GOAL! 

soccer in the church courtyard 

We went with Steven to an Asian market on Sunday. Jimmy picked up a morter-thingy to grind up herbs in. It was only $15! (Jim saw a similar one at 'Tuesday Morning' for over $100.) The kids liked trying the interesting candies sold at the market. Some was like fruit-filled M&Ms and others were gummy. They all came in baby-sized boxes. 

"Big Allan" and Baby Allan on Sunday 

they say that the sign of good parents are happy kids 

he did this to himself! He wanted me to pull him around by the ladder. Baby Al got mad when I stopped. The outfit is from his Grandma Robin 

now THATS sleeping 

Jim's boss told him that he needed to shave off his beard or they would make him wear a hairnet thingy over it while he cooks. He said he'd rather wear the hairnet, because his wifey likes the beard. Eventually his bosses got their way and JImmy shaved off his beard this last weekend. 

Miss Kaylee and Sam. Kaylee is almost 6 years old 

like father like son. We went to Pam's earlier this week. Allan enjoyed Kaylee's play kitchen and chasing their dog, Sam. 

guys after icecream, last week 

a friend of the Brank Family, Mary, visited from NY. She took us out for a Cajun dinner and then for icecream. Elaine loved Mary!!  

My mom sent me some photos of my brother. This is him doing his Navy reserves training. They have him working on Electrical stuff up on a pole while they shoot down on the ground, to see if he can get his job done with distractions underfoot. He goes to Iraq in January. 

one more fast kit layout 

It's about time that I get these scrapbooked, huh? 

good old-fashioned scrapbooking. :) I like mixing the different alphabet stamps for the title and names. 

page 1 of 2 (I got the sticker letters for $1.00 at Big Lots!! For that size and upper&lower case, that's unbelievible!) 

page 2 of 2 

this LO is about some of my parents visiting in the hospital waiting room with the kids. The bunny is just a stamped image that I chalked in.  

When my mom was in town, we went to Big Lots. I found these scrapbooking time-saving kits. I bought a couple kits then (good price!) and Jim let me pick up a couple more early last week. I started using the kits to scrapbook the pictures from when I was in the hospital. Since I wasn't there when these pictures were taken, so I was troubled on how to scrapbook the photos. The kits are making the task go by quicker. :) 

the boy falls asleep in the wierdest places. This time he rolled off the bed in his sleep without waking up. It's not the first time. 

Elaine in her craddle (from Pawpaw) feeding her babydoll some water. She was surprised when the doll pissed on her. Good times. :)  

She plucked tomatoes from our yard and put them in her new wheel barrow from Grandma Robin 

"Rojo Damatoes" -Elaine 

the job of assistant cookie-maker has it's perks. (let me know if you notice the subliminal message in the back of this image)