Back to school!

I have a ton of work to do to get ready for back to school but have been spending most of my days in bed!!! Well, today I did something different. I decided to take my vitamin when I first woke up this morning, instead of at night when they suggest you take it. This is the first day I have had any energy. I actually feel like doing some things around the house. Lately I have felt like a bum. Eric has been working so hard on his campaign. He leaves from work and goes door to door till about 8:00 every night!!!! The heat really concerns me. I have not been able to do simple things like clean or laundry. Simply because I have no energy and the smells make me gag. So, today I have actually been able to start some laundry, work on ordering volleyball spirit packs, getting class outlines/ expectations completed... well all but one of them anyway.

I did find out that I will be teaching a Bible class this year after all. Last year the curriculum was so bad I threw it out and we read The Oath. While I had several parents/ grandparents who were not thrilled with the decision initially, they were excited to see a book that their 9th grade son actually enjoyed reading. This year I am teaching Old Testament Survey, which I am excited about. I expect I will get more out of it than the students will.... I am also teaching 7th grade U.S. history, 9th grade world history, 11th grade U.S. history (reconstruction to present) and sign language. I am kinda bummed because of my due date this year I will not be able to make the trip to Washington D.C. with the juniors :( I am, however, going on a trip to Nashville with the 7-9th grades. We are going to visit The Hermitage!!!!!!! That is the home of President Andrew Jackson who is my all time favorite American President!!!! As in he is the most interesting. There was no fluff with Jackson he did what he said and meant what he said. Not to mention the scandle of his marriage. As a matter of fact when he was elected president, shortly after his wife died, he accused the "high society" Americans of killing his wife because they were so mean to her. We will als be going to Opry Land and a few more place but I can't remember where. Heck who cares we get to go to the Hermitage!!!!

What do you mean you can't button your pants?

Exactly what I said that I can't button my pants! I have been walking around with my pants unbuttoned for over a week now. Mom decided Friday night that I needed clothes that fit, so we went shopping. We headed up to JCPenny's and found a great sale. I got a pair of black dress pants, 2 pairs of capri's (one light brown the other dark brown) and 3 tops all for $65. All 3 bottoms are expandable, I don't really know how to expand 2 of them yet though, but it is not quite time to either. I guess that is ok as since they will grow with me.....

The Snyder Family Grows........

Good news all around! I was just informed that my sister-in-law, Eric's brother's wife Amanda is also expecting!!! Which is funny. Their due date is March 22, while ours is Feb 22!!!

God is good all the time He put this song ......

My lil bro has taken some hard knocks over the past few years and has given my parents fits. I will spare you the details. On July 4th weekend he went to the beach with his fiancee and her mom, they have a condo. Her family is huge there are 7 kids and they are all married with kids, Aaron's fiancee is the baby by several years. Well on their way back his fiancee's mom was driving and had the radio tuned to a christian station. There was a lady on there giving her testimony, his fiancee was asleep so he was left with the only option of listening. While he was listening he decided to rededicate his life to the Lord!!!!! Yay, he has actually been going home at night to sleep at my parent's house and mom has noticed a huge change in his attitude!!! Now we are praying about the fiancee thing. It is not that we don't like her she is really sweet, we just don't think she is the right one for him.....

The girl name will be

Ella Kate and while I am not big on double names she will be called Ella Kate. Ella-all beautiful, Kate- one of purtiy/ beloved...

Names!!!!

Ok, so we have been thinking of baby names and we have one for a girl. The problem is we don't have one for a boy. Any suggestions? Eric likes Elliott, I don't, and August, I can see this being shortened to "gus." I like Zander (Zane), Sterling, Judson and Bryce, Eric is ok with Bryce but isn't quite sold on it.....

Doctor update

Well the doctor visit yesterday was great. Mostly beacuse my doctor is great, she is a wonderful christian woman. We didn't get taken back on time because my doctor had stepped over to deliver a baby. She wasn't on call but one of her patients was having major complications trying to deliver anda because that is the kind of doctor she is she wanted to go check on her patient. While others may look at that as being rude to you other patients I see it as good to know that my doctor would come check on me if I were having problems too. She really cares about her patients. All she ended up doing was feeling my uterus, giving me some vitamins that help with the nausea and was very excited about the baby. They said my due date should be around Feb. 22, which is what I guessed, with the help of ivillage. After she felt the baby though she said she wasn't positive about the due date, she said I have definate good growth, so apparently I am larger that she thinks I should be to be due on Feb. 22. So in 2 weeks we go back for an ultrasound to measure the baby and we get to hear the heart beat. She didn't want to say it but I could tell she was also running the possibility of more that one lil'bit, Thats what we call it, well it just sounds better than it.