Halloween Costumes

I'm really cheap when it comes to buying Halloween Costumes.  Instead of looking at the actual costumes, I'm looking at the price tags for the cheapest one.  Or I'll even settle for the hand me downs.  I think alot of it has to do with me thinking it'll only be worn once on Halloween. 
Well...I'm so glad to say though that the kids have been able to wear their costumes more than once this year.  Five times to be exact.  Thats a record high for us.  Grateful for all the Trunk or Treats and School Festivals that allows them to do so.  And as a parents, I feel like I've got my money's worth..hehee.  Yes all twenty bucks.  Thats all that matters right. 

Enjoying one of the many trunk-treat.  It rained really hard.  After this, DaisyGirl didn't even wanna go door to door.  My son thinks he's too old for that stuff now...he's a party pooper.  But I was one happy mother.  Hahahha

Righteous Silly Bandz

Do you have kids who are just crazy over those silly bands?  I'm sure you do.  Its hard to resist buying them for my daughter when they are at every check out stand.  They've come in handy when I'm out of bands for her hair.  LOL  Yep, ghetto.  They are fun though.  Well did you know that you can purchase LDS bands?  Pretty cool.  Check it out here http://righteousbandz.com/  I just know my lil one would love these.  She'd go crazy trading them away with your buddies.

Pumpkin fun -- Happy Halloween

The lil kids get sooo excited to see the pumpkins and talk about the carvings they'll do on them.  Some want them gorry scary.  Others pretty.  Some goofy.  Whatever they want.  We try and provide.  And sadly by the end of it, its the adults who end up finishing it off.  The adults being myself and my sis Rissa.. Hahha  Nonetheless we still love it and enjoy doing it together as a family.  Happy Halloween!!

Colby's creation.  He wanted to add a mole to the pumpkin's face.  you'll see he has one himself.  hahaha  such a goonball!!

Miss Jerzy is mimicking her pumpkin's face...hahah.  They look like twins.  LOL.  Goofy pumpkin just like this lil goofy girl..

Daisy-girl kept hers simple and sweet.  Just like she is...hehehe.  I'm suprised she didn't put some softball gear on it...











Diva Brooklyn wanted her's to be a pretty princess face.  Uh...ok!  Well thats the closest we could get it to pretty princess..hahaha  Oh well... she was excited it had eyelashes..

And then we have Mr Iversyn.  Mean Pumpkin Machine.  LOL.  Nice eyebrows there buddy..hahaha.

                                

Football

My son and his teammates for the past 6 years.  Oh what fun memories.

Dang you Skyline...

So in sports each team has their nemesis...right?  well for as long as my son has played little league football I'd say SKYLINE (lol) is his team nemesis.
They have gone up against Skyline in the championship almost every year.  With the exception of maybe 2 years.  Basically the 2 years we didn't play them, we won the championship game.
They come every year a better and better team.  They definitely do their homework and come to play to be champions.  Not that we don't. 
Well this past Saturday while we were in Mesquite, WEST played Skyline.  Actually let me rephrase WEST bantams got slaughtered by SKYLINE.  Score of 48-0.  I was...We all were in total shock.  Its like no one showed up to play that day.  Sounds like we were out coached.  Whatever the reason, we lost bad.
I just hope that WEST gets their act together and get to playing some ball.  This is the last year of Little League for most of the boys.  And honestly, I want them to end with a Championship.  And honestly, that is not the score of  CHAMPIONS.  We have to win our next 2 games to stay in it.  Kearns and Granger have been cake to beat in the past.  But after our loss last week, I don't know about that.  Anything can happen though. 
Lets get 'em WEST Bantams!!!!

On a good note, West Gremlins (Foi coaches this team) won at the last minute.  My nephew Iversyn at the last minute scored the winning touchdown.  Heard is was a good run.  Broke thru tackles, juking the players, stiff-armed a kid, hitting the other players (a couple of his own team mates too...hehe) to get that score.  So proud of our Gremmies.  This week will be a tough game against undefeated Kearns.  Who so happens to be coached by Foi's cousin/childhood friend.  It'll be fun no matter the outcome.  Lets go WEST!!!

Warriors in MESQUITE

We just returned from WARRIORS final tournament of the season. We've been saving and planning and had a grand ol time there with everyone. Our team arrived late afternoon on Thursday. Started our weekend off with dinner at Eureka with the whole team and family supporters. Grateful for generous people who made it possible to eat some good ol' casino buffet and not have to pay for it...Love it! Hehe.  We then all headed over to Virgin River for some night swimming and good ol bowling.  What a fun way to start off the tournament weekend..  Had to get the fun all in before it was softball time. 
There were 2 teams from Hawaii and 2 teams from Utah.  2 other teams backed out last minute...BOO them.  But it was still a fun tournament.  Hawaii came to play.  They do softball all year round and it totally showed.  They were good.  Infact so good, we loss to them both and put us in the losers bracket. 
We made it to the semi-final game beating out DC Demise from Bountiful to determine who would play the undefeated Hawaii (HanaPa'a) team for Championship.  So once again we were gonna meet up with Hiki No.  Earlier they barely beat us 9-8 in one of the most innings played game...7 to be exact.  During this game though, our girls were determined to win.  And you could tell by how well they played.  Coach Ibrahim made adjustments to our outfielders and BAM we stopped them and won that game 14-8.  It was AWESOME  and at that point didn't care if we loss the Championship game.  That is how awesome that win was.  From the beginning we were on top and held them.  Girls defense and offense was on point.
Championship game we played our game.  But Hawaii played even harder.  We loss the game and took 2nd.  But it was one of the most fun games we had.  Being that Hawaii coaches and players showed such good sportsmanship.  We love the Hawaii teams.  Every game they lei'd each girl and gave them a lil hawaiian souvenir or lihi-mui candy.  It was sooo fun and the girls loved it sooo much. 
I totally have to say the Hawaii teams made this tournament one of the best.  They knew they were good but always showed good sportsmanship.  They were sooo nice to share their spotlight with our team...  After the game we talked and joked around with them..  What an awesome way to end of nice tournament.
We had such good support.  So grateful for our WARRIORS FAMILY.  Definitely a good way to end such an awesome softball season.  Now I can relax and enjoy the remainder of my son's football season and hopefully get some workouts in.  I need it..  Until next season....PEACE!!

It really is sad...

....When I feel like I get most things around the house done on the sabbath.  Like today.  I was up early, but instead of studying the sunday school or young women lesson, I start to clean up my room.  It leads to cleaning my daughters room.  Then the living room.  The bathrooms.  The kitchen.  The week is busy hectic that Sunday's is the only day we are all home and can get things done.  So by the time 3 o'clock rolls around, I'm too tired and distracted to even think about church.  Thats been the way for the past month.
...I was determined today (of course still had my struggles) to get the family to church.  Proud we finally made it.  And as we drove home from church today, I could not help but feel happy and proud that we made it.  I love the spirit I felt today and the testimonies and lessons taught.  I love how the spirit moves and inspires me.
...Will be praying extra extra hard that this week I can be more productive and organized that I can really enjoy the sabbath day, as it truely is meant to be.  The
...Happy Sabbath to you all!!!!  BTW..Happy Birthday to my sis Rissa Tuinei.  Love ya sis and hope you enjoyed your birthday!

New Dew

I tend to forget that kids never forget anything. Several weeks, infact I think it may have been months ago DaisyGirl and I talked about cutting her hair. I love her hair long. She didn't. She wanted to have short hair. So I told her she could cut her hair one day. Well, that one day came. While getting Jeremiah's hair cut. She reminded me of my promise. And well..I couldn't back out. She was so excited. I was totally opposite. I was nervous too. We did it and she has short hair now. I wasn't sure how to have it cut. I just told the girl to chop it off to her shoulder. And there we have, my lil baby has a NEW DEW. I don't even know what to do with it...hahaha Been looking online for some cute styles to play with it. This is definitely her first and LAST hair cut. Hahahaha. Well as long as she's under my roof thats the rule LOL.