The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

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Happy Monday! First, happy 6 months to Samantha! Second, a few things around here that have made me smile the past week or so….

Maxwell’s city he built…

city

Maxwell putting Spencer in “jail”…

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These curls on top of Samantha’s head…

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Picking Spencer up from school and seeing that he had tucked his shirt into his underwear all the way around! Major 🙂 …

spence

Baby girl sitting up like a champ!

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Spencey in his Thomas slippers…

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These cute boys dressed for church…

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This greeting from Samantha when I went in to get her up from a nap…

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Hope those all make you smile too!  🙂

TGIF!

Happy Friday all!

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Make it a GREAT weekend!

fruity

We haven’t started feeding Samantha real food yet, but last week we did give her a little taste of an orange! We had some orange slices at dinner so just handed her one and she was hilarious. The faces she was making were cracking us up. She wasn’t quite so sure of it at first but ended up really liking it and did quite a good job eating all that orange!

orange

orange

Adventures in eating!

Hannah!

On Friday of last week we had some very special visitors! Just like last year and the year before that, Hannah and her crew stopped through Birmingham on their way to the beach! Hooray! We always love seeing Hannah and it’s such a treat to see her kids too. I’m so happy she finally got to meet Samantha and I got to squeeze on cute Caroline!  🙂

Caroline could not get enough of Baby Mantha…

baby mantra

baby mantra

caroline

Baby Mantha wasn’t quite so sure about all the people in her house though! ha!

caroline

Poor baby was worn out from all the stimulation by the time everyone left! They just stopped through, had some lunch, played in the playroom and then hit the road again. It obviously wasn’t long enough but I’m so glad I got to hug Hannah’s neck and see Ryan and the kids.

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These babies are just growing too fast…

joshua and caroline

I’ve known Hannah over 20 years now and I still feel like we should be in high school cruising around town and staying out of trouble (always). But instead, here we are, “middle aged” and driving mini-vans (ahem, only one of us and not me :)!) and trying to keep up with all these kids…

hannah

Man, we’re lucky. Old friends really are the best friends. Love you, Hannah!