pillings incognito

it's all over. kind of sad. max was a ninja and i could hardly get any pictures of him all night, i guess cus' he was a ninja. nik was tinkerbell and whitney was peter pan. devan an octopus.















"we can fly" jumps

you can't judge a book...

it's thursday night and i'm getting revved up to complete (after starting) a couple of costumes. max is a little worried he might have to go as a second grade boy.
on his way down the hall towards his bed -
-mom, why didn't you just get one of the ninja costumes from the goodwill? (those words said with real tears and a bit of panic)
-i could tell they were all really flimsy. they would just fall apart.
-mom! you can't just say you could tell they were flimsy. that's like looking at a person and saying he's mean just by looking at him!
and that's max. always the last to judge a person by his cover.

obama-robber

the other morning max came downstairs with some very concerning news.

m - mom, someone stole a dollar from my bank. i counted my money last night and i'm missing a dollar.

uh, i couldn't tell him that actually the toothfairy had to borrow a dollar and would pay him back that night. can you imagine the line of questions that would have unleashed. i wasn't prepared to encounter that adolescent milestone. he's only 7, for heaven's sake, and i need as many more years as i can get of good "santa's watching you" threats.

anyway, nikki, standing there listening, clutching a new dollar bill, pushing her tongue through a new hole in her teeth, looked worried. she pulled me down to her level and quietly, after looking over both shoulders, said,

"mom. i think i know who took max's money."

crap! she was awake?

"i think obama took his money. he must have snuck in here last night."

poor thing. she thinks our could-be president wants to take all our money.

oh ... wait ...

Max wakeboarding

one year already

one year ago she was here.

now look at her!! a whole year old.


we love this little thing so much.

happy birthday!

the best and worst of summer 08'

so, where have we been? oh you know. here and there.

ya, it's been three months. so what?

just be prepared for lots of pics.

this is how it all went down.

this guy completed a tri-athelon...

on an injured knee.

what a stud.

this one started walking.
check her out rockin' the walk.
this one stole my heart

(and sometimes stomped on it).

some of us lost teeth.

we applied lots of sunscreen...
but not caution



we took a ten day camping trip in montana
(montana will get it's own post...eventually)

these two were best friends,

but not all the time.
my sisters and mom and i celebrated my mom's 65th birthday in vegas.
( i swear we didn't get her drunk)
devan tagged along

some of the time we wore clothes, but most of the time we didn't (the kids).
ariel and kelly came for a visit.
someone got a new do
and someone else got stitches

my best friend since kindergarten, danielle, and her mom came to check out idaho,

and then they moved here!

yipee!!!

then we took a trip to louisville with my parents for wade's work.
and got caught in a wind storm

and watched guys blow glass. can you tell how enthralled i am?
and made funny faces to describe the boston ivy growing up the walls
and we had to stop by our old place in "da ville"

and check the dumpster and say hi to the gang at the goodwill

just for old time's sake.

and stalk the houses that made us drool when we were in school.

still made us drool.

and then get cozy with some creepy statue on market st.
and realize, again, how cute my dad is.
see?
and then got seperated into thousands of pieces.

isn't kentucky fun?

then max wowed us with his mad wakeboarding skills.

those being standing erect and hanging on.

go max!

and then there was lots of this.
lots and lots of this.
and lots of this too.
covered in squishy kisses.


throw in a trip to logan (of which i can't find any pics), a couple more camping adventures, and a hundred or so outings to the pool/waterpark/landpark and there you have the pilling summer of 08'.

all wrapped up in one tidy post.

see you next summer.

just kidding.

tomorrow's headline : "devan turns one!"