The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

New Park

We discovered a new park earlier this week and it was fantastic.  I especially loved the spongey ground!  It’s always fun to explore someplace new!

Maxwell loved the bzzz bzzz bouncing bee!

He also loved getting to swing (barely) on the big kid swings…

I just barely gave him the slightest push so he wouldn’t fall off and bonk his head!

The only bad thing about the park, and about AL in general this time of year, was the heat!  There wasn’t a ton of shade and, as Maxwell is saying in this picture, the equipment was HOT!

We had the place to ourselves for a little while but then two little girls showed up and one of them was actually a friend from Maxwell’s school.  Small world!  Ann Margaret and Maxwell were born just 10 days apart and her mom and I had actually done pre-natal water aerobics together.  We started talking and we’re both pregnant again and due within a few weeks of each other!  Funny how those things happen.

It was a great afternoon exploring a new place!  Here’s to some more new places to explore this weekend!  See you all Monday!

Photography

If you look up, you’ll see a new page on the header titled Photography.  Now, as I say on that page, I am in no way any sort of professional.  It’s just a fun hobby for me and one that I’ve really gotten into over the last 2 years.  People always see my pictures and ask, “what kind of camera do you have?”, so I thought I’d answer that question and a lot more for you.  What I don’t do on the page is explain photography – there are plenty of other people who are much better at that than I.  What I do on the page is list all of the resources that I have found helpful and hopefully will help you too.  Go check it out and let me know if you have any other questions.

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Maxwell since the beginning.  It’s fun to go back and look to not only see how much he has grown, but also to see that my photography has improved a little too!  At least I think so!  🙂

September 10, 2010

October 20, 2010

December 13, 2010

February 20, 2011

May 3, 2011

July 4, 2011

July 23, 2011

August 30, 2011.  1 year old!

October 9, 2011

November 13, 2011

November 17, 2011

November 18, 2011

November 28, 2011

January 24, 2012

February 9, 2012

April 4, 2012

April 15, 2012

April 22, 2012

Funny that almost all of my favorite pictures are either in our backyard or on the swings!  Guess you can tell where we hang out!

Hope you guys find the new page helpful!

 

The name game

Don’t worry Maxwell, Jessica Simpson might have stolen your name, but you’ll always be the original and the best!

If you don’t know where we got the name Maxwell, here you go!

Iphone dump!

Sitting still no more

I remember, oh how I remember the days when Maxwell would sit still and let me take his picture.  Well, technically he would sit still because he couldn’t move yet, not because he wanted to let me take his picture.  But still, those were the days.  Days like this…

That picture was taken on May 3, 2011.  Hard to believe that was just about 1 year ago today.  He was so easy to photograph.  He’d just sit wherever I put him and smile at any silly little thing I did.  Times, they have changed.  I’m now running after Maxwell just trying to capture the split second when he actually stands still.  And getting him to stand still AND smile?  Let’s just say it’s a challenge.

I might get the “I don’t want my picture taken right now” face…

Or the “oh, there’s a plane in the sky!” distracted face…

Or the “I’m going to practice my football 3 point stance” face…

Or the “I’m going to show you the cereal in my mouth” face…

But, then I’ll get something like this…

Boom.  And the challenge is worth every single second.

Habitat BBQ

Happy Monday!  Hope you all had a great weekend.  We did!  On Saturday we went to the Habitat for Humanity BBQ.  As I mentioned on Friday, Robert is on the board so he was up there from about 7:30 to 3:30 – a long day for him.  Maxwell and I just stopped by for a couple of hours but we had plenty of fun dancing to the band and trying some great bbq.

Maxwell was busy checking out the band and bopping to the beat most of the time!

He even let me spin him around for a song or two!

The food was fantastic.  My personal favorite (and the People’s Choice Winner that day!) was the BBQ Sundae.  Such a fun idea – they put beans, bbq pork, and cole slaw all in a cup with a cherry tomato on top!  Just like a savory sundae!  Yum!

Of course my picky little eater couldn’t be talked into trying the great food so what did he eat at the bbq?  an almond butter sandwich of course!

There was lots of fun to be had, not least of which was playing with a glove balloon!

There was also a bounce house and Maxwell REALLY wanted to get in, but there were just too many big kids in there to make it safe.  Luckily he seemed to have just as much watching them bounce around from the outside!

There was also a face painting booth with some seriously professional face painting going on!  All I could think about though was all that face paint on his sheets when he got home for his nap so we skipped it!  Gotta save something for next year, right?

It was a great day for a great cause!

See you tomorrow!

ps – Maxwell is 20 months old today!  time flies!