Best birthday ever!

I love Birthday's!!!!! From the time I was young birthday's were a big deal in our house. I mean a big deal. I can't remember one time where I did not get what was on my birthday list. ( This does not classify me as a snob :)My Dad always made big cakes with a them, we had the whole neighborhood over to hang out with Tootsie (the coolest clown ever) There are so many big birthday meemories. Thank you mom and Dad.
Over the past few years I have had to train Paul that birthday's are important and are going to continue to be that way in our home. This was a little hard for him in the beginning but he is catching on quite nicely.
This year he got my twinner and some of our close girlfriends and their families together for a bbq in our front yard. We had had chicken shish kabobs, pasta salad, fruit, and best of all Paul made me and Gina a birthday cake. This is the first cake the Paul says he can remeber making and I am here to tell you it was great!
I cannot even begin to tell you all how great of a day I had. I was with so many friends and family. The best part, well to best parts, my Dad called from England and I got to spend the actual day with my twinner. I am so greatful to her for bringing her family to my house to celebrate our day. I came here to this earth with her for a reason and I love her to death!!!! Twinner I don't know what I would do without you, without your friendship and who you are. I am so glad we decided to come here together.
Pictures to come :)

100 Miles of Nowhere: Liberty Park Division

I know this is posted a bit late but, Paul has been telling me that he was going to psot it. That has not happened obvioulsly. I am so proud of him and want all who are reading this to read about his amazing accomplishment!!!!
I am sure most of you have never heard of 100 Miles of Nowhere, so let me fill you in. 100 Miles of Nowhere is a ride that was set up to allow people all over the world to ride a bike 100 miles to raise money for cancer research. The only catch is your ride is supposed to take you nowhere, some people ride on rollers while others ride a very short course, the event is put on by fatcyclist.com.

Now for the ride report:

Early on in 2011 my mom decided that she wanted to ride the Salt Lake Century as a fifty-something year old cancer survivor. However a few months into her training, she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. This meant that she would be in the middle of her treatments during the ride, and would not be able to do it. A few short days after her diagnoses I was visiting Fatty’s Blog and he had just announced the registration dates for 100 Miles of Nowhere. My first instinct was that only a crazy person would ride 100 Miles and go nowhere, but my second thought was that I should be one of those crazy people and do this ride in honor of my mom.

I picked Liberty Park in Salt Lake City as my official ride location; the outside loop of the park runs a little over a mile, which meant lots and lots of laps. When race day arrived I woke up early in hopes of beating the traffic as Saturdays at the park can get really busy, I started my ride at 6:05am and made the rookie mistake of thinking that sense the weather man said it would be 80 degrees I would be good to go in just my shorts and jersey, and let’s just say it took until about 8:30 for things to finally start warming up.

By 10:00 I had made it over half way through my 100 miles and was feeling strong. As I came around on yet another lap, I was greeted by waves and cheers from my mom and dad. It was a great motivator to have my mom there for a big chunk of the day as I was riding in her honor. One of the best things about riding 100 Miles of Nowhere is that it was easy for friends and family to come by and show support because they knew it would just be a few minutes until I was coming back around the park (thanks everyone who came out). I was even joined for part of the ride by my wife and son, who spent the entire day hanging out at the park and cheering me on.

The last 20 miles of nowhere were definitely a struggle, the combination of having ridden 80+ miles and the traffic at the park picking up, were really starting to get to me. Lucky for me on the last 10 miles my wife and son were right there at the curb cheering me on every time I came around for yet another lap, and I was able to finish strong with a total of 101.1 miles! Of course by finish strong I mean lay down on the grass for a while and wonder if my backside would ever feel the same.

The "FIghT FOR a CuRE!!!!"

This year it is a fight for the cure for our family. Wendy was re-diagnosed with breast cancer the end of March and so this year, it is a fight!
She was diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago, did radiation and was told there was a very very small chance this was to ever return well, here we are round 2 and she is nothing but a fighter and TOUGH!!!!
She is doing chemo treatments every other week at this point and there is not a day that goes by I am not amazed by here attitude, toughness, and gratefulness. The reason I say this is because it cannot be easy and I could think of a million reasons to be pissed off, mad at the world, question faith and life, and yet to see her act and take this in the way she is opens things up a bit for me. She keeps us updated every step of the way. Every doctor visit, every treatment, every phone call. She wants us to know and be aware and ask. I am grateful for not having to wonder.
We are definitely in this as a family.
This year at the race we would have rather stayed home. it is such a emotional experience and with the turn of events for Wendy this year we dreaded going. The good thing is, what we dreaded turned out to be a great day!!! We were all happy to be there together as a family skipping across the finish line. Can't wait for next year. GO YAYA!

He did it, He did it, He did it YAH!!!!!!

Thursday night was graduation night for Paul "the legend" Asay!!!! What a happy day for our whole family. I have got to give a shout out the the best husband ever........ During school Paul always put us first before everything!
Almost every night was 2-3 a.m. painting, designing, cutting, pasting, drawing (don't you wish your homework consisted of these things? Sounds easy but, not so much!) Paul never started homework tell our bug was asleep for the night.
This to me is amazing. If the roles were reversed I would have been the one to come home after a long day of work and school and say "where's my dinner and see ya later I have got a lot of studying to do." I am sure this thought crossed his mind a few times but not once did he act this way. He would have dinner ready for me when I got home from work.
SIMPLY AMAZING is how I describe my hard working, graduated husband!
Congratulations, I love you!

NO AdULTs ALLOWed!!!!

Once a week YaYa does preschool with the grandkids and boy oh boy are those kiddos lucky to have a YaYa who wants them to learn and have fun as amuch as possible.
How are the kids suppose to be themselves and focus on what they are learning with their parents over their shoulders watching and critiquing their every move. Besides they don't need multiple voices giving them instruction.
YaYa has taught Tre' his alphabet. He can sing the alphabet song, write and recognize most of the letters. There are a few he struggles with and those letters are taped on the kitchen wall and we go over a letter a night at dinner. He is catching on.
Tre' knows the pledge of allegiance by heart. SERIOUS SERIOUS. It is so cute to hear him recite it. THere are a few books that he LOVES to read to you. They have been read to him so often that he has them memorized page by page. my favorite part is when he bring home is book fro preschool and gets me to sit down so that he can read me the book he learned to read. I eat it up!
The point of this post is......... I always want to be apart of preschool to see what goes on and why it makes Tre' so happy and I got to. I got to be apart of his learning. It was a very small portion of it, only the craft but I was there. That is the point.
It is amazing to me all the effort and time that goes into getting preschool ready for 4 little kiddos every single week. She does so much with them, a craft, the pledge of allegiance, singing time, weather, calendar, the letter of the day and I am sure there is more.
Thank you Yaya for teaching Tre' and helping him to grow into a little man. I am very grateful.


Waiting for instruction..........

They are building a chick chick
Hard at work :)
The final touches
The final product.......
The chick chick! It's wings are Tre's little hands :) So cute!

Jungle Jim's = Happy kiddos

Today I had the day off and I decided that I would let Tre' make the plans for the day. Because the weather was looking a bit gloomy this morning I recommended going to get Takoma and bring her to our place to try out the new basketball hoop. (inside)
Anyway, Tre' said "no, you play it outside. How about I call her and we go to Jungle Jim's?"
Well, alrighty then. Off to Jungle Jim's we went.
Time out............. We had to have an early lunch at McDonald's first and play there cause we were a little to early for Jungle Jim's
My question is, why in the world does a kid center play place open at 11? Are they not aware what time kids wake up? Come on people!

I would also like to say THANK YOU Auntie KyKy for making this fun day happen. We loved it!






These two on this roller coaster are hilarious! I it even better with Zoey squished in the middle. Good times!

Easter with the Asay's

He looks,
H+e shoots,

He scores!

What a happy Easter. We enjoyed a delicious ham dinner and jiggler eggs that I look forward to every year (Thank you Sara)

We had an Easter egg hunt. Every year Brent and Wendy do an egg hunt for the kids and grandkids. This is not just any kind of hunt though, it is a money hunt. They hide the eggs all over the yard and let us loose. This tear was a blast for me because Tre' got the hang of it and I got to be the picture taker.Thank you Bent adn Wendy!The first money egg....

"E"
Haylie
YaYa and Ali
Papa, Isaac and Uncle Nick

Ali :)