Happy Birthday Osi!!

What is your favorite color? 2
What is your favorite toy? Ryan's Toy's
What is your favorite fruit? Strawberries
What is your favorite TV show? Dora the Explorer
What is your favorite sport? Baseball
What is your favorite outfit? Dora Pajamas
What is your favorite game? Doing Puzzles
What is your favorite snack? Candy
What is your favorite animal? 2 (doesn't really like animals)
What is your favorite song? Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
What is your favorite book? The Pop Book
Who is your best friend? Izzy, Misi, Mana, Mei Mei, Nay Nay, Ami, Mom, Dad
What is your favorite cereal? Lucky Charms
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Wheeeee (swing)
What is your favorite holiday? Halloween Blankie and Baba
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Baba
What do you want to eat on your birthday? Spaghetti
What do you want to be when you grow up? Man
Where do you want to live when you grow up? Mommy
What is your favorite kind of music? Elmo Songs, Pink Fong, Super Simple Songs
What is your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Play the phone
What is your dream car? 2
What is your favorite movie? 2 (anything Dora, or Ryan)

Izzy & Preschool

I signed Izzy up for the school district's preschool program months ago. They were waiting for a grant to go through before they could make a decision on who got into preschool or not.  We've been telling him that he will start school soon, but I've also been trying to come up with alternatives just in case the school district's preschool program didn't work out. We got an email today and I almost cried because I was so happy for him!! He got in and also got his teacher assignment....Mrs Kitchen. He's going to LOVE it!!!

 

 Osi wanted to wear Meilani's shopkins pj's one day. It went from good....

 to bad.....

 to worse, really fast!!

We also discovered our little Osi loves broccoli, I wish we had more broccoli lovers in our house, but maybe if I keep making it over and over again,, they will all eventually come to like it:)

24th of July Parade

We said goodbye to Dad this morning, he's heading to Tonga for 17 days to do a medical mission with a bunch of other doctors. In order to distract ourselves we decided to go to the 24th of July parade in Monroe. We will miss him terribly!!

Swimming with Cousins

We are so lucky to live near so many cousins!!

 When we came out of the dressing room Osi was pulling back on my hand, crying, and whining to stay away from the water. We took baby steps, and got in the pool slowly, walked around slowly with him holding onto my finger with a death grip.  About 20 minutes into our pool day he was walking around by himself (with me following behind him to make sure his feet didn't go out from under him)  Pretty soon he was having as much fun as the other kids:)

Everybody else had lots of fun:)

Candids

 For his birthday Ami went shopping on his favorite Chinese website. He got a few shirts, a hat, socks   and these shoes. Which he is extremely proud of. 

 Mana's learning how to braid (notice how he uses his feet:))

 When one of our kids has money and their brother or sisters needs money....bribery at it's finest!!

We went school shopping, Izzy and Meilani were the only ones that wanted a picture with all of their new things:)

Happy Birthday Misi!!

Happy 12th Birthday Misi!! Misi is our always drinking chocolate milk (like 15 cups a day), more organized than his brothers, baseball playing, sort of middle child, chill, but often times bored, friendly to everybody,  easily forgiving, animal loving, boy.  Misi is excited to start the 7th grade, and hang out with his friends again. (he hasn't had a phone so it's tough to get a hold of them in the summer) Misi is a kind and helpful brother & son, and we love him so much!!

What is your favorite color? Sea Foam Green
What is your favorite toy? the X-Box
What is your favorite fruit? Mango
What is your favorite TV show? Total Drama Island
What is your favorite sport? Baseball
What is your favorite outfit? Don't really have any
What is your favorite game? For Honor
What is your favorite snack? Cereal
What is your favorite animal? a Turtle
What is your favorite song? Anything That's Good
What is your favorite book? The Fourth Stall
Who is your best friend? I don't know (a lot of different people)
What is your favorite cereal? Fruity Pebbles or Oreo's
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play basketball with Ami and Mana
What is your favorite drink? Chocolate Nesquik
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Nothing
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Chocolate Chip Pancakes
What do you want to eat on your birthday? Sushi
What do you want to be when you grow up? Zoologist (and Happy)
Where do you want to live when you grow up? Someplace Nice
What is your favorite kind of music? Anything That's Good
What is your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Work on puzzles
What is your dream car? a Jeep
What is your favorite movie? Spiderman Homecoming

4th of July Parade

Another 4th of July parade in the books:) Ami was working in the ward's snow cone booth, and Ofeina was marching with the other cheerleader's.

 A few days before Osi fell on Kyson's bike and scraped up his nose, forehead, and cheek. Poor baby!!

 and Poor Meilani, she was sick the whole parade. She would stand up to catch the candy, then bring her candy back to her bag, and throw up is her sick bowl:(

Luckily, this year the weather was good to us and it was in the high 70's through out the whole parade. 

Family Reunion 2019

Since Grandma Lita and Grandpa Fine were here Pila wanted to organize a big family reunion for Grandma Lita's side of the family, We went to palisades the night before, stayed in the DIP then moved down by the lake to save our spots early the next morning. The picture below is when we camped the first night, Pila wanted to build a little fire while we waited for Sisi and Siaosi to join us.  He sent the kids to gather wood and when they come back with very much he went on the hunt, he found a bunch of wood and started the fire.  When the wood started to burn it had the worst smell....like stinky feet!! (It was sooo weird, and is now an inside joke) One more memory to add to our list of inside jokes!!) 

 The next day (Saturday) most of Grandma Lita's siblings showed up, along with their kids, it was lots of fun. We played in the lake all day, had great food, and great conversation. We rented a big cabin at Palisades and everybody who didn't need to come back to Richfield, stayed at the cabin.  That night there was a little program and the Pola and Sea's grandkids danced and we had a little program. The reunion continued the next day with Braxton's homecoming.

I've been terrible at taking pictures lately and these are the only 2 pictures I took of the whole weekend:( But don't worry, I'll include a post of everybody else's pictures so we ca always remember what a great time we had that weekend:)

Braxton's Homecoming

Our Nephew/Cousin Braxton came home from his mission June 22, we got to go up to the airport to welcome him home. For his homecoming he asked his siblings plus our kids if they could sing the song "How Can I Be" We were lucky enough to not only have Lita and Fine visiting from New Zealand, but MJ got to come for an extended stay also. Grandma made sure to prepare Tongan attire for all of the kids to wear to Braxton's homecoming. I thought it was really cool, and we are very grateful for her:)

 Osi wasn't feeling pictures that day, and we didn't get a picture with the returned missionary, but it was still a good day.

Girl's Camp & New Beds

 One of my church callings is Laurel Advisor, even thought I wasn't able to go to all of girl's camp this year, I got to go one of the days. We went on a hike, crossing a "creek" multiple times, it was a lot higher than we thought with no real trail. We weren't able to reach our final destination (a waterfall) due to a mud slide, but we sure had fun.  We also had a paint night, and got to eat a really yummy dutch oven dinner.  Maybe next year I'll get to go to all of camp:)

 a cute candid of our favorite baby

Pila and I got a new bed so Meilani's twin size bed got switched out for our old queen.  Prior to the kid's new bed, Meilani slept on her twin and Izzy and Osi slept on the floor.  They are now all sharing a bed and loving it. (we could probably fit at least one more kid on it:))

Palisades 2019

Our first Palisades/DIP trip of 2019!! We went with our good friends/family the Taufatofua's and had a great time:) Meilani was sick the whole time, during the night she was throwing up/coughing the whole time so we didn't get much sleep. So the next day we had "nap time"

 Pila rowed Izzy on the paddleboat so long that Izzy fell asleep, and had a nice nap out on the lake:)

Irrigating

 We have sorghum (feeder corn) planted in our field right now, along with Jaliz and Andy we get to irrigate it.  Our very first time ever was yesterday.  We have water for 2 days, and it is sooo hard. Pila had surgery so he couldn't help us and in my head I kept thinking to myself " this is why I married Pila, because he does all of the hard physical labor for me" (I'm very spoiled in that way) I've probably never dug with a shovel that much in my life!! (finger's crossed it gets easier!!)