Winters' World

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Wahooz birthday party

We just love birthday parties! This was our first one of the year for Dominik Orwid at Wahooz. It's a great place for kids with go karts, mini golf, water park, and full arcade with tokens and tickets. Sloane is just a bit to small for most of that stuff, but she had such a great time running around the arcade and pushing the buttons and watching the lights without caring about tickets and tokens! Phil says it will probably the be the cheapest day we ever have there until she figures out what all that stuff is :)

The Spiderman car was a big hit

Not so much with the weird purple dinosaur

Always love big machinery!

Still too little for Whack-a-mole but she didn't know that

Pizza and cake, too!

First horsey ride video!

The Fair!!

Oh boy - it's fair time again! Last year, Sloane was a bit too little to enjoy the fair. While she is still pretty small, she had a better idea this year of what was going on around her. This year, she was able to sample some of the food, run around the petting zoo, ride some of the rides and had her VERY FIRST PONY RIDE! (very proud mama, here.) Porter just hung out in his bucket, as usual but I saw him crack a smile every now and again :)

Porter loving the fair :)

All aboard the choo-choo train!

Merry - go - round

Riding with Dad on my first helicopter ride!

My very first Horsey ride! His name was Thunder!

Turns out that Sloane just loves goats

And cows

And goats

And corn on the cob and corndogs!

Bye Bye, Fair! See you next year!

McCall vacation!

A new baby makes summer vacations difficult so we decided to stick closer to home this year. We spent a full week in McCall at our cabin with Grandma and Grandpa Suitter. They brought over the gator and 4 wheelers and we spent the whole week golfing, 4 wheeling, eating and hanging out outside because the weather was gorgeous! We also went to the big airshow that was in town to see the airplanes and the annual classic wooden boat show at Shore Lodge Marina.

The boat show

Porter just hung out most of the time and looked around.

4 wheeling with Phil and JJ with McCall in the background

Golf at McCall municipal with Grandma Suitter and Auntie Julie

Mom and Aunt Julie went on a 4 wheeling excursion, too

Of course, we ate good

Granite Lake on Brundage mountain

Gator ride!!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Now more Porter...

Porter is now 1 month old and getting used to life on the outside. He's had his first bath (hated it, now loves it) worn all of his new newborn clothes, and loves the swing. He's even had his first real photo shoot at 8 days old (those pics to follow soon!)

First tub time

A "teaser" of the professional newborn shoot - tough being a model..

All cozied up in the swing, I love his little legs curled up.

Just chillin out on the couch, looking very cool!

On the Churchman beach in McCall, waves underneath...

And one of my personal favorite shots, Daddy Duty with Porter, Sloane, Sloane's baby, and there's probably a cat somewhere in there too!

More kiddo pics

With the arrival of new baby brother Porter, we expected some jealousy issues from Sloane that are normal. However, she has taken it much better than we expected. Although she isn't exactly fawning over him 24/7, she does occasionally express interest and give a kiss or 2 when she feels like it. So long as somebody is showing her attention, she's happy. She even now happily welcomes the babysitters because she knows she has someone to play with. Mom now jokingly (and lovingly) refers to Sloane as "chopped liver." She loves it.

Sloane at Logans Run for Hope, Veterans Memorial Park

Daddy's new ipad! She figured out how to unlock it in about 3 seconds...

Happy 4th of July!

Loves the elevator...

Baby Einstein in the theater room was discovered..

And thank Goodness for Daddy and the pool!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Porter Robert Winters

He's finally here! Porter Robert Winters was born Sunday, June 27th at 3:59 a.m. under a full moon! He was 6 lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long. Labor and recovery went fantastic and everyone is home, healthy and recovering well. Grandma and Grandpa Suitter were there and so was Grandma Dyer. Porter came just in time for Grandma Dyer to hold him and catch her 5:45 a.m. flight back to Atlanta! Grandma and Grandpa Suitter stayed in town to help out for a couple of weeks and Phil has taken lots of time off work to be a full time Daddy! Life is good at the Winters'!

Waiting...