The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Family of 4!

Well, we added another boy to our family today!  And what a sweet, wonderful, perfect little boy he is!  He has been such a little angel since he arrived – barely crying at all.  Let’s hope that continues!  🙂  He’s just been snoozing away all swaddled up with only his precious little face poking out.  I think it’s safe to say that we all (especially big brother Maxwell!) are in love!

Today has been a whirlwind that started at 2:30am but it all went as smooth as possible.  It was all very similar to Maxwell’s birth day actually.  Full details to come later but, right now, I’m tired so I’m just going to share a bunch of iphone pics from today. 

 

My favorite part of the day might have been when Maxwell came up to meet Spencer.  He was SO excited to see the ya-ya and immediately wanted to hold him and give him kisses!  He’s going to be a great big brother!

 

I can’t believe this little guy is ours and that he’s here. 

Welcome to the world, Spencer!  Let the fun begin!

The Great Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday we went to The Great Pumpkin Patch in Hayden, AL.  Despite the drizzly, COLD weather, we had a good time and I think Maxwell had fun.  It was a bit of a drive out there but definitely worth it to let him run around, check out the “pump-choos” and do some fun stuff.

We really should have had on long sleeves but I didn’t realize it was going to be quite as chilly as it was!  We survived!

I’ll give you all one guess as to what Maxwell wanted to do first…and second and third!

Ride the “train” of course!

And he, of course, picked the “lallow” car to sit in!

We also walked through the petting zoo area.  We didn’t do any petting, just looking, and that was totally fine with me.  It stunk over there!

We then took a little covered wagon hay ride out to the actual pumpkin patch.

Once we got to the patch, Maxwell was on a mission to find the best “pump-choo!”

He thought he found the one…

But then changed his mind and off he went!

He then found the perfect “baby pump-choo!”

It was a great little pumpkin but we actually ended up getting back on the covered wagon without a pumpkin.  They were all pretty wet and muddy and Robert and I decided our pumpkins can just come from Home Depot again this year!  🙂  Luckily Maxwell didn’t seem to mind leaving all those “pump-choos” behind!

I then tried really hard to get Maxwell to pose for a picture in front of the hay bales but he wasn’t having any of it.  Robert even sat down to try and coax him over…

He wasn’t biting but then a big dog came over and sent Maxwell running for Dada…

I thought I was going to get my picture but he still wasn’t up for posing.  Oh well!

I then tried to get Maxwell to pose with me but was unsuccessful.  Oh well, I still smiled for the camera!  🙂

It was a fun, chilly fall day at the Pumpkin Patch!  Something we’ll definitely do again next year!

ps – can we all agree that Maxwell is too cute in his red vest and overalls!  🙂

Birthday!!!!

Maxwell, can you read what that sign says?

Let’s see…there’s a P and B and D and…

Momma, the library hasn’t yet taught me what the letters actual mean when they’re together. Help me.

Alright Maxwell, it says “Happy Birthday DaDa!” because TODAY is Dad’s birthday!!

It is?  Oh boy!  I’m going to hold this sign up all day until he gets home so it’s the first thing he sees when he walks in the door!

Yep, I’m just going to hold it up like this all day.

Momma, what time does Dad get home?  My arms are getting tired.

It’s ok bud, you can put the sign down.  We’ll be sure to show him these pictures so he can see it.  We could sing Happy Birthday to him…Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…

Oh Momma, let’s not do that.  You might be a better singer than Dad but…well, that makes me want to plug my ears.

No problem buddy.  What else could we do for Dad that he might like to see on his birthday?

Oh, I know!  Ready?

Roooolllll….

Tide!!

Great idea, Maxwell!  I know Dad will love that!

Happy Birthday Robert!  We love you SO much and can’t wait to celebrate with you tonight (cake!).  Thank you for ALL that you already do around here – and all the more you’re about to do when #2 arrives!

I can’t think of anyone I’d rather spend my days and years with.  Thank you for your patience, your attention to detail on so many important things, your level-headedness and, most importantly, for being my best friend and making us the happiest little family in all the land!

Here’s to a GREAT 36th year!!!

Happy Monday!

What a jam-packed, productive weekend!  I think my nesting instincts have definitely kicked in because I have all sorts of projects around house that I’m loving checking off my list!  Of course, some projects aren’t planned but have to get taken care of anyway – like a broken faucet!

What did we do over the past few days?

We read new books…thanks GJ!

We saw some old friends…

We hung out with some new friends…

We played in the dirt before church…

We went to Lowe’s…

and also Bed, Bath & Beyond where we came home with a treat for Maxwell…

We played dress-up.  Maxwell pretended to be a fireman…

and Robert pretended to be a plumber!  He replaced our kitchen faucet all by himself.  Way to go Robert!

Of course, he had a good helper!

We had a great weekend overall and loved the cooler temps!  The only downside is a little cold that Maxwell seems to have come down with – some coughing and a runny nose.  Let’s hope it moves on through quickly.

We got a lot of good stuff done for BBB2’s room. It’s really coming along and I’m feeling much better about that.  We’re just waiting on the twin bed that we ordered to come in and then we’ll be all set.  Good thing because we’re at 4 weeks and counting!

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

A Year in Pictures

Happy Friday!  To round out the birthday posts (yes, I know his birthday was a week ago!), I wanted to put together a little (err…big) collage of my favorite photos from the past year.  Just a little photo walk down memory lane of the past year with Maxwell…

Clearly I have no ability to narrow things down!  I can’t help it – I just love to see how much he’s grown!  Which one is your favorite?

Have a great weekend!