The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Falling Creek

Robert and Maxwell spent the weekend at the Father Son event at Falling Creek camp in North Carolina. Considering Maxwell came home saying he wants to go for 2 weeks next summer, I’d say it was a great weekend!! Ready to head out Friday afternoon…

camp

and getting all settled in their cabin.

cabin

camp

Throughout the weekend they learned all kinds of valuable life skills like how to throw a hatchet…

hatchett

how to throw a spear…

spear

spear

how to shoot a rifle…

riflery

and how to shoot a bow and arrow!

bow and arrow

archery

I’m sure all of those skills will come in handy soon! 😉  They also played warrior ball where apparently Maxwell was the champion of more than one game!

warrior ball

And they swam in the lake and went on the zipline…

zipline

falling creek

These two had the best adventure and I’m so glad they got to go!

camp

falling creek

Can’t wait for next summer! (actually I can wait because the thought of Maxwell being gone for 2 weeks – or even 1 week – makes me want to cry but I know he’ll love it!!)

the big 5-0

Last weekend we went down to Montgomery to celebrate a wonderful occasion – Granddaddy and Lou Lou’s 50th wedding anniversary! Robert, Ronnie, and Mary Beth planned a lovely party for them and we all had fun getting together, looking at old photos and videos, and celebrating the milestone.

Of course the cousins all loved getting to hang and help set things up beforehand…

cousins

50

50

That evening, the kids didn’t even miss us when we left – they were having too much fun at the awesome country club pool!

pool

The party was wonderful. So many friends came to say “cheers” to the couple!

cheers

50

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50

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The original 5!

50

And the expanded bunch!

50

All the siblings and spouses…

50

Pretty remarkable that all of our parents have lasting marriages!

50

50

I’m so happy and honored to be a part of this family and proud to say I’ve been a part of at least some of those 50 years!

50

Cheers to 50!!

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Yes, more naples

Happy Monday! You didn’t think the Naples posts were done, did you?! Nope, there’s more! Some other fun things we did…

Trips to the beach club…

pool

Swimming with cousins…

swim

We saw a turtle!

turtle

We bounced!

bounce

We got lots of good rest (swimming wears you out)…

rest

and we biked around the neighborhood!

bike

biking

Mostly, we hung out with our favorites, GJ and Daddo, who were so nice to put up with us!

gj daddo

GJ

We had lots and lots of good fun, that’s for sure.

naples

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. On July 4th, we put on our red, white, and blue and made our way home with no problems.

red white blue

trip

red white blue

Ready to go back again!

More naples

Robert got to join us for the last bit of our stay in Naples. We were so glad he came because everything is more fun with him around!

First things first, we went to see Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom. Spencer had been watching the other two Jurassic movies all week and was dying to see the new one! It didn’t disappoint!

movies

Robert also took the boys fishing. He originally took Maxwell 2 years ago and then took both boys last year but they didn’t catch any fish. This year they had a good catch! Lots of snook and even a flounder grouper!

boat

fishing

boat

fishing

fishing

We also went exploring a bit and drove downtown one morning to grab breakfast…

naples

naples

yep, cookies for breakfast! vacation! We then walked over to the Naples Pier…

naples

It’s still only half open after the hurricane but a pretty day to check out the views!

naples

naples

naples

naples

tin city

We then went over to Tin City where the kids got to pick out a piece of junk…they loved it! I see no need to ever go back. ha!

tin city

tin city

We even celebrated the 4th a day early with some fireworks and sparklers! Like I said, Robert makes everything more fun! especially playing with fire!

fireworks

Wish we could be on vacation all the time!

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Batter up!

Like last year and the year before and the year before that, Robert took the boys to a Barons game with his company.

baseball

They were excited and totally into the game much more than in years past! Thankfully Spencer didn’t get lost this year, but Robert did let them have Diet Coke and I think the caffeine had quite the effect!

baseball

Combine that with the cookies they had for dinner and these boys were wired! ha!

baseball

baseball

A fun night at the ballpark!

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