Birthday Fun

The weekend started out fabulous. Friday we went out to lunch for Asa's birthday. He wanted Thai, so we went to our new fave hangout. After that, we did yard work to get ready for Asa's birthday and I cleaned like crazy. Saturday was a busy day too. It started out with Asa's soccer game and Grama was able to go. More cleaning and moving table and such. Thank you to Mama and Papa for all their help. They are amazing. I couldn't' have done it with out them, and I also loved hanging' with my mom. It's rare that I have her to myself so that was a treat. Sunday was just getting food ready and having Asa's party. Asa had great fun with my friend Danita's boys. Asa calls them his family. So cute. Thank you to all that came and help celebrate. On to pictures.

At lunch on Friday. My boy is so big.

My favorite girls. So "pretty" as Vali would say

Asa giving love to Vali and her not yelling "NO!" to him. She actually looks like she is enjoying it, but moving away.
Asa's smoothie is almost as big as he is.
Funny picture of Papa. He said he didn't like the food, but he always picks off everyone elses plate after he has eaten his food. Mom and I laughed like crazy! Asa was being pretty stingy with his satay and wouldn't share with Papa. He did share with Vali, but it was a partially eaten one. He kept the big one for himself.

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My beautiful parents.

Me and my birthday boy. Poor daddy never gets to have fun, because he is either working or sleeping.

OK, another duplicate. Anyone know how to delete a picture once it's on the post?

Saturday, Asa's game. He scored 2 goals, but we still got creamed. There was a boy on the other team that was about 6 feet tall and he couldn't be stopped.

Asa

His favorite gifts of the day.
Never pointing at peoples head....most of the time. He forgets sometimes. He has worn this costume 4 days in a row now. At least it's giving the Blue Ranger costume a rest. Not so cute after 2 weeks of wear.
Josh was chasing Vali trying to get some candid shots. She was squealing as he was chasing her. I love how her little nose squished up and her dimples show.
The party givers. Exhausted after the busy weekend.


Asa trying to knock Vali down. She's pissed as you can tell.
More of Joshua chasing Vali. Finally caught. How adorable is THAT?

Josh likes taking self portraits. I guess because he never gets his picture taken with us.

A family portrait.
Asa looks happy doesn't he?
Duplicate.
AGHGHGHGH!
My cutie.

The melted cake. It was hot out, and I had put the cake outside. I had finally moved it inside the house, but it was too late. Asa put the candle in. Appetizing isn't it?
Asa thinking he is super cool in his Jeep, blasting bad guys.
He would ride for a while and then get out of the jeep and start blasting bad guys, then hurry back into the jeep, drive a few feet and do it again. Again, the costume cracks me up.
Valentina getting in on the action. Notice her pretty party dress with Asa's old Elmo shoes. When she comes over and needs an extra set of anything she gets to wear Asa's old hand me downs.
The shoes kind of take away from the pretty party dress. She originally had cute little anklets and white party shoes on. Not sure what happened, but as you can tell, the dress and shoes slowly came off and she was running shirtless with one of Asa's night time pulls ups, as show in previous pictures.

"no....I didn't get in the cake Mum. I'm not fibbing."
Me trying to take a picture of the cake, but noticed little fingers dipping in the cake. It's blurry because I'm tackling him while trying to still take a picture. Sissy made cut out cookies for the kids to decorate at the party. What a mess, but they liked it.
Asa concentrating on decorating his cookie. He isn't the best artist. Danita's boys cookies were so cute and Asa just had a huge blog of frosting in the middle, but you couldn't even see that due to the sprinkles that were piled on about 3 inches thick. Someone had mentioned that he was trying to give it a 3D effect.
Vali doing very well on her cookie.

My kids.
Uncle Norm on his Blackberry. He was sitting as far away from us as possible.
Food table. After the party it looked like a storm has passed through. My co worked said that after parties, she holds a big black garbage bag at one of the table and just uses her arm to slide it all in the bag. Serving bowls and all. She goes and buys dollar tree serving bowls and plates so she thinks of the as disposables. Kind of a cool idea! Maybe next time.
My pretty palms. They are hard to keep up here in the NW, as it rains all the time, so I'm proud of them.
Picture of cake before the melting.

Yesterday we had to exchange his blaster for another one after the first blaster petered out on us after the party. They didn't have any more of the same one, so he had to upgrade to a more expensive one. He used his own money from his birthday though. He has had his eye on it for quite awhile, but I tell him it's too expensive. As he was looking at it on the way home, he said "mum, I'm so happy. I've been wanting this blaster for years and I finally got it."

That was our weekend in pictures. Thank you all for your birthday wishes and gifts that were sent to Asa on his birthday. I feel so honored that he has so many people that care and love him. People that haven't even met us, but still took the time to email/send gifts. It really is touching, so thank you.

I had mentioned that Asa loves the "Upside Down Show". As it turns out, I was corrected by an anonymous comment, stating that is isn't British, but Australian. It turns out after a few more comments regarding the show, that the Upside Down shows executive producer had left the comment and wished Asa a happy birthday as well. You can go back and read the comments if you are interested in how it came about. Interesting, eh?

See you all on Friday!