presents!!

okay... well, actually only one.

so every monday wednesday and friday paula drives me home (she leaves work early on tuesdays and thursdays). we were walking out to her car to leave today and paula said that there
was a present on the front seat for me... and i opened the door and this is what was on the seat....

could paula be any sweeter? i submit that she could not.

apparently she was in the store the other day and saw this and thought of me... she figured i wouldnt have an ice scraper for my car... and i definitely dont. this is a beast of an ice scraper too!! theres a brush on there to brush off the snow and then the scraper to scrape off the ice (paula was explaining this to me as we were driving home). hahah. anyway. its "unseasonably warm" right now according to all these utah-folk and i am still enjoying it... im used to this kind of winter! lol. anyway its a little hard to imagine it getting so cold that i will have to brush the snow off and then scrape the ice off. but i have no doubt that i will
eventually have to use it... so
thanks so much to paula
for thinking of the little non-winterized arizona girl!!

i voted....

so... yay for being able to vote!! i wasnt old enough to last time... but i did get to this time! :) yep im a grown up... lol mom sent me my early ballot... then i called her and said "okay. what do i vote for? i know im voting yes! on 102... and
NO for obama...
but i dont really care about anything else..." haha
so she told me what to vote for. hahaha!

yep. im a grown up now.

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oh and this is for dad...
i was telling him about a little flier i did for work a few days ago... whipped it out in an hour or so... it was probably closer to an hour and a half. lol. anyway. its pretty cute...

rock climbing pictures!!

these are my pictures that go along with my rock climbing story (see a couple posts below)! :)

oh and apparently this climb that we went on is called
"the appendage lead"
and it was rated a 5-7... pretty sweet!

its time...

alright. so. i am ready for a new haircut. apparently, thanksgiving time is always the time that i get the urge to cut my hair short. but i really am needing something fun and cute. im so tired of my hair right now. and i am definitely wanting bangs again. but i want some opinions. so help me out here? pleasey please?

which one do you like best?

rock climbing...

*this is from when i was waiting at the trail head....
(oh and that peak way up at the top is "squaw peak" ...
we didnt go there. hahaha)

so... i went rock climbing today. for serious!! i did!! and can i just say... it was so crazy fun! crazy fun!! heres the story:

a couple weeks ago, i was talking to one of the grad students from the rmyl (melissa)... you see there is a wall of pictures in our office of all the professors and secretaries doing fun looking recreational activities... and she was asking me where my picture was at. and i kinda giggled, cause im not a very outdoorsy-recreational person... and she said that she would take me rock climbing so that i could have a picture on the wall... and i think i said something like "umm.. like on real rocks?"... hahah... anyway this week she said that she and another of the grad students (rachel) were planning on going this weekend. im not gonna lie, i was a little bit unsure of going... im a sissy... and i hear rock climbing is kinda hard... especially like on actual rocks, but paula and rachel talked me into it.... but i was still a little bit nervous.

so this morning i drove to the trail head at rock canyon (its right up by the provo temple)... we were meeting at 11.... i got there at 11... and no one was there. and i said that i was only gonna wait a few minutes... i was pretty sure i was at the right spot. so 11:20 rolls around and i was like alright... 5 more minutes and im leaving. thats when melissa and rachel drove up. haha... so i was stuck... i was really going to do it!

okay so we went up the canyon a little ways... and got our ropes set up. apparently we were doing what they call "top rop climbing." pretty sweet. oh and our climb was rated a "5-7" apparently thats a little bit tougher than normal for a first climb... rachel went first, because... well im a chicken. so i watched her. than after she got done i went up. and holy poop! the rocks were cold. and it was hard.... and i shoulda cut my nails before i went. but it was amazing!! it took my awhile, but i did it! :) i probably looked like dork, but i did it! i got to the top and kissed the chains... hahaha... melissa said thats what she does when she reaches the top of hard climbs... and i thought it was appropriate for the situation! anyway... halfway up i seriously had to stop cause my hands were shaking. but i made it to the top!! and i really feel like i accomplished something!

i really had such a fun time!! i havent had that much fun in a long time...and my hands and forearms are really sore.... but it doesnt matter, cause i had a blast! :D

so...question (adrian) can i put this on my list of things to do? and check it off? i think its allowed... haha...

oh yes. pictures are coming on monday... so check back monday night for some freaking funny pictures!! :)

pumpkin carving...

so last night, friday night, me and jared and danielle carved our pumkins for halloween! i didnt get to carve pumpkins last year... freaking a&w had me working tons and tons... and so i was really excited to do it this year!! they all turned out really cute. and can i just say how much i love those little pumpkin carving kits? seriously... how did we ever do it without those handy dandy little saws? i just dont know...

lol. but anyway.... here are our fun pics! :)


*yay for yummy innards! haha....

*mine, danielles, and jared's... respectively. jared is called "happy hal" lol...that was the name of it in the pattern book...

*danielles is the cinderella... mine is the carriage... it was a killer... i shoulda picked an easier one.

...its almost time for halloween!! :)

its all good...

so apparently my life isnt very exciting... i haven't done anything really cool lately...

well...fall is here!! and leaves are falling!! thats fun.... i should take some pictures of that, its actually the only good thing about provo. its getting cold... again. the snow has melted... and we actually had a few days of warmth. now its cold again...
but whatev. its all good.


classes are still interesting... well, all of them except freaking statistics. i hardcore hate it. gah!!
but whatev. its all good.

i have this makeup that ive had since like april or something like that. its the best foundation...ever!! ...and it finally ran out.
but whatev. its all good.


im still very productive at work...(haha) today i redid our publications board. im pretty proud of it actually. (instead of just tacking up our professors recent publications, now the board has cute little pockets so you can whip the articles out and read them! im brilliant.)
that really is all good.


this weekend is cleaning checks. and my room's a mess. and its making me stressed. and im not really looking
forward to cleaning it.
but whatev. its all good.

holy 18...

so my favorite little sister kelsey turned 18 today.... and wow. that is really just wow. crazy to me.

but i am so excited for her! so hey kels...

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

and... in honor of her... here are some of my favorite pictures (that i have) of her...

love you tons and tons kelsey nini! :D

newest painting...

so i am working on my little 101 goal list thing-
and this is my painting for october...

tada...

more fun at work...

so i got to put up spiderwebs at work today... but none of those pictures came out very clear- sorry. but i did get to do the bulletin boards in one of the rmyl classrooms so... tada!!



















now im gonna go work on my homework... blah.

snow!

just real quick... this is what the mountains looked like on monday when mom and dad and kelsey and austin left... wow!!


and i hear its supposed to snow again this weekend! yay!!

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and this is my new jacket!! with a super cute furry hood!!
thanks mom and dad... and grandma and grandpa farr!!

busy busy busy...

okay...so- wow!!

this weekend was so crazy fun!! crazy crazy busy though!! lol... it was absolutely a blast!!

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friday, the family got here... they came up and saw me in the rmyl... this is the picture from that...

afterwards (they went to kelsey's little tour thing and i stayed and work, youll have to check out kelsey's blog for more details on that...)

we went to smokehouse after we were done. it was me mom dad kelsey austin devin danielle and jared... the nate swiss's and tyler swiss (friends from tucson) and riley bushman (another kid from tucson... just graduated in may, the son of my family's hometeacher...) all came!! and it was really fun dinner! lots of fun!

this was us... waiting for everyone else to get there.

we went back to paulas and then over to my apartment... played mario party for awhile then went to bed. (oh and i won!! go peach!!! hahaaha...)

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saturday morning, we got up early to go to general conference!! we had tickets for the morning session. we actually had two extra tickets so dad gave them to riley, and he brought this cute girl on a little date i guess. we actually caravaned with him... it was me and jared and danielle and austin in one car, then riley plus girl and devin and kelsey in the other, they were following us. mom and dad went early to photo copy a german book for grandma i guess, so we met up with them at the conference center. ooh! and this older elder stopped austin and told us we had to check his backpack... austin wasnt very happy, he only had umbrellas and paper and colored pencils, but we had to check check it and pick it up afterwards. bummer, i know. anyway we got in the conference center and we had some crazy way out there seats... we were on the third balcony on the very left... very very left. it was kind of dizzying being that high up. but! conference was amazing!! as it always is! we did have some sleepy people though. that girl that riley brought seriously slept the whole entire time... a little weird but whatev. danielle and jared were asleep for a good part of it, as was austin... dad was nodding... as usual, mom was too. i kinda dozed off for a second there in the beginning, but then i was good for the rest of it. after conference, mom and dad had a little more photo-copying to do, so we (the kids... me kels tino dani jared and dev) walked around and saw the temple took a picture or two... oh we got austins backpack.... then went and met up with mom and dad in the family history center. but it really was cold and rainy. we were all wet... and hungry, so we went to the lion house pantry...which is delicious! after that we split up, although not very evenly, to drive home. it was me devin and kelsey in the backseat of mom and dads camry... and austin was laying across us. hahah.... it was funny. but 45 minutes is a little long to do that... kelsey could feel the air being blown out of his nose, and it was grossing her out... and austin farted on me a couple times... not so cute. but we made it back to provo... and changed clothes then went to paulas and watched a movie and stuff. then it was the priesthood session... and the boys left and me and mom and kels went shopping. mom (with the help of grandma and grandpa farr) bought me a stinking cute winter coat. it is one of those cool down ones. it goes to my knees, its brown, and! has a hood with fur on it!! it is stinking cute, and is so warm! so yay!! and thanks!! :) haha after that we watched another movie... and then went home. kelsey and i went home and made a caramel nut ring... or monkey bread... i forget what it was called.

the view from our seats!! haha... pretty cool! :)

according to kelsey this is my artsy fartsy picture... lol.
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sunday we went back over to paulas... and had this amazing breakfast with her and her son noah's inlaws. and dude. we went over there (just wearing normal day clothes, which by the way is an improvement from what we normally wear to watch conference... pajamas... haha) and all of the in-law family was in church clothes!! i kinda felt like a little heathen. but, i was comfortable... whatev. haha. then we went down to the basement... our tummies were full, there was a fire- so it was nice and warm, and watched...well basically slept through... conference. haha so...yeah. lol. then... we went over to jason and laurels.... we watched the fourth session there... but we were all playing with isabel and having a hard time concentrating (actually, erik went into the kitchen to watch... apparently we are heathens. haha... sorry!) then had a delicious dinner and sat around talking about saturday night live and then politics and then the marriage proposition and then crazy drivers and then hitting animals with cars and then dead deer and dead dogs and then crazy cats named thor and then back to dead animals like bunnies and roosters. and it was seriously funny!! i havent really laughed that hard in a long time! :)

and now my family is gone.

and i miss them even more.

...but it was a fun weekend! (although it would have been perfect with adrian and dustin!!)

oh sad day...

so this morning was a really rough morning for me.

i woke up all types of excited for my family to get here... (and they are by the way, and i will post pics tomorrow, adrian...dont worry!) and i was getting ready in the bathroom with danielle. i went to pick up my straightener... and apparently the cord was stuck in the drawer... so my hand slipped and i ended up grabbing the plates... and then i was startled and dropped it. and it broke. a piece chipped off and both the plates cracked.... and i might have said a bad word... but seriously! my straightener!! my hundred dollar straightener! it broke! i was very very thoroughly upset. and then!!! im leaving to go to school, and jared and our roommate crystal were talking and jared was like "hey, do you realize that you will be the only one left in this apartment after christmas?" and i said. "what. this sucks." for serious! this sucks! danielles getting all types of married... apparently crystal is moving home (as soon as possible i think) and sarah is...well i dont really know. but shes not going to be here. hmm. yeah. needless to say it was a really rough morning for me. sheesh.

but i guess everything will be okay. i think the straightener has a lifetime warranty... so im really hoping and praying it will be covered. yeah. and my family is here!! and they came and saw me at work... and then tonight they gave me halloween presents... and i got these wicked sweet skeleton lights... that i have already hung on our front window. they are l.e.d and are so dang cool!!

**more conference weekend fun to come!!

new things....

alrighty... so first of all, it is merely hours away that my family will be here and the fun will begin!! hours!! but i wont get to see them till i am done with work... but its just a few hours away, like four and a half... anyway... im sure i wont be able to blog again till monday... at least, ill just be too busy having fun! :)

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so danielle and i went shopping last weekend... we actually had a little "girls night" which was super fun! we saw

the women... it was a really fun movie to see with her. it was interesting. ive been feeling a little danielle-deprived lately, even though we live in the same room. so this little girls night made it all better! oh and we went and picked up her wedding dress yesterday. and it is absolutely gorgeous!! absolutely!! okay yeah so last weekend we were shopping and we found these beads that were on mega super sale, so i bought them. and they match absolutely perfectly with our apartment.... they are black and purple and couldnt be more perfect!!

oh this is our apartment if you have forgotten what it looked like. oh actually i think you may not have seen the coffee table... thats fairly new too. stinking cute eh? we got that piece of fabric for like 2 bucks... and then i just used that sewless hem stuff to make it look nice... its just like glue but its so cool!! ...and the flowers are danielle's, from jared. beautiful arent they?

and... i went to macey's the other day and i saw these

little tiny mini gummy bears!!

ive seen them a couple times.... and i finally just had to get them!! they are so cute!! i just couldnt resist! and i had to take a picture to show you just how stinking cute they really are!! :) oh they make me smile!