Skype

David's new laptop has a webcam, so we can chat with skype now!!! That's what I like best about him getting the new laptop! We talked to Mom, Dad, Abby, and Luke and worked at getting our sound to work out. We had some issues with it, but we figured it out!

our skype name is the same as our blog:
lorryanddavid

If you can't tell, I am way excited about this webcam, and can't wait to talk to friends and family!

Give us a call!

Turkey Break

This was a great week off of school. I am actually excited to get back to school tomorrow! I only have 3 weeks left until graduation!! Yahoo!! I am sure I won't be so excited during finals/packing week. But for now. . . I am definitely excited!

We celebrated Nick's birthday and Christine threw him a little party! It was fun, but as you can see in this picture, Will wasn't quite into the whole party idea.

He was asleep the entire party, except when a balloon popped and he woke up and laughed a little bit and went back to sleep! He's quite the partyer!!!

Emelia gave Nick his birthday kisses. . .she got up to 16 or so and was too tired to finish! She loves her Uncle Nick!I missed Chad's bowling birthday party as we showed up too early and then drove around to find the party and probably just missed everyone :( I am sure Will would have beat me anyways so I saved myself from the embarrassment I guess.

David and I took a day trip to Boise to look for an apartment, and we were successful! We found a cute little one bedroom apartment for a really good price. We will move out of Rexburg on the 21st and into our apartment in Boise later that day. We are so lucky, and we got a great Christmas present from them . . . we don't have to pay rent until February 1st!! Sweet deal! It is such a relief to have that taken care of and to have found such a good one!

My friend Kelly and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner this year. She did the turkey with her husband Derek and was a little grossed out by the prep work, but it turned out really good! I made some food for the meal, and I made a banana cream pie that was a hit! All the food was perfect, and we had plenty for leftovers the next day. We stuffed ourselves and the lounged around. We played games and looked through the ads for the Black Friday sales. We all saw some stuff that looked worth waking up early for, so 4 a.m the next morning we were out the door! As we drove by Wal-mart, the parking lot was packed and David got really nervous. Who would have thought it would be packed already! I dropped him off at Best Buy where he stood in line til the doors opened. He was wanting a laptop that was on a really good sale, but didn't get it. He sent me to Wal-mart to see if I could get a different one, but they were all gone. David was browsing around, and found a voucher for a different laptop that was also a way good deal. . . so he stood in line for three hours and finally got it! He had a blast chattin' it up with the other determined computer buyers and they all talked about how crazy they were for getting up early or spending the night outside in line.


I had fun weaving through the crowds at Wal-mart, but I didn't get anything this year. Kelly wasn't sure if she wanted to wait in line at Target to get in. There was a line about a block or so around the store, and it was pretty cold out. As I drove up, she saw someone passing out some free bag, and that convinced her! She jumped out of the car for that free bag and probably ran to get in line before the other crazy shoppers! She got all of her stuff in like 30 minutes and was out of there! She saw people frantically grabbing things, and started grabbing what she could but only ended up buying one thing she didn't plan on getting.


It is so funny to me that all day I felt the need to buy something. It was just part of the energy of the day that gives shoppers the impulsive buying power. Luckily I talked myself out of it every time, but I definitely was tempted to by too many things that I had no reason to need to buy them.


It was a great break, and I didn't get nearly as far ahead in my classes as I had hoped, but I enjoyed it. I missed some good times with my family, but luckily I have some family that is close by! I find out what school and what grade I do my student teaching in. . . .I hope it is close by, and in Kindergarten, but I just have to wait and see!!!!

Sleep Over!!!

We got to have a ton of fun playing and relaxing watching movies with Chad's kids last weekend. We started off the Thanksgiving break with my dad coming to town to go hunting with Nick and Chad. Amber was out of town and so David and I got to watch Will, Eddie, and Emelia over night. It was a success too. David wasn't feeling too good, so I just took over and made dinner. The kids wanted Mac 'n Cheese which was great. Simple enough! Then as I drained the noodles, I realized there was no milk! So I just put a little extra butter and left some water in there, and the kids had no idea. David noticed, but oh well :)

Then I had Will go take a shower while Eddie and Emmie finished dinner. Then the girls went and took a bath. While they were taking a bath, they asked when I had to go home. I told them that I was going to stay with them, and then Will said, "Let's sleep at your house!"

It wasn't a half bad idea. . . mostly because they could sleep on the "big balloon" as Edison called our air mattress. We gathered up clothes for the next day, and Emmie brought Don't Break the Ice to play and we took off back to Rexburg.

They loved watching the air mattress blow up when we plugged it in, and then it was perfect for all of them to run and do somersaults onto!

We played games for a while, Edison drew pictures, and they did a few more somersaults and it was time for some ice cream and then bed. I thought that by putting on a movie, they would all fall asleep. Not quite :) Edison and Emilia had to make their beds first. This was going fine as there was plenty of room for all of them, but them Edison was standing up and backed up too far and fell off. She was stuck too. I wish I had pictures. She fell and was folded in half with her nose pretty much touching her knees. . . I helped her out and asked her if anything hurt. "My bum." Little kids are pretty flexible, but they don't have the advantage like some of us have with a little extra cush' on the tush :) A good hug helped of course, and I asked if she needed me to kiss it better. . . and she looked at me really cute and confused. . . .good thing she said no. I know she just took a bath, but it still is what it is :)

Lesson of the night: It's really really hard to frown when you got a smile on your face!

So the were watching Space Jam and I was thinking that they would probably be asleep by the end of it. . . not even close. . . I was almost there though! So I put in Little Rascals and I thought that they would definitely fall asleep to that one because they probably wouldn't get the jokes. Edison, Emilia and I were out, but Will was going strong and woke me up to watch another one. I made sure he was really comfortable and tucked in, and then put in one last movie which finally did the trick. They were all asleep!!!

I went to bed, but found myself waking up every time some one coughed or talked in their sleep. I think I was just worried, but they were all just fine.

The next day we had breakfast and they wanted to go to the park. It was pretty cold out, so we bundled up and went for it. I gave each of them a water balloon that I just filled with air. It was windy out so every time they accidentally let go of their little balloon, they would chase it for a few minutes. I was laughing so hard. They would reach down to grab it and the wind would just blow it out of reach. . . then they started to pounce on it, and the wind would just blow it out of reach again, and again, and again.... It was so funny to watch! After about 20 minutes of this, their hands were really cold and they wanted to go.

We went to pick up Amber at the air port and they were so excited to see their mom! Will wrote here a love note on the way there. We got there 15 minutes before her flight came, so we went for a walk around the airport. We all held hands so no one got lost and Edison taught us all how to "ice skate" (galloping). . . we were all "ice skating" as we walked around the airport holding hands! We all started laughing as Edison thought David and I looked funny doing it. Her laugh is so all over the place that it made all of us laugh.

Here's Will with his love note :)

The people started coming down the escalator form Amber's flight but we couldn't see Amber yet. Then I saw someone who I was pretty sure I knew. This is how it went:

Lorry: David is that one of the 12 coming down the escalator towards us?

David: The one in the suit?

Lorry: Ya. . .I think he is one of the 12. . . the one that is a heart surgeon. . . which one is he?

David: I know it's not Bednar, not Eyring, not Holland, not Oakes, not the new ones...

Lorry: I think it's Nelson! . . .no is it? Maybe it's Scott. . . no I don't remember but it's one of those two for sure.

So all of this happened so fast and then he met with his escort/ride and was out of there. I was talking to Nick later and he assured me that it was M. Russell Nelson. It was really exciting to see him. From the general authorities that I have seen, they always seem to look older in person as I can see the wrinkles up close and I always imagine them as some big, tall person, but they are mostly little old men. I feel so privileged to get to see them.

Then Amber came down the escalator and the kids were SOOOOO excited to see her. They wanted to run to her to give her a hug, but they couldn't go past the security doors so they just waited and were jumping with excitement until they were able to grab her. Too cute!

I loved watching the kids and playing with them. They love to laugh and play and they are way cute while they do it! I guess David and I better get our own to have so much fun with all the time :)

Today I don't have class until noon!!! It has been such a nice morning! Some of you may wonder how we are, and I hope we haven't been forgotten about.

David has been busy washing windows, actually he is out cleaning right now. He really likes running his own business, but the last couple of days have been REALLY cold. . . like 45 degrees at the warmest! So his window washing season is probably coming to a close within the next couple of weeks and he is ok with that. He misses having me he

lp him wash with him and realizes that I do actually make the jobs get done faster. . . :)

David is also playing on 5 different sports teams. . . Tennis, soccer, softball, and two frisbee

teams. So he washes windows during the morning and early afternoon, and then goes and plays the rest of the day. He is hoping that by the end of the semester he will be back to his high school athlete shape. He's doing really good and his pants are loosening up! He probably doesn't want me to share this, but David likes flexing now to see his improvement! He doesn't want to get a scale, so checking himself out and flexing for me is the only way to tell, right?! Let me just say, that he is doing very well!

As for me, I am finishing up my last semester here in Rexburg!! I get to teach quite a bit this semester in order to prepare me for student teaching in the winter. I get to teach 5th grade the

most and my cooperating teacher is coaching me along and s

he said that she is even learning some things about teaching from me! I pretty much teach all day in my 5th grade class and I like it a lot. But what I like even more is the little kindergarten kids that I get to teach two days a week. They are so much fun and I only get to be with them for a few hours a week. There is one little kindergarten boy who has some speech or mental disability, and he just smiles SO BIG every time I walk into the classroom! It is the best! One day he was having a rough day, and his aide asked me to just sit with him with the rest of the class. I sat down next to him, and he looked up at me and smiled really big, and then held onto my arm and rested his head on my arm. . . and kept smiling! He is so adorable and the are all so excited to learn and show me all that they know! I hope I get to student teach in the younger grades, but we will just have to wait and see!

So I will be student teaching in Boise in the winter, and David is waiting to hear from some of the accounting firms he has been applying to. We don't really know yet what we will be doing or where we will be past April, so for now it is just a waiting game sort of.

I am playing on a soccer team here and coaching a little bit. The soccer coodinator is trying to put me on a new team, but I am being stubborn and I just want to stay on this team with some old soccer buddies of mine. We will see who wins this battle and what team I am on in a week or so.

Other than washing windows, school, and sports, we went to a barbecue lunch for our stake and they had some water balloons so David and I wanted to see how far we could pass them without them popping. This picture shows how David had hard time catc

hing them. He said that I threw them too crazy, but it looks like they all went right to him!

Our neighbors, Brett and Emily, got a free grill so we tried it out the last two nights with hot dogs and hamburgers.

We took a trip home to Washington this last weekend to see Matt before he took off on his mission to Brazil. We got quite a few of us kids home for the weekend! Enough to sing in sacrament meeting! Well sort of! We were singing "I Stand All Amazed" and the first verse went great! Then Ben and Brooks started looking around only to find Mom and Dad tearing up as they watched us sing. So Ben and Brooks got choked up just in time for the quartet with Chad, me, Ben and Brooks. So Chad and I sang a little duet and Abby wasn't sure if she should sing for Brooks, and Luke was looking at Ben confused at why he wasn't singing when he should. David, Matt, John, and Luke came in to help out on the 3rd verse and none the less, Mom and Dad were still proud of us and our efforts! We'll see if we can get any better by the time Matt gets back in a couple years. . . or maybe Mom and Dad need to sit farther back so we can't see them tearing up! Oh well, we tried!

On Saturday, we had a nice busy day. Dad, David and I went out and played tennis in the morning, then Mom got us all working, cooking, and cleaning for Matt's good-bye party that night, and then all the aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends came over and ate and chatted. We were all sitting with someone. . .

and then I got to Chad and he was pretty sad and lonely sitting by himself.

Amber couldn't come because she was busy with work for the weekend, so Chad rode home with David and me. . . . well actually he drove half of the way, so I guess I rode with Chad and David.

Ben performed his interpretive dance for the hearing impaired, I licked my elbow and read my "Cats and Dad (and Abby)" poem, and who knows what else happened at that party!

The boys and Jason and I went and played basketball while the rest of th party played card games. David pulled out his rhino moves on the court, Chad and Ben scored plenty of points with their fade away shots, Luke had some baskets and some wild "shots" that were really good passes, John had a few nice outside shots, and I hung out and shot from the outside irritating John because I made too many and his team kept losing :)

Brooks and John brought their great dane puppy, Gus, and so Dad's puppy, Maggie even had someone to play with all weekend.

They teased, wrestled and chased each other all weekend and probably loved it!

So once again, we had a busy, and wild weekend at the Bare home! I always love going home even though Dad thinks that anytime I am hungry, that I might be pregnant. Not yet Dad, but I do have the longest hair :)

Cats and Dad (and Abby)

I finally let David buy his printer/scanner/fax/copy machine that he has been begging for since we got married. I am excited about it now only because I can scan in all of my pictures from forever ago before I had a digital camera! Chad found my tub of memories that I keep hauling around and there are so many funny pictures, old report cards, ACT & SAT scores (I have NO idea how I got into college!), and certificates for everything I ever did (lunch duty, crossing guard, honor roll, fitness awards, "Skipper" of the day, and some from piano lessons. . . I am sure that they had to think really hard of something they could compliment since I rarely practiced, maybe that's why I got the "good sight reader" award :)
I also came across the beloved poem that Ben and I composed! It was written in honor of Dad, but I think that both Abby and Dad now share the honor of having this poem dedicated, and titled, for them. Here it is!

Cats and Dad (and Abby)
By: Ben and Lorry
Published in February 2004

When my dad
drives down the road,
his mind is stuck
in just one mode.

He'll find a cat
and hit it hard,
either skin and bone
or a tub of lard.

When he targets
on the head,
his foot transforms
into a block of lead.

He pushes down
on the accelerator,
he says, "Ta-ta for now,
I'll see you later!"

The way he forgets
to use the brake,
you can tell that
he'll make no mistake.

He thinks to himself,
"Man must be best,"
'cause this cat's only
got ten seconds left.

You see the cat
shift left to right,
you can tell in its eyes
that it's full of fright.

He lined the cat
up with his wheels,
and listened for
it's pathetic squeal.

When he his the cat
most people would quiver,
that was because
we smashed it's liver.

After so many
it's not so bad,
that's one more down
thanks to my dad.


Who knows how we became such good writers :) and I sure am glad that this little gem didn't get lost! Needless to say, I am having a blast going through old pictures and all the things that I wrote about and all the memories that I get to remember! I just hope that I get through this tub of stuff before school starts next week. . . I can't stay up until 2 am goofing around like this if I want to get perfect grades again! But it sure is fun!

Flower Power Update

We were gone for a couple weeks and we left my neighbors flowers with another friend of ours.
The purple ones are struggling and I think it got too hot for them last week. This week has been cooler and we have been nursing them back to full strength. They are doing better each day I think!Here is what they looked like when we left. The purple ones were doing really well!
The sweet pea flowers bloomed a little bit which was exciting! They are the pink and white ones in the middle.
These ones on the end were just starting to bloom! I was sad to leave and miss the action! I could see the pink in the middle, and about four or five other buds that were close behind this one!
When we got back, the purple ones looked like they had a rough time
There was one giant sweet pea this morning, but when I went to take pictures this afternoon, it was missing. I hope we don't have flower snatching neighbors!!! There are three more pea pod looking buds that are about ready to bloom and they better not disappear!
These ones on the end are beautiful!! They are so tall and bright and were such a pleasant surprise to see!! I think that since they were planted so close together they feel like they need to reach out to show how strong and beautiful they are! I love them! I am sure Brett and Emily are so proud of these big guys!
I will see what I can do to doctor the purple guys back to full strength. . . unless their season of blooming is done now and their show is over now. I hope not, but we will just have to wait and see!

It's wedding time again!!!

We have been cleaning windows quite a bit lately and we took a little break from it to go home for my brother, Nick's, wedding!! We stole Nick away to get a good shot of him with his best looking siblings!!!
Christine was gorgeous of course!! Here they are cutting their cake. . . well I guess this was Christine's cake, because Nick was lucky enough to get a German Chocolate cake specially made by Christine! Sheesh! I got some good lookin' parents!!!
I'm pretty sure that we have some work to do to look as good as Mom and Dad!!
Everything went really well . . . except for the weather giving us a little bit of a heart attack the morning of as it was raining and getting everything wet! Luckily the clouds went away and it was a bright sunny afternoon! My mom is just a little bit relieved that there won't be any more weddings for at least 2 years with Matt going on a mission and Abby not even out of high school yet! My mom is Super Woman. . . 5 weddings in the last 3 years! We love you Mom!! And thanks for working so hard Dad so you can pay for all of them!!