Happy 19th Birthday, Carrine!

19 years ago today Ashlie Carrine Snyder was born! Carrine was 10 when I met her - she was so cute. Already quite the little fashion plate at that young age! She has grown from a soccer playing, glasses wearing little cutie into a smart, beautiful young lady! She'll leave us in two weeks to study in Italy for the fall, and we'll miss her terribly - I mean, who else is going to stay up until 2 a.m. watching movies with me or help me make brownies at midnight or make sure I don't buy any new clothes that look too much like a "mom" :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARRINE! Vegas 2009!

Too Tired To Suck In...

Well, the day started off a little crazy for us! Drew crawled into bed with us this morning around 7 - nothing too unusual except around 7:20 he sat straight up and started tossing his cookies! He managed to soak the bed, pillows, Bobby... We sprang into action - Bobby grabbed Drew, I pulled all of the sheets off of the bed... By 8:00, the sheets were washed, Drew was out of a bath and clean, and our morning had begun! A little earlier than I had anticipated! (As many of you know, I am NOT a morning person!) Bobby was home sick today, too, so I got dressed to run some errands and let the boys relax. I was tired... around midnight last night I got a wild hair and decided to pull out some of Kenna's plain onesies and decorate them with my fun little Kandi Kane machine. It adds Swarovski crystals to things like clothes, paper products, eye ware, etc... Boy, was I impressed with my blinging abilities (are ya feelin' my sarcasm?). Some of my "work" is pictured below. It was fun anyway... I had to get this project out of the way before she is old enough to pull them off and eat them! She'd have the blingin'est poop of any baby in town!

Between the midnight blinging and the morning barfing, I didn't get much sleep. This was evident as I was getting ready... I'll usually get dressed and do a last minute "once over" before I leave the house. Turn to the side - suck it in to see what I could look like if I lost the baby weight that was actually on there pre-baby. But this morning, I was just too tired to suck in! How awful is that - that I would actually turn to the side and consciously think - "I am not even going to exert the effort!" Maybe tomorrow...

On the shopping front, my wonderful friend, Shae, turned me on to these darling shoes called Pedipeds. I have purchased two pairs for Kenna and have my eyes on several others - I am trying to pace myself! I have the Samantha (below, 2nd pic) and the Sophia Black... aren't they darling? I purchased mine on eBay (of course), but you can check them out on their website at http://www.pediped.com/. The Abigail Pink (below) and the Olivia Brown are next on my list! They have cute pairs for boys, too. Britney Spears's boys have them, and we know we ALL want to be like Britney... so, get to shopping, ladies!

So, as of this evening, the boys are feeling better and seem somewhat back to normal! Although we were not able to do much, I SO enjoy the time Bobby is home. I know Drew gets a kick out of it, too. He follows Bobby around like a little puppy - it's so cute, and I know it is time they will both treasure!

I will leave you with a gallery of my some of my favorite photos of the fam! One of my maternity leave projects includes cleaning out the photo cabinet. I kept running across funny photos, so I thought I would share some that made me smile, some that made me laugh outloud and some that made me just say AWWWWW....

That's all for tonight - woo hoo!

Our First Post!

Well, apparently "blogging" is the thing to do! I have so many friends who blog, and I do actually read them for updates on their lives. With so many changes in ours, and with so many friends and family who are out of town, out of state, out of touch, we thought we would jump on the bandwagon! I once read that blogs were self-indulgent. I thought that was funny, but somewhat true. So... we'll try to make our postings as "un" self-indulgent as possible!

We'll post family updates, pictures, fun links or resources we have found. So, check back often, shoot us a note every now and then and ENJOY!

Bobby & Lisha

PS - Just to get us started, thought I would share a picture of the girls and this funny photo of Drew and Kenna. 1.) Clara and her "stylist" Carrine. Clara got a wild hair and decided to color her hair black. Carrine was happy to do it. He, he. I think it is actually pretty flattering on her. 2.) Drew was getting frustrated that Kenna was crying during their photo session!

AND... HAPPY Birthday, Dad (aka, G!)