The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

The hunt!

As I mentioned yesterday, the boys and I went to Naples for spring break. We got back home in time for a fun Easter weekend though. I’ll blog about Naples later but wanted to round up Easter first! On Saturday, we headed down to Wetumpka for the annual Inscoe egg hunt.

egg hunt

Samantha got to wear this pretty little smocked dress made by GJ and Susu…

egg hunt

We all thought she looked so pretty – especially Maxwell!  Peekaboo!

egg hunt

I thought my whole crew was looking pretty sharp!

egg hunt

egg hunt

egg hunt

It was a beautiful day for an egg hunt – not too hot with plenty of sunshine!

hunt

egg hunt

We got to see lots of friends and Robert’s family…

egg hunt

The boys had a blast…

egg hunt

egg hunt

The cousins all had fun together…

easter

easter

and the scary Easter bunny was there as always!

bunny

bunny

It was a great start to the Easter weekend!

easter

See you tomorrow!

Backyard sunshine

These are from a week or so ago…love that we have such a great backyard to play in the sunshine!

backyard

backyard

backyard

backyard

backyard

bakcyard

backyard

backyard

backyard

backyard

Afternoons like this just make me happy.

Weekend roundup

What a great weekend! What all went down? Well…

Samantha took her first “real bath”…

bath

and looked really, really cute…

skb

and did a little tummy time for the first time!

tummy time

Also love this pic in black and white that I put on IG…

tummy time

We had a visit from Lulu and Granddaddy to bring Valentine surprises…

lulu

We played tiger…

tiger

We opened more Valentine goodies – Batman and TMNJ books!

valentine

We played in the playroom (well, the boys did while I got to escape the house ALONE and go to to Target! Best Valentine’s gift ever!)…

playroom

We went out to a Valentine lunch where Samantha did her arm exercises in her sleep…

skb

What up?

skb

We enjoyed the beautiful weather in the backyard…

outside

The boys went to church…

church

and we just had a great weekend all around! Hope you did too! See you tomorrow!

7 year itch

7 years ago today Robert and I were hitched…

anniversary

We packed a LOT into this 7th year and well, I’m not itchy at all.  🙂  Love you, Robert.

Read more about our wedding here and here. Other anniversary posts here.

The Move

Good news – I’m back up and running! I must have just had a little 24 hour bug because after a day of rest and a good night’s sleep, I’m back to 100%.  So, let’s get on with it because we’ve got lots to do!  First up – the move!  Whoa…moving is no joke!  On Thursday of last week, we had our GREAT movers from New Latitudes come and pack up the house. In all my previous moves, I’ve packed myself…but I’ve also never moved 8 months pregnant with 2 toddlers!  Let me say, letting the movers pack us was worth every. single. penny.  They were there from 8:30am to about 7:30pm with basically no breaks.  A full day!  The boys loved checking out all the boxes that night!

move

move

On Friday morning, the boys got ready to head out with Mrs. Susan while Robert and I got ready to move.  I had to take a little family picture on the last morning at our old house though…

old house

Who’s excited about the new house!  woohoo!

old house

GJ and I manned the old house most of the day while Robert dealt with the remaining workers at the new house.  Oh yes, we had all kinds of workers still in there up until the very last minute!  But, they got all of the important stuff done just in time so that was great.  A few glimpses of some empty rooms before all of our boxes came in…

new rooms

and a sneak peek of the bathrooms we re-did…

bathrooms

bathroom

bathroom

They were loading up the trucks at the old house from about 8:30 to 3:00 and then finally made it to the new house to unload it all!

new house

The boys quickly found their place amongst all the boxes…

boxes

Spencer learned to master the stairs (though he still prefers a hand to hold when coming down!)…

new house

and everyone enjoyed a first meal in the new house!

new house

By the end of the day, we were all so exhausted that we all slept great – boys included!  Everyone liked their new rooms!  Hooray!  The next morning, Susan nicely took the boys to see a Christmas play and, while they were gone, I got the boys rooms all fixed up. Maxwell’s room…

mbb room

and Spencer’s…

spencer room

I’d say he likes it!  🙂

spencer room

We also managed to get the kitchen somewhat organized…

kitchen

We still have LOTS to do – like get an actual working dishwasher and dryer – but we’re in and we’re happy to be here!  Now if we could just get that Christmas tree decorated….