{some days youre the bird}

have you ever heard that saying "some days you're the bird & some days you're the statue?" haha... it makes me laugh. and it is so true. and apparently i have slight obsession for birds right now. lol... anyway. heres is a new kendle farr original for those of you that were feeling slightly deprived of my goodness. haha... just kidding [mostly].

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i call it "some days youre the bird"
acrylic on 3 canvas panels
[12x12, 8x10 & 5x5]

{oh my hayley bug}

so this morning i went down to adrian and dustins house for a couple hours. and i sure do love babysitting hayley... she just may be the cutest thing ever. she makes me laugh. anyway... today we played with the dump truck.... hahaha... shes a goober. and i love her. oh... and i told her the good news about aunt kelsey coming home for thanksgiving and shes seriously excited now! [just like the rest of us!] :)

{voting and other fun}

so... this is the first time i have really voted... i've sent in my absentee ballot a few times, but tonight i actually went to the place [well... the library] and stood in my little booth and bubbled in my vote... granted, there were only two propositions, but i totally did it! high five to me! :)

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on another note... remember those little turtles nicole and i rescued? [these ones?] well... they are seriously getting huge. im happy theyre finally healthy and happy and growing. but theyre crazy little boogers... and pretty soon we're going to have to get a bigger tank!

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and also... my sea monkeys are seriously the weirdest little creatures i have ever seen... theres this one with really big antennae or whatever they are. i call him king monkey... i tried to get a good picture, but my poor little camera doesnt do well with super close super little subjects... anyway. theyre 3 months old now... and still alive. can we all say "wow?"

hahaha.... :)

you can kind of see king monkey in this one ^ ... see his big antennae things?

{halloween}

halloween. part one.

friday night

we dressed up as a bumblebee, a ladybug and a cool jamaican mon. we went to the institute dance appropriately titled "monster mash." we danced. we laughed. we ran through the vortex of doom. we were startled by giant spiders falling from the ceiling. we giggled at drooping balls. we danced some more. we drank some home made root beer. we were embarrassed by a boy that was wearing much too tight biker shorts [kels... i'll tell you who that was later. lol.] we saw friends from days gone by. we missed a kelsey and a devin. and we stayed for almost two hours.

pretty impressive, yes?

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halloween. part deux.

saturday

we woke up early to the smell of chocolate chipped jack-o-lantern pancakes made by a loving mama. we showered. we continued to work on halloween costumes. we made a halloween mix cd. we were joined by an adrian and a hayley [but unfortunately, no dustin]. we carved pumpkins. we made a mess. we had fun. we made yummy mummy cupcakes. we dressed up as a mama ladybug and her little buggy one, cavity sam [from "operation"] plus doctors, a bumblebee and swine flu. we took lots of pictures. we went to the ward party. we won the contest for "most artistic pumpkin" [actually, that was just austin]. we ditched the party and went to mcdonalds for mcflurries. we came back and watched the candy-crazed children trunk or treat. we left before we had to help clean up [well... all of us 'scept the bish]. we still missed a certain kelsey. we chuckled that the ward members thought me and zac were dating. we organized our halloween booty. we lit up our jack-o-lanterns and smiled. we all went to bed happy with the memories of another very successful halloween.

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the end.


happy hauntings to you all! :)

{feathers}

this project was for my dad.... apparently he has been doing this wood badge thing in the boy scout program for the last few weekends. anyway... he brought me a picture and asked me if i could do this, and i had to be honest... it kinda made me nervous. they actually turned out fabulous [i did 8]... and he gave them to the people in his group. he gets back tomorrow and i am anxious to hear if they liked their gifts!


[ps... i believe these are just turkey feathers and then i used acrylic paint. not too shabby, eh?]

{sanka...you dead?}

"ya, mon."

oh man. i really want to watch cool runnings now. its so good! and so stinking funny!

"how 'bout i beat your butt right now?" .. "how 'bout i draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?"

he he... such a good movie! :)

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anyway. i was getting out my moms halloween decorations today... and i found this little number that i knew hayley would love...


isn't she the cutest little jamaican baby you ever did see? hahaha... i dont think adrian really appreciated it, but dustin laughed.

hahaha... :)

{you win some, you lose some}

okay... so first of all, mom has been gone since tuesday [she went up to washington to pick up grandpa and bring him back here for the winter]... so i have been in charge of all the household duties and such... the cleaning the cooking and whatnot. usually when the mom leaves, the dad and the brother don't really eat... they pretty much live off of burritos and orange juice. well... i have been super good this week and have made yummy dinners for them [like chicken and stuffing and spaghetti and [homemade] meatballs... all with fruits and vegetables and junk]. im not gonna lie, ive been pretty impressed with myself... haha.

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alright. so this weekend adrian and hayley came up to chill and watch conference with us. dustin needed to take rolls to his little shin-dig before the priesthood session on saturday, and adrian and i decided that we needed roll-making practice since the best roll-maker in the family [also known as our dear brilliant byu-attending sister, kelsey] is not currently here. and apparently we were right. all of my good homemaking skills obviously got jinxed the moment that adrian stepped through the door... for reals [but i still love ya, adrian!] i messed up the rolls the first time [i might have halfed the already halfed recipe... lol] they ended up a little weird looking, but okay... and dustin said that they all got eaten. so here are pictures of the first attempt at rolls:

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i went shopping this week, and i got some wicked awesome strawberries [that were on sale!]... and so i decided that some angel food cake with some strawberries and a wee bit of whip cream would be yummy! i followed the directions to a t... but apparently they dont really mean that you should turn the cake upside down immediately [and by the way... "immediately" was in fact bolded and italicized]. it fell out. and smooshed itself awful flat. [and it might have been a little over-cooked. hahaha...] we picked off the slightly more than overcooked parts and flipped it over and it still tasted yummy... it was just a little funky looking! haha... anyway. its embarrasing to post these, but here are pictures:

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our second attempt at rolls was this afternoon... we added a little bit of freshly ground wheat flour. and they turned out beautifully... not quite as light as the regular ones, but delicious nonetheless! we were proud of these!

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welp. thats it. :)