Loves

Love this little face

Love this little mouth

Love these little legs in those adorable socks

Love her little body in the teeniest of outfits...

LOVE her!!!

Senorita Snider

Rita Eve Snider
born January 10, 2010
7lbs. 14oz., 20 inches

The kids came the Sunday evening and met their new sister...Rita brought them gifts and they were thrilled...

Our bigger better family

Can I just say that I'm one proud mama! I love this little girl!

Tardy for the Party

Rita finally decided to come into the world! We were so happy!

My contractions started around 4:30 on Friday Jan. 8. I had them all night and into Saturday. The OB told me I would have to labor at home for a while. So we waffled all day Saturday when to actually go to the hospital. In between contractions Saturday night Emree slips and falls and hits her forehead on the door frame. Yikes! Everything was okay with a butterfly bandage...but it gave me a good scare!

Finally around 10:30pm we decided to go to the hospital...

Here I am between contractions at home.... It was a team effort...

When we got to the hospital they monitored me and decided that Joey and I should walk around the hospital for an hour and a half...They told us this at 11:30pm!!! I was already sooo tired! But we did and strong contractions were coming every 4 to 5 minutes during that LONG hour and a half!!! After the time was up I had progressed to a 6 and they decided to keep me! I became totally nervous and realized how I never wanted to do this ever again! After having the epidural not take on the left side and feeling a ridiculous amount of pain the last hour and a half little Rita came into the world! Everyone was crying except me I was beyond elated that she was here and that meant no more pain! Yay!

I couldn't believe how much she looked like the other kids...



Getting her little feet stamped...

Merry Christmas!!

Our 2009 Christmas Card

Happy Halloween

"Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize"...we decided to be characters from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney...and it was the scariest the Sniders have ever been....

Joey and the boys were the three hitchhiking ghosts, Emree was Constance the bride that chops all her husbands' heads off, and I was the ghostly girl on the shelf that beckons eerily, "hurry back, hurry back....we're dying to have you..."

Joey once again gets "Best Husband Ever" award! He looked amazing and people were taking pictures of him all throughout the park! So funny! And he didn't take anything off until we were back in the car for the ride home...did I mention it was hot and humid that night??? He must have been dying!!!

Too pretty to be scary...

This Halloween was inspired by Rett who was tired of being sweet things, the Beast last year wasn't frightening enough...

We came home at 2am and the boys slept in the next morning...Rye zonked while we were at Disney and we weren't able to remove his skeleton face...

Happy vs. Cranky

Things that are making me HAPPY...

I'm going to have one of these again....
I seriously CAN'T WAIT to see her and give her tons of kisses!!!

Rye is now potty trained...pretty much...I know you're probably saying, "Isn't he kind of old?" Well, to answer, he is three (alright, four in Dec.) and had absolutely NO interest in the potty...But we have overcome!!! He has been the first child that we have had to work to potty train...and it was rough!!

This stuff actually works! Can't even believe it! My skin was freaking out! Hormones??!! But this has made it sooooo much better!! My ad will be out soon to join Jessica's, Kelly's, and Julia's....

Yum! Yummers! I discovered Archer Farms PUMPKIN pancake mix... It is Fall for breakfast!! So delish!!...

Things that are making me very CRANKY...

Stupid glucose test that I dread immediately when I find out I'm expecting, and for good reason! I had my test on Friday and I only held it down for 30 minutes!!! It was a VERY nasty ending for the glucola in my body which was then followed by an actual panic attack!!! Who does that??!! I really thought I was going to die because I couldn't breath! I was scared to death! But meany ugly nurse is making me go in tomorrow and redo...upside is she said I can try eating 22 jelly beans instead of drinking that nasty drink... we'll see how it goes...

For the love, I can not find these suckers anywhere!!! Target...no, Publix...no, Walmart...no!! If anyone finds these PLEASE tell me where!!!!

Our Haunted House

Thought I would treat you with some pics of our "boo"tiful house...
What is really scary is I didn't take a picture of everything!! I heart halloween...

Serpents, Lizards, Tail of a Rat

I put my Fall decorations out at the beginning of September and while I was doing it I kept eyeing my Halloween decorations...I decided to just go ahead and put them all out at once. Because of this I've been so into decorating the house for Halloween. I literally would not mind at all if my house could look like the Haunted Mansion at Disney for the next month and a half!!! And a visit to Martha online didn't help either...I have been inspired!!! NOBODY does it better than Martha!!...

Large cat silhouettes are being made to put in unsuspecting places...

Hilarry has been glittering pumpkins for years and I've always wanted to join in the fun....and I finally did, except mine are black...so scarrrry!!...

We now have a bat wall also...

On our kitchen table we also have a witch's brewing station with old bottles labeled with spine chilling ingredients...

While decorating Rett looked at me and said,"Mommy, stop decorating it's starting to freak me out."....I think that's a sign I need to stop!! I surely don't want my kids frightened to be in their own house!!

The best Halloween book EVER for kids....We have spent so much time sitting together to find spooky skulls, bats, scorpions, frogs, etc.

Although all the pages are beautifully spooky enough to be framed, this is by far my favorite...I want to walk down this street and go trick-or-treating...

Busy Busy

To get ready for the baby there were some things that needed to be done...

-get Rye to sleep in Rett's room on the trundle.....check
-move Rye's clothes into Rett's room....check
-rename Rett's room to "Boys room".....check
-go through bags and bags of boy baby clothes and give away....check
-move Rye's old furniture out of his old room, take pics for craigslist...check
-get Emree new furniture to replace dressers that will be used for baby...check
-move empty dressers into baby's room and set up matching crib...check

WOOT-WOOT!!! We did it!

And you wouldn't believe the furniture that we found for Emree's room!!! After some redecorating I'll post pics...
sooo cute!!!

And the baby's room...I have some ideas running through my head, one involves using this vintage chenille bear....

I'm huge

I took a picture of myself the other day and couldn't believe how huge I am at 22 1/2 weeks! I had to post because you will die!!!...


I'm a little nervous about posting this....



So here it is...


Me in all my glory....