merry christmas to all...

...and to all a good night!!

merry christmas to me!

so. i got my christmas present early this year!!

as seen by the counter at the top of my blog, nicole & i are going cruising in the caribbean. my camera was getting old and i was ready for a new one... needless to say, santa decided to be a peach and grant me my christmas wish early this year! i got a panasonic lumix dmc-fh20 and i love it. it is fantastic! and i cannot wait to go take hundreds of pictures in the grand cayman islands and belize and honduras and mexico.... sigh. just a few more days! ps... just so everybody is aware i'm going to have a wicked hard time concentrating at work this week! lol!

this is my camera....

she's a beaut!

anyway... here are some random pictures that have been taken thus far...

haha... hayley & i were eating smarties tonight. i have no idea what this face is, but its making me laugh out loud every time i look at it. what a goof!!

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now for a little game i like to call "whose eye is it anyway?" 

and begin.

did you figure it out?

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1 ... dad

2 ... kelsey

3 ... me 

4 ... austin

5 ... mom 

6 ... me again 

(it was a trick... but i needed one more eye to make the grid even. haha.)

thanks for playing!!

:)

{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!!

:)

{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!!

{its beginning to look a lot like christmas}

yesterday, we got out our christmas stuff and started decorating. in the farr household, christmas doesnt begin until we listen to the beach boys "ultimate christmas" album. and oh did we listen to it! lol....its absolutely the best. and we love it. also... mom wanted a new wreath, so i stripped her old one... found some new stuff in the christmas boxes... and voila! its beautiful. i really like it... and she let me decorate the mantle too. i kinda like it... :)

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also... she was going through some things and found some old art projects that i made... in '96 actually. that was a LONG time ago [i was young... like 9, young]. haha... can you see the budding artist from these early sculptures? methinks not. haha... these are pretty terrible.

i made this one for my dad one fathers day i think... since he likes hunting and junk. and this deer's butt is insanely saggy. it makes me laugh.


this one is supposed to be a dolphin, on its back.... i think- haha. austin thinks it looks like a penguin. whatev. lol... i remember really liking my seaweed stuff.


this one, im actually pretty proud of... i did this in the 4th grade when we were doing reports on elephants in mrs riley's class. and i think this little feller is pretty darn cute. but i tossed him anyway. lol...

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welp. thats all.

and im back...

happy new year!!

:)

so. a few weeks ago i finished up my finals and got ready to leave for arizona.

i was on the same flight as jen and devin... and apparently las vegas was having issues with snow and it was throwing the whole airport system out of whack... we were supposed to get in around 11 pm... we didnt get home until like 2:30 in the morning... it was a delightful trip. haha.

the next day we drove straight to mesa for danielle's endowments [my parents went, while me and kels and devin babysat the townsend babies.] the next day was the wedding and reception. i should apologize now... i seriously didnt take any pictures the whole entire break. i feel so lame... but everyone and there dog had cameras... so- im sorry. i stole this one from kristens blog [thanks! :) ] everything turned out absolutely beautiful. it was perfect! i loved it!
and congrats to danielle and jared!!
oh and that was my boquet... very pretty!



we spent that weekend sleeping in... it was awesome. nicole spent the night with us... what? every night except one... i think. it was a blast! she even got to spend christmas with us! it was so fun having her around! everybody absolutely loves her! christmas was great! i got a cell phone... the one that i bought a few weeks ago... mom stole it from me christmas eve and stuck a bow on it so i could "open it" in the morning haha... 3 seasons of the office, the x-men trilogy, a mirror, paint, sweaters, a hat and scarf, some jewelry, and all sorts of fun stuff... including an 8 ball lol. it was the only thing that didnt make it back to provo... it weighed too much! haha... austin got the wii fit... oh man is that a fun one! kelsey better be posting the video of dustin hula-hooping. oh my freaking hilarious! it was an exceptional christmas.... although dustin didnt get to come until christmas night... he had to work, but he was there for christmas eve dinner... which was, as always, delicious!

our christmas tree!! yay!! :)

me and tino.... putting up christmas lights... this was actually over thanksgiving... but still christmas-y...

scary picture... lol- one of our many nights of sleeping over...


austin made this nativity scene... i thought it was pooping hilarious. hes always been super talented and creative like this... ever since he was a little toddler. isnt this just too cool? man i love it... good job tino!

oh and he made his elk head into rudolph... hahaha.... :)

there is this little mexican restaurant that i love love love! they have the best chicken chimichangas... and grandpa took us there for lunch one day... and there is this painting of a desert scene that he loves... so i painted a little version of it.... i think its fun. i havent really done landscapes before... so this was fun for me to try. and grandpa loves it so thats all that matters...

and for adrians baby shower present i promised her that i would do some paintings for baby hayley's room... this is how it turned out!! i love it... and it matches perfectly! :)

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it was so much fun being home! it was so nice and warm!! i wore flip flops the whole entire time! :) it was the best! i love my family... i miss them. it was so fun... grandpa is the best, adrian is about to pop... it was so fun feeling hayley move more! im bummed that i cant be there longer... i love arizona... its my favorite. oh and this is the picture that austin made for me the night i was leaving... :(


i miss my family, but this semester will go by fast im sure... i didnt get lost today... i was in the right classes at the right times... and i didnt fall on my bum... so high five for me! its gotta be a sign that its gonna be a good semester right? right...

although im still not sure about all this snow... it scares me...

another one bites the dust...

i give up.
ive bought two bettas and two gold fish.

all have died.

at least this new one (i bought it a few weeks ago) lasted longer than the other ones... but still! what is my deal? i keep killing all my fish... well at least edmond is still alive. hes a tough little booger. but i was really starting to like this one... he was a sweetheart...a very calm fish. although he wasnt really eating much... maybe thats what did it. maybe its the container. i got it from d.i. ...maybe its still contaminated with other peoples dirty germs and stuff. i have cleaned it though. oh i dont know... no more fish for me i guess... :(

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yesterday at work i decorated for christmas...
i really like my job. lol...

i can hardly believe its december 2nd already... almost time to go home again. [15 days.] it was a killer to make myself come back up here and finish up school.... i wish i coulda just stayed home... i miss my family!! it was crazy fun being there for thanksgiving. mom... as always... did a great job on thanksgiving dinner... we even broke out her china! :) kelsey and i made the funniest looking rolls... they still tasted afreakingmazing... we were laughing the whole time... and grandpa was laughing at the both of us. haha. oh and i made cheeseballs.... including a naked one for nicole [who got to stay all thanksgiving day with us!] grandma and granpa farr were there too... and i think grandma approved of the cheeseballs, it was her recipe after all! lol. we... me kels tino adrian dustin and nicole all went to see twilight thanksgiving night with the townsend kids... good times! [whoda thought movie theaters arent busy on thanksgiving night? lol...] i got to see all of baby hayley's new stuff [all of which is pooping cute!] and i even got to feel her kicking and moving a few times!! it was was exctiting!! seriously though... adrian is too cute all pregnant and stuff! i played mario party with tino and put up christmas lights outside with him and dad... i put a few up in the trees... and as always my hands got pretty scratched. lol... but it was worth it! anyway.
15 days... and i cannot wait!

oh and yesterday was our ward christmas part slash closing social. danielle and jared and i went and ate... it was at this cute little place called wadley farms. it was yummy [thats the room where we had dinner... roast beef with carrots and mashed potatoes and stuff...] it really was a very cite little place!


right after that we went to the mall to buy myself [well... its from the parentals really] a new cell phone... its my christmas present! im really super excited! its an awesome phone! and i hear great things about it... its really cool looking too! its an enV2... pretty sweet. lol. my poor little razr has been crapping our something fierce the past few months... but ive had it for a little more than two years... and it has served me well! im still trying to figure out this whole keyboard thing! lol... but i love it! merry christmas to me! thanks santa! :)