march 15...

yesterday was dad's birthday. we had cake and ice cream on sunday and then opened presents yesterday. 

hayley and papa blowing out birthday candles :)

i sure love my dad. he's the greatest. 

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yesterday was also chowder's first bath.

he didn't like it much. haha...

more chowder...

alrighty. so i did it. i purchased extra storage space for my picassa web album. has anybody else had to do that? just curious. whatev. i blog enough. it's worth it! :)

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me & chowder...

hayley is actually surprisingly good with chowder- and chowder is really good with hayley (he came from a family with 4 young kids). at least now hayley will know what's like to have a dog (since adrian won't ever get any sort of pet, haha). 

 grandpa is really excited to have another dog. even now and then he would ask my mom "can i get a dog?" and he would say it with the exact intonation of a little kid. i can already tell they're gonna be cuddle buddies. 

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yesterday was my day off... chowder and i got a bit done. we even got the garden planted (just zucchini, summer & spaghetti squash this year). i've got myself a gardening buddy! :)

i think he's getting more comfortable. we were playing this morning and he was doing some little play growl and barking at his toys. he makes me smile. now he's sleeping again... and he's yipping at something in his dreams. i wonder what he's thinking about.
i sure love this little puppy.

:) haha...

[ps... those pictures from the last post were curtesy of zac baker photography :) ]

my new boy...

i've been begging the parentals for a dog for awhile.... one of my best friends (tristan) knew a guy whose dog just had 2 puppies. i totally called dibs on one... hoping to convince mom & dad to let us get one. well, somehow it worked. don't ask me how cause i'm fairly certain i could never duplicate the results. today, mason and i drove up to thatcher (to tristan's friends house) to pick up this adorable (and free) 6 week old terrier/chihuahua mix. he's pretty much the most adorable thing ever. he's a super calm puppy and i already love him to pieces. i'm anxious to have a new dog... i haven't had a new puppy since shoosh (and actually, he's been gone 3 years from tomorrow. wow!) and i definitely didn't do any of the training. but this new puppy is all mine... and i couldn't be more excited! i hardly slept a wink last night i was so anxious! and i have no idea what to expect tonight. but... without further adieu, i introduce you to (drum roll, please) ... chowder!!  "he's my friend"
 

so... apparently that's all i can download... i've used up by quota of space. hmm... does that mean i start a new blog or something? sheesh. what the junk, welp... it doesn't matter - i have a puppy!! i'm going to bed. i'll try to figure this out tomorrow.

i'm loving me some chowder! :) :)

a roomie once more....

once upon a time i moved home from utah and planned on moving in with nicole. well... that didnt really work out so hot... i didn't find a job for forever and then her brother ended up moving in with her. anyway. it just never did work out. well now she is getting married (in april), but her apartment lease is up at the end of this month... and she didn't want to have to pay out the wazoo for 2 months so she is actually moving in to the farr household... woot! 

for some reason we have an overabundance of furniture as of late (yes... that does in fact mean it's time for me to move out, haha).... so her little room is a bit tight with her big ol' queen size bed.  

we ended up giving adrian & dustin the other half of the bunk beds (they have the other half already)... mom & dad took it down last weekend. dad was loading it up in the truck... and this is what i found...

it makes me smile. when we were little adrian, kelsey & i would crawl under the bed and play tic-tac-toe. it's definitely one of my favorite memories... i had no idea the crayon would last this long! i think mom was getting a little sentimental as we were moving the bed out... she said that this is the first time in 18 years that bed has been out of that little room. i'm pretty sure i saw a single tear roll down her cheek. ps... i'm very hopeful that someday little miss hayley will have a little brother or sister (or cousin... but at this point a sibling is much more logical haha) to play tic-tac-toe with underneath the bunkbeds!! :)

anyway... today, nicole (and the boys) moved in her bed and some of her stuff (the majority is going to her fiance's house though). and apparently it takes four boys to put together a bed frame. sheesh... i love each one of those boys. 

 it went from this... 

(from when i moved home almost 2 years ago... can we say "wow!")

to this... all dusty, sad & empty...

 

to this... (as of tonight)

and now this room is almost ready for nicole to officially move in! (now we need to work on a new painting/rearranging the ones already in there! i love this part!!) i sure am excited to have my old roomie back with me! 

duct tape beautiful...

so... once upon i found a blog post [here] on how to make a duct tape rosette wreath. i fell in love with it. i even convinced danielle & kelsey to make one too! they're just so freaking cool! so i'm definitely considering it my valentine's day wreath. so awesome!

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i also saw a few posts about pedestal bowls... i fell in love with those too... so i went down to the goodwill by my house and picked up 2 little wooden bowls and 2 little wooden candlesticks. i gorilla glued them together and then spray painted them. too cute right? and so simple easy!

ps... happy valentine's day, y'all!!

<3

blincoln....

it's come to my attention that i am a lame blogger... and it's pretty much the truth. i haven't blogged in like four weeks or something insane like that... it sucks being an adult, having a job, being busy and junk.

well... austin gave me something to blog about finally, bless his heart. this is his extra credit for his history class, i believe. his creativity and ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. love that kid!

a painting, a wreath & a fish...

yesterday was a rather productive day off work for me.

i finished the painting that zac had requested eons ago... he always picks such fun paintings for me to do! this specific one was z-gallery inspired [and just so we're all aware... i'm positively in love with that store. sigh... it's just so fantastic!] click here for the link to the original. i definitely loosely interpreted this one. haha...

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also. as you all know. i'm a serious blog stalker. i have a couple diy blogs that i'm completely obsessed with. those being... better after & someday crafts. there are so many dang fun projects! i seriously want to be that cool someday.  anyway. i came across this other blog and they had an adorable idea for a wreath [click here for her blog]. i obviously didn't follow their directions. but i like the way mine came out... although i would probably try it their way next time. welp... we had a little bowl game party last night... so i just sat in my corner and hot glued as i somewhat watched the football game. haha...

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austin decided he was desperate for tortillas yesterday. so he drove us down to our favorite tortilla place [la mesa tortillas] and we picked up a couple dozen hot and fresh tortillas [mmmm!! :) ] well, right next door is a petsmart. i love pet stores. so we ran in. i had been thinking about getting another beta for awhile... and this was the perfect opportunity! he was even on sale! woot! so... without further adieu, i proudly introduce you to my newest friend... edwin!

 
isn't he just beautiful. he sure is a spunky little fellow... he reminds me a lot of edmond.  i'm thinking edwin & i will be friends forever!

:)

[ps... did anyone else love all the links in this post? i did. hahha!!]