Our Own Little Christmas

 

We decided to have our own little Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning before going to our parents for the holidays. It was nice to have our own Little Holiday Celebration.

Pictures with the Characters

 

It was fun to see all the characters dressed up in their Christmas attire, Disney Land was so pretty decorated for Christmas, and it made it all better being there with children. Thanks for the idea to go to Disney Land Kjars it was a blast.

Disney Land

 

We went to Disney Land for Graduation with our friends the Kjars and their two adorable kids Kate and Gordon. I love Disney Land.  We had so much fun together.

We drove down together and shared a hotel suit.  Kate love's Curt and when we were driving to California she would say "Hi Curt, Hi Curt" and then Curt would respond "Hi Kate" and she answered "Hello Curt".  This happened about every five minutes.  It was really cute.

Graduation

 

Yeah We Have Finally Graduated. Here we are with my parents and sister and Curt's Mom.  

It feels so nice to be done.  Now we will see what real life brings. 

 Curt and I got to sit together since we both Graduated from the College of Education, it made Graduation better. 

 Here are a few pictures my sister took the week before graduation. 

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 

Carving Our Thanksgiving Pumpkin

We did not have to time to carve our pumpkin for Halloween so we carved it for Thanksgiving instead. It is a turkey trying to run away so it is not Thanksgiving dinner.  

Making Fall Sugar Cookies

Curt and I enjoy making treats together! 

Cute Little Niece

We love playing with our nieces and enjoyed playing with them while visiting for Thanksgiving. 

Finding the Perfect Tree

While up for Thanksgiving we helped pick out Christmas tree's for Ryan and Lisa house and Curt's parents house.  It was fun, this was my first time going to pick out a live tree.  

Visit from Santa

We went up to Rexburg for Thanksgiving.  Here are a few pictures of us enjoying time together.

Santa paid us an Early Visit. The kids thought it was fun even though most of them knew it was Grandpa:)  

 

Happy Birthday Curt

Curt's Birthday was on Tuesday but it has been a busy week. To celebrate Curt's Birthday we went to the Temple then, garbed lunch at Costa Vida on the way home. After eating we opened presents (check out Curt's awesome Ninja Turtle Shirt that he got from his mom), at cake, Ice Cream, and relaxed until he went to work. It was nothing exciting but sometimes having a relaxing day is the best birthday present. I love you Curt and hope that you had a wonderful birthday.

 

Curt's Suprise Birthday Party

Curt's Birthday was on Tuesday, but I threw him a surprise party on Sunday. I had wonderful friends help me plan and get stuff together. Thanks Brigham Moore for getting Curt out of the house. We had a great time, my friend Chelsea Moore made homemade waffle cones (they were delicous Chelsea) and everyone else helped bring ingredient to make homemade ice cream. Chelsea and Nicole Anderson sang Curt a sweet birthday song with actions, to bad I did not think out recording it. They also gave him homemade birthday cards. Then we played Disney SCENE it?, I don't remember who won when we played boys vs girls, but when we played couples Curt and I totally kicked trash. It was a great time and the best part was that Curt had no clue I was planning it.

 

Yeah All of Our Paper Work for the Adoption Process is Complete

For those of you who don't know Curtis and I have been working with LDS Family Services to start the adoption process and we have finally finished all the paper work.  We have interviews next week to get approved so that our profile can be put online for single expectant girls to see. When we are online I will post the link to our profile so that you can help spread the word and help us get a child faster. Also I am going to make my blog public again so birthparents can see our blog and get to know us better. So if you know of anyone or know someone who knows someone that it considering placing their child for adoption you can give them our profile and blog address. We are so excited and would love your help in finding us a child.

I also want to thank all our friends and family who helped us get through this first part of the process, especially those who helped us get our profile and birth parent letter ready.

Look at Me I am Crafty

 

I just wanted to show off my cute ghost that I made for Relief Society last night. It was supper easy I just drapped a piece of cheese cloth dipped in sugar water, draped over a water bottle with a Tin foil ball on top for a head and dowels taped on for arms. Now I have a total of three Halloween Decorations, Yeah!

Curt was a Lumber Jack and He's Ok

Last weekend we went up to my grandmas cabin with my Dad, my sister Debbie, and My older brother Allen. We played Lumber Jack as we cut down and chopped up three trees. It was a good workout hauling the logs up the hill while sliding back down with every step we took. But it was good to get out side and help my grandma clean up her cabin.

 

I think Curt enjoyed using the chainsaw cut down and cut up the tree.  Here are pictures of my Dad and Curt cutting down the trees.

My New Hair Cut

 

Do you Like my hair cut. I got it cut because it getting long and heavy. I cut off about 4 inches and thinned it out. You should have seen the pile of hair that I left it was the size of a kitten.

What the Snelgroves have been up to

So it has been forever since I have posted, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we are alive and doing well. We have both stared our last semester to complete our bachelors degree. I am working on my senior project, I am doing my project at the Logan Family Information and Resource Center, it is a great place for parents so I will blog about it and give you parents in Logan more information. I will have my hours completed by the beginning of November. It is weird to think that I will be done with school, I have been going since I was six years old I don't know what else to do with my life. I guess I will have to start real life and get a job, UGH.

Curt is taking a couple of class and preparing for grad school. He took the GRE last month but did not get a high enough score to get excepted into his program, so I think he is going to take off a semester to work and plans to start the grad program next May or August. So we will most likely be in Logan for a few more years while Curt is going to school. It will be interesting to see how everything turns out.

A couple weekends ago we went up to Curt's parents to watch the rodeo for Francis Frontier Days. It was actually pretty fun other then I got fried because I forgot to but on sunscreen. We also got to help with the Kids Scrambles, an activity were kids get to chase after and catch animals. I forgot to bring my camera but it was funny to watch kids run around the arena trying to catch, kittens, bunnies, chickens, goats and pigs. One of the pigs escaped into the animal pen and several of the guys jumped over the fence to catch the pig. It was great to see grown men scrambling around, Curt even tried to jump on top of the pig but misses and ripped a hole in his new pants.

Between games we spent a lot of time hang out at Curt's parents house playing Guitar Hero. Here are some pictures of Curt and his sister playing.

Feed Ducks with the Kjars

This morning we went and feed ducks with our friends the Kjars. There kids, Kate and Gordon are so cute and fun to play with. We had one goose that wanted to come home with us. It was so friendly that Curt was able to pet it.

California Vacation

Here are some pictures of our Vacation there are lots of pictures but we were gone for a week. It was a lot of fun and the driving was not to bad because we stopped in Vegas to visit my grandpa on the way in and out.

Wednesday our first day in California we spent the whole day at the beach. We played in the water, and collected sea shells that Curt is planning to make me a necklace with.

This is my sister, my mom and me waiting for the wave. We spent most of the day jumping over the waves, can life get any better.

My sister made this heart in the sand

YEAH DISNEY LAND !!!!! We spent three days playing in Disney Land and Disney's California Adventure Park. We had a great time other then I was exhausted and my feet ached every night, but it was worth it.

Cinderellas Fairy Godmother, She is one of my favorite because I did a dance to "Bidity Bodity Boo" when I was little.

Tink!!

Hanging with the Mad Hatter, He was a funny guy

We got to meet Goffy, Curt did a Goffy Yell one of the times we went on Splash Mountain.

My Dad and sister Debbie

My Mom and I, we did not want to be in the same car as my Dad because he likes to spin the cup like crazy and it was our third day of rides. I don't think the workers wanted to clean up a mess :)

This was our very last ride on Splash Mountain and my brother deiced to go big or go home, so he created the biggest wave he has ever seen. My mom was wearing a rain coat and still got soaked. We all had a good laugh.

If you can't tell that says California it is the Sign for the California Adventure Park. while over here we went on a sweet roller coaster that launches you like a rocket at the beginning called the California Screamer, we went on soaring over California which I enjoyed, and Tower of Terror. Curt is not a fan of heights so he did not go on Tower of Terror. We also watched a "It's Tough to be a Bug" and "Muppets 3-D"

Mr. Incredible

After Disney Land we went to the Wild Animal Park. We walked around to see animals and rode on a tour car to see other animals.

I like Giraffes they are different and elegant with their long necks

This lions loved to sleep on and in this jeep

Oh look at the little elephant, there was also a baby but we did not get a picture. Also just before getting to the elephants I rolled my foot and pulled a muscle in my foot. It hurt bad but just stretching it out , resting it, and walking on it helped. I am so glad it was nothing more serious.

Look at the colorful Lorikeet it was posing for the picture.

This is my brother Brian with a lorikeet on his shoulder

SEA WORLD !! We went to Sea World on Monday. It was nice because it was not to busy

I really liked the Killer Whale Show, for being such big animals they can do some cool tricks. We chose to sit up by my Dad and not get splashed by "Shamu", while my mom, sister and brother Brian sat in the splash zone and got soaked.

Here is Curt playing with the Bat Rays, they look like they are flying through the water.

My Dad payed for my sister and I to do the dolphin experience, he was going to let us go swimming with a dolphin but it was really expensive. The dolphin we got to play with was a 3 year old girl named Captain, she was a silly little talkative dolphin. We got to pet captain, feed captain and learned how to get the dolphin to do tricks. My sister loves dolphins and was giggling the whole time. It was a fun experience.

This as Dolly the Dolphin Jumping I tried to crop it but i guess it did not work. Below is a penguin, my brother Allen wanted to take one home as a pet.

On our way to Universal Studios we stopped by the San Diego Temple. I think this is a beautiful temple, it reminds me of a Castle.

Curt took this picture I thought it turned our really well

On the last day of our trip we went to Universal Studios. There was some fun rides and cool things to see but I liked Disney Land better but it may have been that I was worn out and ready to go home.

Here is Curt at the KWIK-E-MART by the Simpson Ride, The Simpsons is not my favorite show but the ride was the coolest Magical motion ride I have every been on it actually felt like i was on the roller coaster.

The Back Lot tour was cool, you got to see where they filmed a lot of movies and TV shows and showed you how they did some of the special effects.

The Jurassic park ride was cool and it had a steep drop in to the water at the end and I thought splash mountain was steep. The Mummy ride was sweet too but really short.

Here is one of the cars from Jurassic Park

Here is a car from Back to the Future

Here are the cars from the fast and the furious, I thought the effects were cool

Here are some pictures of the souvenirs we got while on our trip

If you can't guess we had some one at SEA world draw this up for us

I got this cute bag from Disney Land, I am not a fan of big Logos, so I thought it would work well.

Thanks Family for a great trip, we have had fun and have a lot of good memories to cherish. We love you.