mom car

It was extremely fitting that Brandon found out the transmission on our truck was on its way out the day before we left for Spring Training. We got the good news around lunchtime after he picked up his truck from having some maintenance work done. B explained to the mechanic that his wife (me!) was going to drive the truck down to Texas at the end of next month so we needed to make sure everything was up to par. Up to par it was NOT... major fail. They told him that the truck could "probably make it down to Texas" but then we'd need a new transmission. Probably??? I can just see Tex and I lounging on the side of the road in somewhere in Arkansas trying to hitch a ride from a trucker. Nooo thank ya.

So upon hearing of this wonderful new development, my husband drove from the Ford dealership where the truck was being worked straight to the Chevy dealership and bought a brand new Suburban. Oh yeah you heard me. A Suburban. Fully loaded with all the bells and whistles including 2 (because 1 is never enough!) TVs in the back, nav, heated steering wheel, I mean I didn't even know they made Chevy's this sick. Not to mention this thing seats like 7 people. Last time I checked there were 2 1/2 of us.

Anyways, today was the first day I drove to work in my new mom car. I am calling it my mom car even though the only child I have eats from a tin bowl on the floor and is covered in light blonde fur. It's actually my pimped out mom car. Black on black, tints, the whole shebang. I could totally pass for an official government employee in this baby. So far so good on making it to and from work in one piece driving this huge thing.

Now all I need are some kids to fill up this mom car!

Don't worry... we are in no rush :) Look at this beauty. And when you take out the back seat we've got a ton of room to fit all our stuff for the season. The only thing I still need to work on is parking. For now, I choose to walk really far from my car to wherever I may be going. I could use the extra exercise anyways.

I'm backkkk

Hello!
Well folks, I decided to take about a year off from blogging! Unintentionally of course... I guess life just caught up to me and blogging became extremely low on my priority list :) Work, wedding, dog, and the list goes on! Anyways, I have decided to give this thing one more shot. In about a month or so, I will be many, many miles away from my friends and family, so I am hoping this will be a way of providing "updates" of what's going on in our crazy lives!

We've had some huge changes since last Spring! Brandon was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the Texas Rangers in January (hence the miles of separation from our friends and families). This is such a GREAT opportunity for him. Because Texas is about a day's drive away from Virginia, we decided it was best if Tex and I hit the road with Brandon this year. It was such a hard decision to make - harder than I ever thought. I love my job, and I will be very sad to leave it in 4 short weeks! But it's more important for our little family to be together. While things are a bit uncertain in the Snyder household right now (oh yeah - we got married!!!) - we know that everything will be okay and we will get through it together.

Okay... more filling in to come. I leave you with a few snaps I took this past week while in Arizona with hubby for Spring Training. (okay, the last one was actually for our honeymoon - but it's one of my favorites)