yay for tino!!

so... thursday (may 22nd) was austin's eighth grade promotion! congratulations buddy! we are so happy that you done with magee middle school!! (hey mom... now you dont have any more mageeks!! yay! haha!!) apparently they have limited seating so only me and mom and dad got to go.... it was really cute! austin is quite the little stud.... he looked so cute wearing his hi-top converse!! :) and the ceremony was suprisingly fast... i remember when i "graduated" or whatever from magee (7 years ago! wow!) ... it took freaking forever (i didnt like that graduation very much... lol!)

*tino getting his diploma!

*austin!

*me and tino!

afterwards, we waited for kelsey to be done with her last day of school (oh by the way... this now means that kelsey is senior now and austin is a freshman! wow!) ... then we went to kg's cafe for breakfast... it was a lot of fun (dad had to go back to work... bummer!) it was really yummy and it was a lot of fun with me and mom and kels and austin!

*me and tino at breakfast!

*kelsey and mom!

what the deer!?

so i was driving home one day with austin and kelsey (we were coming back from the colletts' where we had just dropped off zac... after we saw iron man- which i might add was an amazing movie! ... side note to all: wait till after the credits...there is a suprise! :) haha!) okay so we were driving home and all of the sudden there was a deer in the middle of the road... i have never ever seen a deer on that road before... and it was really funny! so we took pictures... here is our cute little deer! :)

tag! you're it!

so i dont really know how this whole "being tagged" thing works... but here's my best shot at it! thanks adrian! :)

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how to play this game. post these rules on your blog. list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.


3 joys:
*i'm done with ea (therefore i get to go home!).
*i'm going to byu.
*it rained again today!


3 fears:
*the dark... still scares me! embarrasing, i know.
*moving to utah (not an insane kind of phobia fear... but i am pretty nervous).
*stepping on scorpions (to kill them. i cannot do it! i freeze them instead! lol... im a dork).


3 goals:
*getting my bachelor's degree (that is the next step right?).
*someday i will own a cat... a grey and white adorable little kitten.
*to become a marine biologist.

3 current obsessions/ collections:
*blogging... shocking, i know.
*looking up the meanings of my dreams in the internet dream dictionaries.
*ive started a little collection of windchimes... but i dont want to be that crazy annoying lady with all of the windchimes and lawn ornaments... so i think i should stop! lol!

3 random suprising facts about yourself:
*i hate water spots... hate them!
*i still love watching cartoons- jimmy neutron is quite possibly my favorite!
*i still laugh when somebody (myself included) farts.

oh and i dont even have 5 friends to tag... so i suppose i get to skip this part! lol! :)

tlc!

so today was my last day at triumphant learning center (tlc) ...my last official day as an art teacher :( ...tlc is the charter school in safford where i have been teaching art for the last semester. this semester has gone by so fast... and i have absolutely loved my time teaching and getting to know all the wonderful students... even though there were a few little punks- lol! so yeah i am going to miss teaching... i dont know how well i have done, but the kids all say that they are going to miss me! i got hugs from a lot of little kids!! and a bunch of them made me presents... ive gotten a couple crowns, a few paper rings, some necklaces... many pictures and drawings! :) they are so cute!

i think i am going to miss being called "ms. farr"! who would have thought? lol! i have to tell you, i have absolutely loved it when my kids from school see me in walmart and get so excited and wave to me and say "hello ms. farr!" or sometimes "mrs. farr" (haha that one still makes me laugh) and then after i walk by i hear "that's my art teacher!" oh man... good times.

anyway... the mascot for tlc is a white tiger. when i was younger i was obsessed with white tigers (crazy little coincidenc i know!) and one year for christmas i got this huge stuffed animal of a white tiger! it is the coolest stuffed animal that i have ever received in my life! i love that thing! (actually i named in shercon... like from the jungle book! hehe) anyway... i decided to donate my favorite white tiger to my favorite white tigers!! ...they put it in the library... and all the kids were thoroughly excited for it! :) it was just a stuffed animal but i felt like i had given something back to them... or left a piece of myself with them, and i smile now thinking that it is there with them! :)

i'm finally done!!

so i graduated from eastern arizona college last friday... may 9th... with my associate of arts degree! yay!! i have been here at ea for three years... laugh, i dare you. (its a 2-year junior college) i know, im lame... i kinda pooped around a little bit, but hey! im done now and that's all that matters right? haha.... right!!

*nicole and me!!*

okay so here's the deal. i really hate graduations. really really really! i didn't even want to go to my highschool graduation... that's how thoroughly i dislike graduations... and nothing has changed since then. however, nicole and i decided that it would probably be the best thing for us (with constant urging from our families... well, mostly mine) if we walked... no regrets and blah blah blah. so we walked... it was amazing... lol not really, but whatever. i am glad i did it, my whole family came (minus my favorite brother-in-law who had to be at training for his new job... so i will forgive him since i am very excited for this new job -- congratulations again dustin!!) granma and granpa farr and wayne and laurie came to the ceremony also! :) haha! oh yes... nicole and i were the last people to come up... the way we ended up walking put us at the very end... it was funny to us... i don't think our families were too amused! lol! but it was fun to walk with nicole and have our names be read right after eachother... (actually it was "kendle suzanne farr" 6 seconds later-- they were really good about keeping us 6 seconds apart, nicole and i were counting! lol! i'm telling you it was boring!!-- "nicole suzanne kaiser") oh yes... and i have to say thank you to adrian and kelsey for keeping me busy, they were texting me during the ceremony... :)

*dad me and mom*

*kelsey me adrian and austin*

*grandma, me and grandpa*

afterwards, we went to wayne and laurie's for a little graduation party (so thanks to them for letting us have it at their house) ...laurie had cute purple and gold balloons!! and mom brought up eegees... which i absolutely love!! and we had yummy subs and chips and fruit and granma farr brought those delicious little cheesecake cupcake things that she makes, which by the way are absolutely delicious! jillian and jason were there with their adorable baby jaiden! brian and karen scott were there too, which i was totally excited about because i love them! and i hadn't seen them in a long time!! angela... our roommate came and we had another friend there too. but it really was so nice to have everyone there!!

i just wanted to say thank you to everybody for supporting me these last three years! it has been such a fun experience -- especially sunday dinner with the wayne farrs :) -- i think i really am going to miss thatcher! thanks again! i love you all!! :)

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oh yes... and for graduation me and nicole had a couple little art projects...

we painted our graduation caps... because the look so much cuter this way of course!! lol!

and we made graduations shirts that say "i survived eac single" (and it is a fact that we are very proud of! lol! ... considering that girls literally come here to get married... but we didnt and we are very proud of ourselves!) with these cute little drawing of me (nicole on hers, naturally!) with little stick figure men chasing us all around the shirt... anyway, they are super cute and i had to put them up! :)

oh my nicoley...

so this week has been a very eventful one for my roommate and one of my very very best friends, nicole kaiser.

....me and nicole have known eachother since the fall of 2005... we have lived together since january of 06... and since last august we have even been sharing a room! :) we have grown very close since then... and i can honestly tell you that i wouldnt be the person i am (and have the grades that i have) without her. she has been there for me through...yep, pretty much all of my college experiences. she has helped me through classes, through break-ups, through stupid roommates, and so much more. we have had so many fun times together! (oh and we share the same middle name... suzanne! only the coolest middle name ever!) she knows me... perhaps better than i do.... she is the kind of friend where you just know you must have known eachother in the pre-existence... and i just wanted to do a special little post to let her know how important she is to me! i love you nicole!!

monday may 5th was nicoles birthday!! she turned 21!!! we made cupcakes.... funfetti of course! haha... its her favorite. she had been studying literally all day, so we didnt do too much. its kinda funny, she turned 21 and instead of going clubbing and whatever, i got her moonsand and a princess blanket... haha, good thing we are supposed to be "grown ups" lol.

and then last night was nicole's nursing pinning ceremony. (she graduated from eastern arizona college's nursing program!! yay!!) i have been able to watch nicole work and study like crazy through the nursing program these last three years... and while i know that i didnt help her near as much as she helped me with my schooling... i still tried! (if you ever get the chance, ask her just how amazing her posters turned out...) i am so proud of nicole!! she was the youngest graduate of her class and has worked so hard for it! and now she is officially

Nicole Kiaser, RN

*so basically i dont have any pictures of the ceremony or her pin or anything cool like that, but she did actually get a rubber duck that looks basically like that... so... yay for rubber duckies! :)

Congratulations Nicoley! I love you!! :)