The Cutler Family

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It seems like we had a bunch of Halloween activities this year. First up was the Halloween party at Novozymes (where I work). There was pizza for everyone and a haunted house. One of my co-workers also brought bunnies and a rooster from her farm for the kids to pet which Asher loved. Although, I frequently had to remind him to pet them gently and not whack them to death!

Next was a weekend trip to Berkeley where we went with friends to a Halloween parade on Piedmont Ave. It wasn't the typical parade with floats and performers, this was a kids parade where all of the kids got to parade down the street in their costumes. It was pretty fun! After the parade we trick or treated from shop to shop up and down the street. At the end of the street they had a huge pumpkin patch where we got a free pumpkin and hotdogs for lunch. We had a great time!

The final activity was acutally Halloween night. Riley and I took turns walking Asher around the neighborhood to trick or treat. He seemed to enjoy getting candy handed to him at every house but was a little bit shy about saying trick or treat. Riley took him to a nearby house that sets up a huge haunted house and he said that Asher didn't seem scared at all. The lady of the house was surprised that Asher was so brave :) It was a fun-filled weekend!

Inside the haunted house, wide-eyed!

Parading down Piedmont Ave

Deciding on which pumpkin to take home

Playin in the fountain after the parade. This was his favorite part of the day!

Poor Bo. SQUIRREL!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Cute Pix from September 2011

Asher loves to wear hats lately. This hat in particular he likes to wear either backwards or off to the side as seen below. He's got his own style :)

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Camping at Stumpy Meadows

Back in early September we took a family camping trip to a beautiful lake up in Gold Country called Stumpy Meadows Reservoir. Our timing couldn't have been better because we went up for just 1 night on Thursday before the Labor Day weekend officially started and the campground was virtually empty!!! We had a great camping spot that was a 5 minute walk from the lake. Our campground was covered in these tiny white balls (which we later discovered were for pellet guns) and Asher loved collecting them all over the campground. He had a great time getting dirty and splashing in the water at the lake. We made tin foil dinners, which I unfortunately burnt a little :( and then made smores later that night.

Since it was our first camping trip with Asher, we decided to only go for one night as we weren't sure what to expect as far as sleeping goes. Well, it wasn't as bad as it could have been but we were all definitely tired the next day and glad to go home and sleep in our own beds the next night.

My birthday just happened to fall on the Friday that we came home so we celebrated that evening with some delicious birthday cake (made by Riley :) and ice cream. It was a great weekend!

Evening out the ground for our tent

Swimming with dad

Collecting pellet balls

Dirty boy

The Smore aftermath

Good morning!

Notice Riley passed out in the background. It was a long night!

Taking a walk with bear

Camping just isn't as fun without some naked camping time. Asher was being crazy, due partly to lack of sleep and partly to having marshmellows for breakfast :)

Friday, October 14, 2011

Summer Fun

We've had a fun summer and I'm convinced that this is Asher's favorite season because he LOVES being outside. He can entertain himself for an hour splashing and throwing rocks and balls in our little bird pond in the backyard. We also bought him an inflatable pool which he likes to run around and splash in and of course throw rocks and balls in as well! Here are some of the pictures we took this summer. As you can see, Asher is wet in most of them :)