All About the Alfords

Monday, July 23, 2012

Blackberry Picking Time!

In June, we took the kids blackberry picking at Neal's Farm right down the road! We had a blast! It was such a hot day but we picked about 4 pounds of berries and bought some other fresh vegetables! I made a great great cobbler and yummy muffins! Love us some muffins!!!!

Fun Times with Memaw and Pop's House

We love spending time with Memaw and Pop! Cynthia and I celebrated our birthday together as we always do...we had tons of fun at Crystal and Phil's, ate wonderful food, opened presents, and took a walk to the park! It was a wonderful night and the kids had a blast!

Proud Parent Moment

Between Mother's Day and Father's Day each year our church does a fundraiser for the Pregnancy Assistance Center North that is near us. They give us a ton of baby bottles and we fill them with change and return them to help support the work they do with prenatal care and counsel of women having babies. Brooklyn always loves doing this and grabs bottles to fill. She loves coming home and emptying her piggy bank into the bottles and seeing how heavy they get! The heavier the better! This year she told us that she wanted to have a lemonade stand and all of the money that she makes will fill the baby bottles! WOW...proud mommy moment! We set up a stand and she made $84.58!!!!! At the beginning we had very few customers but it was so cute listening to her and Colson yell, "Fresh Lemonade, very cold, with clean ice!" She just said, "I just want one customer...that is all!" They all started coming and it was so awesome!
Bro. John Culley, our pastor, pulled Brooklyn on stage and recognized her genuine heart and said how it is so awesome to see God working through such a little lady!
PROUD!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Lake Tejas Camping Trip

Our good friends Tracy and Michael Moffitt invited us to join them on their new camper for a weekend camping trip! I must say that when we think of camping we think of tents. Tent camping in the Houston heat in summer is not appealing to me. The camper was perfect! They just bought it and it is beautiful. We headed about 2 hours away and went to swim in the lake, enjoy the outdoors, but also enjoy sleeping indoors at night! It was a fantastic trip filled with great swim time, slide time, diving board time, evening walk times, bathing outdoor times, and excellent company! The kids all were great and had a wonderful time! Our kids were sad for the weekend to come to an end! Thank you for a great time!