We went down to Wade's parents to see Janice play in the orchestra in Cinderella and we got in some sledding while we were there. Nikki could hardly believe she was standing next to a real Cinderella!!
Max looks pretty cool in his snow gear. Me, not so much.

So these are about 4 months old. Yes I'm an aweful blogger. Oh well. This was up in Macall, Idaho at the ski hill. we went up for the weekend. It was Max's third year skiing and now I think he's finally got it well enough to go with no help. He can turn and stop really well now. This was Nikki's first year and she's just about as good as Max!! she can turn really well but stopping is another story. She took out a few people before the day was over. I couldn't believe how fast she picked it up, though! Whitney just wanted to eat the snow.

Sadly, we lost a member of our family last week. Root Beer became the victim of a hit and run. Luckily it was Wade and not the kids who found her. Max was pretty sad and cried a little bit. Nikki tried really hard to be sad for about 2 seconds. Then all she cared about was finding out how flat she'd been squished. "Is she flat like a pancake?" Now she likes to tell everyone, "Our cat got squished by a car and we're going to put her in a box and bury her and she's gonna turn into a skeleton." Is my daughter unusually morbid? Poor Root Beer. We'll miss you, well, some of us will (Wade not as much).

Max and Nikki helped act out the Nativity story on Christmas Eve. Whitney was supposed to be shepherd, but didn't want to wear the robe.

Merry Christmas!! We had one, I hope you all did too. The kids got to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas, a few times. Max saw santa at the mall, and at church and we stopped and talked to him while he was driving his Jeep down the street. Max wasn't sure how that worked. We spent our first Christmas in our house.

This picture is from this summer, but Max was feeling a little left out of the blog so I has to put a "cool" one of him on. We'll have some good pictures of him after this weekend when he and Wade going skiing.

Nikki is going to try and be extra good for Santa. Can't you tell?

It's Christmas time, which translates into ski-season in the Wade Pilling household. Tree compliments of Kent Pilling and his mountain adventures. Thanks.

We celebrated Whitney's first birthday in November. I can't believe it's already been a year since she was born. It feels like we just had her.
Whitney was more interested in the wraping paper than in the her new toys.

This is the newest member of our family, Root Beer. We've had her for a couple of months and have already managed to lose her. We got her back a couple of days ago. Apperently she needed a break from the tortures of living in a house with Nikki

We went to a pumpkin patch and got a picture of all the little piggies!
Some more of the little piggies.
One of Whitney's favorite places to hang out is in the bottom drawer in the kitchen.

We went camping with some friends up in Stanley, Idaho for the Labor Day weekend. It got down to 34 degrees at night, but we kept warm in our tent.















Whitney was happy, as always.











This was the first day , about an hour after we got to the campsite, and Nik only got dirtier from then on.

Nikki LOVES camping. Can you tell?

















We took a 6 mile hike in the Sawtooth mountains. Max was so proud of himself for walking the entire way by himself. Nikki waslked almost the whole way and finished up the hike asleep slung over Wade's shoulders.

Wade was tired of stinking it up,
so he braved the near-freezing
water for a bath. Thank You Wade!



















Whitney loved her hiking backpack.

This was Max's first day of school. He was so excited to ride the bus. I can't believe that he's already in kindergarten! Here Max is showing off his new threads, and his super cool back-pack.