Happy Thanksgiving!!

Joey decided to do some exercising before he started eating all the thanksgiving goodies...

Crapple Cup 2008

Remember the post from a week ago where we were getting the RV ready for our trip to Pullman?  Well it turns out that was a bad idea.  The RV died in Cle Elum on the way to Pullman last weekend.  We are pretty sure it has to do with something the Jiffy Lube people messed up when they were working on it.  The RV ran fine on our way out of town but when we pulled off to get food in Cle Elum, it just died and would not turn back over.  Since it was Friday night, none of the Cle Elum repair shops wanted to help us but one of the shops did give us some phone advice.  He said it sounded like a problem with the fuel filter (which had been replaced by Jiffy Lube).  So Josh prepared to run to the Napa Auto Parts store in town, but Kyle decided to ask a guy getting gas if he would drive them into town.  What happened next is unbelievable... The guy ended up having a fuel filter in his car.  He climbed under our RV and found out that it was the right one and then proceeded to change the fuel filter for us!!!  The poor guy's dad had died and his son with spina bifida had fallen out of his wheel chair earlier in the week so he said he was trying to get some good karma.   After he replaced the fuel pump the RV would start but it would idle really low and then die.  The guy assured us that it would drive fine on the freeway, but would continue to die when we slowed down.  We decided to continue eastward and see how it went.  We drove to the next rest stop outside Cle Elum and stopped there for a while to stare at the engine and talk about what to do.  Then we stopped in Ellensburg to finally get dinner and continue to stare at the engine and talk about what to do.  Next we stopped in Vantage to get gas and make the final call to continue on to Pullman.  After pulling over after Colfax to remove our Husky tire cover and trailer hitch, we finally rolled into cougarville at about midnight (we had left Seattle at 1:45PM!).  Laura literally lives on Pullman's Greek Row, so it was very stressful for Josh having to drive through a sea of drunken cougars yelling f**k the huskies and trying not to come to a complete stop so the engine wouldn't die.  We got parked and set up at Laura's and were drinking by 1:00AM, ahhhh the college life. 

Saturday had another huge let down with the stupid Huskies losing the apple cup and continuing their longest losing streak ever.  Josh and Kyle went to the game and sat in cougar territory.  There were no Huskies in sight.  The only highlight for Josh was they sat near the tunnel so after the game Josh was able to run down and yell at Tyrone Losingham.  He is sure Ty heard him and felt a little vindication.  Saturday night we drank and played pictionary.  Fun crazy times!!

Sunday morning we went to Laura's favorite breakfast place "the Old European" and then headed back to Seattle.  The drive back was so LONG!!  It felt 20 times longer than the drive there.  I think it was because I slept on the way to Pullman.  Thanks for driving Josh and thank you RV for getting us home.  Now we get the joy of taking the RV back to Jiffy Lube to convince them they messed it up and need to fix it. 

 On the road.  We have no idea what we are in for!!

  

  Josh after the Husky loss.

We still love our RV.

Trying to stay warm.

View from RV into Laura's kitchen.

Late-night partying.

Winter Pineapple Classic - SUCCESS!

The West Seattle Mamas successfully completed the Pineapple Classic and met our fundraising goal.  Thank you so much to everyone that sponsored us!!  There were way more obstacles this year, but we still kicked booty.  The weather was gorgeous and so were we in our awesome west seattle mama gear.  This is the only picture I took on my camera.  Leah upload your pics to my web gallery please:)

Jojo Loves School

Joey is still loving school.  But he has been sick and has missed the last three classes!  Both of his therapists have called to say everyone misses him.  Hopefully he will be back at school on Tuesday.  

Jojo's Driving Us Crazy!

We took the RV out today to get it serviced for our big trip to Pullman next weekend and while we were in line for an oil change Joey decided to take over captain duties.  Isn't he cute!!

Welcome Home Great Grandpa!

My grandpa came home today from the assisted living facility he has been in for the past month and a half.  He is so glad to be out of there and in great spirits about moving in with my parents.  My grandma still doesn't want to have anything to do with moving, so for now she is just coming up to visit grandpa during the day and going back home at night.  She is hilarious.  It is so nice to see my dad so happy about having my grandpa home and out of that facility.  And Joey is so excited to have his great-grandpa to play with all day.

GOBAMA!!

I wish we had taken pictures!  The Snyders were glued to our TV watching the race results on Election Night.  We were so excited when Obama was announced the winner.  It was such a great feeling to feel like our voice was heard in this election.  And it was fun to do the math that if Obama is president for two terms, JoJo will be almost 10 when his presidency comes to an end!  What a great way for Joey to start out his terrible twos:)

Happy Halloween - 10.31.2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  

As you can see... Like mother... like son!

Halloween at Joey's School - 10.30.2008

Thursday was Halloween at Joey's school.  My mom took the digital camera, but she had it in movie mode the entire time so only a couple pictures turned out after Becka told her it was in the wrong mode.  I made a movie and posted it to my picture gallery of all the accidental movie clips.  Check it out at http://gallery.me.com/thesnyderfamily#100211

Joey with Becka his speech therapist.

Joey with his teacher Miss Denise.