The Other Snow Family Pictures

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Snow Family Pictures

Pictures for Melissa to See During Work

My sister Melissa told me to make a new post so she would have something to read/look at during her shift at the hospital. She's a totally awesome registered nurse in San Jose, and sometimes things are slow during the night shift. So, Melissa, here are some pictures to make you less bored.

Here is Josh playing with the last bit of the jello cake Mom made a few weeks ago. Stephanie put him on the counter and let him go wild. He didn't seem to like the taste very much, he sure enjoyed making an enormous mess for me to clean up.

Matt's old roommate James got married last Saturday. We were able to attend the sealing at the Mesa Temple that morning. James is still as goofy as ever, and his wife Patrice is super cute and nice. Here are the pics from their reception...

I like these pictures because you can see how Josh's hair has decided to stick straight up in the front like Jack-Jack on The Incredibles. That's our newest nickname for him, in fact.

"Yum! Eating Mom's face is the best!"

It is ridiculous how much Josh loves his Aunt Stephy. She wrestles with him and tickle-tortures him and throws him around every chance she gets! Just like she did with our little brother when she was four. She is so cute with little boys.

Steph is staying with us for a while this summer. She graduated from cosmetology school in March and is here to look for work and see if she likes the area. We like to call her our "Mexinanny" because she is always with the baby and she is way too dark to look like my sister.

"Put me down!!! I need to explore and find myself some hott lady friends!" (which he did)

This is Matt's sister -- Josh's other Aunt Stephanie. Hopefully he won't be confused about that for too long.

Here is Matt with his old girlfrie...I mean roommate, James.
And below is James with his woman. Just lovely!

So Mel, that's what you've missed. I'd say it's about time to plan your next trip out here, right?

Madsens in the Motherland! (Part 2)

After a fun weekend here in Tempe, a few members of our family had to head back home to rejoin the working world. Namely my dad, Melissa and Mike. It was sad to see them leave, but we were lucky to have my mom, Steven and Julia for a whole week longer.

Matt took our three visitors to the last Suns home game of the season. It was fan appreciation night, so everyone came home a winner. My family won two T-shirts, an autographed Matt Barnes jersey, and two tickets to a WNBA game. This made me even more jealous that I missed the game -- I had a stake girls camp meeting that night.

Here is Josh just chillin' on a stack of books at Costco. Watching people shop. That's how he rolls.

I couldn't let my family leave without showing them our amazing zoo. Josh and I have a membership this year and he loves it more every time we go.

Josh loves his Uncle Steven so much. They were buddies all day. Steven even let Josh wear his crazy expensive sunglasses.

Julia got to ride a camel! Can you believe she actually asked me if she could take Josh on her lap??!

Here is Josh snuggling with Grandma, pretending to be shy for the camera. What a pretty Grandma he has.

My mom rented this little buggy for an hour thinking it would give us a break from walking. Not so. There are lots of hills at this zoo and the pedaling was killer! Still, it was a lot of fun for the kids.

Here is my little brother...I mean sister... Julia "petting" an enormous tortoise. (Not to worry -- she doesn't always dress like a boy.)

My family is pretty good at making funny faces. It just comes naturally.

How did these two get to be such big boys?!

Tired from a long day of walking and ready for a nap. All of us!

The next day we went in to Phoenix to the federal courthouse where Matt's dad Murray works as a judge. He was so nice to give us the grand tour. We saw part of a naturalization ceremony, walked through the cell block where all the inmates were kept, and saw Murray's fancy chambers. I asked the marshall to lock Steven up so we could see how they treat the prisoners. It was really tempting to just leave him like that.

We also got to sit in and watch a short proceeding in Murray's courtroom. This is how Josh entertained himself while court was in session. "Seafood! Get it? See food!"

Steven and Julia loved the rock gym. They were dang good at climbing too.

And a couple of days later, they were gone. Family, thank you so much for spending your spring break with us! Ten days of awesomeness were exactly what I needed. Love you to pieces!

Madsens in the Motherland! (Part 1)

April has been an absolutely glorious month! My younger siblings had a long spring break, so the whole family decided to come down to Arizona for a visit. For ten wonderful days we had different parts of my family in and out of our house. (Sorry, some pictures are out of order, but you'll figure it out.)

Josh was a little overwhelmed by all the new people and excitement around here, but he's never gotten more attention in his life!

My big sister Melissa and her husband Mike came down from San Jose. She's a natural with babies.

Julia, Melissa and I got matching $6 baseball shirts to wear to the Diamondbacks game on Saturday. Growing up in Redding, we lived hours away from any professional sports teams, so it was fun to take my family into the "big city" for a game.

Matt's mom bought Josh this adorable outfit for Easter Sunday. He looks like such a little man!

Next time Josh wears this I'm going to make Matt dress the same as him so they can be twins. No Matt, it's not sissy. It's cute. Get over it.

We took everyone to the batting cages by our house the first day they were here. My little brother and sister loved it! They could walk right out our back gate and entertain themselves all week. This is my dad showing off his skills in his sweet sandals.

We have TONS of grapefruits and lemons in our backyard, literally falling off the trees faster than we can use them. Fortunately, my family loves fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice. I taught Julia how to make it and she was our little juice girl every morning.

Here we are at the baseball game, way up in the nosebleed section so we could all sit together.

Josh makes this funny face a lot in pictures -- he can't handle the flash, but he loves the camera anyway.

This is one of the few pictures we have of our whole three-person family that's not taken from an arms-length away. Thanks Steven for being our cameraman.

Doesn't she look like a mommy already?? Come on Melissa, Josh needs a cousin!

After a delicious Easter dinner, we got the whole family involved in a game of Knock-out at Matt's parents' house. (Yes, that silly lady in the blue is my beautiful mother.)

The best part about this game was that as the line got moving fast, we just passed the baby from person to person until someone got out. Like hot potato.

Melissa and her Mikey-poo playing "fat dog" on the grass after pie and lemon bars.

One day we took a walk over to the pond behind our house. Julia and Steven started feeding Cheeze-Its to some of the ducks, and all of the sudden a zillion birds came over to us and started begging! Josh absolutely loved it.

Yes, his shirt says "I'm a really big deal." Thanks Grandma.

Steven is secretly a huge Mama's boy. I'm sure of it.

Psycho baby!!! Julia is really good at making Josh laugh -- even over the webcam.

One of the great things about having an eleven-year-old sister is that I had an excuse to go see the Hannah Montana movie. It was cute. When we came home, Julia went online and learned the whole "Hoedown Throwdown" dance. I'm not gonna lie...I tried a few moves myself.

More pictures to come!