i LOVE my FAMILY

Lunch with the fam before they all headed back to California.  It sure was nice to have all my sisters here in one place.  Of course can't forget my brothers too.  I love when we can all hang out together and just laugh til we are crying.  Having our kids all play together and getting to know each other better.  Precious moments.

Happy Independence

My parents have such good friends. Their friends brought over fireworks to them. So once again, we did not have to spend money on fireworks for the kids. And its been that way for the past several years. I love it. Thank you for being so generous. We were all able to meet at gma&gpa and watch the children enjoy the fireworks. The lil ones were afraid of the big ones. So the sparklers and pop it’s kept them entertained. The older ones wanted to experiment and be creative. We all had a simple laid back fun time. Love my family.

Happy Birthday "Angelys"

We started our fun weekend by celebrating my niece’s 1st bday. Family and friends gathered together to celebrate. Her parents are avid Q’ers and are pretty darn good at it too.. So when we know they on the grill, no one misses out..hahaha. We enjoyed a day of fun games, music bumping, good food and great company. Angelys is just ONE and I’m sure she had no clue all of it was for her…hahaha Happy Birthday Sweetie!!!!

Dash N Splash

All-Stars softball is in full effect.  We are sooo excited this year.  We have 9 of our 13 players from regular season on our All-Stars team.  Then picked up 3 girls from the other teams.  The girls have been practicing long and hard to prepare for the tournaments.  We had our first one over the weekend in Grantsville/Tooele.  There were teams from all over the valley.  Murray, Tville, Riverton, Vernal, Kaysville and West Valley.  We went undefeated all tournament to win 1st place/Championship...YAY.  So proud of our girls.  They played well and had a good time doing it...  Such a fun tournament.  We're excited and looking forward to many more..Go Bountiful Warriors!!!!!

"MY" Birthday

I was feeling great when I walked into work this morning and my coworkers had my desk decorated and the Happy Birthday's from everyone.  Felt even more great when a couple of them thought I was celebrating somewhere in my 20's..hehe  Thank you friends..hehe.  35 years..  My sisters says wow, thats old.  They aren't too far behind.  But fo' reals...I'm getting old.  In 5 years I'll be 40...whoa!!!  Great day spending it with my family.  I was craving pupu chicken so my sis came over and helped make pupu chicken and made a pineapple upside down cake.  I was craving that too.  Love my family and grateful to spend my day with them.  I took Foi's BestBuy gift card from work and bought myself a camera..  Simple inexpensive camera that'll hopefully do the job...hahaha  Now I can put my camera phone to rest..haha.  Happy Birthday ME!!!

Father's Day

BBQ, Games, Swimming, Family
What father would not like for fAther's day
Hehehhe.  Well I guess they had no choice
Family day at the park was how we spent our Father's Day
Well a day early for us at least.
I got up early to make sure we had everything prepared.
It was a good time spending and honoring
the Father's in our family
We appreciate them and all their hard work
Happy FAther's Day
to my Father
to my FAther in Law
and to the Father of my children
We love you all dearly!!!

Gummi WHAT Lei

During my nieces graduation last year her gma from Cali gave her a gummi lei.  When I saw it, i couldn't figure out what it was.  It was soft, colorful and just really nice.  Trust I studied it well thinking I could possibly make it.  I asked her gma what it was and she said gummi bears.  Um...ok, nevermind..not gonna try it.  Already sounds difficult.  Tried to explain it to my sis and everything.  Then forgot all about it.  During grads this year, I saw the lei's again.  Then thought, maybe its gummi worms...ten years later LOL.  So for Fathers Day this year, my sis and I stayed up all night long to make the lei's for our Father's.  The first lei took us a good hour...hahaha.  Then we got smart and figured it out and then next thing you know, we were making one in 20 minutes.  Still have to perfect it though.  Cause our braid is kinda bulky and sloppy hehehe.  We ended up making a total of 8 lei's and were soooo proud of ourselves.  hahaha.  My BIL worked that day and decided to wear his to work.  He had never seen it before and wanted to show it off..hahaha.  I like this lei cause its something different from your regular candy lei's.  I heard some lady up north sells these for $20.  Trust, it cost us $7 for the big bag of worms which makes about 4 or 5 leis.  Used ribbons and saran wrap already in our homes.  All it takes is patience and you've got yourself a really cost effecient beautiful lei.  Also try them with twizzlers and red vines or the colorful vines..hehehe.  YAY!!!

Daddy Dearest..

My dad is such a soft spoken humble man.

He is a great example of a hard worker.

So unselfish and is always thinking of others first.

Never doing anything expecting to be paid back.

Today he is celebrating his 62nd birthday.

Our family made a visit to good ol GC to celebrate.

Its a joy to see his big bright smile

just having his kids and grandkids their with him.

His g-kids are his heart and soul.

Thank you for being our dad and gpa

We love you and hope  you enjoyed your bday.

Pictured here with some of the grandkids

Class of 2010

Time is going by too fast.  I swear I just did my post of 2009 graduates.  And yet it is upon us again.  A few of my nieces and cousins who made it happen this year.  Congratulations to the Class of 2010.  Proud of your achievements.  Love ya tons!  Now on to the REAL WORLD you go!!!

Niece Mariah Taloa - Tracy High School, California

Niece Chante Ava - West High School, Utah

Cousin Augafa Vaaulu - Warren High School, California

Cousin Jenny Sua - Granger High, Utah

(2nd from left)

Our NEW hang out..

The day finally came..  And now SLC/Rose Park has its very own Family Fitness Center.  YAY!!!  We've had a membership at the West Valley Rec several times.  And we'd be sooo gong-ho about it and make the long drive out there several times a week.  Then slowly we'd slack off and our money would go to waste.  But now, we have our very own close to home.  Since its opening earlier this month we have been there almost everyday working out, playing basketball, some volleyball and of course swimming.  And not just our family.  Everyone.  All my BFs and their families.  Got my sis and her family to come out.  So as one big community family, we have been utilizing our rec center to the fullest.  I love love love it.  And I hope and pray that I never ever get sick of it.  It isn't as big as West Valley or even Kearns, but its enough for our needs.  So if your ever in the hood....stop on by, I'll bet we'll already by there...hehehe.

Happy Birthday Jeremiah!!

They really do grow too fast and I wish I could somehow stop time :) Yikes...I have a teenager in the household. I don’t know if I’m ready to handle that phase of life. Or better yet, re-live it. Hehe. My son celebrated his 13th bday today. Mellow day of chilling with his cousins Jacob and Myles who just turned 13 as well. Video games, clowning on each other, racing to see who’s the fastest and just good Boy fun. Kept it simple and sweet. Daddy had to work this morning so no one-on-one bday breakfast that has become a tradition in our family. They’ll have to do it when daddy is off work again. My kids love their one-on-ones with daddy..  Enjoyed a nice simple koaga’I (eating) with my family and ended the evening with cake and ice cream at my SILs home. Thank you Fano girls for the lovely bday cake and ice cream. Jeremiah is truly blessed to have such loving and caring family. And we are truly blessed to have him in our lives.  He is my humble macho man.  Happy Birthday son. We love you.

With his cousins

Graduations and a WEDDING...

Making graduation lei's was put on hold for a lil bit so that flower bouquets and corsages could be made for my cousin Shawns wedding.  So while everyone was having grad parties, our family was welcoming another member into the big bunch.  Congrats to Shawn and his beautiful wifey Becky.  Babygirl was part of the wedding party and loved getting dressed up for the occasion.  It was indeed a fun time with family.  Even if most of the time we were busy in the kitchen.  Love my family.

Schools Out...YAY

The kids have really enjoyed their last week of school. I guess I would too if all we did was have fun. Field Day, Lagoon Day, Fun day of games and water fights, Yearbook Day. This was probably the best week of school for them…hehe. Thank you Legacy Prep Academy for an AWESOME school year. Kids have enjoyed their new school. Although they hate wearing uniforms, they really grew to love their new school and the new friends they’ve made. Thank you to all the teachers for working so hard to teach my children. Everyday they are talking about the exciting things they are learning in school. And even schooling mommy and daddy in it all.. It definitely has been a good school year and I’m looking forward to many more good years with Legacy. I love the involvement the parents have in school. I really do believe that when the parents are involved, the children will succeed. Thank you babies for such a good school year. We had our struggles with J-boi this year, but I am so proud of him for working hard and proving to us that he can do good. He really didn’t wanna have to sit out this football season or summer. Thank you son! Daisy has such an excitement for school and learning. I hope she keeps that FOREVER lol. Now on to summer we go… Hopefully I can find things to keep them busy.. Its times like this that I wish I didn’t have to work.. Love my kids!!!

While we were away...

While we were away in Cali….this is what we missed out on. The annual Rose Park Family Reunion BBQ. This is where everyone who’s ever lived and grew up in Rose Park come together to enjoy a day of friendship and community love. Just like Madea's Family Reunion...hahaha  With someone always having drama.  hahaha.  I love my closenit Rose Park community. Tongan / Samoans all together enjoying good food, good company, good fun. 

My husband has lived in RP since his family here to Utah.  When we married, we made RP our home.  I love it in Rose Park.  I've heard all the stereo types.  Its ghetto.  Hoodrats.  Dangerous.  Hello...I've lived in COMPTON..LOL.  This is Beverly Hills compared to that...  Hahha.  I really love the close-nit family bond we have here.  Everyone looks out for each other.  Everyone is trying and working hard to give our children a positive better life.  It really is a good place to live.  Its known that RP is Salt Lake best kept secret...hahaha  So true!!!

Family Weekend..

We FINALLY decided last week that we would DEFINATELY be traveling to North Cali during Memorial weekend for niece Mariah's high school grad.  We are sooo bad at planning financially for events, trips and so forth that we thought for sure we couldn't do it.  Thank you to the man above who continues to bless our family.

We picked up our rental and off we went Thursday afternoon.  DaisyGirl was feeling sick the day before so I was a bit worried she'd have a miserable drive.  She was such a good sport and never complained or whined about anything.  I guess being occupied watching movies helped too..  I will never travel again with out a portable DVD player.  It really does make the drive alot more smooth when they are too occupied to argue or complain..

We had a good time spending it with my DH's family as well as my family.  Didn't think we'd get out to Oakland to be with my family.  My parents where out there with my sis Rissa's family visiting my other siblings.  So it all worked out.  BTW, my parents just love North Cali.  Even wanted to stay behind and forget Utah..hahaha  I won't be surprised if my parents decide to ditch us here and make a new home in Cali. 

Congrats to Ms Mariah graduating from Tracy High School.  I miss going to Cali grads in the football field.  Where you can blow your horns and throw your confetti and not get escorted out by security.  haha.  She had a huge graduating class.  Thank goodness the weather was cool.  Family and friends enjoyed a very nice grad party that evening a the Winery in Tracy.  With good food and good entertainment.  Danced the night away and enjoyed ourselves.