Asher's Birthday

For Asher's birthday we debated between a party and just a fun day with him. Since he doesn't go to school, we really didn't have any friends for him to invite, and we didn't want family feeling obligated to get him a present. We decided that Asher would have much more fun with his two favorite people, his Mom and Dad!

Asher loves pumpkin pie, so that was his birthday cake. He even blew out the candles himself with a little help from Dad.

He just can't get enough!

This was the first year Asher could open his own presents

He's not confused, he's just really liking the pictures.

He loves Little Einstein, so this Rocket transforms into 3 different vehicles.

We also got him a couple puzzles, a Little Einstein Look and Find Book and some clothes.

My parents stopped by and brought him a present for Asher and Nick . . . LEGOS!

The next day we took him to Discovery Gateway, and he had an absolute blast playing in the water center and the ball beehive. It was a great birthday and I love that kid so stinkin much!

Daley Halloween Party

Our Daley Halloween Party ended up being on Halloween this year. I love Halloween; the smell of Fall, the pumpkin flavored everything and the decorations. Each Daley Family has a holiday hosted at their house. Cam has the 4th of July, Aly has Easter, Kyle has Mother's Day and we have Halloween. This was our 4th or 5th Halloween Party, and they just keep getting better.

I had the perfect costume ordered by the beginning of September and then it never came in stock, so my Gypsy costume was a fallback but it was still really fun to put together.

Heather and Asher

Ryan and our Gumbi Casualty

Asher and Season

Nick made this costume out of scrap pieces. He's Ash from Army of Darkness. He always does an amazing job on his costumes!

Asher was Kratos from the God of War video game. Nick made the whole costume out of red fabric, plastic storage containers and plywood. He made the swords with a couple pieces of wood. My only contribution was the face paint. His costume is pretty accurate, wouldn't you say?

Asher and his first pinata

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Asher Denrick Daley

My friend Desiree is starting a photography business, and wanted to expand her portfolio so she came and took pictures of Asher. Here are some of my favorites . . .

If you would like Desiree's contact info, let me know!

Photography

I'm of the firm belief that a lot of photographers aren't really good at taking pictures they just have a great camera. I've been trying to take better pictures with my little $200 camera and make them look more artistic. Here are some pictures that I took this weekend . . .

That's all, have a great week!

Florida

We just got back yesterday from a 9 day trip to Florida. Our last vacation was almost 2 years ago, and we just stayed at home then. It was a ton of fun. We were able to stay free at 3 of the Marriott Timeshares in Florida! We stayed at Grande Vista in Orlando for 3 days, went down to Fort Lauderdale and stayed at BeachPlace Towers for 3 days and then back up to Orlando and Harbour Lake for 3 days. Since we stayed in 2 bedroom units, we were able to take my whole family.

Asher did surprisingly well on the plane. We also dosed him up with Benadryl, which helped.

Here is Nick and our nephew, Noah.

Asher playing around

The best service we EVER had at a restaurant, was at the Hooters in Fort Lauderdale. She was so sweet, catered to Asher the whole time, gave us drinks to take with us and when he wanted her to hold him, she danced with him!

Nick was totally awesome, and drove 2 hours from Fort Lauderdale to get to the Fruit and Spice Park. I'd read about it in The Fruit Hunters, and it was absolutely amazing! Totally worth the drive, and I got to taste and see some amazing things!


This is a Blackberry Jam Fruit

These are called praying hands and they grow off of one of the varieties of banana trees that they have.

This is a Cherry of the Rio Grande, which grows in Brazil.

I don't even know what this is, but it was a pod that was hanging from one of the awnings at the park.

This is Jaboticaba, the fruit only grows on the trunk, not the branches.

I ate one of these, it's a Surinam Cherry. It was very seedy and not very good.

This is a Fried Egg Plant.

A Breadfruit from the Archipelago.

Nick and Asher on the Fort Lauderdale Beach.

We didn't go to many parks, but we did end up going to Blizzard Beach. It was a whole days worth of fun!!

We went to a miniature Golf Course in Orlando called Pirate's Cove. Everything was pirate themed, and they even gave Asher a little pirate goody bag at the end.

They also gave him a little plastic putter to walk around with.

Fishbones, was one of the Florida Specific restaurants that we went to. There was a fish tank right next to our table, that's what Asher's looking at. We also tried Bahama Breeze, and Cici's Pizza and Hooters which we'd never eaten at before. Cici's sucked, Hooters was really yummy.

We had an amazing time, but it's nice to be back home. This is the last big vacation we'll be taking in awhile so I'm glad that it was a good one!