Go Hop On Pop

Little Aubrey was playing outside in the sandbox yesterday, so I snuck out with the camera to try and catch something with her not pulling a cheesy grin at me. When she see’s the camera she starts posing, I think she is destined to be a little model. Aubrey’s personality is so sweet though, and I wanted to catch her sweet side.

This picture was taken up at Ensign Ranch when we went out for a walk to look at the horses.

Just playing with some pictures I took.

There are woman in the church who amaze me. They have such grace, and charm, and can get up and lead a meeting with such class and seem so articulate. I marvel at them, and wonder if I will ever grow into a maturity like this. It got me to thinking about the women in my life. There is of course my mother, where would I be without her? I have a hard time seeing her as a young mom. I wonder if she had the same self doubts that I have when it comes to being a mother. Or how about Danny’s Mom, she seems so sure of herself and capable in her parenting skills, were these great women once young with little ones hanging on them? I know they were, I just have a hard time picturing it, they just seem to have so much more wisdom and understanding on the issues of life then I, so I’m hoping to grow into this maturity that I see in these great woman in my life.

So moving on… Tanner had a soccer game on Saturday, the wind was blowing like it can only in Dayton. According to Danny it was blowing in gusts of over 60 miles per hour. It was blowing Alyssa right over and if Danny got off the chairs they would take off also. Tanner played goalie and the wind was with the other team, but nothing went past him. At half the coach put Tanner in as a forward, Tanner’s team won!

Aubrey came down with Strep throat this week, and it has run it course through all of us. I still have a residual sore throat, and wonder if I’m going to have to go see the doctor. I took Aubrey to the doc, and she was given some antibiotics, and it kicked it in her, but I’m the only one left with a sore throat.

I’m going to take the kids to Tahoe this weekend and get some photos I’ll post them if any of them turn out.

“Just another manic monday… oooo oooo… wish it were Sunday… ooooo oooo, that’s my fun day…” was blaring on the overhead music. I thought to myself how fitting for my day. In between the oooo’s there was the buzzing sound and then the statrling flinch that comes when water splashes onto my face. Oh where’s my fun day? Then Cindi Lauper comes on and I vision her pink hair half shaved and her hidious makeup, oh the things that go through your head when you are at the dentist. It was all going fairly well except for the annoying music and the occasional splash of water when I hear something really large go up that suckie thing, and the dentist says “hmmm interesting”. Hmmm interesting, are you serious, that is all you can say… I guess it is better then “oops”, or “uh oh” but still, what does that mean. I knew it couldn’t be good. My eyes are still closed, I assume that he’ll tell me if something serious is going on, and what good does it do to look anyway, all I have to look at is a fire sprinkler directly above my head, and the thoughts that come with that aren’t much better then the picture of Cindy Lauper in my head. I hear the nurse go out and talk with the front, and then I hear the front lady tell the people waiting that they are running 30 minutes behind. How can they be running 30 minutes behind it’s 8 in the AM and I’m the only person in there so far… duh, it’s me that is running 30 minutes behind, I’m assuming it has something to do with the “hmmm interesting” statement. So now I’m flinching with the water splashing, and my butt muscles starts to twitch, at least it’s a twitch no one can tell is happening, and it gives me something else to ponder. Do you think there is a connection from my right uppper back tooth to a twitch in the right lower cheek? Hmmm, I’m sure when I’m finished here that I’ll delete this out of embarassment. Buzz buzz, flinch flinch, twitch twitch, oooo that’s my fun day. After an hour and a half of this I finally emerged my twitch has stopped, I pay my $600 and wonder why I didn’t stop for a $20 pedicure instead of driving all the way to the dentist… don’t you think they should have at least given me a massage for that price? Sigh…

I try hard not to over schedule my kids. I do require that they take piano lessons, I guess that is my thing, but neither of them complain. I let them each choose one sport, but I can see with four kids how that might become a problem in the future if they all choose a different sport. Anyway, soccer has started and Tanner is all fired up. His first game was this Saturday, the day couldn’t have been more beautiful for a game. We all got a little sun and are looking all a little sun kissed.
Tanner plays goalie. I can’t believe how nervous I get for him when a ball is coming his way. I know the team counts on him, and it is a lot of pressure for a little kid. His coach plays him as a forward when the ball is mainly on the other end of the field and Tanner isn’t getting much action in the goalie box. He looks so cute in his uniform though…

Emma changed gymnastic coaches this week, and I’m hoping it’s a change for the good. She is now doing gymnastic practices for 4 hours a week, and seems to be loving it.

Our fence is still on the ground but we did get some peas in the ground this week. I guess the fence will have to be next weekend. We are just having a hard time getting the wood posts home without a truck, but we have a neighbor who works in Carson City next to Lowes, so I’m going to ask him to meet Danny there at lunch this week so we can get the large posts home.

We went to dinner at a friends house tonight, they are a little older then us and have teenager children which is delightful because they have been where we are but their children are usually more then happy to help us with our children. We bbq’d and just sat around and talked. We have come to love a lot of people in Dayton and have a great ward family here.

Danny has been given a new calling. He is now Sunday School President. So I guess he is moving on and leaving me in the nursery. I was told that I was being released in a couple of weeks, but they couldn’t tell me what until they had found a replacement for me. I have actually come to enjoy the nursery, the kids at least, I struggled a little with other issues of the nursery, but will truly miss the innocence of the little ones.

Aubrey mastered writing her name this week. She has had the AUB part down for a while, but this week mastered the rest of it. I thought it was cute how she added little lines at the tops of the Y. That is how the Y looks on a little cut out of her name that is taped to her dresser. She is obviously studied it, and copied it pretty closely.
Some funny things that Aubrey does: She loves to give gifts, mostly strange things that she finds around the house. She will completely cover the gift in tape and tape it to a piece of paper. It will take her an hour to tape it all up to the point that you can almost not even see what it is through all the tape. She will do this to flashlights, and other large items. There’s a part of me that thinks I should stop her, but she is so intent on what she is doing, and she isn’t meaning any harm. She can lose herself in a taping project for over an hour and hardly realize anyone is anywhere around. So if anyone wants to know what to get Aubrey for birthday, Christmas etc… tape, and more tape. I am officially out.
Yesterday we were getting into the van and Emma was in her way. Aubrey yelled out, move it Emma your holding up traffic. Yikes, where did she learn that.

Our kids have figured out what grown up do after they go to bed. They were awakened by noise, laughing, and screaming, I know GASP, They came running into our room and what they saw has shocked them for life. There lay Mom and Dad hiding under the covers with the children’s Nintendo’s deep in a a game of Mario Vs. Luigi. All this time the kids put there Nintendo DS’s on the chargers and head to bed, only to learn that Mom and Dad secretly take their games and play them. Oh the therapy bills are going to be huge. Now that we have been caught what are we going to do in bed at nights…

I’ll move on to something else before I get myself into trouble. Sometimes I’m not sure what to write. I have the purpose of keeping this sort of as a family journal and also keeping family up to date on what life is like for the O’Barr’s in Nevada. Anyway, soccer has started back up for Tanner so evenings are busy, luckily practices are so close to home that it doesn’t take a lot out of us to get him there and home.

Danny was up well after 1 am last night, which is nothing at all like our normal schedule. Work issues. Anyway, he didn’t get up like normal so Emma and Tanner brought Danny and I breakfast in bed this morning. It was sweet of them to think of us. They are good kids.

I’ve been making some plans for summer. The kids both have sport camps scheduled for July at BYU/Provo. Unfortunately their individual camps didn’t work out to be on the same dates so I’ll be traveling to Utah twice this summer just weeks apart unless I can find us a place to stay for a month in the Provo area. I’m working on that. I really wanted to go to Alaska this summer, but I just can’t see a way to make it work. I’d drive it with my kids, but gas would be so much money and air line tickets are going to cost too much also. So it looks like there will be many late afternoons napping on the beach at Lake Tahoe. Anyone is welcome to come and join us.

I guess that is it for me. Alyssa is into the dog food, and Aubrey thinks she is starving. I’m still going to the gym every morning, but I’m not sure I’m losing any weight, but I’m going to keep at it. Yosemite is still calling out to me, and I can’t wait till we can get out there and start exploring.