I can't remember what the highest peak is called in the Andes, but this is it with the ski lodge in the foreground. 

Our last day in Santiago we decided to go on a hike to see more of the city. We took a gondala up the to the top of this high hill. I can't call it a mountain with the Andes right there by it, but most places on this earth it would be called a mountain. You can look out over all the Santiago from several places on the hill. There were gardens through out the hike down. It was beautiful. We saw so many interesting things. I am including only a few pictures.  

We hiked down through the gardens. It was very pretty. 

This is called a Monkey tree. It was very interesting. 

Everywhere we turned there was a beautiful garden. We had a wonderful day before flying home that night. This was a great way to end our stay in Chile 

Snow
We had snow this last week. Candice had a terrible time in it, but Mickayla and Will had a great time. They were both sad when the snow melted.

Reed and Blake took Mickayla sledding down the Gasser's street. Reed went face first and ended up kissing the pavement with his chin. Dad braved the ice covered roads to get Reed down to the Urgent care. Reed had 11 stitches on his handsome face.

 

We recieved this picture of the Pilka family.  

Blake won the award in football as the most improved. He has always hated that award, but I think he was really proud of this one. The couches mention several times over the night's activities about how Blake's ablities had made the win possible. He also won the award for the most valuable defensive player. He was also named on the Kingco honor team. He recieved honorable mention for that. Way to go Blake!  

We had a fun time carving pumpkins. The following are a few pictures of our activity.

 

 

 

 

Mickayla was intested in saftey.  

The homecoming game went really well. Can you tell that they won! It was a great game! Blake is the person in the is behind number 90.  

Blake ended up looking very handsome for his Homecoming date. He had an advanture getting a suit, but it all worked out. He was able to get dressed in the dressing room of the Suit store and leave right away to pick up Ari. He looked very handsome in his suit. I was glad everything worked out so well.  

All is well that ends well. Blake and his date Ari had a great night. 

My camera battery was out for William's first birthday. I got one picture of the little walker that Mickayla had picked out for William. It was a big hit. Mickayla knew just what William would like. He walks all over the house now! 

 

When Mickayla was leaving for school a squirrel jumped ran up to Mickayla and wanted to have a treat. We hadn't seen this friendly squirrel before. I ran back in and got a few nuts for the squirrel to have. Mickayla was excited to feed the squirrel by hand. She didn't mind having to hurry the rest of the way to school. 

William is helping Grandma clean the kitchen. He seems to have learned his cleaning skills from the 7 other children who have grown up in this house. 

Mickayla is Missing a tooth
Mickayla finally lost her first tooth. She was very excited. She thought it would never happen! 

William just noticed that Redmond made a very bad move on the field!  

Mickayla and William after the football game.  

It's Football time of the Year!
Football has started again. Blake is having a great year. The team isn't doing that great, but he is doing Awsome. He has recovered 3 fumbles. He has come close to having touch downs from his brilliant scooping up of the ball and running. In this pickture he is the 4th person from the bottom of the screen.