Angela and Kevin Snyder Family

Hi all. Kevin, Nicholas, Anna and I are still in Union just north of Grandma Phyllis and Grandpa Fred. We are all fairly busy with work, family and Nicholas.

Kevin is working as the manager of the Submarine House in Dayton. He is also doing multiple projects around the house like fixing up our main bathroom and starting a garden in the back yard. In November, Kevin had a slight mishap at work and lost the corner of his thumb. He went to a hand surgeon and she said it would heal on its own and it has. When Kevin isn’t working he has tons of fun playing outside with Nicholas.

Angela is doing fine and is keeping up with Nicholas. She has been spending a lot of time with mom (Linda) at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Zion, IL, just north of Chicago. In March, she went on her first official and old enough to remember plane ride from Cincinnati to O’Hare. Angela has started making picture videos to bring in some money on the side. It is a great job she can do at home while Nicholas is napping. She is also helping Kevin with the garden in the back yard.

Nicholas is 17 months and he is walking/running all over the place. He has about 14 teeth and more keep coming in. Nicholas has started saying more words like “ma ma”, “hi”, “pizza” and “bye”. He is really tall for his age but is slim so it is hard to find clothes for him. We are always on the hunt for long, slim clothes. After nap time, Nicholas loves swinging in the backyard in his racecar swing from Lowes. When we are playing outside he likes to walk around and pick up sticks and rocks. It will be a wonderful laundry day when he realizes he has “real” pockets in his pants. He is developing into a really good climber and can already make it onto the couch by himself. Nicholas participated in his first family Easter egg hunt this year. He would pick up the eggs, shake them, and then toss them into his basket.

Anna is working as a shift manager at Dominos here in Englewood. She really likes it and gets a great discount. ;-) She has joined a co-ed softball team with people from her work. They are called the Dominators and they play at a field in Brookville. The rain has kept them from starting their schedule but next week should be better, we hope. In April, Anna spent a week with Angela, Sarai and mom in Zion, IL at the cancer center. It was a fun but fairly lengthy drive. During our stay we went to Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee Public Museum to see a special Titanic artifacts exhibit. At the beginning of the exhibit you get a replica boarding pass with an actual passengers name and at the end there is a large list on the wall of passengers that survived and passengers lost. You can look up the person you were given and see if you survived or not. All of our people survived.

Earlier this year we went to the Auto Show in Cleveland and enjoyed looking at all of the interesting cars. While there, we took Nicholas on a huge ferris wheel for the first time and he got slightly nervous on the down side of the ride. This summer we are really looking forward to swimming and hiking outside with Nicholas.