The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

School Street Party

I got to spend the morning at Maxwell’s school on Wednesday for the annual “Street Party”.  It’s kind of like a field day with games, bounce houses and a special concert.  I just love any reason to see Maxwell in his element playing with all of his friends! I had bounce house duty for the babies and 2 year old classes (Maxwell’s class) which turned out to be not so bad since this is the bounce house they got…

bounce house

Perfect for the little ones! They weren’t just jumping into each other and knocking themselves over but actually had room to run around and play…

street party

There was even a slide on the inside that they all LOVED! Maxwell did a somersault down it!

slide

slide

They had some other games too – go fish and a duck pond with stamps and tattoos as prizes…

street party

street party

street party

but the bounce house was the big hit!  Really the only thing that got them out of the bounce house was popsicles!  No surprise there!

street party

Such cute little people…

street party

Being around all of those kids just reminded me how AWESOME my kid is and how lucky I am to have him!

maxwell

Now, I hope you all have a great weekend.  I’m off to do something VERY, VERY fun but am leaving Robert in the safe hands of these two little superheroes…

superheroes

I know I feel safe!  🙂  See you Monday!

Silliness

My silly boys being silly outside in the spring weather.

silly

silly

Luckily, sometimes that silliness pays off and I get fantastic pictures like this one…

silly

which I think looks even better in black and white and will be framed in my den soon!

silly

See you tomorrow!

More Easter fun

On Easter morning we had a bundle of bedheads all excited to head upstairs and see what the bunny brought!

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But, we had to make them first take a pic on the stairs where Spencer tried to swipe Katie’s glasses!

easter

We did end up with a cute one though…

easter

We made it upstairs to find out that the Easter Bunny did indeed find us in the mountains!  Hooray!  He left quite a “super” group of gifts for the boys too – a Superman tshirt, some Superhero pi’s, some Superman and Batman books and even a reversible Superman/Batman cape! (rumor has it that the Bunny emailed GJ and Susu to get a little help in making the SUPER capes!).  The boys loved it all!

easter

easter

And we all loved the sunshine that finally decided to come out on Easter day!  Hooray!  We went outside and let everyone run some energy out!

easter

easter

After a good meal and plenty of good conversation, Robert and I loaded up our little superheroes and headed back to Birmingham.

easter

As much fun as we had in the mountains, it was good to be home.  Robert and I tucked out tired selves into bed that night knowing  we were being safely guarded by two snoring superheroes…

superman

batman

Hope you all had a Happy Easter!

Easter fun

The Easter fun started last week when the boys got to go hunt eggs with Maxwell’s classmates…

egg hunt

egg hunt

Such a pretty afternoon!  I was also super impressed with Spencer climbing up this thing several times all by himself.  Pretty good when you consider he only started walking 3 months ago!

playground

My favorite part of the day though was when Catherine’s mom was telling me that Catherine comes home from school every day talking about how she was kissing on Maxwell and that she looooves him! ha!  Looks like Lila might have some competition!  I asked Maxwell if Catherine (or Caferine as he says!) ever kisses on him and he said “well, not evvveerry day!”  ha!

The next morning I loaded up the car and my boys in the rain and we headed out to Atlanta…

road trip

where we met Robert at the BMW dealership! He had gone earlier that morning to get his new car! yay! We ended up getting to entertain ourselves for about 2 hours in the dealership which really wasn’t that bad at all.

dealership

Hey, we can have fun anywhere!  All 4 of us then got into one car and headed up, up, up the mountain to Highlands, NC!  Unfortunately, the rain followed us up the mountain and stuck around until Sunday morning.  Boo.

easter

It didn’t bother Maxwell and Spencer though because they had Katie and Anna to play with inside!  To say that Maxwell adores those girls is an understatement.  And to say that they are very sweet, sweet girls for “entertaining” him all weekend is an understatement!  But, as Jenny said, “it’s nice to be adored!”  The kids had fun dying eggs…

eggs

We decided to color code them so they’d be easy to find Easter morning – Maxwell’s were orange (of course).

eggs

We took the boys to a local egg hunt that had been moved to inside the gym because of the rain.  Not exactly a challenging hunt but it was something to do.

egg hunt

easter

The funniest was that Spencer kept going up and taking eggs right out of the Bunny’s basket!  Silly boy.

egg hunt

See you all tomorrow with some more pics of Easter day!

Springy!

Happy Monday!  Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!  We had a great weekend up in Highlands, NC with Robert’s side of the family.  Easter egg hunts, lemon lime pound cake, jelly beans…lots of fun.  Still catching up so today I’ve got more of those backyard pictures from Friday that I promised!

Happy Spencey!

spring

spring

spring

He loves being outside.  Too bad he’s got terrible allergies.  These were taken before we started on Zyrtec and eye drops so hopefully he’ll never be this bad again!

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Sweet Maxwell with a bouquet of weeds flowers for me!

spring

spring

What a lucky Momma am I?!