The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

One step closer

Samantha is one step closer to getting braces after getting a tooth pulled on Monday! Her appointment was at 9:30 so she just got to stay home that morning and enjoy a Starbucks treat before her appointment!

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She was VERY nervous about it all, mostly about the shot she was going to have to get in her gum. She got the laughing gas and pretty soon didn’t seem so nervous at all.

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Dr. Thomas is so sneaky, Samantha didn’t even know when she got the shot! She was so relieved when I told her the shot was already over!

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She handled it all like a champ. The worst part was when she finally set up and didn’t know what to think about her numb lip! She’s never had a numb lip  before and kept saying it felt like there was a grape in her lip! ha!!

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She was back to school in time for lunch and happy to flash her new grin the next day! That $10 special from the tooth fairy made her smile too!

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Love my brave girl. Now it’s almost time for braces!

Class pictures

Class pictures from this year!

Samantha in 2nd with Mrs. Brown…

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Spencer in 4th with Mrs. Faulkner (who was on maternity leave so Mrs. Dyess is in the picture!)…

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and Maxwell in 6th with Mrs. Cox!

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Plus the 6th graders all dressed up as a group!

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What a year it’s been. Last year with all 3 at MBE. Gonna miss having them all together!

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I really don’t think I ever shared the kids class pictures from last year! I didn’t get them until the beginning of this school year and just never did anything with them…but here they are!

Samantha in 1st grade with Mrs. Jones….

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Spencer in 3rd grade with Miss Campbell…

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and Maxwell in 5th grade with Miss Rogers!

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It was a great year for all 3!

NY day 2

We got up Saturday morning and hit up our first adventure – Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum! ha!! I have to say, it was actually awesome! There were 5 floors to walk through with all kinds of modern and historical figures. Samantha got a kick out of it and GJ and I enjoyed ourselves too! I have LOTS of pics but they’re so funny I want to share them all sooo….

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Phew! What fun!! After all that, we were hungry so made a pit stop in the Hershey store…

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and then headed to our favorite place for lunch!

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We had fun shopping around a bit…

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and then headed to the Lego store in Rockefeller Center.

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At that point, we headed back to the hotel to rest up for the evening fun! We had dinner at Bond 45 right by our hotel and then went to see MJ the Musical!

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We had front row seats which was both awesome and strange but the show was incredible!!

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The most exciting part of the trip came when the show was over and GJ realized the lady sitting behind her had accidentally taken the wrong purse! The lady’s purse was left behind. Thankfully, after a worrisome 10 minutes, the couple came running back in looking for the right bag and it all worked out!

Overall it was a great girl’s trip! Let’s do it again soon!

The big apple

When GJ found out that Phantom of the Opera was closing in April after 35 years on Broadway, she decided she needed to go see it one last time! She nicely invited Samantha and I to tag along! Last Friday we got up super early and flew to NYC. We were in the city by 10 and at lunch at Sarahbeth’s in Tribeca by 11:30! Can’t beat that!!

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We then made our way to Soho to the Sloomoo Slime Institute. This girl was a very happy camper!

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I have to say, I was pretty happy too! It was really fun and playing in the all the slime was cool. Also, because I’m the best mom ever, I agreed to go under the Slime Falls with Samantha and get slimed!!

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haha! We then got to make our own slime complete with some really good scents. Mine smelled like leather!

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It was a fun adventure!

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We then headed into Bloomingdales…

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and then back to the hotel to rest up for the show. We were so excited to see Phantom!

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Samantha enjoyed it…even if she had a lot of questions in the first act. Pretty sure the people behind us shush’d us at some point! ha! A fun day 1 in NYC!!