The Asay Family

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve festivities

On the 23rd, we went and celebrated Christmas at Grandpa Foulger's store at their annual employee and family luncheon. Grandma Foulger's back was not feeling well, andJabin and Christian were working, so they didn't get to join us this year.

Our Christmas Eve was jammed packed wtih family and fun. We started out the day with taking gifts out to Grandpa and Grandma Asay's house for Christian to give to his brothers and for our three boys. The Asay boys all "fight" about which group, big boys, middle boys, or little boys, is the best group. It's an on-going joke that my boys have also gotten in on. Christian and I decided to make shirts for each of Christian's brothers with their Asay brothers status. It was so fun to see all of their reactions!

The boys did some hunting while I stayed home and finished up some wrapping and last minute things for Christmas.

Late afternoon, we made our way back over to Grandpa and Grandma Asay's house for our annual cooking of Gnocchis. They were delicious, as always!

After we were done with gnocchis, we went over to Powell to hang out. Jabin was able to fly into Billings earlier than he was originally thinking he would get to, so we were all able to hang out for the rest of the night. We enjoyed some finger foods while we hung out and visited.

The boys decided to jump into the hot tub while we were at grandpa and grandma Foulger's house. What's funny is that, right before I took this picture, my brother, Jason, had scared the crap out of them! Jason had dressed up as the Grinch and had gone running through the yard. They had no idea who it was and it freaked them out! I wish I would have known he was doing it, so I could have videoed them!

After being in Powell until late, we decided to make our way home. The boys reopened their Asay brothers shirts and some new pj bottoms for their Christmas pj's this year!

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Party time!

We were able to get together with everyone tonight and celebrate my Mom's birthday. We had soups in bread bowls, rolls and some finger foods for dinner and celebrated with cake for dessert. We also threw in a white elephant gift exchange game too! My kids love doing this when we can all be together;we were missing Jabin who isn't able to fly in until Christmas Eve. We had a blast together and are so thankful to be able to celebrate my mom. We sure love her and appreciate all she does for us!

We all got some great/funny gifts! Grandpa Foulger's shart smelling candle melts and my weird doll body part welcome sign were some of our favorites!

We all voted on who had the best ugly sweater, and this year Jason had the best one, hands down! He nailed the cousin Eddie look!!

All of us in our ugly sweaters!

We tried to take a family picture and man was it hard! Why can't boys just smile nice?

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Saturday, December 17, 2022

December Happenings!

December is flying by and we are keeping busy even though we have NO school Christmas programs this year...first time since my boys started school!! Here are a few things that have been going on around the Asay house: We had our ward Christmas party. We had lasagna, bread sticks, salad and lots of different kinds of desserts. Our program consisted of some members from our ward talking about how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world they have lived in. We learned about Ghana, Denmark and Ukraine. It was so interesting. Carson sang in the choir and the other two boys enjoyed a visit from Santa.

Grandma Foulger came over and we busted out lots of Christmas candy to deliver to family and friends. This is always one of our favorite Christmas traditions! My boys start asking when we are going to make candy as soon as December starts.

With middle school wrestling, high school wrestling has begun. We have had a few meets and Carson has done pretty good. He isn't able to drop down to the weight he wants to be at yet, due to hydration testing rules, so he is having to wrestle kids that are bigger than he is, but he'll get there! He was selected by his coach to be a team captain this year, which he was excited to find out at their first wrestling meet.

Carson asked Carissa Lindsay to winter formal and she said yes! This year, formal is a month later than normal, which is also the night of basketball games and wrestling meets, so it will be interesting to see how it all times out with so much going on with the students!

It has been super cold around here lately! I woke up one morning, early, to see that it was -36.6 degrees outside! YIKES!!

There have been several dress up days for the kids at school to celebrate Christmas. This day it was pj day at the middle school and ugly sweater day the elementary school.