Sunday enlightenment

"My Home Teachers are better than yours"

A woman in relief society stands up during 'good minute' to tell everyone how much she loves her home teachers. She says, "my home teachers never fail on visiting me every first day of every month. they are the best!".

Another woman stands up and says, "well my home teachers always visits me the day before yours comes".

Who's better now?


IT's now getting harder to sit in class and listen to a lesson while Kamanamau is trying to talk over the teacher. When I put him on my lap he'll squirm out of it, pound on anything in reach, and grunt & yell at the same time so that everyone stares my way. You're probably thinking "man, if that was me i would sa sa him". Yes I believe in discipline, but first I think hitting is a sign that you have lost control and second it doesn't sit well with me when you beat your children in front of people -I've had enough of that shame. We've never had time outs and I don't know what to think about groundings. Ahh! anyways, back to whatever I was saying - I didn't wana put him in nursery because he's coughing and has a runny nose. Sick? no, not really. Just coughing and the runny nose. Well, he still has 2 more months until he can legally be in nursery. LOL. you never know, i don't want the nursery teachers to ask me to show them his birth certificate and deny him to go to nursery because he's not old enough haha.

Today's topic in our combined class: PROvident LIVING.

Something new I learned was about emotional spending. Do you ever find yourself searching for something to get your loved one because his/her birthday is coming up, then you buy them the flat screen tv that you've always wanted?? Not that this has happened to me. I wish LOL. Now I have to think twice, no 3 times before buying anything.

This actually ties into a talk in the last general conference when a man wants to buy his lovely wife a very expensive fur coat. She says she doesn't need it and asks where will she wear it to. Then she says are you buying this for me or are you trying to prove something to other people?

Everyone in our apartment building has a huge flat screen tv. It would be nice to have one, but we don't need it. I always joke around and say that we should get a flat screen so we can be 'in sync' with everyone else, but I would rather put that money away for something else. If someone just happens to offer their flat screen . . then let it be :D hahaha

The Church is True. Good night.

what a night

Mana hasn't been himself lately. He's not eating much (very very strange), he'll cry when I leave, he is more clingy than usual, and now he has the runs (diarrhea). I took him to see the doctor today because he wasn't eating and found out he has stomach flu. Stomach flu not swine flu. Last night I aired his butt because he had diaper rash from the diarrhea. He slept on those very big sheet-like pad things (my friend trained his puppy to poop and pee on it). He wasn't gona sleep diaper-less for the whole night, I just wanted to give his butt some air for an hour or so. Anyways I was on the computer reading my email when Mana starts farting like no other and then in an instant 'stuff' comes shooting out, like squirting kine, from his rear end! The crap got on our laptop and our bed. Ya gross, I know. I should have took the farting as a warning, but it just happened so fast. Haha ya well that was my night..and you can only imagine how the rest of the night went.

The Perfect Mother

She's not perfect, but she's definitely the perfect mother for me .. I love you.

A wonderful grandma & one of the notorious bodyguards lol

Good Morning Sunshine!

Joe woke me up at 4:30am to ask if I wanted to watch the sunrise with him. Let me just say if I was still nursing Kamanamau I would've killed him for waking me up so early. I was surprised that he decided to do this cos he had a 7am class, so there was really no time for him to rest when we came back. We went when it was dark and saw the sun peeking at around 5:40-ish. It was beautiful. Then came home around 6:30. I love my husband!!! if everyone had a man like him the world would be a better place.

These little things are what we cherish.

WAiting for Mr. Sun

The colors remind me of The Lion King

Kodak moment. It's a nice silhouette too, well at least I think so :)

Look how pretty - Mr. Sun kept hiding behind the clouds

The sun was up and shining but Mana was ready to go back to bed. He slept til 10am :) thank you very much.

Back on Hawaiian soil

Hello again. We are back...home sweet home! Our trip to Samoa was refreshing, thrilling, and soooooo HOT! Kamanamau was given the opportunity to meet his great grandparents. We had such a great time. I only wish Joe came with us, but of course he was tied down with work. Not to my surprise my family fell in love with this kid. It's custom to leave your child(ren) with family if asked to and I was pressured over and over again to leave Kamanamau there, but there was no chance that it was gonna happen. If I left Mana there then I would lose my title as his bodyguard and I just love this job. The closest thing to leaving Mana in Samoa was if we all moved there. Come to think of it, my mom would put up a fight if she knew we were going to live in Samoa. Our purpose for the trip was for my grandma's birthday. We weren't the only visitors they had; my cousins from New Zealand came over too. You would think my grandparents would slow down because of their age and take rests here and there but NO, not at all. I'm telling you these people get up early in the morning to do what they do. From farming to plantation work and everything in between, they did it all. I was inspired by their strength and love for each other and their work. I hope we see them soon.

I see land!!!

This is how he entertained himself

Cheezin for the camera - Mana checkin' himself out in the mirror.

THE TONGAN STUDS

Leaving on a jet planeWe could still see my grandma waving her hanky at this point

We're going home. It's bitter sweet hence my smile and his scowl.

First class. First class on mommy's lap.

Home at last!

Out to dinner on our day back

Full rack of ribs! Catching up on what he missed while in Samoa

We're whole again :)

I am soooooo behind on this blog, i knew it would come to this lol. Well since Kamanamau is asleep and I have a 15 page paper due on Monday and I gota wake up tomorrow morning at 5, plus I still have homework to do for class tomorrow...I felt that this would be the BEST time to reactivate my blog mode.

Here's the update :

• MY BIG BOY TURNED ONE YEARS OLD!!! I know this is a "couple" of days late but its ok. I'm a firm believer of the saying "better late than never".

• (No available picture) Plus, I wouldnt want you to have nightmares of me!! We had our anniversary and somewhat celebrated it, but it wasn't exactly the romantic kind of night .... I literally had a FAT FACE lol. PUffy, red eyes with an itchy throat. Just imagine myself looking like Hitch when he had that allergic reaction...that's what I looked like. no joke. Lol

• We took a trip to Kona for Vaughn & Caryn's sealing. It was our first family trip off island. I learned that Joe HATES flying and Kamanamau LOVES it. On the flight back home, he kept screaming on the plane, it was the good excited scream but the old ladies in the front of us were not happy about it at all. They should be happy he wasn't crying, then they'd regret even being in the same plane. We stayed with Lana's granny for a little bit. She was so awesome. I love her house!!! We ate Thai for dinner and caught the last flight back home.

• My dad, his wife, and their 2 kids came down for vacation. Teanekuma (2 yrs old) is the oldest boy and Douglas (4 mnths) is the baby. Teanekuma is a bully; I really hate that he pushes Mana. Teanakuma looks like my older sister...scary! haha. Douglas loves to smile. He's kind of a chill baby. In the picture, Kamanamau didn't know whether he should be afraid or happy because the baby was just about to cry.
  

• We love this kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, this clip is really dark and is such poor quality but i thought it was cute. He loves to rock in this chair.

Puppy love

Mana got bored after a while but it was very entertaining watching him play with the little pup while he was still interested. He pulled the puppy's ear and it yelped which got Mana scared. When the puppy (i think they named him Rafiki ?? lol) ok..so the puppy was running around for a little bit and Mana just looked at the creature like it was crazy..that confused, what are you doing look. lol.

No it's not ours.

Yes i will update.