First Birthday

I've lived long enough to father nine kids and just started being a grandpa a couple years ago.  Yesterday was this little guys birthday.

Happy Birthday Zeke!

Ezekiel Snider - 1 Year Old

Sleeping so peacefully. I can't wait for him to wake up so we can play.

Happy Birthday Gina

Gina turned 53 on February 1.  Here she is getting ready to blow out candles on her vegan blueberry pie.  When we first met in 1981 she was vegetarian and now she is back to that diet except this time vegan.

I'm thankful everyday that we are married. She is amazing.

 She did blow them all out on the first try.

Hanni turns 10 - She is Wonderful

We have a wonderful 10 year old daughter.  

Hanni - The Wonder Girl

Johannah Grace is her given name but everyone knows her as Hanni.  She turned 10 a couple days ago and it was a fun day.

A couple things we do to celebrate birthdays:

• Go out to lunch or breakfast
• Birthday person get the dinner of their choice

Hanni chose Chipotle for lunch, so we (Gina, Scott and Hanni) headed over to the neighborhood eatery at noon.

Here is Hanni getting ready to dig into the monster burrito.

We paused for a moment to catch our breath and let Gina snap a quick picture.

 One of the cool things about Hanni is her burrito eating technique. She likes to eat from the middle out.  This time she munched in the middle and then ate the innards with a spoon.

Right after lunch we drove home and opened the presents.  The picture does not do justice to the paper bag wrapping that Peter did for Hanni.  Everyone thought the wrapping paper was cute.

 Hanni loves opening gifts.

Here is Autumn finishing the Hanni's burrito. (I add this photo becuase Autumn loves when I put these kind of photos out for the world to see.) Hanni brought home soda and the leftover burrito to share.  For some reason Gina and I did not have any leftovers.  Of course we had vegetarian bowls instead of burritos.  The leftovers don't seem to be in much demand, while the meat burritos are always quickly consumed.  

Dinner consisted of the world famous (ok - they should be world famous) Cheesy Potatoes.  Trust you would have trouble not eating at least two helpings.

Peter and Abe were at basketball practice while we eating.  I had to restrain people so there would a token portion for each of them.  We aren't very sympathetic to family members that miss dinner.

For dessert - Pie. Now I always pick cake but we have a cadre of pie lovers in the house.  Hanni is one of those. She is like her mother in many ways.

These two young ladies made the pie.  

Gina rolled out the crust and Autumn and Emily made the delicious pies. Here they are baking away.  They smelled soooo goooooood..... 

Getting ready to blow out the candles.

The birthday girl digging into the pie and ice cream.  Another bonus for the birthday person - They are the owner of all desert that is leftover.  They get to decide who and how much of the leftover ice cream and pie/cake to share.

This picture is evidence of why Gina is thin and I am a little on the round side of life.  She is eating salad instead of all the other stuff.  The salad was delicious but...

 More pictures of people eating.  Seems that there is always at least one pregnant Snider.

Another day at our house.  

Peter Turns 12 - O Happy Day!

The youngest male Snider turned 12 yesterday. Here is a picture of said young man calmly reading on Sunday, while he waits for all the woman of the household to get ready for church.

I was very careful to say youngest "male" because Peter is now 12 and no longer a boy, he is now a young man.
(And check out his new red basketball shoes)

 Because we had so many basketball practices, babysitting appointments, assistant coaching and other activities on his big day, Peter had to choose between opening presents first thing in the morning or waiting until 9 pm.  It didn't take him long to choose - -  early morning.  So here he is ready to go at 7:30 am.  You can see it was a little chilly in the house at that hour.

Not everyone was so excited to get up and out of bed.  I can only show the photo of Hanni. Autumn will not allow me to display a photo of her that early in the morning.  I don't know why, because as you all know her hair looks amazing in the morning.

Check out the HUGE Snickers Bar. It is bigger than his head!

He tried to fit it into his mouth but it didn't work.

It was a fun birthday. Too bad you missed the chicken cacciatore, it was crazy good.

Photo's - Abe's Birthday 2012

Abraham's Birthday 2012 - Turning 15