Sunday, August 23, 2009

The Summer is almost over!!! YUK!

The first weekend in August, Chris & Austin took a trip to Denver, Colorado to go see a baseball game. We like the Rockies ok, but we LOVE the chicago cubs, well, that is who they were playing. They took a road trip with a few other guys, and had a blast.


Austin the Friday night game.
This was his first major league game.
Saturday, they went to the Denver Zoo before the next game. Austin loves animals! You know, he is going to be a zookeeper one day!

Saturday's game.
Austin walking with Chris's friends to th the stadium.

Chris and Austin in front of the Stadium. Too bad it isn't Wrigley field, oh well, maybe someday.

They would go to the games early and watch the teams warm up. They could only get so close.

Beautiful stadium! Full house - 47,000 people there!

The boys enjoying an icee and watching the game.

The Cubbies won! This is my favorite picture!
Then the middle of the month, we headed to our annual trip to Bear Lake.

Sand castles are a must at bear lake. It was a little cold the first couple days, but that does not stop kids playing in sand!

Brinley made me a birthday cake, with a candle and everything!

Warming up right before we headed back in, the wind off the water was just too cold!


Sunday, we had a family dinner. Lance and Jamee brought kites, so Brinley had to show me how she flies kites. She just runs and runs!

Here is Taylee, Jamee, & Lance eating dinner.

Chris cooked us his famous dutch oven dinner of BBQ Ribs and potatoes. It was yummy!

When my parents came, they brought my cute grandma Grover. It was great to have her up there with us for the afternoon. Love ya grandma!

Monday, we hit the pool! It finally got warm enough to get in some water. Brinley loves to swim!

Here are my kids in goggles! Aparently you need to have goggles to swim in my family!

Here is our only family picture of the trip, self taken of course.

Taylee found a friend at the playground. They actually looked a lot alike. Her name is Alycia and she is 10 years old and is from Salt Lake. They played and talked all about HS Musical and Hannah Montana and other stuff, (tay says). They even did gymnastics on the grass. How fun is that!

Tuesday, We went swimming to the other pool. Brinley put the goggles on all by herself! Can you tell?

Austin jumped off the diving board all by himself, I knew he could, it is just the first time jitters. Once he did it, it was a piece of cake!

Then it was Tay's turn. She had to borrow Austin's goggles, but she still plugged her nose!!!

Then we did a little mini golfing. Brinley tryed really hard to get her ball in the hole. She did it every time, even if she placed the ball in the hole with her hands!

Taylee did good. She got a hole in one in one of the courses! Good for you sweetie!

Austin, Mr. Professional Mini Golfer, did great.

Then we headed up to the Snyder Family Reunion.

During the reunion, Brinley's bottom tooth started growing taller than her other teeth!! I felt it, and it was sooooo loose! She had hit her mouth previously a week before, twice and made her mouth bleed, so it must of knocked her tooth loose. So she said that Chris could pull it out.

So after a little pulling, not much, it came right out. The whole excitement and a little pain, made those darling tears run down her face. She is now missing a tooth!

I don't know if you can tell, but the root is bigger and longer than the tooth was. It was not ready to fall out natrually. We told her it looked like a shark tooth! She wrote the tooth fairy a note and asked her to "please keep my tooth at home". she did, and gave her $5 too.
I am proud of you sweetie, you were very brave!