Nathan and Kelsey Snyder
Nathan and Kelsey are both graduates from the School of Discipleship. Nathan’s primary role is working in Operations, he also assists in blacksmithing, vaulting, and promotion. Kelsey stays home, raising their five children: Judah, Hadassah, Jane, David, and Lydia.
Snippets From The Snyder’s
June 2025
About Us:
I (Kelsey) can’t believe that it is time to send out our summer newsletter again already! We are entering our busiest season of the year, but we are so excited for all of the things that it holds.
Judah is done with school for the year, and he couldn’t be happier! My plan is to still do school a few days a week during the summer just to keep things fresh in his mind and make it easier going into the next school year. Hadassah is very excited as she will be officially starting school this year as well. We are making a few curriculum changes and I am excited to see how it goes. Jane and David both love to sit at the table with us and be a part of everything that we are doing. I am thankful that most of the time they play really well together, so they keep each other occupied while I am working on the harder subjects like math and literature.
Lydia has just turned 1. Every year I continue to think at each of their birthdays how has another year come and gone? I am sure that each year this will continue to happen, and each year seems to go quicker than the previous one. The kids have a full summer ahead of them. Hadassah gets to go to buckaroo camp this year and Judah gets to go to a full week of camp. You can imagine how excited to they both are. We are looking into doing swim lessons at a local pool for all the kids to help them all become more proficient and safer in and around the water. They are looking forward to some special time with grandparents and our kids always look forward to hay season and being able to ride on the tractors with dad.
I have been busy getting school things finished up and working on getting next year’s curriculum ready as we will be starting this summer. To be honest I feel like I am busy all the time, but I am not sure how to put it into words other than school, cooking, and household chores. I have tried doing some homemade salves this year which has been fun to get into. We were donated a Haflinger this spring for the vaulting program. Rachel and I have been working with her and we are very excited with the progress she has made and we can’t wait to see how she does this summer. I ran the Memorial Day kids vaulting demonstration again this year and I was so proud of how well all the kids did.
Nathan: for some reason I feel like we just finished out the syrup season which went smoothly. We only got 73 gallons of syrup this year which is much better then we thought we were going to get when we were about half way through the season! The temps kept getting higher very quickly which causes the sap to get what we call a buddy flavor because the trees start producing buds and it changes the flavor of the sap. Everything ran smoothly this year though and we are grateful for how God blessed us this syrup season.
I do feel like we went straight from syrup season to mowing and hay which is actually not the case but sure has felt that way as there are still a lot of small projects we are trying to accomplish before we get into our full summer camp season. I was reminded today about one of those small project that I have been needing to do since last year. I needed to rebuild the hay forks for the front of the telehandler forklift that we use to pick up the bales while in the field. We said that would be a good winter project…well winter has come and gone and it still needs fixed, so hopefully by the next time we do hay that will be accomplished.
The Snyders
Nathan, Kelsey, Judah, Hadassah, Jane, David, and Lydia
Praises and Prayers
- Your prayer and monetary support
- Another homeschool year finished
- The first crop of hay has been brought in.
- Safety while working with equipment
- Wisdom in raising our kids
- Our bathroom renovation and other projects.
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