Ummm, Hello again.

Well, this is going to be a brief post, but we are alive and well. I need to get this updated more, I find I spend a great deal more time on facebook posting the brief happenings of our lives, but for the record, we are going to have a baby...a boy...in June, c-section tentatively June 14! We are very excited, and feel very blessed to finally have another little addition join our little family. Soon I'll update on the the last 6 months or so of our lives, until then...happy times!

going private?

so i'm thinking about joining those who have gone private, somewhat influenced by the family who found a pic on craigslist of their baby up for sale, the pic was taken off a public blog (that's the general jest of the story, details may not be spot on), so, make sure i have your email, i'll probably be doing this in the next week

May recap

I'm lousy at keeping this up today so before July slips away from me too I'm going to throw in May, which as previously mentioned included birthdays, a major haircut for me and the end of kindergarten for Mason meaning some tears for me,
wow 30 already!!
the school had a walk a thon
and of course kady had to participate
mason and some of his girlfriends


Mas and his teacher Mrs. Giles
so proud

i love my boys!



the 4 kindergarten classes

Kennedy is 5!!

So once again I've been bad at blogging, but this has been a busy month, kady turned 5, sipa turned 40...i mean 36, and i turned 30...all within 6 days of each other...Mason finished kindergarten and britt came out to visit. so enjoy the pics, this is just kady, i need to upload some more pics of mas before i can post more, maybe i'll get to that tomorrow :)

Kevin's Mission!

So I was doing really good for awhile and then we had crazy happen. My mom and dad came out with my brother Kevin (and my aunt Karen), who entered the MTC Wed, April 22. He will be serving in the Montana Billings Mission. For those of you who had seen my sister's blog & my aunt's, yes, some of these are duplicates because I copied them, but I didn't have some of them, and others I was just to lazy to go find because I really wanted to post this so I can post BIRTHDAY WEEK! Anyway, we had a really neat couple of days running around getting last minute things together, spending time together. We had some yummy dinners, and lots of laughs! The night before he went in Mom, Dad, Kevin, and I went out to dinner just the 4 of us to Ruby River, and I don't remember laughing so hard in quite some time!


It was really neat taking him to the MTC, Sipa never went to the MTC, it took so long to get his visa and other paperwork that he left straight from Tonga to Guam/Micronesia, but then again, I guess that was back in the day! We saw a guy I worked with at Target walking around with his little group, I said hello, but I struggled, trying to remember his last name, hello elder ummm, Harrison! And then the family sitting behind us was Tongan, and Sipa used to play rugby with the dad yrs ago back in Cali! I'm really so very proud of the decision he has made to serve the Lord, and the people of Montana.

He's the first of the siblings, although he's #5 of the kids, he's the first boy, and us girls didn't/haven't gone. He is so perfect for that mission and I am so excited to hear how he learns and grows. It's crazy to think that when he gets back Mason will have already been baptised! Good Luck Kevin!! We love you!!

More Hawaii!

Here are some more pics of our trip. Really we did have a good time, and I am almost overwhelmed when I reflect back on our trip of the amazing sights, smells and sounds we experienced, along with all of the love we felt from the majority of people we encountered (with the exception of waikiki, pretty beach, amazing shopping, nasty rude people)- Enjoy the pics!

Polynesian Cultural Center

So after the funeral was over we got to do some "touristy" things Friday night we went to PCC with my sis in law Manu, Sipa, the kids and Sipa's cousins Jr and Hano. We saw the dance show and it was really amazing.

For those who have been before, we were there on the first night of a new program, so you'll have to go back and see it again, I was told by Sipa's family who have all been many times that it is really so much better now! We went back the following day with Sipa's other sisters and their families. We had so much fun walking around seeing the villages and listening to them compare what they remember from the islands compared to what's there. I loved Samoa's and Tonga's shows the best, but perhaps I'm slightly biased. We(Sipa) made smoke at the fire making station in Samoa. We all got faux tattoos in Fiji, and while waiting for the rest of us,
my bro in law Litoni, sat down at a fake fruit stand and starting yelling "coconuts, 5 dolla, 2 for 10" some asian ladies went up to him to "inspect" his wares not sure if he was serious or not, we were all on the floor laughing! It's definitely a place I'd like to go back to and spend more time looking around, and I really wish we'd planned ahead and gone to one of the buffets to eat, they looked soo yummy!