The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Falling Creek

Robert and Maxwell spent the weekend at the Father Son event at Falling Creek camp in North Carolina. Considering Maxwell came home saying he wants to go for 2 weeks next summer, I’d say it was a great weekend!! Ready to head out Friday afternoon…

camp

and getting all settled in their cabin.

cabin

camp

Throughout the weekend they learned all kinds of valuable life skills like how to throw a hatchet…

hatchett

how to throw a spear…

spear

spear

how to shoot a rifle…

riflery

and how to shoot a bow and arrow!

bow and arrow

archery

I’m sure all of those skills will come in handy soon! 😉  They also played warrior ball where apparently Maxwell was the champion of more than one game!

warrior ball

And they swam in the lake and went on the zipline…

zipline

falling creek

These two had the best adventure and I’m so glad they got to go!

camp

falling creek

Can’t wait for next summer! (actually I can wait because the thought of Maxwell being gone for 2 weeks – or even 1 week – makes me want to cry but I know he’ll love it!!)

Weekend

This weekend Robert and Maxwell had a big adventure at the Father Son Weekend at Falling Creek camp. Maxwell loved it – and I think Robert loved it even more! The littles and I kept busy at home and even made it to the park on Saturday for a while. Unfortunately, Samantha had a scooter injury before we even made it out of the driveway. She wasn’t sure she was even going to make it down to the park…

pitiful

pitiful

Click here to see just how PI. TI. FUL!

After much hobbling and whining and crying, she finally made it to the playground. She didn’t think she could do anything but decided to try and within minutes she was miraculously better. Phew.

playground

samantha

Spencer was loving showing me all of his new tricks that he’s learned on the playground in the first week of kindergarten.

spencer

playgrond

After a good afternoon I thought we all deserved a little treat…

ice cream

Can’t beat that! You also can’t beat a Spencer selfie…

selfie

Ha!! Here’s to a great week ahead!

Day 3

Am I going to document every single school morning? Maybe. At least I am for now!

day 3

Day 3 went great as well!! Woohoo!! and Samantha Lou Retton had a fun time back at gymnastics! Happy to move into the weekend with a great first week under our belt. Happy Friday!

Day 2

Day 2 went just as good as day 1!

spencer

We even got sister in the picture yesterday morning!

day 2

No, I did not tell her to pose! She did that all on her own! ha! She’s a mess and I’m so glad she’s MY mess!

Happy for a good start to school!

First day of school!

They both rocked it! What a great first day!

Not surprisingly, I had to wake Spencey up but they were all downstairs and ready in plenty of time…

school

and then it was off to school!

school

Kindergarten ready!

kindergarten

and Second Grade ready!

mbb

Spencer just wanted to walk over with Maxwell so I didn’t go to the flagpole with them…and I so wish I had. 🙁

mbe

Thankfully, big brother took care of him and got him into the classroom. Phew. When I picked Spencer up at 2:00 he was all smiles!! Hooray!!

school

I think he had a GREAT day and even got a smiley in his notebook!

school

Maxwell was home an hour later and, from what I got out of him, had a fantastic day too. I think he was just so happy to be back with all of his friends all day. He and Spencer even both bought lunch – pizza!

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Now we get to get up and do it all again tomorrow! Ready for a fun year!