The StL Steeles

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Fourth with friends

The kids played...

...and then the guys set off these.

Who says you can't have fun in the city?!?

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

7 wonderful years

We celebrated our 7th anniversary this summer by going out to dinner and seeing Wicked at The Fox Theater.

Drop and give me twenty

Discipline starts early around our house.

And a few minutes later...

I realize why we don't have as many pictures of Walker by himself as we have of each of the girls... every time I get the camera out, a crowd assembles and everyone (especially Mim!) wants their picture taken. And unrelated, I love Walker's 'Scooby Doo "Huh?" look' in this picture.

Miriam's store

We so enjoy Miriam's creativity and imagination. She created her "store" all on her own then asked me to take her picture by it.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Marcus, Shanna & Harper's visit

Uncle Marky, Aunt Shanna and Harper visited a few weeks ago, but I think most of the good pictures were taken on their camera. Here are a couple fun videos to share though. We visited the fountains in the Children's Garden of the Missouri Botanical Gardens:

And Uncle Marky had a lot of fun with the girls in the backyard:

Now THAT is a look of pure joy!

Zoo with friends

A visit to the StL Zoo with some good friends from our community group...

As you can tell, the train ride was the highlight of the day!

More fun on the farm

Aunt Ali's softball game

Kittens, calves, killer waterslide

A visit to Grandma and Grandpa Hess' house at the beginning of June:

Memorial Day Weekend

Not documented with pictures: nail in Miriam's foot :)

Monday, June 21, 2010

Make Tracks

A few weeks ago, our whole family ran a 5K in Forest Park to benefit the St. Louis Zoo. Cora thought we might be most competitive like this.

But Mommy and Daddy decided it would probably work best like this.

Daddy ran really fast (and even left Mommy behind at the end of the race, per Mommy's request) and was the first stroller across the finish line... and the only stroller that we saw with more than one child that was actually competing in the "run" part of the race as opposed to the "walk."

Cora did finally get her own chance to run; Miriam opted not to compete this time. Bear with the shakiness at the beginning of the video; it gets better. Cora is STILL talking about running over the "big bump" at the end and how she wants to do it again sometime soon.