2012 Year End Review

         We didn't send out Christmas cards this year but I still wanted to take a look back at 2012 and post a few highlights from one of the best and most challenging years of of my life. We started the year out with a huge snow and ice storm and although it lasted a little too long for our comfort, we had a really fun time playing in the snow. I even got the chance to have a fun snow-day with Lyla which was a blast.  We were lucky enough to have two visits from Quintin this year and both of them were a blast.  The February visit was jam packed with fun, Sandi came up for a few days as well and joined in on the craziness that is the McClain boys when they get together. Q, Jaime, D and I even made our way to Quileute which was beautiful.  The second trip was courtesy of D and Q's Uncle Brian, and Aunt Nikki who got us all tickets to the Oregon vs. Stanford game.  It was beyond fun and we even stopped in Salem and the boys got to meet their other grandma, Grandma Jackie for the first time in 30 years on the way down to the game.  Damien, Abbie and I ran the Tacoma Marathon 5K (surprisingly a blast), and Damien really got into running this year and even ran his first half marathon in Gig Harbor for the Race for the Soldiers Foundation.  A sad note from this year was losing our dear sweet Tucker baby, he has been apart of our family for what seems like forever and it is still hard to not see him when we go to my parent's house.  We did lots of really fun things this year that included, the annual beach trip with my parents, family weddings, a few baseball and soccer games, lots of fun watching little Lyla grow, welcoming our wonderful friend's Roland and Trish's beautiful daughter Leah into the world and getting to meet her this year, a Christmas time Blazer game with the entire family, Superbowl Party, gardening with my parents (yes I'm even including this in the FUN), a boat house trip with Heather and Danny, lots of dinners and outings with family and friends, and so much more.  We ended the year on such exciting news of our new little punkin on the way and it was amazing to look back at 2012 and see just how blessed we truly were this year.  We were lucky enough to get to celebrate it all with the best family and friends you could ask for.