Sunday, December 20, 2009

Week 20



Week 20 Progress report:

Sinus problems:
Still bad. A few days ago it changed from being just on my right side to both sides. Joy.

Cough: Getting worse again it's been over 2 months at this point. Lame!

Sciatic Nerve: Not as bad as it was a few days ago just a minor annoyance most of the time and a quick jolt of pain if I get in the wrong position. Hopefully that means I'm getting better.

Kicking: All the time. Last night K.C. felt her kick his hand for the first time! It was fun to have him be able to share that with me. I love feeling her move!

Ligament Cramping: Still happening. But mainly it's the worst when I cough... (see a problem here) or when I have to get up quickly or make a sudden move (Craig see's to it that I get to do both of these things on a regular basis!) or when I walk up or down stairs. Thankfully there aren't any of those in my house!

Morning Sickness: Haven't thrown up in quite a while! Yay! But last night in the middle of the night I had a sudden and rather violent attach of Morning Sickness and felt overwhelmingly hungry and nauseous all at the same time. But it went away after about an hour. I thought that was pretty random.

Summation: Haven't slept because of sinus pressure and a healthy combination of the rest of those symptoms up there for several days. I feel pretty run down but I don't know how to change it so onward we go.

Family Pictures

Here's a few pictures of us. You can just pretend that this is part of your Christmas card from us. There will be more family pictures of the whole Farr bunch when I get them all edited. We were really glad that one of our friends was willing to come push the button so that I could be in a few of them too!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The name game

The name game begins. Since we have plenty of time to throw options around... why not start! I've put a poll up for you to pick as many options as you like. Or if you have a suggestion or combination that is not listed then we'd love to hear about that too! This is by no means a final list of favorite names, it's just a start, so we'd love to hear what you think. (or if you've realized something about nicknames and teasing that escaped us, please do share. :) I'm sure this will be an ever changing list as we come up with and then cross off names. Have fun!


{ List #1 }
Savannah Brooke Hunt
Avery Brooke Hunt
Allison Lorraine Hunt
Prabhnoor Shalonda-Siobhan Hunt
Hailee Rae Hunt
Makenna Hailey Hunt
Keira Brooke Hunt

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Sleepless in St. George

Ok so I do know that I actually live in Washington... But 'Sleepless in Washington?' come on that just doesn't sound right.

So here I sit. The house is quiet, the lights are off, both of my boys are sleeping soundly and my sinus is hard at work having a late night party with a rouge bout of morning sickness to provide a perfectly miserable night for me. You know what I think I've decided. I think I need a list of volunteer Priesthood holders who are up after midnight on a regular basis and ready to help K.C. give a blessing. I'm not one of those people who gets it bad during the day or just really crashes and burns when it's convenient. No middle of the night is the only time for that kind of thing. But who wants to call someone and wake them up when you're probably just "having an emotional pregnant moment and it's not that big a deal anyways?" I'm not that brave.

And so here I am trying to figure out what in the world to do for the rest of the night.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Craig makes a call

Craig just got his 'Dr Phone' (see picture below, minus the grater attachment and crank) opened it up and said "Hello? Little sister?! How are you?! Here mom tell sister about astronauts and moon buggies! Quick mama tell her! TELL HER!"


then he saw me typing this and held up his "phone" to the picture on the screen and said "Good job mama! You found a match! You did it!"

Apparently he remembers that we're having a sister.  I love how he likes to check up on her. He's going to be a fun big brother. I have been terribly remiss about posting updates on Craig. I was just realizing that I haven't said anything about his counting to 20 or singing the ABC's ALL the time! I think it's his favorite song. Or knowing the first 6 articles of faith or being able to read his name and about 8 other words consistently enough that I know he's not guessing! Or a myriad of other things. I'll have to dig through the videos that I took and see if I can find some good ones.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Cut and Color



I finally got brave and colored my own hair. It was quite the adventure and I'm not sure how good I did but at least I don't have 6 in roots anymore!


And I had a really nice lady give me a hair cut that I love!


I feel like a new person. It's so nice to get a fresh new feeling it just makes things better!

I didn't think to take a before picture so this is the best one I could find.

Before




After


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

We're having....



A girl!


Here I am at 18 weeks. We just got back from our ultrasound in Las Vegas. It was such a good experience. The little office was designed like a living room. With a couch for K.C. and a recliner for me! Nice! and there was a little entertainment center right in front of me with a TV in it so I could comfortably see the whole thing. I was very happy with the whole experience. And I'm VERY EXCITED to think of being the mother of a little girl! This is definitely going to be a new experience!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

What'll it be?

Tomorrow is a big day! We're going to go and find out what this baby is going to be! (And make sure that all is well and good - that's important too!)

So I've put up a poll. Sorry for the short notice so I hope you read my blog today or tomorrow because I just barely thought of it. What do you think we're going to have a boy or a girl? Hmmm....

Maybe I should start a name poll too... but then again maybe not because what if I'm the only one that likes my favorite name... we'll see what happens I guess but in the mean time

GO VOTE!
{on our baby of course}

Pumpkins and Halloween

Yes Christmas is almost here and I'm just now getting to Halloween!

We went and picked out pumpkin this year. Craig had lots of fun petting the animals:



Giving them hugs.

 

Playing on the corn slide with daddy.



 

And the TEETER TOTTER.
{all of K.C.'s life he's called this a "Teety Totter" - it cracks me up!}



 
And of course being his adorable self.





Then we went to the pumpkin patch and he picked out our pumpkin.

 
{not either of these pumpkins though!}

We were all coughing and sick but I'm glad we went. Thanks to the Blockburgers for going with us or it may never have happened!


We were all feeling a little bit better but not much by the time Halloween rolled around so it was very mellow at our house this year. (we did actually spend most of the say at Bryce canyon because K.C. had to go there for a homework assignment. But that's another story) Several days AFTER Halloween we finally got around to carving the pumpkin. We asked Craig what kind of a face it should have and this is what he said....





So that's what we did! Pretty good I'd say.


 
 I love to see how much fun Craig has with his daddy!
They are such good buddies. 


It's making this face dad!




 "There's a fire in there mom!"

Monday, December 7, 2009

Monster Tomato


This was a monster tomato that my sister brought from her garden a few months ago. The thing was almost as big as my head! It was SO delicious!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

So Blessed

We have been so blessed. There are a million reasons why but today I've been feeling a little down and out about life and the near future. This time of year there are so many things I want to do and so many things I'd like to give and on and on and on. But feeling like my resources and ability to do that is greatly limited right now it's been hard.

Once again I've been reminded that, by my own power I'm powerless, but thankfully I don't have to rely on my self. I'm so grateful for a Heavenly Father that is so good to us. It touched my heart to be reminded that yes times are tough, scary, and very hard for a lot of people. But life is also GOOD and there is so much to be grateful for. There are so many wonderful things that are still all around us. And best of all Heavenly Father WILL take care of us.

I'm glad that I don't have to see exactly how it will all work out to have a sweet assurance that

Everything WILL be O.K.

And I'm happy to be able to say that I know it! I know that we are not alone and we will be provided for.

What a wonderfully sweet assurance that that is. I am so blessed and grateful that I could be reminded of how good things really are.

Friday, November 27, 2009



Black Friday!

Last night we went and had crazy fun! It started about 7pm when we started getting ready to sell Dixie Direct books. We made little signs and gathered our forces.
We also got 2 movies from red box went home made signs watched UP, went out at midnight to sell books, came back around 1am and watched Star Trek then went back out and did some shopping (CRAZY lines in Target!) I suppose that in a small town the big shopping places get over run. The line wrapped all the way around the store through just about every isle and then back up around the checkout stands. (It was going out the door so they had to re rout it...but we were lucky and made it through a sneaky little line in the back:) Target ran out of shopping carts so the people that still had large piles of stuff but no cart to put it in just pushed it around on the floor with their feet! Wow.

Then we came home and went to bed around 7 and slept blissfully till 2 in the afternoon! It was mostly just K.C. I and Wanda out on the town but Jacob and Ammon were around for parts of it. It was fun to hang out with family.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

16 Weeks!

So I'm officially 16 weeks along now. We went and had our first prenatal visit today. I really like the person we're going to be working with. She's really nice. And the results are:....

I'm healthy - (other than some congestion and a never ending, month and a half long cough that won't go away) I feel pretty good. Morning sickness pretty much ended a few weeks ago. But smells have had an incredible effect lately. Even just walking into our closet if there are dirty clothes in the hamper! I hope this phase doesn't last long. And last but not least I'm almost back to pregnancy weight and I'm going to do my best to behave myself and not blow up like a balloon!

Baby - measures at 15 so I'm right on target, the heart sounds good and is beating at 136 BPM. (suspiciously on the low side... we'll have to see how that turns out.) AND the funnest part is I have now felt it kick and honest to goodness kick for the first time today! I've felt flutters and things that could have been... But it could have also been my upset stomach. But now it's official the little duffer is making it's self known! I love this part. I always loved feeling the movement of my little one. It's one of the highlights of pregnancy for me.

Craig came with us and he loved it when we heard the heart again. His eyes got all big and he started telling us all about the baby. He likes to hold things up to his tummy now and make the swooshing noise and tell me that he's listening to the baby in his belly! Haha I love that kid. 

Monday, November 23, 2009

I knew it

I'd just like to remind you of something that I knew long ago, that has now come to pass.

You may remember that way back in May K.C. and I went on a Cruise... and that lots of pictures were taken and lots of fun had... and I only ever posted about Day 1!

I knew it would happen, I would just never get around to posting about the whole thing.

Who knows maybe one of these days I'll get around to it!

{and also once again by a total fluke this time, my blog list has been deleted! So once again, I'm going to start rebuilding it...tomorrow.} g'night.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Sister Makeover

This is what happens when two crazy Farr sisters get together. Laughter and hilarity do abound!

My brother Jacob was planing a surprise to take my sister Wanda on her first date. I thought this was a very sweet idea so we were eager to help. He came over and had Ang and I help to trick her into being ready to go by the time he was going to come pick her up. So of course we decided to have a sister makeover party! I got Wanda all dolled up and then so she wouldn't suspect anything we started in on our makeup while we waited. This was especially exciting because Angela (who has worn makeup maybe 5 times in her life and applied it even less) did my make up! I don't know if I've ever laughed that hard!

By the time she was done makeup was running everywhere because I was laughing so hard that tears would just not stop flowing! I loved it when with a worried look on her face that was trying to appear calm she said "hmmm, yes, that's more.... approachable." I'm not sure if that was supposed to inspire confidence or not but it sure made me laugh.

So of course I had to do hers to get her back for what she'd done to me. And it got a little out of hand. By the time we took pictures the lighting was yellow enough that you can't really see the full "bold and striking" effect that we had going. But it was glorious. Everyone that saw us seemed a little worried.

The best part was when Ang's son Kason saw her and did a double take, then he covered his face with his hands and started pulling on his cheeks saying

"Uh, mom... You uh, mom, you're... uh...." as if he just couldn't find a way to break the news to her. Then he settled on "Um you have a beautiful nose. (the only un-altered area of her face) And uh... your lips, your lips are very pink." What a sweet little guy. :)



Bold and Striking. Definitely that!
(and the one serious face we managed to pull)


Thanks Ang, I love the crazy fun we have!

Friday, November 13, 2009

Senior Pictures

I just had the funnest shoot. Check out a few of the pictures on facebook or my site.



I love the fall colors!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Why is it growing?

I was under this silly impression that we were approaching winter, apparently my yard can't figure that out.

We recently figured out that our timer that was 'supposed' to be watering our yard, wasn't working right so we haven't watered ANYTHING for over 2 months. Even with the lack of watering my flowers are still in full bloom and looking great. The yard wasn't looking so hot but I was attributing it to 'winter time' not 'lack of water' we turned the water back on and it suddenly started to turn green. (I thought it was just never going to grown period. Glad to know it might live!)

But what surprised me the most is that our garden has long been dead and we gave up watering it 2-3 months ago. But Last week sometime I realized that one of our tomato plants was refusing to die. In fact it was thriving. So I turned the water on for minute that day, and then promptly forgot about it again.

Well I went out there today and guess what I find:

Strawberries on the vine


Green beans
(O.K. so there are only 3 of them but that plant NEVER produced a bean in it's life and now it is a shriveled yellow STICK. Where did the beans come from?)


and get this... OVER 20 tomatoes!


So I again turned on the water. I guess we'll see what happens. Silly little yard.

Friday, November 6, 2009

My Photography

I've been meaning to pick a name for my photography (business?) for a while. I'm not sure I'm ready to call it a full blown business but I've been having more and more people call me out of the blue and ask me to take their pictures so I decided that I needed something a little more official than... "I take pictures."

So after much brain storming and searching, only to find that EVERY photography name you can think of is already taken... including 'Celeste Hunt Photography,' and with some help from Wanda. I decided to call myself

Bee You Photography

So I drew a little bee, and tried to come up with a logo of sorts or at least something to put on the pictures as a water mark. This is what I cam up with.



And this is what it looks like on a photo.






I'm excited to finally have something to call myself at least. It's growing on me. The look might end up changing a little.

I don't know what do you think?



Thursday, November 5, 2009

Wanda Knows: Internet Security

Episode: 24


Wanda Knows Internet Security

The background: 
I have a friend, that has a facebook account and recently her account was compromised and someone got into it and posted something on her status. She changed her password and re-secured her account. Wanda was over at our house when we read of all of this...

Wanda: "She just changed her password?!" she exclaimed in disbelief. "Well that would have been a lot easier!"

Celeste: "What did that happen to you?"

Wanda: "Yes"

Celeste: "So what did you do, delete your whole account and start over?" I asked jokingly.

Wanda: In anguish "YES! Why didn't I think of that? That would have been a whole lot easier. I deleted all of my friends and all of my pictures and all of my info and then I deleted the profile. It's been such a hassle to find all my friends again and find all the pictures and everything! Yeah that would have been a LOT easier!"

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The size of things...

I thought when you were pregnant you were supposed to steadily get larger, not smaller!

I'm now 13 weeks along and I've lost about 10 pounds!

Normally this would be fabulous news! I've been trying to loose those pounds since before I was married! But considering the circumstances I have mixed feelings about it right now.

The good news is I don't feel like I'm wasting away and I have been able to keep stuff down lately so I guess I'm not too worried about it.

Funny thing is I think it makes my belly look even more pregnant because I'm smaller all together and that "oh-so-small" pooch shows up just a bit more than it would have otherwise :) I guess this just means more time in regular clothes before the maternity ones come out.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Trick or Treat? What Treat?

It's Halloween! The time year where treats run wild and yummy things abound! (Even to the point that there is a dentist in town offering to pay per pound for your Halloween candy - saves you from the cavities! I'm just not sure what he's going to do with all of it...)

But a lass no such celebrations for us. I didn't even have one candy. I still have this ridiculous cough and so do K.C. and Craig (to a lesser extent). So we handed out a few goodies to the trick-or-treaters  that came to our door but sadly we did not partake.

We did have fun during the day and took a fun trip to Bryce Canyon, which I will tell about in grater detail later. My plan is this. I'm getting my 'sick' spell out of the way early this year so that by the time Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around I will be able to thoroughly enjoy myself! I think it's a good plan. I can't wait to have Eggnog, pumpkin pie, apple cider,  and so many other holiday delights!

This is such a wonderful time of year! Every time I go outside I feel the nip in the air, see the leaves changing colors and it's like the holidays are here and I just get an itch to plot and plan and get gifts, and make all sorts of things and fill the world with holiday cheer! Then I start coughing, come back in side, throw up some more, lay on the couch and wonder when it's going to end. I just hope it ends soon! There's too much to be enjoying to let it drag out much longer!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Remember that?

Craig is cracking me up! He's sitting here next to me looking at a slide show of pictures. And one of him putting my make up on himself came up.



He burst out laughing and says he new favorite line

"I remember that! Do you remember that mom?"

It cracks me up when he says such grown up things. And especially the way he uses 'remember that!' I wonder if he knows what it means? haha.

Then he came over, sat on my lap and started stroking my hair and whispering something to me. I asked what he was saying and he said it again and gave me a big hug and a kiss.

"You look like a princess mom. Do you remember that? You look like a princess, remember?"

How sweet!

Oh so thoughtful

Remember This Post? well that was the day we found out I was pregnant!

He had to leave the house for literally 2 minutes, so while he was gone I took the pregnancy test and tried to think of some half way creative way to tell him. So with my time crunch (and Wanda was staying with us helping me out so I had to do it without her knowing what I was up to.) this is what I came up with:



The pregnancy test was in the bag.





And this was what he had to read.

I wish I'd had more time to think of something. I always thought it would be fun to 'tell' K.C. but he's always been there when I'm taking the test. And besides that he always knows if I'm even a day late so I didn't think I'd ever get the chance to surprise him. It was fun. Even if it was a bit rushed.

Later that day I came out of the office to find those beautiful roses siting on the table. It always makes my heart melt when I get flowers. Especially since K.C. is the only guy who's ever given them to me. They have a very special place in my heart.

(Someday I'll have to tell the story of when he gave me my first roses...hahaha! oh it was grand. or should I say I made a grand fool of my self? Yes I think someday I'll have to tell that one!)


Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Anniversary Fun

Our Anniversary was a few weeks ago. Thankfully I had a brief reprise from feeling yucky and I was able to enjoy most of the day. K.C. had school so I just hung around and waited for him all day. K.C. had planned something for us to do, so I just had to wonder and wait.

In the middle of the day my parents came and got Craig. (hmmm) and K.C. called and told me to get ready to go and have stuff for over night... (hmmm.)

When he got home we got in the car and DIDN'T get on the freeway like I suspected. Instead we drove to this little place about a mile and a half from our house. It's a cute little place to take pictures but you have to have an appointment so I've never taken any there. Well we got out and went into the little door off to the side of the entrance... I had no clue why we were here. (other than maybe to take pictures... but that just didn't seem quite right.)

This is what was behind that little ordinary door....


What?!?
I'm thinking "Oh a sweet romantic catered dinner - then we'll head out of town!" 


Not so much, the room keeps going...

May I present what is called "Edens Keep" The most romantic get away around....



Who needs to leave town when this is right next door?


Wow!












Rose petals on the bed?! I love it! And the rose on the table was for me to keep.




This awesome TV that slid out of the rock!


Sparkling Cider!



This huge old tub.


A two story shower!

Needless to say we stayed right there! K.C. had traded the owners to be able to use the room and so we went and got Panda Express, rented a movie and had a wonderful anniversary!


K.C. is so sweet and thoughtful. He's always trying to do things to make me feel special and beautiful. I am so very very glad that I was lucky enough to marry him! I couldn't be happier. He's my dream come true in every way!!!

I love you SO MUCH K.C.!!! Thank you for the best 4 years of my life! Eternity is going to be wonderful with you by my side!