The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

NYC

When we realized Samantha had a weekend with no basketball games or activities, we decided a little girls trip to the city was in order! We flew up VERY early on Friday morning…

and were in the city walking around by 11am!

I’m wondering if Trump was in NYC because they had half the street in front of Trump Tower blocked with a line of garbage trucks. Interesting!

Louis Vuitton looked like the Paris store!

Of course we had to have lunch at Bergdorf Goodman!

But major disappointment – they changed the menu in the downstairs cafe and took off the gotham salad! Travesty! We still had a good lunch though…lobster ravioli and a fantastic lemon tart made up for it!

It was COLD in the city and Samantha’s legs were freezing in her short jacket. After lunch we went shopping for a longer coat for her. We didn’t have much luck…

and ended up getting this inexpensive polka dot one that Samantha was NOT a fan of…but it was warm!

A trip to Sephora made things better!

We then went all the way to the Upper East to try and get some Roller Rabbit pjs but didn’t have any luck. We then headed back to the hotel to rest a bit before our show that night. All bundled up in Times Square…

and ready for Six!

The show was excellent! Divorced! Beheaded! Died! Divorced! Beheaded! Survived!

It was a great first day in NYC!

Merry merry!

Ho Ho Ho

Sunday night we put in our requests to Santa! Well, we took a picture with Santa at least!

ho ho ho

Santa and I even dressed like twinsies! ha!

It wasn’t easy to get there but we made it happen and I’m so glad we did. It was a fun night up at the club with lots of friends!

Merry Christmas!

Spelling Bee

Last week Samantha made it to the school spelling bee!

She came in first place in her class so got to move on to the school bee. I was so incredibly proud of her for getting up on the stage in front of a lot of people and speak confidently and clearly! She handled her practice word of “jazzy” just fine! Hooray!

But, she got a toughie for round 1. “Infinite” She was close but said i-n-f-a-n-i-t-e and got dinged so was out in round one just like Spencer last year. That’s ok, I’m still infinitely proud of her! It took courage to get up on that stage and she did great!!

My cutie smarty pants!

spruced up!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Nothing better!

More Naples

We started Friday with a trip to Skillets, of course. We then hit up the beach.

That night we headed downtown to Campiellos! Yum!

Maxwell took down this breaded and sautéed 1 lb lobster tail with no problem!

The next day we went to see Wicked (so good!) and then watched some football! Roll Tide! Right before the game started, Maxwell called us outside because we had a visitor!!

Gary the Gator was back! He’s SO big and we got a close look at him this time – he’s got a mangled right arm and a nub for his left arm! Gary’s been in some fights!

It’s always fun to see Gary and we’re very thankful he can’t climb up a ladder!!

Sunday we sadly had to head back to Birmingham but are so glad we had such a good Thanksgiving in Naples! Thanks for everything GJ!!