The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Boo!!

What a fun Halloween we had!  Maxwell had heard about all the ghosts and goblins that come out to play on Halloween day so he spent the morning with a little message for those ghosts on his t-shirt…

Ghostbusters!

I ain’t afraid a no ghosts!!

Although he kind of looks like he’s running away from the ghost on our door!  Maybe he was just a little afraid!  🙂

Susan totally got into the spirit too!  She was the best bow-wearing, hilbilly girl I’ve seen!

That afternoon Maxwell put on his costume for all the neighborhood festivities.  What was he???

A cheeseburger!!  Is that not hilarious?!  He’s so cute I could eat him up!  If only I had a side of fries!  🙂

As my friend Zack said, “He’s a big Max!”  ha ha ha!

I love this next picture.  My menacing cheeseburger standing in front of the ghost…

Scary!!

Lots more Halloween pics tomorrow.  Stay tuned!

Happy Halloween!!

BOO!!!  Hope you all have some fun and spooooky plans for today!  We’re going to a Halloween parade and then around the neighborhood to see what all scary things we can see!

We had a great fall weekend.  On Friday we took some family pictures for our Christmas Card.  Maxwell was super smiley and I cannot wait to see how they turned out!  On Saturday we went to a friend’s 1st birthday party and Maxwell got to go into his first bounce house!  It was all kids under 3 so it was pretty safe.  Plus, all the moms got in there too to regulate!  🙂

Last week Susan and Maxwell got into the full Halloween spirit and carved the best jack-o-lantern ever!  Never one to do things boring, Susan also added a little color to our pumpkin…I think she’s a jackie-o-lantern!

Maxwell thought she needed a paci as the pièce de résistance!  perfect!

My two little pumpkins…

Of course, later that day when Maxwell didn’t have a paci of his own, he wasn’t quite so sure that Jackie needed hers!

We’re still working on sharing!  🙂

See you tomorrow with full costume pictures!  Happy Halloween!!

Friday Favorite

Today’s Friday Favorite are these name tags by Name Bubbles.  We have the mini bubbles and love them.  My good friend, Hannah, gave me some and they are fantastic.  You can put them on anything from sippy cups to clothes.  They survive the dishwasher and the washing machine just fine.  I have labeled everything that goes to school with Maxwell with these and can’t say enough good things about them!  They make a great gift too!  thanks Hannah!!  🙂

We have a fun weekend ahead…a birthday party and Halloween festivities!  Today I’m leaving you all with some iphone pictures from October.  Enjoy…

See you on spoooooky Monday!!  Boo!

Reunion

After getting home from Naples on Wednesday, Robert and I packed up again to head to Nashville for my Vanderbilt 10 year reunion.  The super-nice GJ came into town to stay with Maxwell.  I’m not sure who had more fun – us in Nashville or Maxwell at home with GJ!

I loved being back in Nashvegas, loved seeing old friends and loved re-living my awesome college years!  Although, I can’t quite stay up as late as I did back then!  But I sure can get up earlier in the morning!  🙂

We stayed at The Hutton – such a swanky new addition to Nashville.  It was fantastic.  While I didn’t get to eat at all my old favorites like Calypso, I did get to try to some fun new restaurants like Whisky Kitchen and Zumi Sushi.

We went to the official 2001 class party on campus Friday night…

and I got to see lots of familiar faces (please indulge me with all these group photos of people you likely don’t know! or maybe you do. I have no idea who reads this bloggy blog)…

Kristin, in the middle of the last picture, was my college roommate 3 of my 4 years at Vandy.  She now has a little boy only 2 weeks younger than Maxwell.  Who would have thought when I met her first day of freshman year 10 years ago that we would now have babies born within days of each other?!  so cool.

After the party we walked by the Tri-Delt house on our way to catch a cab and took this picture…

Dorks.  and I love it.

That night we hit up downtown Nashville and spent some quality time at Robert’s.  Doesn’t get much better than that!  Saturday was lunch, tailgating and the exciting Vandy game (that Robert and I skipped out on!).

We also walked through campus that day and, let me tell you, those students look like they have a good time on game day!  Did you also know that college girls (at least the Vandy ones) ALL wear sundresses and cowboy boots on game day?  Well, they do…and those sundresses are short!  Goodness gracious!

We headed back to B’ham Sunday morning and I sure was happy to pull in and see Maxwell’s smiling face.  I was also SO excited to see that my mom had planted pansies all over our yard!  She really is the BEST!

And, because I can’t have a post without a picture of the blog star…here you go…

Peeking out from all of our fall goodness!!

It was a fun trip, a great reunion and now we are glad to be home!!

A red, sporty special little treat

As I mentioned yesterday, we went to Toys R Us in Naples to get Maxwell a treat for being…well, for being him.  We came home with a little red car and it was a hit!  A BIG time hit!

Maxwell the mechanic worked hard putting it all together…

with maybe just a little help from Dad.

After it was all ready to go, Maxwell couldn’t wait to take it for a spin…

after he buckled up of course!  Safety first!

When he finally hit the “road” he was all smiles!

He LOVED this car.  Robert and I probably clocked a few miles each just going around and around the house because it was raining outside.  Maxwell sure didn’t mind staying inside as long as he got to drive!!  This thing is definitely going to be a favorite every time we visit Naples!

We were having a great time in Naples but Maxwell got sick on Tuesday night (snotty and pukey) and I was afraid he was getting another ear infection.  So, given that and the rain, we decided to head on back to AL early and get him up to the doctor.  Thankfully his ears were just fine and while I hated to cut our vacation short, it was better to be safe than sorry.

My sweet boy snoozing in the car on the way to the airport…

Hopefully our next visit to Naples will bring just as much family fun and more sunshine! And hopefully Santa will bring another red, sporty special treat to Birmingham!  🙂