2012 In Review

2012 was mostly awesome. Of course, there were aspects of 2012 that I could have done without as usual, but for the most part, I can't think of any really clear, glaring awfulness in 2012...so....score! I don't think that I really have the time to update month by month in separate posts, so I'll give a blurb for each month. Here goes...

January: We went to Vegas for New Years as a family and to have an early celebration for our anniversary. It seems so long ago. Well, I guess that was a year ago so it would make sense that it seems like a while ago.

February: Mr. Will started pre-school through the school district when he turned 3. It's awesome for him! The program is mostly for kids who have communication/cognitive issues but there are some kids who function developmentally normally as well. He's in class for his speech issues but it seems that there are some behavioral issues as well that they are helping him with. So come next week, he's going to start going four days a week. He loves riding the bus everyday that he goes to school!

March: We had a super fun St. Patrick's Day party with kids in the neighborhood and ward. Not much else to report other than that.

April: DC was a blast and I'm actually going to do more posts about it in the coming days.

May: It was Arthritis Walk time! Siobhan and I were on the planning committee and we had a great time being involved again! I also got started on a project that is actually taking longer than planned but that's not all my fault. People move away and that makes it hard. Anyway, I have organized a parent/peer network for families whose children have Juvenile Arthritis.

June: The kids and I took a great trip down to Arizona to visit Molly, Meredith and their families. We had a great time but I think that that warrants it's own post as well!

July: Again, this will get it's own post...we had a great time going to on a small family reunion with Carson's side of the family. We went up to Flaming Gorge and had a great time rafting on the river and hanging out with family!

August: I had the great opportunity to go to Las Vegas with the Arthritis Foundation to get instruction on how to plan events and raise awareness and funds. It was a awesome and it more than prepared me to plan the 2012 Jingle Bell Run/Walk. I'll do a post about my trip. It will be short.

September: School started!!! Audrey started afternoon Kindergarten, Siobhan started 1st grade and Mr. Will went back to preschool. They all love it and they are all excelling in their classes!

October: No kidney stone! If you didn't hear about the epic kidney stone battle of  '11, then that probably doesn't mean anything to you, but that's okay. Just know that that was a big deal! We also had a fabulous Halloween! Siobhan was a cat, Audrey was Merida, Mr. Will was Thomas, Ethan was a lion, I was Rosie the Riveter, and Carson was a Jazz super fan. Fun times.

November: Thanksgiving happened. Siobhan turned 7!!! We had a fun birthday party at Chick fil A and instead of her friends bringing presents for Siobhan, we asked them to bring donations for Primary Children's Hospital. Everyone was so generous!!

December: Jingle Bell Run (Holy Moly-I will post about that in detail later), I had a birthday, Carson was called as Elder's Quorum President and Christmas! It was awesome! I love Christmas!

One of my New Year's Resolutions, in addition to losing weight and cooking more, is to blog more. So I'm going to blog at least once a week, hopefully twice. I would like to do something from 2012 and then something current. Sound good? I think that sounds like a good plan!