toot...

so this one time kelsey, tino, devin & i went to golf'n'stuff. kelsey's one lucky son of a gun and won a butt load of tickets... we ended up with a bag o' loot- amongst which was a whoopee cushion. whoopee cushions are freaking funny.... always. 3 year old little girls playing with whoopee cushions? even funnier!  

sorry the video is so dark... it's from my phone (it was closer than my camera. haha).

enjoy.

:)

trot...

i just realized i never blogged austin's eagle project. i don't know how i forgot that! 

photo curtesy of spencer boerup photography. check him out.... he's amazing! 

well, back in october austin finally finished up his project. he made a sensory course at TROT (therapeutic riding of tucson). trot is a nonprofit organization that has been around for 35 years. it helps handicapped children and adults use their sensory skills and work on their balance and coordination. it is a really awesome organization. tino's project consisted of eight different wooden shapes that were attached to wooden posts along a zig-zag path.  all eight shapes were painted a different color and had a different sensory item attached (like roofing tile, tire tread, outdoor carpet, etc). he had a lot of people show up the day of his project to help out and support him. 

yesterday was a special dedication. the directors and all the children love this course so much that they named it "austin's alley." it even has a sign. how legit is that? we all thought it was pretty cool. his eagle court of honor is coming up on the 30th. we are all so proud of him! good job, buddy! 

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afterwards papa and hayley wandered around the property and pet/fed some of the horses. how cute are they? that little girl sure loves her papa!

 favorite ^  :)

oh the memories...

so i had a photo shoot on saturday... we went up mt. lemmon for some engagement shoots. it was cold... and at the end of the shoot it starting snowing. fun right? yeah... i can handle snow in small increments, but it just got me to thinking about my time in provo. it's hard to believe it was 3 years ago when i was blogging all of those silly somewhat dramatical posts about snow. i may have been over exaggerating how horribly unfun snow is, but i said what i said and i'll stand by it till the end. remember those? about my giant ice-scrapper and watering left eye and falling in front of the hogi yogi and learning that snow blowers don't actually blow and the snow is death monologue... yeah. hahaha... good times.

well anyway... back to my wonderful arizona. it's been cold lately. cold like it is 37* right now (and that is cold, kelsey! don't judge me!). i even had to cover up my plants last night because it was supposed to freeze. and it did. the grass was all types of frosty this morning... it's not quite snow, but it's close enough. 

time for hot chocolate. 

hasta.

whoa...

so... i got a memory card for my phone years ago and apparently i have never emptied it. as of this exact moment in time i have a whopping 942 pictures on my phone. perhaps i should have waited till i got to an even thousand before i did this, but whatevs. here are my favorite pictures from over the years...

say eight, say eight!

so. how do we begin? i was on my bed writing my favorite missionary (elder zac), when i hear tino making a ruckus down the hall. all i could really hear was something about a sledgehammer and a finger. 

it piqued my interest. 

turns out tino was outside splitting wood for some boyscouts going on a campout this evening (poor little suckers, it's been raining the last two days and is supposed to snow on mt. lemmon), but i still don't pity those fools. anyway. i guess austin's finger was too close and he kinda slipped and pinched the junk out of his left hand index finger. we the farr children have a fairly low tolerance for pain. needless to say, austin is not exempt from this genetic anomoly. he was freaking out cause it hurt so the mama gave him some ibuprofen, ice and called the medical help line... even though we had already contacted our personal nurse (ahem, nicole) and emt (ahem, dustin). at this point tino had settled down and realized he wasn't in fact dying. but we were already on the phone and those dear people were going through their spiel. they asked what number he was on the pain scale. he said 5 when it probably was really only a 2, but who really wants to sound like the dork who's calling about a 2. "Say eight! say eight!" (anyone, anyone?) haha... so we were already kind of chuckling... and then mom was trying to explain to the people what had happened and she kept talking about "the segment, the portion, the part, etcetera." it was funny. 

poor austin is still hurting, but he'll live. 

scene of the incident

a seriously long post about a seriously busy trip to south carolina...

so....nicole, sean, mason and i flew out to south carolina for the wedding of our good friend katie. we (minus sean) have been friends for a really long time... we've had so many adventures together and we wouldn't have missed this wedding for the world.

we flew out to charlotte, north carolina early thanksgiving morning... we got there in the evening (none of us got a thanksgiving meal... sad face), but we did get to go straight into the bachelorette party with the bride and bridesmaids. ps... mason was a bridesman... he got to be there for all the girly silliness too, poor kid. haha. if you see him.... ask him how he won the miss queeny pageant ;) 

the next day we worked our bums off till midnight doing all sorts of prep stuff for the wedding... including ironing table clothes, runners, working on centerpieces, music, and all sorts of in between stuff. we hardly had time to breathe... but everything turned out beautiful.

saturday was the wedding. it was so chock full of anything and everything i didn't even have time to get out my camera and take any pictures. the wedding was at sunset on katie's parent's property (in the woods). it was such beautiful weather... plus the trees were still dropping their leaves and everything just looked like a postcard. after the wedding ceremony was over we had some hors d'oeuvres and then headed over to a dinner of apple & pecan salads followed by shrimp and grits and a flank steak... the tables were set up in the woods with tons of mason jars filled with candles. after that there were the first dances, cake cutting, flower and garter toss, and dancing. it was a perfect wedding. 

the next day we finished taking down all the decorations, had brunch with the family, opened presents (might have snuck a nap in there), and then headed to charleston. we ate a lot of yummy food sunday and monday as we walked around and looked at all the cool shops. i loved all of the old southern homes and the cobblestone streets. it was beautiful. then we drove back to charlotte to fly out at the butt crack of the freaking night... and we got back home today. 

this market is where they used to sell slaves back in the day... now they have it set up as a tourist attraction- and people set up little stalls and sell goods, like homemade baskets, jewelry, wood carvings, etc.

that tiny little island in the background is fort sumter... 

where the first shots were fired beginning the civil war. interesting, eh? 

a huge majority of the streets were cobblestone or brick... positively fantastic!

i have a strange fascination for cemeteries... and these were fantastic! 

they had headstones from the 1700's. amazing.

 i loved all of the spanish moss... it was so pretty!

i dont usually do the whole seafood thing, but i was expanding my horizons this trip... i had shrimp and grits, a grouper sandwich, fish tacos, and even tried an oyster... be proud of me. lol.

we definitely lacked sleep the whole entire trip, but it was so worth it! 

i could definitely move to the south.... i would definitely want to learn the accent though :) that might be my favorite part of all of it! 

an abundance of love...

i positively adore my niece.

i love the way she loves playing with beach balls.

i love the way she says, "hmm?" when you ask her a question that she 

doesn't know the answer to... or knows the answer to, but doesn't want to say.

i love the way she always loves jumping.... off laps, rocks, fire places, beds, chairs, stairs- basically anything that is three inches or more off the ground she will jump off of.

i love the way she says "aunt kendle."

i love her hugs and kisses.

i love how much she loves "stuff in her milk."

i love that she loves chowder... and gets excited to come see him.

i love that she knows where his treats are kept and always wants to give him more.

i love how she says prayers.
i love that she asks me to polish her nails.

i love that she eats as much dough as i do while we make cookies.

i love that she prefers to play with hot wheel cars instead of dolls and barbies.

         

gosh... this list could get really long. basically... she's the coolest almost three year old ever. 

and i love babysitting her. 

today was one of those babysitting kind of days. i woke up much earlier than i normally do and spent the day with this awesome little kid. welp... we came back up to nana's house and i was helping my grandpa with some stuff when i heard hayley walk down the hall behind me. and i just knew where she was going. she was going to my room to feed my fish, edwin. she knows where i keep my food and how to get a little pinch of food out for him. welp... apparently he was really hungry today. little miss hayley dumped the whole bottle of food in the bowl. haha... so i told hayley thank you for helping and immediately scooped edwin out, took some pictures and cleaned his bowl. it was positively hilarious! 

now i need to add "i love how she loves to feed my fish" to the list. what a funny girl <3