This is what our evenings look like mostly. Content, happy boys that like to have a bath
February 24, 2011
February 17, 2011
Home decor
Since we are moving I am remodeling quite abit. Here are a few of our ideas we are doing for our home. I hope to have it all done and looking nice. This is what I hope to have finished sometime soon.
Here is the entryway. Don't you love the decorative board along the wall? I fell in love with it. It adds so much character and class.
This is what our collage will look like when I get it all done.
This will be in our living room.
I saw this idea and fell in love. So up it goes.
Something like this in my boys room. They love doing homework and it would be a fun little area to call their own.
Valentine's day was a pretty low key day.
My boys were excited because it meant parties at school with
lots of candy. Well that is what they got. We didn't do much except hang out at home and get things packed up.
We had our extended family over for pizza dinner that night. This was the only picture I was able to get. John, Carrie and Brantly. I had to take their picture because B was so entertained with a balloon tied around his ankle. They are a very sweet family.
B with Elmo
Hope your Valentine's Day was speical.
February 13, 2011
Ava and Olivia
I had to post these pictures of these two sweet little girls I call my nieces. My sister just had their pictures taken last week and they turned out so cute. Aren't they adorable? I have only seen the littlest one a few times but she is the cutest little thing ever. She is a a carbon copy for what Ava looked like when she was born. Enjoy!
Doesn't that last picture just melt your heart? Ava is so in love with this baby. It is really sweet watching her help take care of Olivia.
Our life right now
It has been quite a while since I last posted. I am starting to wonder who actually reads this anyways. But I keep telling myself that if I don't write then my journaling stops too. So I do this mostly for myself. It is fun to look back on and read about what has happened to us.
There is a lot to write about. We are kind of in a crazy state right now. We are in between moves right now and life just seems hectic. I am not a fan of moving. I wish Lance would have explained to me why he likes to move so much. We have been living in this rental home for about a year. It has been a great move for us. We have enjoyed really great neighbors and a great location. I think this move was for our children. They have made great friendships with the kids next door. We are going to be in their ward so that will be nice. Let me go back. We have been living outside our ward boundaries ever since we moved into this rental. Lance has been serving in the Young Men's Presidency and has loved it. The bishop gave us permission to stay. At the time we thought we were going to start building again right away so we figured why change wards if it was only for a few months? Well plans changed and we didn't build. In fact, one of our homes that we had rented out was a lease purchase to own contract. The renters put down a large amount of $ to secure the contract and as of a few months ago they decided to back out and that left us with a house with no renters in it. This rental home is just right down the road from us. It is in a nice location and we have a few friends in the ward there already living in that subdivision. So maybe it will be good?
These renters left the house with a lot of work that needed to be done before we were going to move in. Our new carpet goes in tomorrow and I am hoping to do quite a bit a painting before we move our things in. I am hopeful I can get it all done. Keep your fingers crossesd. I will post pictures later.
So for now we are in that stage of living out of boxes. I am not a fan of that but what else can we do? I am trying to stay positive and have a good attitude about this move. For those of you who think you know me, I am not a fan of change. Never have been and it will probably always be really hard for me. But I am slowly adapting and I am trying to stay positive.
This morning my boys were so entertained with empty boxes upstairs that have yet to be put to use. They were making forts and playing so nicely with each other. I just wanted to pull out my video camera and catch it all on tape. They can play nicely with each other! They can get along! It was a nice moment.
Owen is going to nursery without crying now. That is huge news in the Snyder home. All of our boys have struggled with nursery but Owen has adapted the fastest of the 3. I hope it will be that easy going into a new ward. There are only about 5 other kids in his nursery class right now. We do not live in a young family ward. In the ward we are going into there are 2 seperate nurserys with 10+ kids in each. This could get interesting.
Lance has been staying busy. It is a blessing to have work. We will take whatever we can get right now. We take it one day at a time.
As for me, well I am staying busy between all the duties that I have. Life is good. I feel a whole lot better. The first trimester was terrible. I got pretty sick with this baby. I am crossing my fingers and praying hard for a girl. Someone asked me today "Why don't you make it a surprise?" I looked at this guy and thought "Are you kidding me? I have to know if it is a boy or a girl. I have to prepare myself completely for this. I have to know if there is a girl or a boy inside of me." Now maybe if I had already had a girl prior I would have made it a surprise but, NO, I got to know!!!!
Well there you have it! Our life right now. Might be really boring to those of you reading this but to us, we are healthy, happy and having fun in the process.
There is a lot to write about. We are kind of in a crazy state right now. We are in between moves right now and life just seems hectic. I am not a fan of moving. I wish Lance would have explained to me why he likes to move so much. We have been living in this rental home for about a year. It has been a great move for us. We have enjoyed really great neighbors and a great location. I think this move was for our children. They have made great friendships with the kids next door. We are going to be in their ward so that will be nice. Let me go back. We have been living outside our ward boundaries ever since we moved into this rental. Lance has been serving in the Young Men's Presidency and has loved it. The bishop gave us permission to stay. At the time we thought we were going to start building again right away so we figured why change wards if it was only for a few months? Well plans changed and we didn't build. In fact, one of our homes that we had rented out was a lease purchase to own contract. The renters put down a large amount of $ to secure the contract and as of a few months ago they decided to back out and that left us with a house with no renters in it. This rental home is just right down the road from us. It is in a nice location and we have a few friends in the ward there already living in that subdivision. So maybe it will be good?
These renters left the house with a lot of work that needed to be done before we were going to move in. Our new carpet goes in tomorrow and I am hoping to do quite a bit a painting before we move our things in. I am hopeful I can get it all done. Keep your fingers crossesd. I will post pictures later.
So for now we are in that stage of living out of boxes. I am not a fan of that but what else can we do? I am trying to stay positive and have a good attitude about this move. For those of you who think you know me, I am not a fan of change. Never have been and it will probably always be really hard for me. But I am slowly adapting and I am trying to stay positive.
This morning my boys were so entertained with empty boxes upstairs that have yet to be put to use. They were making forts and playing so nicely with each other. I just wanted to pull out my video camera and catch it all on tape. They can play nicely with each other! They can get along! It was a nice moment.
Owen is going to nursery without crying now. That is huge news in the Snyder home. All of our boys have struggled with nursery but Owen has adapted the fastest of the 3. I hope it will be that easy going into a new ward. There are only about 5 other kids in his nursery class right now. We do not live in a young family ward. In the ward we are going into there are 2 seperate nurserys with 10+ kids in each. This could get interesting.
Lance has been staying busy. It is a blessing to have work. We will take whatever we can get right now. We take it one day at a time.
As for me, well I am staying busy between all the duties that I have. Life is good. I feel a whole lot better. The first trimester was terrible. I got pretty sick with this baby. I am crossing my fingers and praying hard for a girl. Someone asked me today "Why don't you make it a surprise?" I looked at this guy and thought "Are you kidding me? I have to know if it is a boy or a girl. I have to prepare myself completely for this. I have to know if there is a girl or a boy inside of me." Now maybe if I had already had a girl prior I would have made it a surprise but, NO, I got to know!!!!
Well there you have it! Our life right now. Might be really boring to those of you reading this but to us, we are healthy, happy and having fun in the process.
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