Welcome!
Welcome to Josh and Emily’s portion of steelefamilyonline.net! You can follow the links above to navigate the site and to the right to explore some of our favorite places on the web. A guess a little bit about us is in order:
Josh is a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL, or better yet, just APL), in the Space Department. He primarily works on science planning software for the MESSENGER mission that APL runs. He has also worked on APL’s New Horizons mission for a short time, in addition to a few other things in almost 6 years at the lab. He spends most of his days coding in Java on his MacBook Pro, and is also in charge of configuration management for a few libraries and project in his group.
Josh also plays PC computer games, such as Company of Heroes, TF2, Age of Empires 3, and others. He is part of a group of people who regularly play online twice a week. He also has some console (PS2, Wii) games, and recently got a few new games for the Wii. Recently, he got a XBox, and is enjoying Batman: Arkham Asylum and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. He also plays a weekly D&D game online via Fantasy Grounds.
Josh is also a Hokie (BS Physics ‘97, MS Comp Sci ‘02) and a Tarheel (MS Physics ‘99) and is a great fan of VT Football and UNC basketball.
More on Josh’s work can be found on the Josh’s Work page!
Finally, Josh is married to Emily (duh) and has 2 sons, Noah and Daniel
Emily is a stay at home mom (watching Noah and Daniel), but is very active in several online communities and message boards relating to parenting, Signing Time, and various other areas. If Emily is not reading, she is either asleep. Or driving.
Emily has recently started her own business, Emily Steele Photography, where she takes pictures of families and kids. She had a great year last year and is looking forward to the new year!
Emily is also an avid scrapbooker and also does cross stich and various other craft related activities.
Emily also likes to play games on her PC, some online, some not, but mostly ones different from Josh. She does however play Age of Empires (any version) with Josh from time to time.
Emily is married to Josh (duh) and has 2 sons, Noah and Daniel (again, duh).
Noah is our first son, born in 2004. Among other feats, he knows sign language and probably communicates at a level several years ahead of his age.
He start Kindergarten this year, and is doing fantabulous.
He loves to read, play games on the Wii, and is a great big brother to Daniel.
Daniel is our 2nd son, who came to us in September 2007. He signs as well, even more so than his brother did at this age.
He goes to preschool at a local cooperative school, where he loves to paint, play with toys, and listen to stories. (Mom and Dad both help with the school).
He is a non-stop eating machine and has probably the cutest giggle in the world.
