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Sunday, January 6, 2013

The best of 2012


The Asay Family – The Best of 2012

     Last year we started a new tradition where we share our “best” moments or exciting events from the previous year from the previous year. Looking back, we all had a very busy and eventful year. Here are some of our favorite things from 2012…

§  Started the year off by speaking in church as a family on January 1st

§  Spring break trip to Florida, visiting Disneyland, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, the beach, and meeting Winter the Dolphin from the movie “Dolphin’s Tale”

§  Went on our first family camping trip

§  We were evacuated from our home and survived the Waldo Canyon Fire

§  Making cookies for the police and military guarding our neighborhood and making posters and cookies and cheering for the firefighters as they changed shifts in the evenings

§  Our biggest crop of cucumbers and yellow squash EVER!

§  Attending many many many baseball games, gymnastics meets and dance classes

§  Picking apples

§  Taking all the kids to several presidential rallies for Mitt Romney

§  Getting the smoke damaged fixed and updating many things in our house including the wood floors.

 

The Best of Brig

§  Hiked Mt. Fuji in Japan with his dad and brother

§  Ran the America Discovery trail marathon

§  Hiked Mt Elbert

§  Family trip to Florida

§  Coached baseball

§  Ran his first Ragnar

§  Built a retaining wall in the front yard

§  Published 3 articles

§  Training session came in at 1st place in both U.S. and Asia

§  Went to mainland China via the subway from Hong Kong

§  Went to Mini-world in Shenzhen

§  Went on trips to: Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Netherlands, New York, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Toronto, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia and Connecticut

 The Best of Kim

§  Organized and implemented speech and language screening at the 4 Montessori preschools in Colorado Springs

§  Went to Las Vegas with Holly – Phantom of the Opera, shopping, pedicures, and VIP seating for the Frankie Moreno concert

§  Went to North Carolina - Natalie’s wedding, beach with the siblings and cousins, talking all night with Cindy and Misty

§  Attempted to water ski for the 1st time

§  Anniversary trip to San Francisco and had 2nd row seats for Les Miserables, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Giants, and sour dough bread and chowder at Fisherman’s Wharf.

§  Took Zach to his first NFL game to watch the Broncos and Peyton Manning play at Sports Authority field.

§  RAGNAR – trained all summer and was runner #11 on Team DNR in the first Colorado Ragnar- Breckenridge to Aspen!

§  Started Zumba - love it!

§  Learned to can pickles, applesauce and green beans

§  Fulfilled lifelong dream of seeing Lord of the Dance

§  Frontier Days – Parade and Reba concert

§  Trip to Boise – our first time back after moving from there 7 years ago

§  Packing up everything that I could think of that was important to Brig and I and our children and leaving our home. – Definitely not a “best of” moment but one that we will never forget…

 

Best of Zachary

§  Played on the High School Baseball team - pitcher, catcher, 2nd base

§  1st season over 500 on the little league team

§  Florida trip

§  Sand Dunes and Alligator farm – held an alligator

§  Student of the month- third year in a row in Middle school

§  Running Club

§  Started 8th grade

§  Flew to Idaho by himself to go scout camp with his friend Jack

§  Took Hunter’s safety and got his hunting license and went on his first hunting trip

§  Went water skiing 2 times!

§  First youth Conference

§  Deacon’s quorum president

§  Achieved First and Second class in Boy Scouts

§  Polar Express

§  Paint balling and first air soft gun

§  First NFL game with mom – go Broncos!

§  Opening day for the Rockies with Dad ( it was a sad loss)

§  Started Geometry as an 8th grader

§  Spoke to mom in Scooby Doo voice for almost an entire week

 

Best of Madeline

§  Went to State Gymnastics and placed in all 3 events

§  Moved up to the traveling team in Gymnastics

§  Went to High Trails

§  Piano recital

§  Trip to the sand dunes and alligator farm

§  Survived the Waldo Canyon fire

§  Turned 11

§  Graduated from elementary school and started Middle school

§  First Locker

§  Student of the month in Middle School

§  Got contacts

§  First time water skiing and stood right up!

§  Rockies game with dad

§  Trip to Florida

§  Started 8th grade math as a 6th grader and moved up to Pre AP classes

§  Raspberry picking in Woodland park

 

Best of Natalie Mae

§  Went on the Moon Rocket roller coaster

§  Started artistic gymnastics  and got her front splits

§  1st dance recital

§  Got a Nintendo 3ds

§  Graduated from Kindergarten

§  Learned to make caramel corn

§  Best 6 year old birthday party

§  First trip to Disney!

§  Trip to Sand Dunes and Alligator farm – held and alligator

§  First time water tubing

§  Learned how to read

§  Learned how to ride a 2-wheel bike

§  Shook Mitt Romney’s hand

§  Went horseback riding in Estes park

§  Rockies game with dad

§  Seeing Santa on the Polar Express

§  Lost 4 more teeth and the front big tooth finally grew in!

 

Best of Benjamin

§  Learned how to walk then proceeded to learn to run

§  Grew lots of teeth

§  First haircut – so sad but his pretty curls were getting so long

§  Learned his animal sounds, car and train sounds

§  Learned to identify and say – nose, head, eyes, ears, tummy and toes,

§  Started talking and using his favorite phrases such as: all right, oh no, NO, doggie, NO, baby, No, bubble, No, balloon, No, milk, No, Bapple for Apple, NO, mote for remote, NO, doggie, NO, Daddy, NO, Mommy, NO, pancake, NO, truck, choo choo, No, thank you, peaz for please, NO, HELP, shoes, NO, Papa, Mimi, NO and night night  which means his blanket. Oh, and he can say NO!

§  Decided that he liked swimming at the end of the summer at Madeline’s birthday party

§  Loves his doggie blanket, cars and trains!

§  Was amazing the entire trip to Florida

§  Went on lots of trips to Cheyenne and Denver to see all his grandparents, Cousins, Aunts and Uncles

§  Started going to Nursery at Church


Molly Dog

§  Turned 5

§  Almost got a deer in Ute Valley

§  Trained for a marathon

§  Treed a squirrel

§  Moved her kennel to the basement to Zach’s room

§  Was taunted relentlessly by a neighborhood cat