the Steele's Story: March 2011

December 2010- Christmas

We stayed home this Christmas and just had a slow relaxing weekend. I did get a new camera from Wade 'yeah!' but I was taking pictures on my old camera until I opened it. So the Christmas eve PJ shots are trapped in the old camera until I take it in to get them put on a CD to transfer onto the computer! There are also the cutest manger scene pictures from the play the kids put on but until then here are the few that I did get.

Ruby

Abigail dressed up for Christmas

These are from a few weeks before Christmas. Putting together a Christmas package for my parents who are on a mission in Brasil.

December- 2010 - Gingerbread house competition

In my defense it was still standing when I got up to take care of Ruby but destroyed when I got back!

Savannah's

Wade's

Brady's (While building this every time a wall would fall he had a disaster story as the reason. ie: a tornado, earth quake etc, etc. very entertaining)

Max's

November 2010- Thanksgiving in Greer, Arizona with the Steele's

Thanksgiving in Greer! We weren't going to go but Wade thought since Ruby was just a few weeks old I could use the family interaction/distraction and he was right. It was very worth it even staying up at the Hoyt cabin freezing wasn't too bad.

This is a picture of the whole Steele clan taken by Kim but for some reason it won't save to my computer non-blurry (I've left it to figure that out and replace it later).

Savannah (taken by Kim-I don't know why this one works!!UGH!!) Love the picture though!

I was getting frustrated that I wasn't taking pictures so I sent my kids around with my camara and these are the hightlights of those.

Aftin

Felix

Abbie & Zoey

Savannah, Romney & Tatum

Abbie & Ruby

Findlay

Max & Wilson

Roms & Savannah

Scout, Mason & Tatum

Thanksgiving left overs

Tatum, Tony, Brooke, ?, Mike

Savannah, Romney, & Tatum

October 2010- HALLOWEEN

Savannah the Baby

Max -Football Player (of course that is all he thought about in October!)

Brady the Policeman (notice all the patches that I stayed up sewing on the night before:)) Not 'cub scout' approved patches but he's not a cub scout yet.

Abbie the Lion ("yion")

Ruby the Jack-o-lantern (2 days old) Costume thanks to Jaime:)!

October 2010- and now we have FIVE!!

Ruby LaPreal Steele

September- 2010- FOOTBALL

We were immersed in Football all month. With practices every night of the week for 2-3 hours plus games every Saturday including a trip up to McCall it was pretty much our life for 9 weeks! Good thing Max absolutely loved it!! One highlight was playing on the 'blue turf' at Boise State. They were the Warriors and they only lost 1 game all season. Max is #44.

August 2010- Stanley, Idaho

We took a day trip up to Stanley. Way too long a drive for a day trip we should have stayed the weekend. Maybe next time. We were trying to fish but caught nothing. We did see a beaver the size of Abbie which we were able to watch up close for quite awhile. No pictures of it though because I was too scared it would come after one of my kiddo's!

August 2010- First day of School

Savannah -7th Grade @ Lake Hazel Middle School

Max- 4th Grade- Siena K-8
(Mrs. Ashby)

Abbie - Home with mom:)
Brady- 1st Grade- Siena K-8
(Ms. Hauser)

August 2010- Abigail's 2nd Birthday (while we were at Yellowstone)

Abbie turned two while we were at the Andrew's cabin. We celebrated with an ice cream cone at DQ while we were at west Yellowstone. She was in heaven with her favorite boys (Max, Brady, Kyle, Jake, & Kade paying her complete attention for a little while).