The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Swim Team

All 3 kids are doing swim team again this year. It’s back to regular schedule with both a morning and afternoon practice. You can go to either or both – there have been many days my kid have gone to both! They really enjoy it and it’s so great for them so I am happy to get them up there for it! Friday is popsicle day so that’s always an extra incentive to go at the end of the week…

swim team

On Friday they also give the award for Guppy of the Week for the younger kids and Swimmer of the Week for the older kids. Guess who got Guppy of the Week last week?!

swim team

swim team

swim team

Go Samantha go!! She has worked so hard and was at practice twice a day I think every day that week! Hard work pays off for sure. We also did a mock meet to get some practice in for the first real swim meet and all 3 kids did great. Samantha was even a heat winner!

swim team

swim team

We love swim team!

Love

I’ve mentioned it before but tennis is my newest obsession. I’d play everyday if I could – and practically do! Having the kids home this summer is sort of cramping my tennis style but I’m making it work. 😉 Before school was out I did play in the Member Guest tournament at Vestavia Country Club with my friend, Angie. We had a lot of fun and ended up the big winners!!

tennis

tennis

tennis

Woohoo!

tennis

I’ve also been doing cardio tennis a lot and each day the winning pair gets to be “Queen”! It sure is fun to be queen!

queen

I even earned queen one day with no partner! Woohoo!

queen

I’ve had so much fun with my 2.5 group but our tennis pro just moved me up so I get to start practicing with the 3.0 now! Woohoo again! It’s been fun with the 2.5 ladies. We’re a match set! ha!

cardio

Finally, it’s time for my protege’s training to begin. Have you ever seen a cuter rookie?!

tennis

Tennis fun for all!

Rewind

Rewinding it back to last month before school was out…

Maxwell’s class finally got to go on some field trips! They went to Vulcan and also to the zoo…

zoo

zoo

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Fun! Spencer didn’t get to to go on a field trip but the zoo came to him…

snake

Whoa! School sure was fun..but summer is more fun!

Rainbow fun

A whole rainbow of hair options with some of the IG filters!

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hair

filter

hair

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filter

filter

Better this than dying it for real! This girl does love a funny filter!

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filter

filter

Love her!

Off to camp!

On Saturday we drove up to North Carolina to drop Maxwell off at camp. These kids had no fun at all together in the hotel the night before…

camp

camp

camp

hotel

We all went out to dinner that night and walked around the downtown Riverwalk area of Greenville, SC. It was pretty cool!

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dinner

camp

camp

camp

We got up nice and early the next morning to head up the mountain for drop off! Thanks to covid, no parents got to get out of the car or walk into camp. We just had to basically drop and run. I will say that the whole process went very smooth and was quick and easy.

camp

camp

I got a little teary when it was time for Maxwell to get out of the car but then we realized that it was one of his counselors helping the kids out so that was a good distraction!

camp

I later found out his counselor is from Mountain Brook, is neighbors with one of my best friends, and that he’s a smart, really cool kid – and an Alabama fan! I’d say Maxwell is in very good hands! Off he goes for 3 weeks fun and adventure!

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Now I’m off to stalk to photo site every day for glimpses of my favorite 10 year old!