The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Boo bash

It’s almost Halloween! The boys had the Boo Bash at school on Friday last week and, despite the drizzly, cold weather, had the BEST time! We didn’t go full costume for school and just went as a football and baseball player…

boo bash

They had all kinds of fun games…

boo bash

boo bash

including a cake walk where both Maxwell and Spencer won. We got to take home a full cake and 18 cookies! Just what we needed!

cakes

Also, just so I remember, here’s what I made for the cake walk. Pans of brownies with an icing spider web and a spider! easy!

brownies

There were even rides too! So so fun!

rides

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Spencer clearly LOVED them! (I’m sure Maxwell did too but he was off with his friends and didn’t care about walking around with me! ha!)

rides

rides

rides

rides

It really was a fun day with sweet school friends!

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boo bash

school

school

friends

Maxwell’s class…

class

and Spencer’s!

class

Happy almost Halloween from these two!

boob ash

Boo bash success!

School Fall Fun!

Lots of fall fun going on at school. Spencer got to go on his first field trip to the pumpkin patch!

pumpkin

pumpkin

They also did a Pumpkin Investigation at school!

pumpkin

pumpkin

Samantha got to have some pumpkin and puppet fun on orange day at school!

school

school

school

She told me she did NOT like the taste of that little orange pumpkin and spit it out in the trash! ha! I’ve never liked them either!

Fall goodness all around!

Boo!

Halloween is almost here! The Boo Bash is at school today! Don’t be scared of the ghosts around!!

boo

boo

boo

Booooo!

Fall ball

Both boys had great fall baseball seasons! Maxwell is a solid player who continues to steadily improve. He had some really good plays this season and proved to be a great pitcher (not pitching but playing the pitcher position). He might not have wanted to play pitcher (he wanted to be at first!) but he proved he was someone the team could count on!

baseball

Spencer had so much fun playing coach pitch and never had to go to the tee even once! He got to play first quite a bit and had several legitimate outs!

baseball

We all had fun entertaining ourselves at the ballpark – icees all around! We even kept score with the help of GJ at one of the last games!

baseball

baseball

I sadly had to miss Maxwell’s last game and apparently he had the game of his life! Made a double play, caught a pop fly in the outfield, and just played great all the way around. He was pretty proud to get the game ball on that final game! Woohoo!

baseball

I missed Maxwell’s game because I was at Spencer’s next to last game! A slightly rainy and fun night!

baseball

Goooo Cubs!

cubs

baseball

It was a great season for this awesome Dodger and this fantastic Cub!

baseball

baseball

Their favorite cheerleader had a good season too!  🙂

baseball

baseball

Always fun at the ole ballgame! Who’s ready for spring ball?!

Weekend fun

On Friday night of last week Robert and Maxwell went on their cub scout campout. Thankfully it wasn’t nearly as cold as last year and they had pre-constructed tents to sleep in! Hardly roughing it at all!

campout

(yes, that is the best picture I got from Robert!)

I decided to be nice and let the Bobbsey twins sleep with me back at home. Considering how pitiful I slept with the two of them in the bed I’m pretty sure I was the one roughing it! ha!

sleepover

On Saturday night, I took the kids to see the Kidz Bop concert! Well, I took 2 of my kids. Spencer decided to go to a birthday party he got invited to so Maxwell got to invite Jack to come with us. We met up with some friends before and everyone was excited…

kidzbop

kidz

kidz

We were up in the cheap seats but it was fine. The kids enjoyed it and everyone was dancing along in their seat…well, mostly everyone. 🙂

kidz

Samantha really didn’t like it when it got too loud in there though! ha!

kidz

My favorite line of the night was when she turned to me during one song and said excitedly, “Momma! Alvin, Simon, and Theodore sing this song!” Love her.

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Can’t wait to take them all to a real concert someday!!