The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Thanksgiving via iphone

As I said, we had a great Thanksgiving because we got to see my entire family on both my mom’s and dad’s side.  I can’t remember the last time my mom’s entire side of the family was together but it’s been too long.  It was so good to catch up with my cousins, introduce Spencer to everyone and let Maxwell play with his cousins.  We spent 5 days in Arkansas and the boys did fantastic the whole time.  It’s a 6 hour drive each way and between that and the numerous trips back and forth to Searcy, Augusta and LR, they logged a lot of hours in the car.  I think we all might have Finding Nemo memorized by now!  🙂  Most importantly, Maxwell slept GREAT in the pack n play in the hotel, hallelujah! It was a successful trip all around!

I took a few photos with my big camera which I’ll share tomorrow but today I thought I would walk through the trip based on my (numerous!) iphone pics because that’s how my life is documented these days!

Maxwell debating whether or not all of our stuff is actually going to fit in the car…

On the road…

Sleeping baby 1…

Sleeping baby 2…

Pit stop at Wendy’s…

Spencer meeting Susu…

Spencer hanging with Jeanette…

Maxwell entertaining himself in the hotel…

Robert entertaining Maxwell in the hotel…

Maxwell with “nate n laney”…

Fun with Daddo…

3 little ones attempting to eat Thanksgiving dinner…

Maxwell making GJ laugh…

GJ making Maxwell laugh…

An early Christmas present from Susu…

Yellow truck!!

Pie and baby…

Showing his new truck to Daddo…

Maxwell experiencing his first taste of Buffalo Grill in Little Rock.  yum.

Catching up with great friends…

Love these girls…

Too cool for school…

Catching up with another great, forever friend…

and Maxwell making new friends.  The cuteness of this kills me!

Susu loving on Spencer…

Susu and the boys and me…

Story time…

Cousin chaos…

Cousin tackle…

Cousin love…

Keath and fam…

Me and fussy baby…

Running off some energy outside…

Spencer and Susu…

and one more for good measure.

Phew!  and after that we hopped in the car and drove 6 hours back to Birmingham. What a trip!

I just want to end with a special THANK YOU to Robert.  It wasn’t an easy weekend and Robert was, as always, a lifesaver willing to do whatever we needed.  He puts up with my crazy family (love you family!) and does it all with a smile constantly going above and beyond.  I don’t know what we would do without him.  Robert, you’re the best!

DoDo

Hi friends!  We made it home safe and sound on Sunday night getting in around 11:00 pm.  Again, I’m so glad we had the chance to see my whole family and celebrate Dodo’s life together.  The service was lovely and I’m grateful that I could be there for it.

Just wanted to share a few of my favorite pics of Dodo from recent years today…

and my very favorite…

That’s Dodo and Susu with a 1 month old baby Maxwell.  I love that picture.

See you all tomorrow with a Thanksgiving recap!

Spencer’s announcement

Hi everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Ours was bittersweet. We got to see my entire family on both sides which was so great but, sadly, my great aunt Dodo passed away early Friday morning. While not a surprise, it’s still hard. I’m just so glad we were all able to be together. Dodo, who is Susu’s sister, never had children of her own so I always felt like she was another grandmother in many ways. She lived a long, happy life and I’m so happy to have all the memories.

I’m writing this on Sunday and the funeral is this afternoon. We’re planning to make the 6 hour drive home after that so it will be very late before we get back to Bham. As such, no pictures from the weekend yet but I thought I would share Spencer’s announcement that we mailed out last week…

Love this sweet itty bitty smile!

And love having my two little guys on the back!

So thankful for these boys and my entire family!

Pro Newborn Photos

We had Lauren from Peppermint Photography come over and take some photos when Spencer was 8 days old.  She did a great job!  My favorite pictures are on the announcement which I’ll share later but they were all good.  Some other favorites below…

So sweet, right?

She also took some family shots but I’m still not sure if I’m going to use one of them on our Christmas card so am going to hold off on sharing them until I decide.  If you’re in Bham and need a photographer, I highly recommend Lauren!