Saturday, July 31, 2010

Happy Birthday

ppy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Nicole
Happy Birthday to you!



Hope you had a great dinner out. Here's Claires wish for you. Just think, two more birthdays and you will have your own choir singing to you.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Good luck Mandy!

Mandys big surgery is tomorrow - here's wishing her lots of luck and a super speedy recovery. We'll all be thinking of you and praying for you.

Friday, July 23, 2010

cAMP

I will be in VT from August 2nd thru Aug. 5th with a few friends.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

When I grow up...

...I want this little girls self esteem :) She is too funny...




Enjoy!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

What's been going on?

The Snider household has been busy - here is a quick look at what has been going on.

Right after Claires birthday she because a bedtime nightmare and after much screaming, fighting, and freaking out - Dan & I figured out someone has a very strong dislike for being in her crib. At least that made the transition to a big girl bed much easier. She absolutely loves it and now gives us no problems going to bed. The hardest part now is keeping her in bed in the morning. She never gets up at bedtime but I will never get to used to her coming out of her room while I am getting ready in the morning. Or shall we talk about her opening the bathroom door while Dan was showering, peeking her head in and yelling Hi, Daddy!

Holy resemblance to Kristin - anyone else agree?
Claire loves to help and what better way than to have family pizza making night. Claire and Dora - her big girl panties - helped make pizza for dinner. Claire, Dora, and Claires tattoo were very serious and what didn't make it to Claires mouth made it to the oven for dinner. And it case you're wondering, no she's not potty trained, but we figure it can't hurt to let her run around in her big girl panties. We have cleaned up a few accident but I'm not sure who is more upset - me or Claire because she "hurt Dora" or "hurt Mickey" when she peed on them.

Here is another picture, just because I think it's funny. Someone needs a haircut - stat!

We have had lots of birthday parties for Claires friends, this past weekend Claire enjoyed the balloon artist. She got Elmo and a flower. The flower popped in the parking lot, but Elmo is still hanging around and gets tucked in every night.



That's it for now - we are heading to Vermont early early (5 AM early!) on Friday morning for a long weekend.

Monday, July 19, 2010

The next time someone wins the lottery....

....they should buy one of these for the lake!!!!


This weekend I found out the state park has a little beach/lake for $5. My biggest complaint about NJ is there are no pools so I was happy to see this. They had advertised the Wibit online but I had no idea what it was. For $3 for 30 minutes my friend and I tried it out (with about 8 little kids). It was the longest 30 minutes of my life and I have scratches all up my leg (no clue where they came from, I think the velcro). I must have fallen off trying to run across the little path about 12 times but it was awesome. Way harder than it looks - but worth every penny of the $3! We had a smaller version of the circuit above but the one below looks awesome too...

It would be an amazing addition to the lake....if we had piles of money sitting around with no good use of course :)

We can dream, can't we?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Way to go Julie!

Looks like Julie has successfully raised enough money for her Health Care Clinic Renovation - way to go! Can't wait to hear all about the details of the project from Julie :-)