Let me tell you about our week. What a great week we had in Arizona with the Snyders. We got there last Thursday the 18th of December and greatly anticiapted the arrival of Elder John Snyder who was returning home from his mission in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We had a fun time with friends and family and had a joyous reunion. He had quite a few new faces to come home too He looked worn out from all the traveling but his spirits were high. We really enjoyed listening to all the stories and seeing all the pictures. It was fun to remember the good old mission days as well.
Grandma Snyder had everything planned. That is one thing I love about Lance's family, they plan things. Here is a short re-cap our our weekend, the shortened version-
- great meals every day planned out
- cookie day at Great Grandma Ray's house
- playing non-stop with cousins. I swear I only saw my children a few time while we were there
- demolition projects. Tearing down old houses that needed to come down
- rides to the dump in the huge dump truck with grandpa and all the cousins (this was one of the favorites for the kids)
- eating candy non-stop
- late night conversations with everyone, thanks for the fun times!
- christmas movies
- celebrating Andrew's 2nd birthday ( Happy Birthday Son! We love you so much!)
- Family Christmas party and a surprise visit from Santa Claus
- visiting old friends
- lawn mower rides for the kids. This is a tradition that we do everytime we get together
- Carpenter's Christmas music
- eating lots and lots of oranges
- Essential Oils, I am a firm believer in them. Thanks mom for helping me with that!
- sleepless nights
- Mesa Temple Christmas lights (unbelieveable if you ever get to go)
- relaxing on dad's jade bed
- entertainment non-stop
So there you have it. We had such a fun time. The weather was beautiful and the kids didn't get sick. It was amazing. That was our goal and we made it. Thanks Snyder's for a fun vacation. We can't wait to do it again. We love you all so much. We miss you already. Here is our week in pictures.
Paul and Lesa with their girls Heidi, Kaylee and Emma. They are just the sweetest girls ever.
Clint and Shauna and their kids, Dallin, Daniel, Kimball, Aubrey, Joel and Jacob, the twins.
Lawn mower rides in the back yard. The greatest entertainment in the world for the Sndyer grandchildren
This was our Christmas set up with all the families. Mom had prepared a seperate table for each family where we ate all our meals. It was less stressful and very organized.
Andrew decided to put all the candles on his sandwich instead of his cake for this birthday party at Chucky Cheese
My brother-in-law Eldon with his wife Shelli. They are expecting their first baby girl in Feb. We can't wait to meet Chiara.
The only way Andrew would see Santa was if I went with him. He was so excited to get the candy cane that he was passing out to everyone
Keaton with all of his cousins seeing Santa for the first time. He was so excited to see him.
One Christmas day for our fun activity that we planned for the kids. We had each dad put a Santa hat or reindeer antlers, and the kids got shaving cream and went to work making their dad's look like Santa. It was such a fun thing for the kids to do. Afterwards all of the husbands chased us down for a shaving cream kiss. It got kind of messy. Next time we will use whip cream instead. Don't they look so cute?
Here are all the Snyder boys together
And here are all of us minus two others, Sharlene and Rashelle. We sure missed you guys
We have come home to lots of snow. It is very exciting for us. We love the snow! The boys went out and played in it today. We have about 7-8 inches on the ground and it keeps snowing more and more. It is so pretty. I love this time of year.
Keaotn was so excited to get his 4-wheeler out into the snow for a ride but it wouldn't move very fast.
I had to take this picture. The wind and snow were blowing pretty hard and he couldn't see well outside. I thought it was a cute picture of him
more 4-wheeling in the snow
We spent the night at my parents house since we really didn't get there until almost 1 a.m. so we crashed at my parents house. The boys were so excited to spend the night there. Since we were going to be going over first thing in the morning for Christmas with the Quinn's we decided it would be kind of fun. Keaton and Andrew were spoiled rotten. They got so many fun things. They loved tearing the paper and the looks on their faces. Keaton asked Santa for a Guitar Hero and his letter was answered. He was so excited. He also got a helmet to wear on his new real 4-wheeler that he got also. Santa was very kind to them this year. Thanks Mom and Dad and everyone else who made it so special for them.
Here he is with helmet and Guitar Hero. He was so excited about both of them. He wouldn't let them go. He thinks he has to wear the helmet when he plays
Christmas with the Quinns
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I am glad you had fun but we are happy you are home, we sure missed you!
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