UGH!! Instructions please

JULIE: I just spent 20 minutes trying to find and add a picture of a heavily sweating woman.

I would rather have some instruction. Line by line, please. Thank you.

Does anyone out there actually LIKE the feeling of sweat?

I absolutely hate it. It is the worst part about exercising. It is sticky and hot. I would rather be cold than be sweaty. AND the more often I exercise, the easier I sweat. YUK.

Yes I am...

Challenge:
Take this test - http://www.funeducation.com/5thGrader/ and then post your scores

Update: You will have to put in a valid email address to get your score.
Use whatever@mytrashmail.com. The results are then given to you via the web, not the email.

Steven and Julie/mom
The waving FLAG made my heart say "Thank you"!

231 Years Old

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Thanks, Steven, for helping find the waving flag!

Revenge of the Cockroach

I have only spotted one cockroach in the past 2 weeks...and it got away. OK. So it took me a full minute to unfreeze my body and look for the biggest and heaviest shoe I could find. So it got away.

Don's bday was yesterday. Lovely day. Only 104 degrees. swamp coooler not working very well (replaced today). Don's team won their softball game (20-2). i made dinner for the second night in a row (shocker). Excercised with my trainer (double shocker). Finally, children in bed and Don and I can relax and watch a movie. Ahhhhhhhh.....Laugh, laugh, laugh at the movie (Star Trek:Generations) what's that tickle on my toe.....




AAAAAAAARGH!!!! It was a COCKROACH CRAWLING ON ME!!!!!

Don smashed it. He was going to use his hand, but as I like to hold his hand, I asked him to use a shoe.

I hope Julie finds a goooood picture to add to my story...

OK. We're off to see "Bodies in Motion"...over 100 cadavers (real) preserved with plastic arranged in different types of motion. soccer, running, sitting, etc. All very clean.

Steven's Welcome Home

Steven's Home!!

Steven got home very late last night - he went to bed and in the morning this is what I heard:

I feel like I came home to a third world country! My bed is low to the ground (the bed which everyone loves), I have no sheet, I found 5 dog poops on the carpet, there are brown spots all over! My room is like sleeping in a tent, it is the same temperature as the outside.

I have now steam cleaned his carpet...the dog poops are picked up...I will put a sheet on his bed.

Don't worry, Christopher, when you get home things will be great. Good idea sending Steven on ahead as a scout.

Nana & Kate's fun day

Okay, Kate came to spend the day with me (Nana). She thought she might like to take the "trax" into SLC....which is what we did. We tried to get tickets - that was murder because, you know I have a very hard time reading directions. I was wishing Julie was there to buy our tickets for us!! Well, we finally did it. Had a great ride. stopped at City Center. Went to see Bumpa at the JS Building. It was wonderfully cool. He was shocked and happily surprised. He took us to lunch. Kate chose Pizza and a glazed doughnut, Dad and I picked a Taco Salad. It was not a southwest taco salad so it was very dry and nasty. After our lunch Kate and I decided to visit the Beehive House and have a tour. (My very first grandchild to want to go through the house. It was so fun. Somewhere along the way the sweet young tour guide mentioned to the people that at one time the house had been a boarding house. The people wanted to know who boarded there. She didn't know so I piped up and said it was for out of town girls who came into the city to go to school and that I was one of them. Everybody looked at me as though they were shocked. I was able to show them my former room.!! It was all fun - we liked the tour very much!!

Oh, and by the way, after buying tickets to get on the trax, we were riding into the city when the conductor came along and asked for everyone's tickets. A man sitting next to us searched and searched and made excuses because he didn't get a ticket so the conductor said to him, "let's get off at the next stop." I think the fine for not having a ticket is $250.00

I got mixed up thinking that Don's birthday was today instead of yesterday so now I think I am in the dog house. But HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DON!!! AND if I forget again, I will say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEENA on 6 July, MATTHEW PAYNE on the 8th, JULIE & KERRY anniversary on the 9th, STEVEN on the 10th, CREE KOFFORD 11th. JENNA is on the 21st. CMPJ, 26TH and GRIFFIN, who is a Wednesday's Child is on the 30th!! There now, done for the month!

I just came across this exercise which looks like a good one and I thought that maybe those of my children who do not exercise might like this one.

The article suggested doing it three days a week.

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax.

Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks.

Then 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arm straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level)

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks!!

Words

Words you might hear in the Cole household....

poop, foop, dookie, bub, beebachu, beebee, pwnage, too, hot too, poop shack,

shocked and appalled.

You also might hear Spanish, Pig-Latin or OP

Just Wondering...

You know that the address of this blog is...sbpayne.blogspot.com (for Sherma - Bart Payne).

I really wanted: payne.blogspot.com - but it was taken. Or I would have taken Paynes.blogspot - TAKEN TOO!

I just got curious enough to see who had those address. Both were used just once, on the day they were made. One posted a few things, the other just had the basic blog with no posts. One was from 2001, the other from 2004.

What a waste!!

BYE, BRONCO!

Zak had a great time at Football camp. It was time we went back to Arcadia. Kerry asked me why I didn't ask any important questions to Zak, like had he seen Brono Mendenhall and had he seen any other BYU players. I saw Bronco on Zak's last day, (Zak had seen him a few times), so I took a nice picture of him. I am sure he is sad to see Zak go.

Cat Dog Miss Quinn

Quinn, please come home. We miss you.

Nobody will play with us and they hardly ever feed us.

I've even had to sleep ON TOP of the covers!!! (Dog)

And I haven't scratched anyone in DAYS!! (Cat)

I'm so sad I haven't even wanted to poop on the floor for three days! (Dog)

We know you're having fun in Utah, but come home soon and bring Kylie with you. We love to play with her, too, and lick the pool water off her feet.

We miss our masters.

Animalistically yours,

Coco aka Doogman

Cat aka . . . . . Cat

Zak Starts BYU!

Zak started a BYU Football camp today! He was very excited, hope we get lots of updates.
Can you figure out which one is Zak....

If you would like to see more pictures of this trip, click here.

I'm in Texas now...cockroaches beware

Yes, I made it to el Paso with 4 of my children. We drove up just as Don was finishing a tennis match for the Fort Bliss tenneis tournament. the only problem is that Don has 2 stress fractures in his foot. He won anyway. he got second place in the entire tournament. The last player was a HUGE German man who has been here at Ft. Bliss for 6 years. (We invite the Germans to come here to learn about our artillery...) Don would have beat him, too, except for his foot.

anyway, we are unpacking the car and what do I find? Yes, a HUGE cockroach. No, it was not 1/2 inch, it was not 1 inch, it was not even 2 inches. It was 3 inches and FAT. Luckily, it was already dead. Don got rid of it. Then in the middle of the night we are awakened by Jenna screaming at the top of her lungs. Yes indeed...she had gone to the bathroom and there waiting for her was another HUGE cockroach. Don squished it, but then Jenna was afraid one would crawl on her in the middle of the night so she came to sleep in our bed. Wasn't that fun? Now, we keep the bathtub plugged and no more cockroaches!! Yeah!!

The temperature has been in the 100's. We go to the pool every day. Jenna is taking tennis lessons. Bear has not pee'd in the house (phew) but he has poo'd (aarrrrrgh). We all like the little house. the cannon booming outside our window at 6:00am has not really bothered us. I have already had to yell at the security men at the gate becuase they would not let me in after we returned from Carlsbad Caverns. I did not have my army ID. It was 11:30 pm. the children were all asleep in the car. I had to get out of the car and walk back 200 feet from the gate and wait for Don to drive to our house, find my card and bring it back! I told them they were very bad men. Don was probably glad they didn't throw me in jail.

I have lots more adventures to tell... I wish I could put pictures on but I have neither scanner nor printer. It is so fun to read about everyone. thanx Julie!

Beach Day!

We had a great day at the beach today!

Thanks Don, for teaching Quinn how to use the boogie board. He loves it, is good at it and is always the first one in no matter what the temperature of the water.

If you want to see more of our beach pictures, click here

Chase GRADUATES!

Last Friday, June 15th, Chase was our third child to graduate from Arcadia High School

CONGRATULATIONS CHASE!

Chase has just walked around the corner in this picture.

Try to pick Chase out in this picture...it may be impossible.

winer9

I won today at raquetball. It was a great victory. You should have seen his face.

That is all.

What I've been doing... in art!

this happy little boy's name is "Mario gone Mad". My teacher said that i had to draw a picture that mainly focuses on hair (my teacher probably thought that it would mostly be about head hair, but i wanted to get creative) Before you ask any questions, yes those lines on his arms are hair, those are mustaches coming out of his mustaches, and why it is named "Mario gone Mad" will be answered soon enough. 6 points to whoever says why his name is "Mario gone Mad"

p.s anyone who i have told why is not aloud to answer




I got very bored today so I decided to make a twin for "Mario gone Mad" (I can't tell the difference)

After months of searching...

I finally found a Toyota Tacoma that wasn't sold!! I was very picky about the truck I wanted. It had to be a Toyota Tacoma with an extended cab, and I preferred a V6 engine (rather than the standard V4) and power locks/windows. Every truck that filled all these requirements sold before Dad and I could go get it. I was thrilled when I found out this truck was not sold yet. The only thing the truck didn't have was the power locks/windows, but I was willing to sacrifice that to finally get a truck. I'm already very happy with our purchase.



One of my favorite parts about the truck was the big 31" BFGoodrich All Terrain tires.



PS. The truck is actually Dad's, I just had to make sure he got a nice truck in case I wanted to drive it (wink, wink). Also, the quality of the image isn't the greatest since the truck was in the shade, but you can click it to see the full sized image.



Mom also surprised me with a nice graduating present. I've been having a lot of fun with it already. It actually took the above picture. It was a great present from Mom and Dad.

Last Day of High School

This is Chase's last day of High School - hmm, maybe later I will try to scan in his first day of school...great idea.

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