Yay for Late Class

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 :)