The Rest Of July

What's been happening with the Snyder Family? Well, let me update you on the second half of July.

Hayden continues swimming 3 mornings a week and will attend his first football practice ever this afternoon. Swimming and football....the 2 sports he's involved in and this is what his hair looks like!
It should be shorter, but he's enjoying a few more months of longer hair while he can.

Todd & Nikki finally made it to their first 10 mile run of the season. Good.....long, but good. Nikki also enjoyed a couple of reunions. The first with girlfriends from Hyde Park, and then her 20 year high school reunion. Both were enjoyable and nice to add new memories with all the old ones. The Sky View reunion included a family lunch picnic and then a dinner at Coppermill, with a video and fashion show. The hairstyles and clothes let me know it really has been 20 years! While we were at the reunion Austin pulled out his last baby tooth and Sadie pulled out her first! The dentist pulled out one of her front teeth, but this was the first one she's been able to do herself. Always nice when the tooth fairy can make a trip a get 2 teeth at once! Sadie also went for her second visit to Primary Children's Hospital to repeat her bloodwork. The numbers were even better this time, so the doctors feel we are getting to understand where her "normal" will lie. We also visited with our social worker to complete our 12 month report to send to China. Wow, has a lot happened this year.

We took the boat out a few days ago and Sadie decided to trust her life jacket and became a regular Snyder Fish like the rest of the kids. Hayden commented how brave she was, and all I could think was how over the past year she has proven that a hundred times over! It was a fun time, right until we ran out of gas and had to be towed in to the dock. So, now we know the gas guage is broken.

Carson can't play enough Mario Bros. on the Wii or with the Nintendo DS, but he does have to stop occasionally to rescue Gotham City!

Todd and Austin enjoyed a week at Aspen Ridge scout camp. There were 17 scouts that attended and Todd politely said that was the most he was up for taking :) Thankfully many other dads were willing to help out this year. The week after, Austin was quite bored at home and when I suggested he call some of these boys he said he spent plenty of time with them the week before! They really did have a good time and Austin has taught all the other kids the fabulous songs he learned at camp.

Last year Sara got hot pink in her hair and it only lasted a little over a week, so this year we opted for purple. It's staying much longer. Inspite of our efforts she's too much like a teenager.

Sara went with Sadie and I to her doctor visit so we did a little shopping afterwards and found some fun sparkly shoes. The next day the girls dressed identical from head to toe and had a fun day being twins. Some people may think it's cheesy to dress them alike, but I'm enjoying it while I can and think they look super cute.

So, now it's August and we begin our final countdown until school starts up again. We've done a little shopping...found back packs and shoes and a few new shirts. There are plenty of things we still need to squeeze in....so bring on August!