Snyder Family Blog

A Quick Update

Monday, May 18, 2009

She's three months old already. I can't belive it.

We took the kids down to "Farm Days". It was a lot of fun. Thanks for calling us Amber.

Bronsen was trying hard to lasso that bull.

The hay ride. Poor Sienna, you can't even tell she's there.

Parker loved the chicks.

But we couldn't keep Landon away from them. He held them about 6 different times.

We started at the Teepee. It was so hot in there, I'm sure those indians lived outside most of the time.

Happy Mother's Day to me. This was such a cute picture. I was so sad that Bronsen had messed with the settings on my camera so the lighting was all messed up. But it's to date the only picture we have of our family of five.

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First Lake Powell Trip Of The Year

Heather did such a good job trying to knee board. She even got up on her knees.

Sienna's little "twin". They got their first Lake Powell experience together.

What a dirty face. We made him jump in to clean off the pudding.

Parker was so brave on the tube.

Sienna fell asleep in "the cave"

We couldn't talk these guys off the tube.

What a chunky monkey!

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

So much has happened in the month of April and I have done a terrible job keeping up with all of it. But for the sake of journaling here goes a very lengthy blog. . .

We celebrated Bronsen's birthday this month. I can't believe I have a 5 year old. He wanted a baseball themed party with all of his friends. It took quite a bit of coaxing to limit it to 10 boys. He wanted to invite all of the girls as well. But when I told him that since he was turning 5 and 5 + 5 was 10 he went along with just the boys. Later we discovered that we forgot someone so we ended up inviting 11, but the trick still worked.

The Cake

The Party!

Easter

We were a little disappointed with the weather for this Easter. I know some of you braved it, but we just decided to spend Easter Saturday at Nate's ball games in Farmington, NM. It turned out to be a fun day even if not very Easter like.

Sunday morning the Easter bunny found us. The boys spent most of the day eating candy. After church we went to visit at Grandma's house. The Easter bunny had left eggs there as well. With not going on a Saturday picnic and doing our famous egg roll we didn't even color eggs. Bronsen still asks me about any day when we are going to color our eggs and fly our kites. Some random day I guess we'll just have to do that.

The Loot!

The Hunt!

Oh the fun!

I think these Easter pictures that I got of Sienna are also the first pictures where I've captured her smile.
When we were in Phoenix last month Jeannine took the boys to see the Easter Bunny.

Here's the proof.

To Be Continued . . .

Okay, so I can't finish all that I wanted to. Bronsen's graduation and Parker's cooking skills to come . . .

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What A Blessing

Sunday, March 29, 2009

We blessed Sienna on Sunday. It wasn't our fast Sunday, but it was for my sister's ward and we wanted to do them on the same day. It turned out to be a great day. We felt so much love and support from all of our family. I'm so thankful for our little angel. We are having so much fun with her. She is such a blessing to us.

She wasn't too excited about pictures. Finally I just decided we would take them no matter what.

We really wanted a picture of both Sienna and Kessia together. They wouldn't cooperate. So we took a picture of them both screaming.

There's my life. These three kids are what it's all about.

We were so glad that Steve's family came. Laici and Tyrel got away without a picture, but we did appreciate them coming down.

They are all so proud of our little girl.

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Spring Break

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Okay, so I know that we don't really have kids old enough to worry about spring break. But it was spring break and we decided to go find some warmer temperatures. We had decided to go to Phoenix for the weekend when Steve's parents would be down staying with great-grandma Snyder. But after being in Salt Lake the last two weekends I started out the week saying we absolutely weren't going to travel. But come Thursday I started to give in. Steve wanted to go so bad. So around noon I called and told him that if he really wanted,we could go. But when it was 3:00 and I hadn't heard back I thought we weren't going. Well we were. We left Blanding around 5:30 and got into Phoenix around midnight.

We took the kids to the "wild west." It was a little old western town in Chandler. Bronsen was so excited. It turned out to be a fun day for all of us.

Who doesn't love riding little trains at a whopping 3 mph.

Bronsens got to ride the donky. Unfortunately Parker wasn't tall enough.

Now there's trouble. Steve's dad and grandma sitting outside of the jail.

We were in so much trouble.

Bronsen with "Billy The Kid".

We took this picture right after a gun fight show. Talk about a little boys heaven. It sure kept their attention watching all of the action. Their favorite part was a man getting shot off the roof of the livery stable.

As we were trying to leave on Sunday Sienna started dishing out smiles. Even after the real ones stopped and they were just gas bubbles grandma wouldn't give her up.

Oh and one more thing. Brooke has finished Sienna's pictures. If you want to see a few of them click on "brooke" on my sidebar and look at my "vintage baby".

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Time Flies . .

Monday, March 16, 2009

I can' believe it is already the middle of March. I haven't been keeping up on my blogging very good lately. So here's some pictures from the last few weeks.

Sienna was really wanting held all day. You moms know how that goes. I was trying to get some laundry done. After taking the clothes out of the drier I set Sienna on top of them so I could put another load in. The warmth of the clothes put her right to sleep.

We were up in Salt Lake last weekend for Grandma Brown's birthday party. A couple of days later it was Fred's birthday as well. We got him some pirate gear to go with his new boat " The Black Pearl". The boys thought it was so much fun. We can't wait to join the pirate crew and take a ride on the notorious pirate ship.

Grandma Brown had a stroke on her 86th birthday and passed away a few days later. We are so happy for her. I know she was ready to go and is probably really enjoying being with Grandpa again. Her funeral was on Saturday. Steve and I felt very blessed to be able to participate. Steve gave the family prayer and then the life history. I just did a piano solo. I was so proud of Steve. He's such a great example to his family. I know that someday his steadfast example will really pay off.

I do have to share one funny thing from the weekend. Parker asked Steve's mom where grandma was. Jeannine told him that she was with Jesus. Parker left for a few minutes then came back and told her, "Grandma, I can't find Jesus anywhere here." I guess he thought that if Grandma was with Jesus and he could see her then he ought to be able to see Jesus too. I love what kids say. It's one of my favorite parts of being a parent.

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Just to Let Everyone Know . . .

Steve wanted a way to let some of his family know when we are blessing Sienna without making them feel pressure to come. Here's what I came up with.

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