My little brother received his mission call yesterday. I still think he is way too little to be getting called on a mission, but he really isn't! He is officially going to the California San Fernando Spanish speaking mission. He is going into the MTC on my mom's birthday, Oct. 29, 2008. That seems like so soon! I am excited for him and at the same time sad. He will not be here for the birth of the newest member of our little family! The baby will be almost 2 when he returns. I will have to send lots of pictures. I don't know if I can go when the take him to the MTC or when he officially leaves because I will be so emotional. I have never had a brother leave for 2 years before so this will be a new experience for me! The funny part of the whole thing is that he actually got the wrong mission call. He got a mission call for another Elder Snyder who lives in Utah so for a minute he thought he was going to the Washington Spokane mission and then he noticed the top had someone elses name on it. When he opened his book though it had the right name and the right mission call. He later got a hold of the other boy and he had also received Daren's call. It was kind of funny and I think Daren was worried for a minute that he wasn't going to know for another couple of weeks where he was going exactly.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Camping
This last week we went camping with some of Tyrell's family and Koen had a blast! He had been saying he wanted to go camping ever since we started talking about it. He didn't even know what it was, but he wanted to go! He and his twin cousin's played for hours in the creek that was nearby for the first two days. Then I wouldn't let him anymore cause he drank the water and it made him sick. He loved being outdoors for four days though. One of the big things we did while we were there was marshmallow roasting. This is because my mother in law said she wouldn't go unless we had lots of marshmallows. We ended up bringing a ton home we brought so many. The kids liked trying to roast their own, more like burn their own. They were fun to watch. We tried to get Koen to eat a smore, but he said he didn't like it without even trying it. Oh well he still had fun with the marshmallows.
Koen and the Sharpie
The other day I was cooking dinner and Koen was really quiet so I came to find out what he was up to. He had gotten a sharpie out of Tyrell's scripture bag and had drawn all over his leg and foot. I was not very happy, but at least he didn't get it on the carpet! He was very good about posing his drawings for me to take a picture though.
