The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Art Show

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, a piece of Maxwell’s art was chosen to hang in the local library for the month of March. A piece from each grade was selected and we were so excited that Maxwell’s drawing got to represent Kindergarten! They had a little reception for the kids on Tuesday night. Maxwell had to leave baseball practice early to go but I think he was glad he went…especially since they had cookies and punch!

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punch

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I thought Maxwell’s pig was perfectly perfect!

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They handed out certificates to all the artists which was neat.

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library

Baby really wanted her own certificate! ha!

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It was a nice time celebrating our little artist!

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Love all my little Picassos!

 

Firebombs!

Spencer had his first soccer game on Sunday and it was fun! He’s pumped about soccer – I don’t forsee any tears this year! Of course, he’s also got the best coach around!  🙂

Maxwell’s baseball game was at the same time as Spencer’s soccer game so, as I mentioned, Susan and Barry nicely went to the baseball game so I could go watch Spence. In order to get everyone where they needed to be on time, we had to wake up from naps a little early. It killed me to wake up these two sleepyheads…

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but they were up quickly and ready to go to the ball fields!

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Spencer gets to be red this year which made him happy because Maxwell is red also.

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He started warming up with Coach Dad…

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soccer

and Samantha took her spectator seat! (entertaining her during games is always “fun”)

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Spencer really played great. He hustled, he went after the ball, and he even SCORED A GOAL!! Woohoo!

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I think he might be giving his “mean face” to the other team here! ha!

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Thumbs up for this soccer player!

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It was a great game and the red team (officially named the Firebombs!) definitely won! He’s got some really good little players on his team.

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soccer

By the end of the game though I could tell something was off. He just didn’t look like he felt well (you can see it in his eyes in that last picture). By the time we got home he was pretty miserable with fever. Poor buddy. He ended up staying home from school the next day and is still fighting off a mean cough. We don’t want our little soccer star to be sick!

Looking forward to a fun season for the FIREBOMBS!  🙂

Batter up!

It’s baseball season again! Maxwell played T-ball last year and this year moves up to coach pitch. They had their first games this weekend and actually had one on Saturday and one on Sunday to make up for spring break next week. I have to say, baseball has never been my favorite sport…at all. But, I LOVE watching Maxwell out there. He looks so sharp in his uniform and I love to watch him paying attention and trying to make a play…it’s fun.

Saturday was our first time out to the fields at the high school and we snuck in and took a little picture on one of the big fields…

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Maxwell is #9 and had two great hits – hit 1 and hit 2 – during the Saturday game and he also got to play pitcher which was awesome. He had several good stops and throws to first for an out!

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baseball

Most importantly, he had a lot of fun!

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baseball

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baseball

On Sunday, Susan and Barry nicely agreed to be the designated spectators at baseball while Robert and I went to Spencer’s first soccer game. Maxwell had 3 more great hits and got to play shortstop!

Spring ball – here we come!! Let’s go Cardinals, let’s go!!

Sunday on a Monday

Happy Monday! Some pictures from Sunday…

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sunday

sunday

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Yea, I tried. They weren’t exactly cooperative. We all felt a bit like this…

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ha! Make it a great week!

St. Patrick’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from my little leprechaun!

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She’s also my rainbow…

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and my pot of gold! Along with her sweet brothers, of course! My pot is overflowing!  🙂 Have a great weekend!

Go down memory lane with St. Patty’s Day in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 (which I guess I didn’t really do a St. Paddy’s day post but you can see Samantha’s cute green outfit there!).