4

Then Gray showed up and that took us to only 3 Blue team members by game time.  But, the team we were supposed to play only had 1 player and no coach!  Well, 1 player and then her older brother who was ready to play.  So, we combined with another group that was also short players (and also happened to have one team of blue shirts too!).  We played double blue against green/orange and it worked out great.

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I don’t know what switched in Maxwell’s head but he just got out there and ran all over that field from the beginning of the game to the end!

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He was having a blast charging up and down that field!

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And whenever there was a pile-up on the ground, Maxwell would sit down too even when he wasn’t in the pile-up. Hilarious.

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Spencey was having a great time hanging out under the umbrella with GJ!

gj and spencey

The game was a little challenging for our kids because the 5 year old brother dominated the game.  Dominated.  He shouldn’t have been out there honestly.  Oh well.

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That said, everyone still had fun and Nate even gave that 5 year old a little run for his money a few times!  By the end of the game, Maxwell was red-cheeked and sweaty…

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He ran his little heart out that whole game and I could not have been more proud!

Only one more game to go!