David Graduated!!

OK. . . so I started writing about these adventures a few weeks ago. . . and now it is all off to me. So sorry for the delay!

Now that school is out, we have been able to relax and play however we like and we have been loving it! So much has happened in the last week!

Last Tuesday, David's dad came to stay with us for a few days to see David graduate. We were pretty busy until Thursday to really do anything with him, but he was just worn out watching us wake up early, come and go to and from classes, and then study. Who knows when or what we ate during that time, but we survived. So Thursday night we went to David's graduation. David was so excited to have people cheering for him as he walked down the aisles and he would stop and hold up the line behind him so he could give us a big happy grin for the cameras.

It wasn't too long of a ceremony since they split it all up into the different departments. I wish I could be done now too, but my turn will come soon!

I only have one semester left here on campus and then one semester of student teaching somewhere. We are still hoping to go to Boise, but the school is giving me a rough time about not wanting to stay in Rexburg. Long story, and annoying process, but we are hoping that we will still get to move to Boise in January. We will have to see!

As a graduation gift, David's dad gave us Settlers of Catan, and I think we have played it at least twice every day that we have had it! We are so glad we got it! He gave David a few other things, but this was my favorite of the things he got! Now we are wanting so many other games to add to our game collection!

David's dad, Ken, likes to feed the ducks with us, and so we popped up a few bags of popcorn and went out to the nature park here in Rexburg. I was nervous since last time we went there, the ducks were full or something, and ignored all the bread we threw at them. . . and the rocks I threw at them when I got mad at them. :)

Our popcorn hit the spot though and we had all the ducks swarming us!
When we ran out of food, I decided to try to catch one that was fat and happy and taking a nap by us. . . but I wasn't very successful :( We all loved it though and were sure glad they were all hungry!

We also spent some time at Chad and Amber's house playing with the new puppies and the girls. Will was gone on a camping trip, so there were a lot of fingernails painted and princess movies watched!
Here is Edison holding Maggie, my parent's new golden retriever puppy! She is such a cute fluffy puppy!
Chad also got a puppy named Chloe. She is a mix of a gillion different types of dogs, but she sure is cute! Her and Maggie love to wrestle all the time and it is so funny to watch. Maggie is a lot bigger, but Chloe is a lot faster and has the energy to run circles around Maggie until she can plow into her and take her down! We can't wait until we get to get a puppy of our own!
Chad and Amber also got three little kittens. Ken was talking on the phone with his daughter Rachel, and this kitten was just climbing all over him! They are just barely cute enough to not care what they do!
So we had a lot of fun with Ken here for the graduation and the start of our summer vacation! I am just worried that this 7 week break will fly by too fast!!!

Flowers

Our neighbors,Brett and Emily went home in between the semesters and left us with all of their babies. We have been so privileged and trusted to "plant-sit"! We have been watering and watching over their flowers and watching the new flowers that bloom. We don't want them to miss out on the action, so we are going to update them as their flowers grow up!!

Here are the cute little ones. There are about 15 or so of them and more keep coming every day! The ones in the middle seem to be struggling and the flowers on the end are trying so hard. It looks like they might be ready to show their colors in the next couple of days! We are pretty excited for all the flowers and we are so proud of the wonderful flowers they grown up to be. We will keep everyone updated on our adopted little babies.

Summer Festivities!

Wow it has been a long time since I have updated this thing. Right after my last little entry was midterms and it seems crazy, but we are coming up on finals in a couple weeks! The time flies by so fast, and I never thought it would since they are summer classes and I thought I would want to get out and play more. . . no worries, I squeeze in all the playing time I can get!
Since I last wrote, we had our 1st anniversary, my 21st birthday, we were "dam volunteers" for the Teton Dam Marathon, we got called to teach Gospel doctrine in our ward . . . but have yet to be asked to teach the lesson. . . and went out to the Oregon Coast to spend the 4th of July with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, siblings, in-laws, and who knows who else!

Chad and Amber made me a cake and brought the kids to come play for my birthday. Nick and Christine came to play for a bit as well. I still give Nick a hard time because he came and played and ate cake not even realizing that it was my birthday until the next day! He felt really bad, and like a dope! It just made me laugh. . . he is definitely a Bare! Mom wasn't much better though. I talked to her the next Sunday and she told me that she had just flipped he calendar to June and noticed my birthday had passed. . . it was almost halfway through the month! Good thing I was busy all day and didn't have time to sit around waiting for all the birthday wishes! I think I learned from all the birthday pool parties that wouldn't happen until July or even August! But I can only imagine how 10 birthday parties a year might get a little crazy! Here is a video of Will and Eddie and their balloon fight! I am sure that the people who live below us appreciated the festivities!
Nothing else too wild and crazy has happened except for the time out on the coast. . . we really do know how to stay up late and bust a gut. . . or as Dad says it, "gust a butt." sorry Dad, Love you!
It was a quick vacation and a long drive, but it was much needed and appreciated for my own sanity! Ben, Elizabeth, David and I all carpooled out to Tillamook. We went to the sand dunes and got nearly everyone to climb the dune! Grandpa Bob even beat Mom and Dad up. . . he said he couldn't wait any longer for them to catch up, so he had to go up with out them!

We played a good game of beach volleyball, and lots of big group games with the cousins. Of course we ate lots of Tillamook Ice cream! I was able to eat a scoop of bubble gum, cookie dough, and a new favorite, Wild Mountain Blackberry! OOOOOHHHH I can never get enough! We celebrated Matt's 19th birthday with the crowd, but I think we forgot about the birthday kisses/spankings! Most of all we couldn't forget to play the Farming Game!

Rockaway beach was a little different this year because we are all grown up and we don't get to dig for the money in the sand pit, or do the crab walk race. We are all getting too grown up for those races! Sad day! I guess we better get going on the little kiddos so we have someone to watch and coach for the races!
The fireworks seemed to get a little lost in the clouds, so those weren't as fantastic as they usually are, but we were digging into the s'mores for sure! I think Matt ate at least 5 in one sitting! David was proud of the one I made for him. He even said he could taste the love. . . can't forget that ingredient!
So we loved the vacation, and can't wait until Nick's wedding when we get to go home for a while and maybe go on a camping trip with the family.
So school is about over for the semester which means. . . only 2 1/2 weeks until David will be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!! He is way excited to be done! Not too excited to take his CPA exams, but we think that he will be able to finish those in the next 5 months before I graduate in December. He really can't make up his mind about what he wants to do yet. He is debating plenty of options and of course they all have their pros and cons. He is going to do at least on of the following: work as an accountant at a firm, go to grad school, start his own business (there are about four ideas for those), or work wherever he can if nothing else works. so who knows what he will decide. It changes about every other day!
We do know that we will be moving to Boise, ID in January. We figure any of his options can happen there, and that is where I have designated my first option for student teaching. So we are excited to see what happens there in Boise for David!

Camping with the 3 little Bares!

This weekend we had a good time with Chad and Amber's family.  The weather was nice with a few little drizzles, but we played lots of games and just relaxed the whole time.  It was fun to be with the little kids!  

Will had fun with his cousin Justin and we tried to teach him how to throw a Frisbee.  He was running around all over the place and was really good at getting really dirty!

Emelia is at a really cute and fun age.  She is really talkative and doesn't mind being cute and showing us all her tricks!
Chad and Amber brought their three little kittens, and Will, Eddie, and Emilia loved to play with them and those kittens are pretty tough now!  

We played a couple innings of baseball, and kick ball.  Emelia had a hard time holding the big heavy bat, so Chad was able to help swing!  They hit the ball and I led her to the bases!  She loved running and everyone cheering for her!

Emelia and Edison loved going on rides with anyone that would take them on the 4 wheeler.  They would just laugh and smile so big on each ride.

David and I learned how to drive the 4 wheeler and we took a couple of rides ourselves!  It was so pretty out there next to the river and in and out of the trees!  

On Saturday we couldn't forget the birthdays!  It was Amber and Tiffany's birthday!  Tiffany's parents brought up a princess ice cream cake and Amber got her favorite cherry chip cake.  There was lots of cake and it was all so good!  I think I had a couple of pieces of each! . . . and I can't forget that Amber and Tiffany had their very own princess tiaras that they got to wear.  I think Edison ended up wearing Amber's most of the time. . . surprise surprise!

All in all it was a great weekend of relaxing and games!  Can't wait to get back to school. . . . well I think we could, but we have no choice!

Super Long Weekend. . . coming right up!

For Memorial Weekend, David and I get Monday off of course, and the school let us have Tuesday off as well. . . and it happened to work our that David and I both have our classes today cancelled for today!  I think the teachers just wanted another day off, but they tried to convince me that they didn't even think about it being a holiday weekend when they had these meetings and conferences scheduled.  Oh well. . .I will take the day off, no worries!  

We are taking off this afternoon to go camping with Chad and Amber and who knows how much of Amber's family will be there!  It will be fun to just relax and enjoy the beautiful weather!  

Just to update everyone. . . We still do enjoy school!  Homework is getting repetitive so that isn't as much fun, but so far I am doing well in all of my classes.  Tests are turning out well!  

All of our sports are doing alright.  Our two Frisbee teams are winning, the ward soccer team is struggling pretty bad, and my competitive girls soccer team is doing really well.  We scrimmaged against the boys team and only lost 2-1 which they were probably a little embarrassed about.  It was fun and we were able to work on positioning a little more.  

Our sports classes are still fun.  David is learning all about volleyball and his teacher coached some for the Olympic girls and so she is pretty tough on his class.  It sounds like she has a hard time a little with David's beginning class since she isn't entirely sure how to work with the beginners, but David is learning a lot still and only has two more weeks of it before it is over and he starts up a soccer class in the morning.

I love having my basketball class.  It is a much needed break from the lectures of my other classes.  It is just a girls class so we have fun playing with each other.  My shooting has been on fire lately and it makes me look pretty good!!  It has been pretty surprising to me since I haven't really ever been a strong shooter from the far shots, but I got it now!  I have also been known for my rebounding and I love to just run in there when someone shoots and fight for the ball.  It catches people off guard because it is usually just the big tall girls standing under the basket waiting for it to fall into their arms. . .but then I come flying in and snatch it away and smile as I run away with it!

So needless to say, we have been just playing every night.  There is always a game for one team or another.  It is nice to play with our ward and get to know some people that way.  We will also get to know our ward a little better because David and I just got called to be Gospel Doctrine teachers.  We hope that it all goes well and that we can teach them something about church history that they can learn something new each week.  I have only taught first graders, so this could be fun!

We have been hanging out with our neighbors a lot.  They have only been married for a month, so they think that David and I have been married for forever already and have all the married stuff worked out!!!  It is funny that here in Rexburg, being married for nearly a year is like eternity, but anywhere else, people still congratulate us on getting married since we are still newlyweds!  We just laugh at it as people ask us, "How do you like being married for so long?"  Some people here are so ignorant . . . and it is too much fun!

Our neighbors are related to all the Blodgetts in the tri-cities and we have game nights with them all the time.  They play on our Frisbee team with us and we invite each other over all the time too.  David has fun helping with beginning accounting homework and teaching the basic concepts to them.

So all in all, we are just plugging along and enjoying all that we can!

Thanks for the Tag

I was tagged by my sister, Tracie who is living in Germany right now. (. . . We are hoping to be able to come next summer, so you can't leave!) But anyways, I am supposed to list these eight things about me so here we go!!
Here's how to do this 8 THINGS thing: Mention the person who tagged you. Complete the lists of 8's. Tag 8 of your wonderful friends.
8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO:
David coming home from Boise on Friday night
Graduating in December
Student teaching
Having kids
Moving out of Rexburg before winter comes
Playing soccer this semester and winning the championship again
Getting groceries today so I can make something yummy for dinner tonight
Getting a couch . . . finally!

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY:
Scrambled to get David ready and on his trip to Boise on time
Went to a morning full of great classes
Got a really painful papercut. . . it still hurts!
Got frustrated doing busy work again for one of my classes
Went to soccer practice and it was insanely windy. . . I was either tripping over the ball because the wind would blow it back at me, or I was chasing it since the wind would just carry it away!
Had pancakes, a carrot, and jell-o for dinner
Did homework with friends
Found out I got a scholarship this semester from the teaching department!

8 THINGS I WISH I COULD DO:
Travel everywhere. . . Australia, Germany, China, Hawaii, Home, anywhere with David
Not have to do the boring homework and only the assignments I liked and thought were important
Be in shape like I was when I was in high school
Enjoy running, just for fun
Be with kids more often
Take a Ceramics class
Be with my family more
Be able to cook like mom and not have to measure anything


8 SHOWS I WATCH:
The Biggest Loser
American Idol
24. . . but not by myself
Dancing with the Stars
So You Think You Can Dance
The Office
Full House
Monk

8 PEOPLE I TAG:
Anyone who reads this. . . I don't know who does
Mom
Dad
Rosie
Kelsie
Grandpa Bob
Crissa
. . .
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WE LOVE SCHOOL!!!

We are on our third week of the semester, and we are loving it! I love all my classes and my schedule even gives me time to play! I was able to take a basketball class, and I also get to play soccer again with the school. I joined my ward's soccer team for intramural and David, Nick and I put together an ultimate Frisbee team as well! So every night we should be playing something! . . . oh ya. . . David is on the ward softball team as well!
So back to classes. . . I am learning how to teach everything this semester. . . math, science, PE, reading, and then I have a couple classes on teaching students with disabilities and students from diverse cultures. So I have a good load of classes but I love them!
David's classes are challenging but interesting for him . . . including his basketball and volleyball classes. He is finishing up and graduating at the end of the semester and is enjoying being in the class and out of the office for now.