Sorry, No Pictures

I have taken pictures today to put on the blog, but it is too late, I will do it tomorrow.

Sports Update:
Quinn won his soccer game
Kylie won her Softball game (14 to 5!)
Zak and Quinn won their basketball game
Kylie did well in tennis

So, I guess we are all WINNERS!

In Other News:

• Video - we watched Body of Lies tonight. Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe. It had such potential, but just missed the mark. Don't bother....especially if you don't have clear play.
• We have Stake Conference tomorrow
• Dad mowed the lawn today
• It was SWEATY HOT!
  
• Oh, Griffin and I and later Kylie collected A LOT of plastic bottles. We will turn them in for money. It was kind of exciting, like picking up all these nickles and dimes other people didn't want. We WILL collect more.
  

Friday Night's Activities

Friday night we had a primary activity: the primary children made the families dinner, then we each family made "crest". It worked out well. Our only primary child there was Griffin. While eating our meal, we heard some funny stories:

From Scott Luna: I would like to give "Shovel Pass" a hug. I think he has Scott Luna Syndrome. The syndrome is where you start gaining weight just after you graduated from high school.

From Scott Colton: he has an uncle with Down's Syndrome....at family parties, when a delicious food items was put out on the table he (the uncle) would lick his fingers and touch everything he wanted to eat...just to make sure HE got to eat it.

In Other News:

• we have loads of SPORTS today! Basketball for Z & Q, Tennis for Kylie, Softball for Kylie, Soccer for Q
• We have Stake Conference tonight and tomorrow.
• I can't believe NO COMMENTS about the knit uterus!
• People have really got to clean up their STUFF around the house

Weird Things

People will buy and sell odd things.
While learning, searching, figuring out online today, I ran across these two items:

The first: someone is requesting a person to KNIT a UTERUS for her! Yes. She teaches a prenatal class and wants a knitted uterus. She has a pattern. It would be great if you could also make a place where a cesarean section took place.
http://www.etsy.com/alchemy/request.php?id=66808

The Second: someone I don't know, but a blog that I have visited from time to time,(Oh Happy Day..the blog) she has been making books, 5" x 6 1/2". The covers of these books are old paintings that her husband made years ago. The books are interesting. She is selling 6 of them for $81 EACH! Oh, and by the way, she has sold every one. What??
http://jordanferney.blogspot.com/2009/02/books-for-sale.html

In other news:
We had spaghetti tonight. Zak did NOT like the sauce so much. He really didn't eat much. It was a shocker.
We watched Survivor. We enjoyed it.
I made an account at ETSY. If I sell my purse there, it will break the rules. I think I will try to break the rules. Some rules are for breaking...I think.
Quinn has Frontier Day tomorrow
Kylie is making up a dance with Lydia for the upcoming Highland Oaks Talent Show

Open For Business!

If you are looking for a few Handmade items, I have the place for you!

visit: handbagsandsuch.blogspot.com

(that's handbags and such)

I have made a beautiful handbag in black toile

several baby blankets

a little tote bag

other items are still coming.

Don't be afraid to put this link on your blog! I would really appreciate it! I am hoping to get a fun looking button to share...soon...it all takes time!

Tell your friends, tell your relatives....momma needs a sale!

The Marv

The Marv just got released by the Colts. There is a chance the Eagles will want him, but I expect they are too smart to want that noob.

Review in Pictures

That's a review of things that we have seen here at the Cole house hold....

You know it has been raining; I have shown pictures and talked about it.

The other day, as I was walking back and forth (for the 100th time) from the gate to the back door, I noticed this bucket. It is FULL of rain water! That is a lot of rain. The bucket is 9 inches tall.

A few nights ago, late, around 10:30pm, Zak noticed this moth fluttering by our kitchen window! It was huge (for a moth). It's wing is 2 inches! We'd hate for you to miss seeing it, so here are a few pictures: (and yes, I can see the window is a bit dirty!)

Our last picture is of our cat. It seems that when he is ready to go outside he reaches up to twist open the door. He is so close to being able to help himself, but not quite. It is funny.

In other news:

• I made a post about the Academy Awards on our Payne site. If you want to vote, go over there and make your thoughts known!
• Kylie and Griffin only have 1/2 days of school this whole week!
• Griffin starts T-ball on Monday. He is very excited.
• No one (even me) is more swayed by commercials than Griffin. It is funny. He will often tell me things I just need to buy that he saw on a commercial. I was once swayed by the Hebrew National Hot Dogs commercial. I thought they would really be good and different. They were not!
• The Swenson's came to our ward today! They have planned this family reunion for 1 year. Most everyone came. It was fun to see them all. Anne is going on a mission to Sweden in May. They will go to Disneyland. What fun.
• The photos in this post were taken by Zak and Quinn! Quinn took the water bucket so he could get a marshmellow valentine treat. Zak took the rest.

Guitar: The Wood Has Arrived!

There on the right you will see the Zebrawood, which is what the back and sides will be made out of. I also think that red piece there in the middle will look pretty neat - it will be the bridge (the part at the bottom on the face that the strings hook into).

Odd Man Out

Did anybody read this article in the Sports Illustrated for February 16? It is a story by Matt McCarthy about him being in the minor leagues. It ends kind've suddenly. I think it is a book, and this is probably an excerpt or something. It was very interesting. I think it would at least be worth checking out of the library (when you aren't taking 15 credits or something).

He happened to play for the Provo Angels based in Provo, UT. I didn't even know there was a minor league team here. Anyway, I would have posted this in the Payne blog, but I think the only people who actually read sports illustrated are here.

Utopia News

Adults, you won't understand this post. It is for us kids.

So Steven and I decided to play the new age of Utopia just purely for 1 reason: to cause havoc. We both became the biggest in the kingdom, and then posted a message in the forums for a "hostile takeover". Then we attacked the king and anyone else who opposed until they defected. Now we're attacking everybody who isn't voting until they do vote. It is great fun. We've caused probably 8-10 defections already, and several more to delete their accounts.

We don't have many people left to attack. So I'm think it would be fun to just attack everybody until it is only me and Steven left in the kingdom. Then whoever is bigger will automatically become monarch.

Too bad you guys missed out.

Tuesday Stuff

Back to school!
Raining some more this morning.
Dad's car is back in the shop.
Chicken Noodle Casserole for dinner, (yum).

Sparkling Dinner Conversation:
If a professional sports player got to substitute in your classroom, who would you like it to be?

Names that came up: Brett Favre, The Manning Brothers, T.O. Larry Fitzgerald, Kurt Warner (and also his wife, Brenda!), Marshawn Lynch (because he is so ugly, apparently Zak and Quinn did not make that up, his ugliness is something people talk about!), Manny Rodriguez, I thought Jeff Kent would give too much homework.

Zak and Quinn are at mutual
Dad is at his bishopric meeting
Those at home will watch Biggest Loser. We like it.