It is well past time to get a more recent family picture up. We hired our friend Brady Withers to do a family photo shoot and he did a great job! Here's the whole fam together:

This is the book that I made after our wedding. I decided to start scanning books in and printing them so they're lighter and so people will actually be able to look at them. This is the first one I did, for Matt's birthday. I think it turned out pretty well. :)
~Steph

Wedding & Honeymoon by Stephanie Madden | BOOK INFO

Better weather

On the way to the islands it was windy and choppy. Mark got a bit seasick, and Steph did too (though she had some other illness the whole time that didn't help). It was smooth sailing on the way back though.

 

 

 

Back on the ship, headed home

 

 

 

Sailing Away

 

 

 

Orient Beach on St Martin (French side)

 

 

 

St Maarten was incredible

We had a blast. The weather was great, the island was nicer than the others, and we packed in a full day of ATVs, beaches and swimming, a catamaran sail-away, sand volleyball and snorkeling.

 

 

 

Oddly, St Thomas looked better at night

 

 

 

End the day shopping in St Thomas

 

 

 

Coral Reef Snuba Diving

Interesting dive...we'll get the underwater pics up here once we develop them. It was an interesting experience, a bit claustrophobic, but fun to be under water for 45 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Approaching St Thomas

 

 

 

On the Carnival Glory

 

 

 

Bahamas

The miracle of the trip: Matt forgot the camera in the taxi!!! As you can see, we have all the photos because we incredibly found our cabbie who had held on to the camera. Hooray, and a huge sigh of relief).

 

 

 

 

Off to the cruise ship