V-Day fun!

While dating my boo spoiled me rotten. He always made me feel special. Especially with gifts and such. He'd send flowers, teddy bears, even a couple of singing telegrams...buy clothes, shoes..the whole nine yard. I loved it. Of course that isn't the only reason why I married him..LOL. Anyhoo after we married and on our first v-day he sent me beautiful long stem roses to work. They were beautiful full bloomed roses of several dozens in a huge vase. I was ecstactic and so awww'd by it on the outside. But inside I'm wondering how much money he wasted on this. I know, I'm soo off. Seriously I was. We were just married under a year and have bills now..ya know. Of course being the pooper I am, that was the first thing that came out of my mouth when he picked me up that day from work. Not a good thing. His feeling were hurt. Boo me. Of course I eventually thanked him for the flowers and told him I loved him and yadadadadadee and still ended the day on a nice beat. But from then on, he vowed not to ever do that again. Not for me, but because I was sooo unappreciative. Boo me. Oh well I live and learn. And I am ok he doesn't do those things for me. Its not just his money he's using, its our money...hehehe. So since then, if we celebrate..we just celebrate with dinner but no gifts unless its something we both buy together.

So this V-day of course we aren't making any advance plans or e

ven going out to dinner or anything. But two weeks ago we got an invite made by my sis Rissa of our family date nite which she planned for Valentine's weekend. Worked perfect for us since we didn't have anything planned. Got a babysitter for my kids and off we went. We all met up at Tucanos for dinner. All 26 of us. Glad my sis made reser

vations cause it was pretty crowded. The food of course was muy delicioso. The servers were friendly and trying to be funny hahaha. I love that place mo

re and more each time I go. The company was fun and the food was delicious. They gave each couple chocolate covere

d strawberries and roses for us before we checked out. We ended

the night working off all that food we had eaten playing some volleyball and basketball with everyone. Simple and fun night with my husband and everyone else. I love my husband and my family..

Babygirl final Jr Jazz game of year..

Ooh its been a long fun season of basketball for my lil babygirl. I started out the season dreading it and not looking forward to weekly practices and weekly games. But with my Honey coaching her team this year, it wasn't bad at all. She played with several of her good friends and cousins and had a fun time. I had a fun time. It was awesome to watch them grow on and off the court. All of them have learned and progressed alot this year. Not bragging or anything (hahaha), its a good thing they didn't keep score cause it would have been embarassing for the other team. Ok, anyhoo...we had a good team and mostly because they all meshed well with each other.

I asked Daze what she loved about Jr Jazz, this is what she said "Its fun. My favorite part is playing defense."

Another good fun season done with. We have a month to relax before spring softball starts...YAY.

Welcome baby MADISYN LEFETAUI TUINEI

Its a happy joy joy day for our family. My sis Rissa and her husband Va'a welcomed home their baby girl Madi.. I'm soooo happy for them. She is precious and I know they will be awesome parents. She is gonna be one spoiled lil diva. Just make sure to keep her away from Jerzy LOL.. They are soooo excited to have her home. Va'a I swear will not put her down even when he don't need to be smothering her...hahaha Every lil noise she makes he looks to be sure she is ok. Its the cutest thing. Rissa tries to pretend that she won't spoil her and all but I know she is just as excited to have her lil mama here with her. I can't help but smile at the site of the 3 of them together. I'm extremely happy for them. Congrats to the Tuinei family. We love you all.

RP15th Court of Honor

We had to pull ourselves from watching superbowl to attend our ward Court of Honor. It was the first that I've been to in our ward. Plus it was even more important for our family to be attendance as our son would be receiving several badges he has completed. I love our new scoutmaster (Kory Olsen) and assistant Ronnie and of course Kory's lovely wife Vi. They are really into what they do and go above and beyond to help our scouts learn and grow in the program.  My son looks forward to going to scouts each week and always has good things to report.  He is always learning from his weekly meetings.  I hope and pray he will continue to enjoy the scout program and will work hard to accomplish the highest rank of the scout, The Eagle..
I was amazed at all the young men in attendance and can tell they are learning from this awesome program. 
Thank you to all those who make it possible.
Most of the troop with their leaders Ronnie and Kory

My bigboi (right) happy to be eating some sherbert LOL

Happy Superbowl XLIV

New Orleans SAINTS vs Indianapolis COLTS

With my husband and son big football fans, I've come to love and enjoy the game as well.

I love the hype and fun of football.

I cheer on the 49ers 'cause thats my husbands team.

But for superbowl this year, I'm cheering for the SAINTS.

Who will you be cheering for?

Also wanna make sure to check out all the commercials LOL.

As well as the halftime show.

Enjoy your Superbowl Sunday..

P.S. Forgive me Lord for breaking the sabbath hehehe.

Speed Dating

I know what your thinking...Speed Dating. No not for me...hehe.. To go along with it being Valentines this month our young men leaders planned a speed dating activity for our youth combine this month. The youth had a great time getting to know each other better and finding out things about each other that they probably would have never known. We hope it helped them have confidence in themselves to talk to others and even of the opposite sex. Don't worry, we made sure everyone understood the importance of waiting til your 16 (actually 21 for samoans..lol) to date, dating in groups, dating those with high standards, dating to protect each others honor and virtue. Not getting serious with the first person you THINK you love (lol) etc. I know our youth kids enjoyed themselves and learned alot about each other and what to look for when they are of dating age. Another fun and spiritual activity to add to the books. I think this is one activity we need to have our YSA (Young Single Adults) do...hahahaha.

I was learning about the tree...

So this past Thursday we were at the church for weekly activities and games. When it was time to go home, my husband and I got in the car. My son came several seconds later got in the car. That left babygirl. We waited for a minute. I was starting to get impatient. Told my son to go out and grab her. We waited another minute. And another minute. I'm annoyed by this time and getting upset. I hate to wait around for people. LOL. Finally after what seemed like forever, babygirl gets into the car. Remember I'm already annoyed and heated by then. I turn around yelled 'Where the hell were you?' (yes I know, gotta work on being calm..haha) She answers 'Aloma was teaching us about the tree of life. Of good and evil'. My husband and I look at each other and laugh and he says 'good answer, cause you were gonna get slapped'. Hahahaha. It definitely was a good answer. I thought it was the funniest and cutest thing. I could not help but laugh and smile at her response and as she repeated all that Loma taught her that night. I felt foolish thinking of how upset and annoyed I was. And all along she was learning of the Fall of Adam and Eve from her not so much older cousin Aloma. Kids are sooo adorable. Especially so when they are helping and teaching each other. Thanks Loma for taking a time out from playing to help the lil ones learn something important.

FDO = Family Day Out!!

My first cousins from Samoa are heading back home this coming week. So we decided to have a family fun day with the fam. We get to see these cousins of mine once in a while. Ra comes out more often than her bro's. Chris I hadn't seen for almost 4 years. And Blake has been here for a year but is going home to prepare for his mission. I've enjoyed the time with them getting to know them better. I wish you well lil cuzzins. Love yall tons..

Anyhoo, we all met up at Laser Quest and played several games. I had decided beforehand that I would not play. However, the young gal their talked me into playin and even offered to let me play for free. I think she has a lil crush on one of my boy cuz haha. Any so I played, and had a blast. I enjoyed it sooo much I had to play a second game with everyone. Hehe. Everyone had a good time. Especially since each person thought for sure they'd be in first..haha. Maybe next time. It was a good workout and glad I got my exercise in. Guess it was no use since we ended the evening stuffing our faces at Jumbo Buffet. Which can I just say is gross..hahaha. Never will I go there again. I enjoyed my time today with my family. Its nice to get together with everyone and enjoy each other company. Never can get enough of my knucklehead boy cousins. Love my family dearly. Glad we were able to hang out for a lil bit. We need to do it more often for sure!

Beehive 2010 Calendar Craft

I guess you can call it a craft..hahaha. Anyhoo, I had to think of an activity to do with the beehives this week. As I was camping on blogspot world i came across a blog and found this calendar made by one of the many talented women out there.

So tonite we all decided to try it out. I wish I had thought to take pictures of the girls calendars. Everyone did an awesome job. So creative. I on the other hand am just plain jane and actually copied a template that was already made for the paper i chose. No fun for me. LOL. The girls can easily tear out past months and add in future months. So the beehives have no excuse for not knowing about an activity. : ) I made sure to add in every ward and stake youth activity on the calendar. I'll update the calendar every 3 months so that they each girl will have updated info. What have I gotten myself into... LOL. Here is a shot of mine.

Couldn't find any pics to fit. So I will be draggin my kids out in the cold to get some shots soon. Hopefully.

I've enjoyed reading and seeing all the wonderful craft ideas out there. I hope to get into it and craft my life away...hehe. I am not crafty at all. Or creative too. So hopefully by reading all the great ideas out there I can come up with some cool stuff.

Work it out!!!

So I was going thru my blog and saw that last year in 2009 I had a "Yay me" post on my working out. About March. I started back then and prob lasted a month. And then died out. I hope that this time around I am all there and can hang. I tell myself i'm not just working out to lose weight, I'm doing it at change of lifestyle. And hopefully by doing that, I'll be able to keep up with it. And become healthy, not only for myself but especially for my children. I aint getting any younger and I need to do all I can to keep up with them.

I've been faithfully working out at the local rec. I started out not really doing much because I was sooo confused. I've finally just decided to do my cardio on the machines and weights. Of course also trying to change my eating habits. I haven't cut the yummy stuff out but am slowing trying to control my portions of the yummy stuff and hopefully and eventually substitute it for the healthy stuff.

Today I tried Zumba at the rec. OMFG..hehe. What a great workout. Our teacher had every frickin' muscle working and moving. I am sore as I type this post. I loved it. I see all the fun from gals that I know that zumba. Thanks for making it look fun and for encouraging us to try it. I am definitely doing zumba too. Hey I'm working out and learning some dance moves as well....hahaha.

YAY for me..LOL

Well its a YAY moment for me because guess what I did today.......drumroll please, hahaha I went to the gym. Yes, I got my blessed (lol) body out there and stepped into the gym, did a little workout and then looked totally lost cause I didn't know what to do. So I followed my husband around and guess what he was doing, lifting weight. Hahaha. I'll be sure to stretch before I sleep tonite cause I don't wanna wake up cramping..haha. It really is a YAY moment for me. Its been a looooonnnnngggg time since I've seen the gym. I'll have to get myself reaquainted with the place. And hopefully get the hang of things. I really need to get some ideas online or anyone who wanna give me some advice. I'm totally clueless as to where I should start out. I think all that I remember is if your working your upper body today, work on your lower body the next day but not all at once. Ok, I guess I go from there. Hahha. Wish me luck and pray I keep at it. Especially since my husband has paid money for he and I to do this exercise thang. I'm not gonna jinx myself and say its a new year resolution. Hahah. From experience, new year resolutions don't get accomplished in my book. So that is why this year, I am not gonna make any...what an excuse huh.

Happy New Year...2010

As the New Year unfolds..

Hope it brings

new joys, beautiful moments

and surprises for you

To cherish forever

Happy New Year!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Let the spirit of Love

gently fill our Hearts and Homes

In this Loveliest of Seasons

May you find many Reasons for Happiness

Merry Christmas to your family

from ours...

The Taloa's

Jr Jazz 2009

I soooo wanted to take a break from the kids sports. But I know once I do, I'll enjoy it too much and they'll never play sports again. Hahaha. Plus I don't have all the say. And for first time my husband wasn't burnt out from football and decided to coach my babygirls team...yay. Anyhoo, bball is in full effect. This past Saturday was the first day of my babygirls game. They are sooo fun to watch. We also had team pics so I got a bootleg copy of their team pic. Hahahaha. Big Boi is also playing bball, but he won't begin until the new year. I give it up to those parents with multiple kids playing.. I only have 2 and its a pain.. ..haha. Enjoy ur babies and the holidays...

Goooo WEST!!!

I'm back..not that anyone missed me. LOL. School, Church and my kids activities have kept me busy and lazy to blog. Anyhoo, This is Miah's 5th year playing football. And like years past, its always been a blast. He's played with most of his teammates since he was 8. So many friendships have been made. They've grown and learned alot together. On and off the field. It definitely has been a good year. We made it all the way to the ship. YAY!!! But unfortunately our ship sank..hahaha. 10-1 record is not bad at all. But still it had a really sad affect on our team. We really wanted this year to be it for them. Last year, we went thru the same ordeal. Undefeated all season long and to end with a lost at the championship. And to the same dang team. Freakin' Skyline...hehehe. So once again, we'll hang up the cleats and put away the pads. Not champions\ in the league, but champions in our hearts. Great season to my son Jeremiah and his West Midget teammates. Thank you to the coaching staff, especially my #1 Defense coach husband. Love my fellas (Foi & Miah) and all their hardwork this season. Now on to Jr Jazz we go......I soooo need a vacation!