Jim and Elaine made cookies today (wednesday). He had the day off from work. 

Elaine is holding a Dora toy, from Berta, that she carried around and talked to most of the weekend. 

I still think Elaine looks a LOT like my mom, who visited over this last weekend. Friday to Sunday. 

The family that plays together, laughs together 

Jimmy torpedo has been launched downhill... on a busted up cardboard box. Yay fmaily time 

Lainey and Scott 

I think Elaine is playing with a peanut shell 

Allan "zapping" himself with Jimmy out at Dinner with Scott last week 

look E-ma, I got the dress. 

Elaine at the park early last week...maybe it was the weekend...who knows 

Our internet WAS down for 2 weeks

WE'RE BACK ONLINE!!

---more updates to come

Not just some random humorous photo found off of the internet.... That 'Robot' is one of my old roommates, Justin. I'm surprised to see him out of his bat cave of a room, let alone out in daylight. 

I've been Window Shopping online.

doesn't this set scream "ELAINE"? The colors are so her. It's brand new from Basicgrey. They have a cute "Oh baby boy" set too, but this is "oh baby girl"

This is the top of my 'Letter to Santa' or belated Mothers day wish list. I think these are just precious. The eeyores are great and the roses are blue like my wedding bouquet (it was blue and lavender). And I don't have a toothbrush holder at present, so this got my attention. The set is sold together. 

Yahoo Photos

I'm in the middle of adding photos to the yahoo photo albulms for myself, Elaine and Allan. Most of the pics yall have seen before, but I still wanted to keep this maintained. Links are the the right. The end.

Today was 'Chicken Sunday' at Church

there's Daddy!

"I don't want Daddy hat" 

Mom, are these Dreds non-toxic? Because they taste like paint. 

scary, huh? Jim's are ducttape Dreds, but Micah's are real 

Our Pastor 

Brenda said today that Allan and I look alike. I don't see it.  

Allan's thinking: "Mom, go away. I'm hanging with the cool kids. Geez." 

Jim's Chicken Sunday Hat. He didn't win the contest this year (he won the last two years), but he says that's okay because the prize was a McDonald's gift card and we are a What-a-Burger family. 

Jimmy's new Job!

Every couple of weeks we find a random newspaper in our driveway that we haven't ordered. When I find it, I go ahead, bring it in a check for coupons and the comic strips. This this on Wednesday when the paper arrived, I browsed the Classifieds because I've been keeping an eye out for a used dresser for the kids. I saw a handful of ads for jobs cooking. I circled them and told Jim and a friend about the jobs.

Jim has been keeping an eye out for another job. He has reached the top of the payscale at his current job ($9) and we need him to earn more than that. Also, driving back and forth to Ponder,TX 6 days a week is really adding up on our Gasoline costs.

Yesterday Jim had me cut his hair and trim up his beard. He put on his chef's jacket and applied at two places. This morning he heard back from the place that he prefered of the two. They wanted to interview him this afternoon. It's a Senior Citizen community between my old apartment (when I was single) and the hospital where our kids were born; right near UNT campus. They were looking for a Prep Cook. That means the cook that chops all the veggies and prepares all the ingrediants to be cooked by someone else. Jim had me iron his chef jacket for today's interview. HE LOOKED SHARP!

The interviewer asked him very little questions and went right into showing him around the kitchen. It's a much larger/nicer kitchen than where he currently works. Jimmy was pleased with that. They hired Jimmy this afternoon. His starting pay is more than he earns now at Ranchmans (and he had to get a couple raises to earn the $9 in Ponder). He will work from lunchtime until 8pm at the senior community, called The Vintage. Jim is starting off working part-time, but that will only last like 2 weeks. Then he'll be full time at the Vintage.

Jim went to work tonight at Ranchman's. He is gonna ask for Mon-Thursday off from Ranchmans, but he doesn't want to leave them without their fastest cook for this weekend's rush or next weekend. He says he wants to help Ranchman's until they can replace them. They hired a young girl chef a couple weeks back who is catching on quickly, and she wants more hours. So this might work out well for everyone. Jimmy doesn't want to burn his bridges at Ranchman's because he has befriended the head chef, Gary.

After talking to Jimmy, I learned today that ALL the classes he needs to graduate are offered online by Devry. And he's gonna go that route, as to not delay his graduation in October. Since he's working from lunchtime until 8pm from now on, I'll have to take early morning classes when my school starts back up in late August.. *yuck* It's for the best for our family. With Jimmy getting home around 8pm instead of Midnight or later, it will be easier for us to get a good night's rest... so early classes will be manageable (*or so I pray*). Well, I think that's everything.. Be praying for this transition to go smoothly.

when Allan walks around with no shirt, he reminds me of my older brother. 

"Look Dan-a-toe" 

Jim showed Elaine the first tomatoes off of our plants. 

On Monday Jimmy repaired a computer at Granny's house (Pamela's grandmother). The kids and I spent the day chit chatting with Granny while Jimmy worked. Elaine found some marachas and carried them around most of the day.