The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Family photos

Hi everyone!  Hope you had a good weekend.  Ours was great and involved celebrating family birthdays as well as seeing some old friends.  Pictures to come this week!  Today I have some new family photos to share with you all.  I had Lauren of Piper Photography come out about a month ago to snap some photos for a little project I’m helping a friend with and just had to get her to take some family photos while she was here.  These are my favorites…

Maxwell’s serious face…

and Maxwell’s silly “cheese!” face…

I love this one but want to reach into the picture and pull his shorts down in the middle SO bad!

This is a good one…

and this one was the real winner I thought.  and it’s now on the sidebar of the blog…did you notice that on Friday?!  🙂

We then took lots inside.  These are two of my favorites…

Maxwell makes me laugh in that last one!  She also took a lot of really neat pictures of the inside of the house which I will happily share with you once my friend’s project is up and running!

If you live in Birmingham and want a good photographer, definitely check out Piper Photography!  You can see some of the other photos she’s done for us here, here and here.  I love Lauren!

Happy Monday all!

 

Olympic Friday Funny

I mentioned on Wednesday how my favorite part of the Olympics is watching the reaction of the parents in the stands.  Here’s a few clips of some of the best ones – my obvious favorite is Aly Raisman’s parents.  I would totally be like that!

Olympic Parent Freakouts

To send you off on another funny note…here’s Mr. Gold Medal himself in his second event.  What, you didn’t think all he could do was swim, did you?!

Good thing he’s got on his weight-lifting belt to support that back!

Yep, he’s 30 lbs of pure muscle…just watch him lift that Shake Weight!!  🙂

Go USA!

Hope you all have a GREAT weekend!

Back in Business

The AT&T guy made it over here yesterday and just had to replace our box.  Apparently it had gotten blown when the power went out or something.  Whatever it was, I’m glad it was an easy fix and happy to be back in business!

I hope you guys got some good laughs out of the Gold Medal winner pictures from the past two days.  I know I sure have!

Given the HOT temps we’ve been dealing with around here, we’ve been spending a lot of afternoons inside watching our Mighty Machines, coloring and playing with Play-Doh.  Fun stuff!

Whenever Maxwell is playing with Play-Doh he periodically stops and smells it.  I can’t blame him, I do the same thing!  I love the way it smells!

As good as it smells, Maxwell has learned that Play-Doh is “gross” if you put it in your mouth!  I’m just going to take his word on that one!

Fun stuff!

technical difficulties

Thanks to a massive storm here yesterday, I’m having some technical difficulties. Namely no phone, tv or internet. An AT&T rep can’t get out here to get it fixed until this afternoon so I had to do this post using 3G on my ipad which means I’m not able to get any photos off of my computer onto the internet. So I’m just going to share a few more of my little Gold Medal winner that I already had uploaded to Flickr!

The worst part is that I missed getting to watch the women’s gymnastics last night! I tried to watch someof it online but it was spoiled for me because as soon as I clicked on nbc’s site to find out how to watch it,  the headlines on the site told me the results! Oh well! I think I’ve decided that my favorite part of the Olympics is watching the reactions of the parents in the stands – such anxiety, pride and joy. I love it! Who knows, maybe I’ll be that parent someday cheering Maxwell onto victory!

Olympics 2020?

I came home yesterday and Susan said she has a surprise for me…and it might have been the best surprise EVER!  Maxwell came around the corner dressed like this little gold medal winner!!!!!

Could you not just die?!  I was CRACKING UP!  She taught him how to pose on the medal stand too…

WINNER!!  He looked so funny with all of his bushy hair smushed under that (adult size!) swim cap.

Phelps and Lochte better watch out!  Maxwell’s coming for them!

He was loving it, I was loving it, Susan was loving it.

If you weren’t before, you have to be in the Olympic spirit after seeing these pictures!!!

Thank you (again!) for the belly laughs Susan!!  Go USA!