The Brown Brick Road

Weekend highlights

September 10, 2013

We had a great weekend around here last weekend. It was one of those that definitely makes me think we live in Mayberry! On Friday we went for a little stroll…

stroll

We hit up the fire station, the elementary school playground…

playground

and ended up in front of City Hall where Maxwell contemplated his chess moves…

chess

He had fun playing “chest” as he said! 🙂

chest

That night we went to, where else? the Mexaurant!

mexaurant

Saturday we got the treat of getting to see my college roommate, Kristin, and her cute family! She has two boys that were both born within 2 weeks of my boys…such a small world!

Spencer and Hayes had fun swinging…

swinging

and Maxwell and Lucas had fun playing!

mbb and lucas

It’s so fun to watch the boys grow up together. Here we are together August of last year right before Spencer and Hayes were here. And here we are in 2010 when Maxwell and Lucas were just a few months old! Love old friends!

That day they were also having a fundraiser in Crestline with all sorts of activities including a band that night. We took advantage of the “touch a truck” event that afternoon and Maxwell got to climb on and sit in all different types of trucks…

touch a truck

crane

Saturday night we got a sitter and Robert and I had a great dinner out at Highlands Grill. Maxwell and Spencer had fun at home with Miss Abby! So happy Maxwell liked her and all went smoothly!

Sunday was church and a little soccer practice in the field…

soccer

Gotta get ready for the first game next weekend!

Mayberry, USA right here in Alabama! 🙂

New beginnings

September 9, 2013

I know it’s still 2013 but this time of year also feels like the beginning of a new year to me. End of summer, back to school, resuming of routines, my birthday (and now Maxwell, Spencer and Robert’s too!). I like it.

2 of them

Today is an extra special new beginning as Robert starts a new job today. Congrats Robert! We’re know you’re going to do great!!

2 of them

All 3 of us (in the best selfie ever! ha!) love you very much!

3 of us

Here’s to new beginnings!

Orange Beach continued

September 6, 2013

After an “eventful” first day, Robert and I both just kept saying “it can only go up from here!” And it did! By Sunday morning Spencer was feeling a little better and Maxwell’s finger was looking much better. Besides, it’s hard to not be happy at the beach when you wake up to this sunrise!

sunrise

Sunday we enjoyed some more beach and pool time and then went out to lunch. We had just settled in to wait on our food…

lunch

when it started pouring! There were very few tables with any sort of roof over the but we made it work.

lunch

We were all fairly wet by the time lunch was over but you just had to laugh. Despite a sick baby and a nearly broken finger, we had it pretty good!

beach

That night we went to dinner and enjoyed checking out all the boats…

orange beach

beach

Perfect!

Before driving back on Monday we got in a little beach time that morning.

beach

It was a great trip and fun to get away for a few days! Now, back to the grind…

Have a great weekend!

Orange Beach

September 5, 2013

On Friday of last week, we hit the road early in the morning to head to the beach for a little vacation for the long weekend!

car ride

Robert’s parents have a condo in Orange Beach, AL that we stayed in. What better way to celebrate this little guy’s 3rd birthday than with a trip to a beach named after his favorite color?! 🙂

orange beach

We got there late afternoon and enjoyed a little beach time before dinner.

orange beach

This little guy was happy to be there!

orange beach

and he loved the water!

orange beach

I loved that white sugar sand and the breeze that kept us cool!

orange beach

Well, the breeze was more like a gail force wind but we didn’t mind. and it made Spencer’s hair look awesome! 🙂

beach baby

We went out to dinner that night where Maxwell got one final chance to celebrate his birthday!

happy 3rd!

Cheers to 3! Things were going swimmingly until that night…Both Spencer and I had been fighting a cold for 2 days and his reared its ugly head on Friday night. He woke up around 11:00 just miserable – couldn’t breathe, couldn’t get comfortable – and then the croupy cough started. Poor guy. I ended up sleeping with him all night and neither of us really slept more than 30 minute stretches. Luckily, I had some prescription steroid medicine leftover from the last time he had the croup that we gave him around 5:00 am. He helped and we made it to the morning.

Given his lack of sleep all night, I was going to stay in the condo all morning to try to get him to nap while Robert took Maxwell to the beach. In trying to get everyone ready, I managed to SLAM Maxwell’s finger in the door. And I slammed it hard. His middle finger instantly swelled up and turned black and blue. We seriously thought it was broken and called the walk-in clinic only to hear that they had 10 people in the back and another 10 in the waiting room. Ugh. We decided to just ice it and see how it was that afternoon. Robert did convince Maxwell to go out the beach and I think the distraction was good for him! I stayed in the condo and Spencer took a great nap. Hooray!

My view of the boys on the beach…

beach