The Brown Brick Road

Egg hunt

March 25, 2016

Happy almost Easter!

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We all made it up to church for Palm Sunday last weekend and for our church’s egg hunt. My crew looked cute, at least in my opinion! 😉

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Spencer wearing “big boy” church clothes is almost too much for me…

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Baby wore her pretty blue dress again because it was much colder than we expected that morning!

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We then headed up to church for the egg hunt…

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I’m just going to state that I might never again attend our church’s egg hunt. It’s just not set up well – the areas for the little and big kids are separated – but the boys wanted to be together – and then it’s hard on the parents to have to go with kids to different areas – and they make them all get into one big photo and then everyone has to file out basically single file to get to the egg areas – and, well, it’s just never the fun it’s supposed to be.

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Spencer was especially having a rough day. Granted, he didn’t feel good and ended up at the doctor the next day but, still. He wanted to go with Maxwell but then couldn’t see him in all the group of kids. He then wanted to go to the egg area for 3 and under but by the time we got there all the eggs were gone. He was pretty upset having only 1 egg in his basket. Other kids (urged by their parents!) were very nice to share a few eggs so he didn’t go home completely empty handed.

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I’m thinking the egg hunt at our house on Easter morning will be more his speed!

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Ballers

March 24, 2016

We were ballers around here last weekend for sure. We had Maxwell’s t-ball game on Saturday, Spencer’s soccer game on Sunday, and then back to t-ball on Monday for Maxwell’s practice! Something tells me I better get used to that!

Once again, we got lucky with the weather at the game – dreary but thankfully no rain! The A’s all seemed to “get it” a little more at this game.

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t-ball

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Maxwell had some great hits…

and did good to pay attention during the game and be “baseball ready!”. He got to play pitcher (fun!) and actually made a real baseball play! The batter hit the ball, Maxwell scooped it up, threw it to first, and the boy at first actually caught the ball! And this was all before the batter could run to first. woohoo!!

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Gooooo A’s!

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tball

See you tomorrow!

Soccer Star

March 23, 2016

Well…”star” might be a bit of a stretch! So, Spencer is taking his first turn at Sunday Soccer! Maxwell has played 3 years in the fall and now we’re letting Spencer play in the spring. Robert is his coach and his first game was on Sunday. The beautiful spring weather we had been having decided to take a hiatus and it was 50 degrees, windy, cloudy and COLD. Not exactly ideal soccer playing weather! It also didn’t help that Spencer really just didn’t feel good. His allergies had gotten the best of him and he had been coughing all day and really having a hard time getting a deep breath. He had already used his albuterol inhaler twice that day and we actually ended up at the doctor the next morning and are going to start him on a daily inhaled steroid. Poor bud. Still, he got out there and was having fun during the practice portion of soccer….

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Go Spencey go!

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It was then time for the game and, despite a good pep talk from Coach Brown…

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he just couldn’t make it happen. There were plenty of tears – he wanted his ball, he didn’t want his ball, he was cold, and on and on.

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I know another little boy who might have cried during his first soccer game too! But, Maxwell put it together a little better for his second game and I’m sure Spencer will as well. It’s all a good learning experience. Let’s just cross our fingers for warm sunshine next time!

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ps – even though I can’t say I find those yellow shirts to be very attractive, I do think we could get him excited about being the Yellow Lions! 🙂 Roooar!