It's a good thing that Grandma lives close and has plenty of grass for all the kiddos. Maybe by next summer we can host a pool party in our own yard.

Kessia really likes the boys' goggles. What a cutie.

Look at that girlish figure!

It was a little cold at first.

I just think she's so adorable.

So I'm finally getting around to Memorial Day weekend. We tried to do a big friends campout, but we must be pretty unpopular because nobody came. So then we told me family they might as well come up. We were really glad they did. I took so many pictures and had a hard time deciding which to post, here's a bunch.

On Saturday when it was just the 5 of us, we decided to hike to a waterfall that I had been to in highschool and never since. Well, we had a beautiful hike up the wrong canyon. I guess we were in Dry Wash canyon and the waterfall was in Allen canyon. So when our family showed up on Monday we all hiked it together. Colby and Haven even came up to do the hike with us. It was a little hard for the kids, but they were all troopers and all made it.

At the top.

Isn't it fun that in preschool you get to "graduate" every year, whether you are actually moving on to kindergarten or not? Parker sure thought so this year. He had a really fun year at Lana Lee's preschool and will miss all of his little buddies there.

Parker was so proud of himself the whole ceremony. He picked to sing the song "Little Bunny Foo Foo". I wasn't surprised that he picked to sing a song about bopping field mice on the head. That sort of a thing would totally appeal to him.

Parker with his teacher.

Steve felt really bad that he got stuck at work and couldn't make the graduation. Grandma Einerson also got stuck in Cresent Junction as couldn't make it. But mom was there.

His little class!

We took our first trip of the year to Lake Powell on Saturday. The bass fishing was supposed to be really hot for another week or so, but either it's not, or we are horrible fishermen. Steve, Travis and I all caught one fish a piece. But we still had a good time enjoying the warmer weather. The kids tried jumping in the lake. My boys only jumped in once, but they didn't think it was cold, they just didn't want to jump in again. Asia jumped in several times. She's a brave girl, the water was freezing. We can't wait to go back and try it again.

For those of you who don't know, the Snyder name will be forever linked to wrestling. Basketball is the "b word" when you're around my inlaws. So needless to say we decided the boys should start organized wrestling this year. Our first intent was just to have Bronsen wrestle, but Parker really wanted to wrestle as well, so we let him. They've been practicing for a couple of weeks now and on Saturday was their first tournament. The night before there was a lot of "practice" going on.

During Parker's second match of the day he got choked and started crying. But he was up by 10 points, and we didn't want him to stop. After about 4 times of stopping the match to cry and Steve trying to talk him into getting back out there, it was finally over and he won! It is so hard to be a wrestling mom in moments like that! Anyway, for the next match I told Parker that if he wanted to win a Gold medal (which he'd been talking about all week) he just needed to go out and pin the next guy and if someone hurts you then you put your mad face on and pin him.

This is the mad face!

This is Bronsen wrestling. The picture is really bad, but you can still see the smile that stayed on his face the whole time. He loved it, win or lose.

Parker got the pin!!

In the end Parker came in first and got his Gold medal. Bronsen's bracket had a three way tie for first so they all got silver medals, but Steve informed me that by the points Bronsen won. In this picture is also their cousin Landon with his Bronze medal. Good job boys!