The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Last day of 2K

Samantha had her last day of school last week! She rocked 2K! Mrs. Betsy had nothing but wonderful things to say about her at the year end conference – she’s happy, giggly, and a good friend. She follows directions well and is quick to point out when others are not following directions! ha! Her BFFs at school this year were Evie Cate and John.

The last day of school…

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She’s grown so much from the first day to the last!

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We’re going to miss this sweet class – especially Mrs. Betsy! All 3 kids have had her and she’s the best!

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Back row: Ms. Anne, Jackson, Julian, Ms. Betsy, Harper, Henry, Ms. Judy

Front row: Baron, Evie Cate, John, Samantha, Fields, Sophi, Emma

A great school year in the books!

Street Party

Street Party success! Just like the last one, it was months of planning, lots of hard work, but all worth it! The day went off (mostly) without a hitch and I think all the kids had a great time. The weather was perfect and everything seemed to run smoothly! Yay!

As always, GJ was there to help and I couldn’t have done it without her. Maxwell also decided he needed to come “help” for the day so he played hooky from 1st grade to go back to preschool!  🙂

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Just some pics of the setup so I remember. Unfortunately I didn’t get a great pic of the inside room that had tattoos, face painting, and superhero masks to decorate.

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With my co-chair, Sarah…

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The most important thing was that the kids had FUN! They loved the games, the prizes, the bounce house!!

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Sadly, the only snafu of the day was when the generator powering both of the bounce houses in the park went down. We were able to get one up and going with an extension cord and then FunSource finally got back out there with a new generator. Not ideal but out of our control. We made it work!

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It was a lot of work but I had 3 good reasons to do it!

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I’d do anything for this crew!  🙂

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Street party success! ✔️✔️

School stuff

Today is the big Street Party up at the preschool that I’m chairing again. It was a success in 2016 and I’m hoping it will be a success today too! In the spirit of school fun, a few pictures of some recent school happenings…

Some more pictures from Spencer’s teacher of the bug parade…

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and Spencer with a creature earlier this week!

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Maxwell with his awesome series of realistic fiction that he wrote in school…

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and Samantha with nothing at all to do with school but some cute pigtails!  🙂

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Have a great day!

Kindergarten ready!

Spencer came home from school two weeks ago and found his globe on his mailbox…

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that means kindergarten is not that far away! We had orientation on Tuesday and while Spencer might have been the teeny, tiniest bit nervous, he was way more excited and curious than anything.

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He had a great time in the classroom, saw some familiar faces, and got a cookie and a book at the end! Can’t beat that! I’ll also say, being a second time kindergarten mom is way better than being a first time kindergarten mom! All of the info they gave us was old hat and that sure was nice.

I may not be ready for him to head to kindergarten but he’s already running out the door. Watch out MBE, here comes Spencey!!

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Maxwell’s kindergarten orientation here.

Before school

Most days before school I make the kids stand on the stairs so I can take their picture. I don’t know why…they’re just so cute I can’t help myself! Most days I just get the Bobbsey twins as Maxwell has already left for school…

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But every once in a while I get all 3!

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Love these cuties!

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