Alice Visits Kilbourne Park Baptist Church

Last Sunday, Alice visited Kilbourne Park Baptist Church. It has been a while since she went church visiting, and she was excited about going!


Alice and Beth. Beth took Alice to church; Mary Pat slept in this time. Beth is such a good granddaughter!


Alice always makes a grand entrance!


Alice's friend Frances Montgomery, goes to Kilbourne Park. France is the the blonde on the right.
The bulletin. It was July 4th week, and the music and bulletin were beautiful.

Alice Has a Plateful!

For those of you who know Alice well, you know that she has a light appetite! It amazes us how little she eats, especially compared to our healthy appetites! But that wasn't the case during our last visit to the Original Pancake House. Alice ordered Strawberry French Toast, and as the pictures show, nearly joined the "Clean Plate Club." The Strawberry French Toast was a hit!

Alice is a MONEY MAKER!

On Saturday, Beth and Mary Pat took Alice to United Way of the Midlands (UWM) pancake breakfast, a neat fundraiser! United Way volunteers cooked and served as waitstaff, and all tips went to the United Way.

Alice has always supported United Way and has been particularly concerned with results in this economic climate. At least once a week, she asks Beth how the campaign is going and sometimes sends ideas for fundraising.

In January, Alice started saving change to give to UWM. Once a week, she asks Shorti to empty her change purse. When people come to visit her, she asks them for her change. When family friends come over on Sunday evenings for dinner, she asks them for change. She picks it up off the ground, too.

Alice is very proud of how much she has been able to save/collect without any financial hardship whatsoever. She says it is a great lesson in how a family can work together to contribute to United Way with just a (very) little effort.

On Saturday, Alice took her change - which added up to $53 - to the breakfast. She not only donated that money as a tip, but also challenged UWM CEO Mac Bennett to match an additional gift she made of $20.

The breakfast was at Fatz, and we all enjoyed breakfast and the fun! Alice said their coffee was the best she's had in Columbia, so the owner gave her some to take home.Here are some great pictures of the event. Enjoy.

Beth and Alice, the two redheads, dressed in their United Way t-shirts, ready to go!


And even though she is NOT a redhead and was not wearing a United Way shirt, they let MP go, too!


Alice arrives at Fatz.


Breakfast was good, too.



Alice enjoyed the coffee so much the owner gave her a package to take home!


Alice showing United Way CEO Mac Bennett her change. But she wouldn't let him have it until he matched an additional gift she made. She wanted to challenge him again, but decided not to since "he still has a child in college." She said he probably needed his money. (See, he's reaching into his wallet!)


Then Alice got out MORE money...


...and challenged Mike Gray, UWM VP for Resource Development. He matched her, too.


This may LOOK like a can of beans, but it's a safe the girls got Alice for Christmas. You're supposed to put your valuables in it and store it in the pantry, but Alice started collecting her change in it and kept it in her room.


Alice got a VIP tour of the kitchen from the owner, and Richland County's Stephanie Snowden - an S&S friend of Alice's - surprised her with a kiss. Look at the smile on Alice's face!

Alice and Bruce, Fatz owner.


One last money shot! Alice with Mac Bennett, Scott Shockley, General Manager, Lamar Advertising and UWM Co-Chair and Pamela Lackey, President, SC AT&T.

Alice's Starbucks Birthday

This is a late birthday post. The ladies at Eastminister took Alice to Starbucks for her birthday. A whole mess of them. Alice had lots of fun, as you can tell by the smile on her face!

Alice's Vass Visitors

Saturday, Carol Ann Loving and her daughter, Debbie, visited Alice. Alice was very happy to see them! Sunday, Raymond and Joey came, but alas, the paparazzi was taking a Sunday nap!

Alice Rocks the Vote

Tuesday was Election Day in Forest Acres, and you know Alice doesn't miss a chance to vote. It was a "lite" ballot: two incumbents were running unopposed and there was a referendum on Sunday beer and wine sales - less than 300 people voted, but Alice was one of them! Afterwards, it looks like Alice and Beth visited Three Dog Bakery and the Invitation Station.

Alice Smiling

The "grandgirls" couldn't believe it - as hard as they try to get a picture of Alice smiling, this one showed up on Shorti's camera. It was taken by one of Alice's friends when they took her to Starbucks for her birthday! We think you'll agree that it is a DELIGHTFUL picture!

Alice's Mother's Day Lunch!

This afternoon, Alice's granddaughters treated her (and Shorti) to a Mother's Day lunch!

The highlight of lunch was the pink lemonade cupcakes, made in the style of Dewey's Bakery in Winston Salem, NC. They weren't QUITE as good, but close. Alice liked them so much she licked the cupcake liner when she finished - the icing was the best.


Alice got lots of gifts:

Pink chimes


A Jitterbug phone (which is actually in route, so she got a wrapped picture)


A Life is Good MOM t-shirt (also in route, so she opened another wrapped picture)


Bob Barker's Priceless Memories Book, postage stamps with her picture (and some with Shorti and Pat, too)
Cards in a pretty pink suitcase


She also got some pretty cards, even one from Lucy the Dog.


A funny picture of Alice with Mary Pat, Beth and Shorti.


Shorti and Alice, great mothers!


After lunch, granddaughter Beth refilled Alice's bird feeders and trimmed the flowers in her window box. Mary Pat said that Beth was the biggest red-headed woodpecker she'd ever seen.


Once the festivities were over, Alice sat down for a few minutes, but she and Shorti were planning a trip to the grocery store.

Alice the Birthday Girl

Technically, tomorrow is Alice's birthday, but some of her family celebrated with her a day early with a birthday cookout! Here are some of our favorite pictures of the birthday girl.