Shameless self promotion?

Hey guys, welcome to the new Snow Family Blog. It still has a few bugs to work out but it is really cool I think. We have several new additions that I will go over for you.

First of all, we have made our first official post to the Snow Family Travel Blog. It talks briefly about Julie's trip to Mazatlan when she was 19. Definitly check that out! Next new item are the various subscription options. First for the extra techy people, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is the little orange button in the sidebar. If you follow that link it will give you several options for subscriptions in several different news readers and aggregators. Then you will get all the updates either Julie or myself will make right into your news reader. The idea here is to stop wasting time going to 10 different blogs when you can get all your blogs in one place. I use NewsGator for mine. I is web based so I can still access my feeds even when I'm not at my laptop.

Also I offer an email based subscription service for those who do not want to be bothered by RSS and have a hard time remembering to come to read the blog. Just put your email here and follow the instructions to get all my posts and updates delivered right to your email inbox.

Finally I have provided a link to my paypal account. So if you just feel like you would like to support the snow family staving student fund or even owe me money please feel free to do so. You can pay with a credit card or bank transfer. It is important to know what you do not have to have a paypal account to pay with a credit card.

I have set up the feed options for this blog and also for our travel blog so please take advantage of the options that I have provided for you and be sure to have fun.

It's Raining Babies

It is really interesting when you get the point in your life where everybody is at the same stage. Where everybody is graduationg from high school, or everybody is doing this or that. Two friends of ours just announced that they are having babies. Jeff & Diana Roberts and Ben & Kira Fowler are both having babies later this year. There are a couple people in our ward that are also having babies. So that is really exciting. I just don't look forward to the day when all my friends are 40 years old or when we all retire. It will especially suck when all my friends are dying and I'm like just waiting for my turn. That is just really weird.

Julie's X-96 Mexico Vacation

My friend (Rachel Ostler) and I went with the X96 radio show to Mazatlan, Mexico in Feburary 2001.
We had a blast hanging on the beach and going dancing at night.

In the second picture, it's kind of hard to see, but I have an iguana on my shoulder and Rachel has a
lizard on her hand. The peddlers were trying to sell them to us.

One night we were walking down the street with a couple of friends we had met there and a guy came up
to one of us and started talking. Meanwhile, there was another guy trying to take my passport and money
out of the pouch I had slung around me. I caught him,slapped his hand away, and asked him what he thought
he was doing! They left and everything was fine,but looking back on it,it was probably pretty risky of
me to do anything besides hand over the pouch...I mean, we were in Mexico and you just never know who can be potentially dangerous.

That same night we were dancing and I had on some black capris and the zipper in the back split!
Luckily, some girl in the restroom had a spare safety pin.

Rachel and I were also hit on by these two gross military (aka buzzed hair and mustaches) twins...who
happen to be, like, 35 years old. Gross!!

I remember hanging out by the hot tub and someone was holding my passport for me in his pocket and he
jumped in the water! I was like "Dude, my passport, you idiot!" I take my passport pretty seriously and
it will forever have watermarks thanks to him. Oh, well. Memories.

So that just about sums it up Mexico!

Snow Family Travel Log!!!!

Julie and I will now begin to build the Snow Family Travel Log. We will start making posts very soon. I guess I have a lot of scanning to do before we can do too much posting. We will begin with a couple of the trips we took before we we married and then all the trips that we have been on since then. We hope you enjoy this portion of the site. We know what we will!!

Hat Shot

We have just posted some new pictures on our flickr site. Just follow the link on the left sidebar and enjoy. We have a new set called February 2006 and a couple pictures of Julie & Me on Valentines' Day.

Nate at Two Months

Here are Nate's new measurements, 11 lbs 1 oz, 23.5 inches long. He is in the 50% in both height and weight. He had three shots today and was not happy about that but he is doing fine tonight.

Zzzzzzzz

Nate Slept through the night last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What in the freaking heck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are not expecting it to happen again tonight but maybe it will start to happen more often!!!???? We still can't believe it.

Sorry that I haven't posted lately, I have been so busy. Later!!!!

2 for 1 Quiznos

I think Quizons makes really good subs. Here is a 2 for 1 coupon that will be good for a few days.

Toasty

Quiz Scores

Well everybody, the quiz results are in and as expected the Lovely Julie Anna has come out on top with a high score of 100!!! I hope you guys thought that this was fun. I had a fun time looking at your answers. If you want to look at the answers everyone else gave you can follow the links below.

Julie
Shannon
Becca
Breanna
Michelle (Julie's Mom)
Dianne (Julie's Sister)
Karen (Julie's Sister)
Brian (Julie's Brother)
Brittany

Nate's Blessing

Yesterday was Nathan's baby blessing and we had so many people there, it filled up the whole left side of the chapel! It was amazing to see how many people took time out of their Sunday to come show support for us. We really love you all!

Here is what Nate was blessed with:

• A deep love of learning;
• That he will treat others like the children of God that they are;
• That he will acquire a testimony of the Savior, the Book of Mormon, and the Prophet Joseph Smith;
• That he will choose baptism, a mission, and a wonderful wife;
• and that he will feel all the love that his family has for him.

What wonderful blessings!

After church we had a family luncheon at Julie's parents' house. There was great conversation, excellent food, and a killer Pick-Up-Stick competition in which Elizabeth was the ultimate champion. Congratulations to her!

We have uploaded some pictures that were taken at the luncheon. You can navigate to them by following the Snow Family Photos Link in the sidebar or follow the link below to see a slideshow.

Julie took some really good pictures of the some of our nieces & nephews holding Nate. You have to check these out!!!