{movie fun}

the fam [as in me kels tino mom & dad] went and saw avatar in 3d yesterday... and it was really fun! it was my first 3d movie... and i really enjoyed it. i just remember 3d stuff from TGIF back in the day... when they had that special and there was that home improvement and it was really weird because they had saws "popping" out of the screen at you. yeah... avatar wasnt like that. it was a gentle [and really cool looking] 3d. although there were a couple times when i flinched cause junk was flying around. haha... anyway. we went to the early showing and mom said that we had to leave at 8.15 for a 9 o'clock showing. so i woke up at the butt crack of dawn and was totally ready at 8.15. guess what time our movie actually started? 9.50 - it wasnt funny. but i suppose it was worth it anyway... haha. it was a fun to have mom & dad there too... that doesnt usually happen. so we took pictures! :)

this was moms first attempt... she kinda missed. haha...

{christmastime fun}

my family makes some wicked awesome cookies for christmas... including spritz [that taste like christmas] and these amazing candy cookies [which are my personal speciality... they are peanut butter cookies wrapped around a bite size snickers or reeses cup. mmm baby]. but we hardly ever make gingerbread cookies. my dad brought some dough home... so we tried our hand at gingerbread men this year. this is what happened...

this was the best i could do... and he's pretty cute, dont you think?

and then this happened...apparently they are halloween gingerbread men. hahah....

and then we made these for elder devin [to send to him in picture form...]oh man... good times.

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tino made this santa and elf. he's always been so ingeniously creative. he's our little lego wiz...


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and we had some wicked awesome flowers for our christmas dinner table too...


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sorry i dont have a lot of christmas christmas pictures...

we did have a lovely day! dustin was working, so adrian and hayley spent the night with us. granny tanny and grampa mark got a cool rocking horse that hayley absolutely adored! [click her to see video clips!] i got a chi from santa this year [its the best of the best flat irons!] :) and lots and LOTS of other presents! they were all great and so totally perfect! and nicole got to be here this christmas too! it was a super fun day filled with lots of love!

i hope y'all had a great christmas too!!

:)

{time sure does fly}

alrighty... so on the 21st my ward had a temple trip. we drove up to mesa in 2, 15 passenger vans and it was oodles of fun. nicole, kelsey and i sat in the very last row of one of them. we laughed, we [as in nicole] mighta freaked out about the scary weather a bit], we played war, we tried to farkel with 5 dice [which, by the way, doesnt work as well as you might think], we branded ourselves with our flower rings, we sang [and then bishop collett would promplty turn the station to something else], we ate at this yummy pizza place, we walked around in the cold [yes "cold" ... you could, in fact, see your breath], we made new friends, we took pictures with giant camels, we changed out of our dresses in said vans [well... i didnt cause i forgot my pants], we stopped too many times on the way home [some poor kid was pooping his life out], and overall had a lovely trip! :)

photo curstesy of nicole kaiser, inc.

our new friends! [me, nicole, kelsey, amber, roberta & brette]

{tis the season!}

alright... so kelsey is home! wahoo!! we picked her up in the middle of the night on thursday, stopped by adrians house on the way home, and then went to bed. friday we were crazy busy baking [rolls and aunt fredda potatoes for a ward christmas party and thousands [or just 100] sugar cookies for a friends wedding reception]. and i may have burned kelseys ear off. [but in my defense, she really did lean into it.] haha... click here for the whole story.

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today mom kels and i went christmas shopping for a bit. then we did something else then something else.... and then all of the kids [me kelsey tino dustin adrian & hayley] went to winterhaven [which is this cool neighborhood in tucson that decorates their houses and yards like uber crazy since the 1930's]. anyway it was a really fun night... we got to pretend to bundle up in our pretend cold. [ps... i was still wearing flip flops- utah cold can suck it. haha] but seriously it was great! :)

christmas and farr? how perfect is that?! love it! :)

^ shweet, eh?

this was the elvis house... awesome, yeah? it had elvis' christmas album playing too. mmm... :)

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then we came home and austin made us his special hot chocolate. and blast it all... it was delicious! :)

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and then we finished decorating our official christmas tree! yay... isnt it pretty?

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this was actually a couple days ago... but look how stinking cute my parents are? oh how i love them! :)

{new stuff & more hair}

so... this is my newest drawing. nicoles friend got married a couple weeks ago. last night was the open house. anyway. nicole bought this for them... it turned out absolutely fantastic! i really love everything about it. it is the snowflake temple [where they got married]. i love it. here goes...


sorry the color is a little off.... i just took pictures of it.

that was the monogram from their announcement. i think it added a very nice, personal touch :)

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also... look how long and luscious larry's hair is now! its beautiful. although he still has a bald spot right in the front. haha... oh how he makes me smile.

{christmas lights}

for many many years, i have decorated our trees in the front yard. and they have always been rocking awesome! this year i really didnt want to do the whole yard. so i just did the one by the front door... and i put like 13 or 14 strands on it... and a couple halfers... haha. welp. it turned out fantastic. and this years, dustin [with a little help from me] put up the lights on the house. he did a smashing job! high five to dustin! :)

yay for christmas!

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ps... kelsey comes home in 5 days! wahoo!!

{new stuff}

so, my grandpa farr is pretty much amazing. he is a very talented woodworker and has built us the majority of our furniture. he is still teaching woodworking at eastern arizona college [i took it a couple times] and all with the help of my grandpa built an easel, a frame, a dresser, and many bowls using the lathe... it was absolutely one of my favorite classes i took while at ea. and he has built every one of us grand kids a cedar chest [specially designed by each of us] for our high school graduations. he is insanely talented and still takes special orders. well... i finally got my bedroom furniture all designed and turned it in to him [it matches my cedar chest and the dresser that i built]... and in august when we were up in the gila valley for grandma and grandpa's 55th anniversary party we picked up my dresser and nightstands. we got my headboard while we were in ft thomas for thanksgiving. and i couldnt be more happy with the way it all turned out! it so insanely perfect! all of it! oh how i love it! :) my grandpa was telling us for a similar custom designed bed set it would cost about three grand... but my parents just pay for the wood [its still a bit expensive though...] and grandpa does the work for free. while we were there for thanksgiving we also picked up kelsey's bed set too... which is equally as beatiful! so thanks again to grandpa farr [and my parents!] love you! :)

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my set is made out of oak [with a walnut stain]. we are kinda running out of space to put all our furniture, so austin is graciously keeping my headboard and one nightstand in his room for me. looks pretty dang good, eh? [ps... that wicked cool snake skin? yeah thats mine too... grandpa neilson and i skinned and tanned it :) ] its a really tall headboard... almost five and a half feet, but its exactly what i wanted... and i love it! we still need to get hardware for the dresser and nightstands...


this is kelsey's... her's is made out of walnut [it has a very beautiful grain]. and hers matches her cedar chest too. her dresser is really similar to mine as well, but just as beautiful!

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by the way... here is larry [day 9]. his hair is coming in quite nicely, dont you think?

hahaha...