May 1 - May 31 Adventures

It has been a fun start to May so far. We were sad to have Aunt Cheril leave at the end of April, but excited that Aunt Alisa (or Aunt TT) could come visit for a few days after coming back from Jerusalem! Austin has absolutely loved the attention and spending time with her! While Alisa was here he got to play outside a ton, go to the park, visit Fontenelle Forest, watch The Land Before Time, and visit Lauritzen Gardens. We had a blast!

April 1 - April 30 Adventures

I am glad to finally get back to writing posts again! I love getting to keep track of our own family history this way. April was a super fun month and we were happy to begin it with General Conference. Using some help from online sources we were able to apply a couple of things to help keep Austin's attention during the eight hours of talks from our wonderful church leaders.

February 1 - March 9 Adventures

Not a whole lot of change for the Snow family this month, but we did have a few fun, new, and exciting things happen! First of all we kick-started our debt snowball (we are Dave Ramsey fans) except we decided to visualize it in the form of a debt pizza. This last month we got to eat our first big slice (the tax return definitely helped!) and it is our goal to knock out all our debt within the next year to year-and-a-half.

January 1 - February 1 Adventures

It has been a great first month of the new 2015 year. Jason and I had our 4th anniversary on January 7th and I am still so blessed to be married to such a wonderful man!

After a nice long Christmas break, Jason and Austin started back up with school on January 12th and Austin moved up to the transition class (ages 2.5 to 3). The transition class prepares the kiddos for preschool (starting at age three) for which they must be potty-trained, therefore guess what we have been working on! Thankfully we have many pairs of underwear to handle the 3-5 undie changes we go through nearly every day. Austin (with the help of chocolate and other treats) is learning fairly quickly how to go in the toilet. 

January 26 - March 6 Adventures

So we have had a lot going on over the last several weeks and have a lot of great updates that we'll split between a couple of posts.

October 23 - January 26 Adventures

FINALLY I got around to posting another family update - it has only been three months since the last one. Since so much has happened between October 23rd (including several major holidays) I have decided to highlight Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in their own posts.

September 24 - October 22 Adventures

Austin was a SUPER STAR Sunday! He got to participate in his first Primary Program where nursery-aged kids get to share what they learned at church. Normally they only allow kids that are 18-months to 3-years old to be part of nursery, but since there are currently only two eligible kids, Austin was invited to participate in the program because his 18-month birthday falls before the end of the year.

August 20 - September 24 Adventures

Hooray for school! Actually, the reason there hasn't been a post in a while has been primarily the result of Jason and I having started the semester. Between this and the last post, we have had several eventful happenings in addition to the start of school including family pictures, college football games, running and Austin just growing up like crazy.

August 11 - August 20 Adventures

Austin is walking EVERYWHERE! There is definitely no stopping him now. He really took off with walking (more than the occasional few steps) about a week or two ago and now it is becoming pretty uncommon to see him crawl. He also really understands so much of what we say and will often help me open and close the microwave and press the start button when we are warming up his milk and will also throw things in the trash or return to our line of sight when we ask him to.

July 31 - Aug 11 Part 2: Back to Normal Adventures

Part 2

Back to Normal: Logan

Once we got back to Logan, things resumed back to normal for the most part. Here is a quick chronological outline of the last week and a half or so (because we know you all missed knowing all the little details of our life...) :

July 24 - July 31 Part 1: Vacation Adventures

It has been a while... and we've got a lot to write about! Since it has been a couple of weeks, I'm going to break this post up into two parts - Part 1: Vacation Adventures and Part 2: Back to Normal Adventures (which will come later)...

Part 1

July 16 - July 24 Adventures

This week my mom and sister, Kayla, came into town for work and 4-H State Contests. They arrived on Sunday and Kayla left Monday morning to compete (State Contests lasted through Wednesday) and my mom worked each day ~8am-5pm, spending the evenings with us. It was fun having them over to visit and the free babysitting was especially nice! Jason and I were able to go on a nice motorcycle ride (which doesn't happen very often) around Hyde Park and North Logan around sunset.

July 9 - July 16 Adventures

Making it through this last week was definitely a feat, I'll tell you that much. Izzy, bless her heart, had diarrhea... every day, all day, for the entire week. This proved especially difficult for Jason since Izzy did not limit her bathroom trips to the bathroom (where she normally goes on a "potty pad" used for doggie potty training).

June 23 - July 9 Adventures

I know it has been a while since I last posted our family adventures, but alas here they are! To sum it up in short - Austin had his first birthday (see this post for details) and some new developments, some family came and visited, and Jason and I worked on some projects. 

June 20 - June 23 Adventures

I posted a little bit late this last week, but nonetheless we have still had a few adventures over the past couple of days. Austin learned how to make "Indian" noises (when you pat your mouth while holding a note making a "bababa" sound) and he will do it randomly throughout the day, especially after one of us does it. I love it!  Partially, because I taught him how. He has also begun to take handfuls of food and stuff them in his mouth.  The foods that have fallen victim to this new practice include bananas, pieces of bagel, and he has even fit a couple of whole strawberries in his mouth at one time. 

June 10 - June 20 Adventures

This past week has been another timeless adventure, especially for Austin. One day, when I came home from work, Jason informed me that while he was sitting on the couch Austin stood up, grabbed each of Jason's hands, and walked away from Jason as if to request his help. Once Austin had taken a few steps and was leaning backwards significantly, Jason assisted him in his walking attempt. Since that incident we have found Austin to be a speedy little walker - he will go as fast as his little legs will take him provided that we are there to help keep his balance.

June 2 - June 10 Adventures

This week was full of adventures. We were invited to a splish-splash play date with some of the other mommy-baby duos from our ward, but sadly Austin came down with a cold on Tuesday and was still pretty snotty on Friday so we skipped out in order to not get the other babies sick. I think he may have passed his cold along to me as well, because Friday morning I felt I should stay home from work.

May 26 - June 2 Adventures

For your information, I've decided to make this blog a compilation of current and past events in our family's history. Periodically I will probably post a few events that have already happened and I will try to post weekly updates for family and friends to enjoy.

This week was kind of a fun week for Austin. He is getting so interactive and is really getting more of a personality.  He is talking and squealing ALL of the time. He is also laughing after I say "ewww" when he tries to get his hands where he isn't supposed to while we change his poopy diapers or make faces when he tries to spit his applesauce on me. He'll also laugh and try to run (or rather crawl) away as fast has he can when he is doing something he shouldn't like trying to climb the stairs without us there.