All About the Alfords

Friday, September 17, 2010

Galveston 2010-Labor Day Weekend

For the past 5 years, we have gone with the Kuhn family and other families to Galveston for a fun family weekend! This year we rented a house with the Kuhns and the Heemers and had a BLAST!!! There were 7 kids and and 6 adults and it was wild, crazy, and full of fun times! We had a wonderful house right on the beach and a great view of the beach! We spent our days on the beach, playing in the sand, and playing in the waves. We spent the nights grilling out, watching movies, relaxing on the porch, making s'mores, and enjoying the great company!!! The kids are so fun and had a blast! Colson loved being in the sand and Brooklyn loved being in the water! Thank you Rick, Jill, Grant, and Jennifer for a great weekend!

Monday, September 6, 2010

First day of School

I know I am behind!!! Good first day at school for Brooklyn and of course Colson is still loving Deanna's house! Brooklyn has several teachers this year and is loving them. They have told us that she is so sweet and no problems at all! yay! Colson is starting to talk more and more and is Deanna's little helper! He is so glad to have another boy at the sitter this year to play with him!!!!

Both of the kids tucked in before the first day of school!!!

The morning before going to ELA 4 year old class and Deanna's house!

Brooklyn with Mrs. Sanford

Ms. Chelsea

Brooklyn with Mrs. Sue...Mrs. Christina and Mrs. Gracie are also her teachers but were not there this morning. They come in a little later.

The kids get to pick exactly what they want for the first day of school dinner. In hopes that it would be something quick, I asked Brooklyn what she wanted for her dinner of choice! No chicken nuggets and french fries for this girl...she wanted Italian Sausage, asparagus, strawberries, and grapes. They both loved it and it was a great end to a great day for them!

Meal of choice!!!!!

August Past and Present

Aug 2006 Brooklyn

Aug 2007

Aug 2008

Aug 2009

Aug 2010

Here's our little man!

August 2008

August 2009

August 2010

It is so fun to look back and see how much they have grown!!!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Summer Comes to an End

I am so sad that our summer is over. I have had one week of staff development and the students come to meet Mrs. Alford and Coach Alford on Monday morning. Have I ever mentioned how blessed I feel that we are both teachers? We will never be rich but we have so much time with the kids together and it is just such a blessing! We had a great and fun summer so I am very sad to see it go! The kids are getting older and love to go and do! It is so fun to give them experiences that they have never had before!
Brooklyn will be attending the Early Learning Academy for Spring ISD teachers just as she did last year and I feel so blessed that she is there! The education is just amazing and the independence she is gaining is awesome! Her teachers will be Mrs. Sanford, Ms. Sue, Ms. Chelsea, and Ms. Christina! I know it will be a good year. We went to open house to meet them and they all knew her from last year. She got to see Mrs. Linda, Jeri, and Sandi from last year and she was so excited to see them. She cried when she saw Mrs. Linda because she wants to be in her class again this year!
Colson will be with Deanna again for his 3rd year! He loves being there so much and I feel like we have the best babysitter in the world! She has been a part of our family for 5 years now and I cannot imagine what it would be like not dropping off a kid there every day...she says I need to have more kids for her to watch but NO WAY! The first day back at DeeDee's house he screamed and cried when he had to leave and didn't want to come home at all! PLAY DEEDEES is all he said! Too funny!
I don't know why but I haven't been taking many pictures so we will pick up the camera and start taking more! We will be posting some of the first day of school for Brooklyn so come back and check!