The Brown Brick Road

Long weekend round up!

September 8, 2015

It’s already Tuesday! Hooray! We stuck around here for the long weekend and it was really nice not to have any plans. Even though we got some rain and still have major muggy weather, we did enjoy the outside…

outside

On Saturday we ventured out to the mall because the boys had a gift certificate to Build A Bear that they got from Keath, Jen, Nate and Delaney for their birthdays. They were pretty excited to make a friend for the first time! Maxwell went with a tiger (obviously) and Spencey picked a dinosaur.

build a bear

It was pretty fun and they sure were proud to walk out with their new friends in their houses! 🙂 Maxwell’s tiger also has a fireman outfit and Spencer’s has a police man outfit.

build a bear

We then had lunch at the food court (so 1990’s of us) and then I got suckered into taking them on the carousel. Spencer was really excited to ride the elephant but someone else beat us to it so he spent almost his whole carousel ride whining “I want da eyaphant!” Being 2 is hard.

carousel

I think the excitement of the mall was just about too much for Samantha to handle because she suuuuure was fussy that afternoon! She got to get an early bath…chubby in the tubby! 🙂

bath

And then also got an early bedtime. The boys soon followed and then Robert and I stayed up too late watching the Alabama game! Roll Tide!

On Sunday evening we went to dinner in Uptown to try something different. Unfortunately, the food wasn’t good…but the company sure was!

updtown

On Monday, Maxwell and Robert headed to the field to get some soccer practice in. Games start next weekend and Maxwell needed to break in his new fancy tiger-colored cleats!

soccer cleats

I spent my Labor Day laboring away in the kitchen! I made tons of muffins to stock the freezer for school lunches and a few crock-pot meals from this site. It will be nice to have easy meals ready to throw in the crock pot….we’ll see if I can keep this up.

So, that was our nice, no plans, pretty boring, long weekend. I sure did enjoy it!

Happy Labor Day

September 7, 2015

Happy Labor Day from me and my 3 babies!

family porch

Don’t worry, Robert got to be in plenty of other pictures! 🙂

Enjoy the day off!

Saturday

September 5, 2015

Roll Tide!!!!

roll tide

Here’s to a winning season!

Back to school!

September 4, 2015

The boys started school this week and so far, so good! Maxwell was excited about his first day of 4K in Ms. Edwards’ class. He’s going 4 days a week this year Monday through Thursday – big stuff! Spencer was sure to give him a goodbye kiss – and slight choke hold! – on Monday morning before he left…

school

Maxwell was proud to be sporting his new orange shoes!

first day of school

He had a great first day – even if he told me he only played by himself all day. 🙁 I don’t think that was entirely true! It will be an adjustment this year not having Max or Lila in his class but I know he’ll make new good buddies in no time.

On Tuesday, Spencer got to have his first day of school! He’s in Ms. Betsy’s class this year and is only going Tuesday and Thursday. I really wanted him to go 3 days a week but the only option was Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I didn’t want Spencer to go Friday if Maxwell wasn’t going to go. So, Tu/Th it is and both boys will be home together on Fridays to play with each other.

first day spencer

Spencey wasn’t nervous or hesitant about school at all. And he was pretty proud of his new “geen” shoes!

spencer first day

Spencer had a good first day too – even if he told me he didn’t play with anyone, didn’t eat lunch, and didn’t go on the playground! ha! I’m thinking none of those things are true! 🙂 I did get the most awesome email from his teacher that night. She said, “Spencer, as always, had a great day! I have to tell you he has the BEST belly laugh I have ever heard. He gets to giggling and just can’t stop! Makes me crack up! I love it!” That sure made me happy. My little buddy really does have the BEST laugh!

I sure do love these boys and am so grateful they have such a wonderful school to attend.

first day of school

Cheers to a great school year ahead! Have a great weekend!

More birthday

September 3, 2015

Maxwell is basically having the never ending birthday. He had his party with Susan, his friend party, and then we still had to celebrate his actual birthday plus celebrate his birthday at school! Phew…turning 5 is fun!

On the morning of Maxwell’s 5th, he had a giant surprise waiting for him in the kitchen!

balloons

Leonardo was there to play ninja all day! ha! Spencer quickly claimed the other balloons as his because, as he told us all day, “it’s MY birfday!”

balloons

We even had a special “5” breakfast!

Maxwell then had to get dressed up and head to church to share his big day with Samantha. I don’t think it really bothered him because it just meant he got to play with his cousins, Katie and Anna, after church. He couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present than that! He requested a “brownie cake” instead of regular cake and, thanks to a springform pan, I was able to make that happen!

5 brownie cake

He sure was happy to blow out that “5” candle! Maxwell started school the next day so on Wednesday we sent him to school with a birthday treat for all of his friends. He told me on Monday afternoon that he really wanted Spiderman cookies….ummm…those definitely seemed above my pay grade when it came to cookie decorating! But, with a little help from YouTube, I figured it out and ended up with some pretty cool looking Spidey cookies if I do say so myself!

spiderman cookies