Durango

Seriously! How has it been so long since I updated?! Can I say I've been busy? no.. not really. So how bout a really long post to catch up on the Porter House.

Lee and I were invited to go to Durango with his boss. They have a home minutes away from Purgatory Ski Resort and it was AMAZING!

We rode up with Lee's Aunt & Uncle Liz & Steve. They are friends with the Lotts(lee's boss) and decided to come too. I seriously LOVE them and was so excited to spend some time with them. I love to talk to them and get insight on their amazingness of parenting. Did I mention they have 5 seriously professional children? Seriously, I want to be like their family... they are awesome! K- so enough Porter love...
We took a couple extra hours on the ride up for Steve to take pictures. It was alot of 80mph driving and then slamming of the brakes to pull over for just the right shot. :) But, we didn't die and check some of these out... I think it was worth it.



The Lotts home was just beautiful and planned/built for tons of fun people to come stay and have the best time ever. And we totally did. Here's Me & Lee getting dinner together.



Wednesday we drove up and Thursday & Friday was for skiing/boarding.

There was SO much snow! When I have gone snowboarding in the past it has been to Sunrise, Snowbowl & Sundance. Seriously... that was NOTHING compared to Colorado. Here's the size of the icicles on the houses
So the 1st night it was -30 and -4 that morning as we were getting ready to go out for the day. I have never been so cold. We had neck warmers that covered the rest of our faces that our beanie&goggles didn't cover. You had to be completely covered when you were going down the mountain or it was FREEZING! Here's Liz & Steve, you can't really tell it's them with all their business on :)
Here's Lee with his game face on. He had to show up his boss Kevin and prove he could carry his own weight.I think he performed well :)
So here's just a few more random pictures of the trip courtesy of Steve :)

The second day of skiing it snowed tons.. By the end of the day you couldn't even see up the mountain. But we still finished with a smile :)Here we are hanging out after a long two days of skiing.
Lee might have fallen alseep point two seconds after dinner & I'm pretty sure he was alseep here too. He plays hard ;) Thanks so much to the Lotts for inviting us and being such wonderful hosts. Thanks for sharing your gorgeous home with us.

Our Life: 2007

Here's some pictures and storyboards I was printing at costco and decided I ought to share.

Mana-mana

It all started with an innocent banana. I just wanted to throw out an example of how my day goes. My case in point isn't exactly what always happens, but something just as ridiculous.

I give Delia a banana.
Delia's banana breaks in half as she is holding it and it drops on the floor.
Mom picks it up. Gives it a good brush off and gives it back to her child.
Delia then continues enjoying her late afternoon snack as she waits for Dad to get home with the pizza.
Banana munching continues.
Eden and Delia yell to Mom for a drink.
I come in and pour the water.
I hand the cup to Delia.
Delia instantly drops her banana on the floor to get her drink.
Delia looks down at her banana on the floor. Exclaims "Uh-oh" and bends down to pick up the banana.
Delia spills her water all over the floor.
Mom gets a paper towel for the girls to clean up their mess.
The girls start to clean up the water.
Mom comes back into the kitchen a few minutes later to check the clean up progress.
There is more water on the floor and both girls are dancing in their puddles of water.
Oh the joys of silly little girls.

Eden Talks

Hi, my name is Eden and I'm 4. I like taking pictures (especially with my mom's camera) and I got my very own camera for my birthday from my Grandpa. Here's a picture I took of him
Grandpa thank you so much and I will give you a special kiss for giving me my camera.
Annie thank you for taking pictures of Yellow. I love her :)
And here's a picture my Daddy took of his three girls. We love each other!
My mom loves her girls to be photographers too. She says it makes her happy!

Cuppy-Cakes

A well known fact about birthdays is that you advance a year of age. Eden was going to turn 4 years old. The only thing stopping her was.... she needed to blow out the candles. You may not know that you do not become a year older UNLESS you blow out birthday candles. Here's Eden on New Years Day.

The Porter's like to go repelling to start out the New Year. We brought cupcakes to Bulldog Canyon to celebrate the day. Mind you we were a little premature on the celebration as her birthday wasn't until the 3rd, but we kinda heart cupcakes :)

And don't worry, she got to blow out the candles like 3 times. So does that mean she really turned 12?

Christmas with the Porters

My new 2008 self is going to do alot more in- depth blogging. You will get to know the real Amanda Porter. What I am really about, what I really like & other fun shtuff like that.


Christmas Morning:
The Jones' & Fletchers woke early & made the trek to our house to wake my babes with Christmas Spirit. All were excited for the day.

Unfortunately Santa was unable to bring Eden a real kitten (named Snowball who has white hair, green eyes, a pink nose and a pink bow) but he was good enough to leave a note explaining that the kitten was afraid to ride on the sleigh. Oh well Eden, maybe next year when Mom is nicer :)

From the Porters