Photography - At the Beach

Happy Birthday Nicolea Mae

Happy 10th Birthday Nicolea Mae Snyder!!!

~Well, a little late as her birthday was the nineteenth. Last Saturday Dad had to rent a van to pick up some things in the city and then in the afternoon he took us all to the beach for Nicolea's birthday. We started the afternoon with ice cream cones on our way to the ocean. We stopped at a national park and saw some beautiful views and the kids enjoyed all the space to run around. The beach was really crowded were we had planed to stop so we continued on up the road. We stopped by another park and walked out to ocean. The ocean was so beautiful to see. Where we were at on the beach we could see Waiheke Island and Ponui Island. At play ground near by we had dinner and Nicolea opened her gifts. After we started home Dad stopped by the beach that we had planned to stop at, because it was almost vacant, and let us play for a few minutes in the water. Then, together, we had a great ride home! It was so much fun to spend a day together! Driving together brought back the wonderful memories of deputation! Only we had four rows of three seats rather then two rows of three seats like we had in the truck!!!

Enjoying the ride!

Well, at this time, on the way home she was not very happy to be in her car seat.

Nicolea with her ice cream!

(Alicia behind her.)

New Zealand Scenery

Looking at a map of the park. "We should go do..." "No, lets go do..." "It would be neat to..." and at the end "Nicolea, its your birthday, what do you want to do?"

Linda taking a ride on Daddy's back!!!

Felicity

Nicolea

At the beach the tide was out so there was lots of rocks and small pools of water. Here the boys are looking at the crabs Matthew was segesting he would cook for supper.

The ocean floor when the tide was out.

Everyone in the family ect. me (Jillian). It is not very often at all that you can get that many Snyders into one picture! They were watching a remote controlled airplane when this was taken.

For Dinner we had Biohazard, carrot sticks, and sandwiches.

Nicolea ready for gifts!!!

A happy girl at the birthday party!

"You can have any two things out of my bucket!"

"Do you want one of these?!"

What a nice brother!!!

(He had that bucket full of stuff he gathered on the beach and said she could choose three because it was her birthday! He always has something from his collection of things for each of us at our birthday! What a great brother!!!)

Nicolea with her new cool glasses Ezra bought her!

Wow, she has a great BIG brother!

How many of you got Amway pans for your 10th birthday?!

Emmaline made her a very nice stationary keeper.

Ezra and Malachi having fun in the water!

The Beautiful Pacific Ocean!!!

That's Waiheke Island and Ponui Island in the distance.

I love this picture!

The above two pictures were taken as the sun was starting to go down. It was shining really beautiful and the pictures do not do it justice!!!

~We did not take Nicolea's birthday cake to the beach so on Tuesday the nineteenth we had her cake and birthday dinner. Homemade PIZZA for dinner and she had brownies with triple chocolate ice cream on them and homemade chocolate sauce on top!

The six youngest minus Mercy.

How many of those can you blow?!

Nicolea and her brownies!

Our Trip to Taupo

This post is old but I thought I would post it anyways. I have not been on the computer much so sorry it has been so long since I have posted anything. Anyways, on October 9th Dad rented a car and Dad, Jillian, Emmaline, and Nicolea went down to Taupo, so heres the post about it.

We started the day early and by 6:30 a.m. we were on the road. We had wonderful home made muffins for breakfast and in about three hours we were in Taupo. We picked up the bike, we had come to pick up, in short order. Then we went and strolled through town and Dad bought us girls some wonderful pastry's at a bakery. We then went to see the lake; Lake Tapuo is 100 kilometers around and is the biggest lake in all of Oceania. It was some what of a rainy day and as they say around here "it was spittin". We drove around the lake a little ways and then stopped and walked on a path by the lake for a little while, but is was beginning to really rain now so we soon returned back to the car. We continued to enjoy our drive around the lake until we noticed the car was on empty, so we headed back for town praying we would not run out of gas. The Lord was gracious and we were able to get gas before we ran out. It was then almost lunch time know and Dad took us to Subway for lunch. It tasted great and we really enjoyed it as we had not had any since before we left the states and that is one of my favorites! And like Dad says that is the only American food here that tastes the same here! After lunch we headed for Bethlehem, which is over by the Pacific Ocean, to pick up something. It was a nice drive by Lake Rotaru and through the hills. The ferns were so interesting as they were so big that they looked like palm trees! After that we went to the beach. We did get out on the beach as it had stopped raining for a few minutes and it was really windy. After that we stopped at a Dairy ( little stores that they have in every town here.In the US they arre called convenience stores ) and got some treats, I really enjoyed the M&Ms, HA HA. Then we drove home, it did stop raining after a while and part of the drive home was clear. We arrived home about 5:30. It was such a fun day! We all enjoyed all of it!!!

I put this video together of our trip. I changed it and worked with it enough that I think I decided I just needed to post it. It is only 2 min. and 47 sec. So enjoy!!!