Halloween!

Our Skull-N-XBones Pumpkin
(It looked better before the wind blew out the candle, but we tried.)

Our Mud Room Door

Our TRICK-OR-TREAT Candy Dish
(The hand came down as kids reached for candy and said stuff in a spooky voice... made the kids jump... very nice.)

Jake & DJ coming home after Daniel had a thoroughly fun time, and suddenly requested to "Sleep in truck" and started fake snoring during their outing.

Daniel as ELMO
(Yes, he picked out the costume. He has a thing for the color red to start with, so the Spider Man costume just didn't have a chance once he saw this one.)

Jonah's First Holiday!

All four of us went to the school's Halloween Carnival. Jonah slept through it all in his puppy outfit, and Deej was a bit overwhelmed with all the people and noise (he got a bit grumpy and took on the character of Oscar rather than Elmo)... but all in all, we had a fine time. Then #2 and I passed out candy @ home while Jake took #1 out for Trick-Or-Treating.

In our old-fogey stage as parents of a newborn, and with me still healing, we gave up crashing any of the parties here in town for a little bit of sleep in our own bed. Although a part of me misses our carefree couple days when we could easily go out at any hour (and have more energy to go out in the first place), I am very happy that we have our boys! Nothing lost here. My 3 guys fill me up, heart & soul.

Happy Halloween, All! -Janelle

Our Newest Little Snyder

More picts to come... Jonah Dathan Snyder (1 day old, @ AK Regional Hospital)
Jonah and Dad (notice the stuffed pink flamingo that Daniel picked out as a present for mom in the hospital... I don't think Jake would have agreed to it if he didn't know how much I just LOVE pink flamingos... thanks to Grandma Betty) :-)
Our view of the Anchorage Mtns. from the hospital room.

New brothers DJ and Jonah with their Nana Pat.

My pregnant self a few days before Jonah was born, waiting at our friend Gayle's house in Anchorage.
There's a park right next to Gayle's. DJ and I had a great time going there every day to play in the leaves while we waited for Jonah to come.
We just started getting boxes of fresh produce shipped bi-monthly from Full Circle Farms. So far, we have been very satisfied... eating healthier, spending less money, and enjoying food we don't normally have access to here in the village. We'll see how winter affects the quality of the shipments, but so far, we're planning to continue doing this. Yey!
This sunset beach pict was taken just before we left UNK in Sept. to have Jonah. The slough is now frozen, there's lots of snow on the ground, and ice is starting to form in the sound as well. Hopefully everything will be frozen over before the autumn storms hit... then we won't get a flooded basement! :-)

Jonah, with freshly washed hair... 6 days old.

DJ standing in front of all the boxes from one shipment of our Anchorage shopping sprees. (We got in more boxes after this, but this was the most all at once. We were unpacking for 2 days.)

We're all doing well. Jonah is still sleeping during the day and waking up all night long, so we're sleep deprived... but happy. More picts coming soon! Love you all.

Janelle