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!

Hogle Zoo

Its been about 3 years since we've been back to the zoo. Luckily my company party was being held there and so no cost out of pocket for us. YAY...I love FREE. So of course I got our family tickets and a couple extras so my kids could each invite a buddy to go with them. Miah invited Lorenzo and Daze invited Iversyn. Anyhoo, although it rained, actually it poured most of the time there we still made the best of it. Got to see most of the animals that weren't hiding from the rain. Bummed we missed most of the shows and the train was not in operation. Boo.. Oh well. Here are some pics I took..

LOL..My only picture there. Proof I was actually there. I was the designated photographer..hehe


Kids with the zebra. Wearing the hidious rain poncho's. Annoying but it helped keep them dry. Well mostly dry..



Daze and Iversyn with the bear.



Posing in front of the noisey farting elephant. LOL.


Checking out the birds. Aren't those poncho's ugly...hehehe

Anyhoo it was a fun wet day. Since Foi was working Father's DAy we made this our Father's Day activity. And I was excited I could sleep in and not worry about breakfast..hehe. I'm soo not a morning person. Church service was beautiful. Of course since the YW (Whoot Whoot) gave the program. The talks by our graduates were good as they spoke of their fathers and our Heavenly Father. The spirit was truely felt. Father's Day koga'i with the extended family was the bomb with good food and good company. Always love it when all goes well. I have been blessed with many great men in my life. Especially the love of my life. Happy Fathers to each of you my Heavenly Father, my earthly Father, my Father-in-law and the Father of my children.

(oops..just now realized i never posted this..my bad!!)

Softball..

Wow...I'm on a roll this month with my blog. YAY!!! Finally something I'm on a roll with LOL. We'll see how long that last though.. ANYHOO...

Our PRINCESS played softball this year again. I thought for sure after last year she would have given up on the sport. I'm glad she came around and now has LOVE for the game. She played this year with a group of friends and cousins and really had a good. And the team did well coming in 2nd place overall. YAY!!! She has picked up on the sport and did well. So this year we decided to go further with softball and had her try out for the All-Stars team. She made the team. B team though..hehe. Still we were proud cause she made the all-star team. This past weekend was her first tournament in West Valley. And it was a good time. Both for her and us as well. We were amazed at the skills of young girls in his age bracket. We only won 1 of 3 games but got a whole lot out of it. I'm sure she learned alot. And best of all she had a good time playing. You would have never guessed they only won 1 game. We love it and look forward to many more tournaments. Go Bountiful Bullets!!!!

More Family Graduates...

I originally thought to just blog about events and dates of importance directly with my immediate family of four. But realize that there will be others events of other peeps outside my family of four that we want to remember.. Yep there is. So with that being said...

Congrats to my nephew (sister #2 RPT's son) MCT who promoted from Monroe Elementary earlier this month. He is the oldest Grandchild on my side. So this was a special one for my side of the family. MCT received a Principal Achievement Award that day. She described him as an outstanding student he brightens up any room with his smile...True dat. Love ya nephew..Pictured here with his mama..

Also earlier this month another oldest Grandchild graduated. On my husbands side this time. UTJ is my husbands sister FMF's oldest daughter. She graduated with honors from Cyprus High School home of the Pirates...RRRRR LOL. UTJ is a beautiful bright young lady. And is a great example to all her sisters and lil cuzzins. We are sooo proud of her and know she will do well. Congrats girl....We love you!!!

Also graduating this year is my first cousin NM from good ol' Granger High. I'm soo proud of this girl. She is a hard worker and such a great babysitter..hehe. My kids and nephew and nieces just adore this girl. We're proud of you girl and wish you nothing but the best as you take a step into the next chapter of your life. You Rock!!!

School's Out...

If you ask my kids if they are excited school is out, they tell ya NO. They loved attending schoold each day. Well give a few times for my princess who loves her sleep..haha. So nice their excitement for school. I hope it continues for the rest of their school lives.

My big boi J*Rock has completed his elementary school days. Yesterday (6/8/09) was his promotion from North Star Elementary. It was a wonderful program and it was exciting to see the big smile on his and his classmates faces as they received their certificate of acheivement. This year was the first they decided to throw a dinner/dance for the 6th graders. He had a good time and said they had a dance competition between the boys and girls. And of course the boys won. Yeah right!! LOL. So now on to his next step in life..Jr High School. Here are just some of the things he will miss about elementary:

• His friends he's made..as he'll be attending school outside the district.


• Recess


• All of his favorite teachers


• Playing bball against the teachers


• His PE class

The Princess of the family just finished up her 1st grade year. She has been an excellent student and has learned alot this year. She enjoyed her teacher and friends she has made this year. She too will be attending a new school next year and will miss the friends she has made. Hopefully this school will be the one as she has had a new school every school year. Here are some of her favorites from this year:

• She loved spelling time


• Playing on the playground


• Art and coloring


• Birthdays are fun cause of treats


• Math

My kids have had a good school year. I thank all the teachers and staff that have helped in teaching my kids. Much appreciated. Now on to the summer fun.....YAY!!!!!

LOL J*Rock Moment

My big boy J*Rock was in desperate need of some new shoes. And with his bday coming up in a week, we decided to get him an early gift so we drove out to PC to check out the outlets. We looked and looked around. Finally he finds a pair that he loved. The price was really cheap too so that was a plus. Anyhoo, We got his size. I sat down on the bench and asked him to try it on. I watched my son as he walks away from me. Ok, I’m thinking where the heck is this kid going. I get up to follow him. Guess where he’s going? To the FITTING ROOM. Buhahaha. He’s going there to try on his shoes. What a fob!!! I had to tell him he could try them on right here. Out in the open... Hahaha. This isn’t is first pair of new shoes so I don’t know why he thought to go to the Fitting Room. Oh wait, maybe he had a hole-ly sock. Or maybe he had the stinky feet syndrome. LOL. But either way, that was too funny.

My kids are soo fobby. And I love it. It keeps me laughing and teaching them daily. Hahahaha.

My review: FIVE GUYS Burger & Fries

I noticed a new burger joint on 5600 west in West Valley. Surprisingly for a Saturday we had nothing planned. So we went there to check it out.. We walked in and I think everyone (about 10 ppl) behind the counter greeted us..hehehe. I was in shock I didn't even get what they said. I know I heard something as we walked in and all these big grins on their faces. Getting excited at this point. The atmosphere seemed fun and it was pretty crowded too. We looked over the menu and I immediately thought of In and Out where you just have your burgers. Nothing special or exotic on the menu. Just burgers and fries. We each ordered a bacon cheeseburger with the fixens.. My kids the lil kids version of course. Totally yummy. Juicy burger and hooked up to your likings with cooked onions mushrooms lettuce tomato mayo...yummy!!! ...but for the price, not worth it. For a burger and fries joint, too too pricey. Total price $33 for a family of four. And thats with my kids getting water. So yeah..PRICEY. So I'll stick to my Mcdonald's dollar menu..LOL. Seriously!!!