Happy Easter

[In his new EASTER outfit]

I got up early and everyone was still asleep. I got ready for church and then just waited for everyone else to get up. Mum got up and we cooked breakfast for everyone. We had waffles with homemade strawberry jam, fruit salad, and sausage/bacon Mmm!! The sister missionaries live in our basement apartment so they came up and joined us. It was such good food! Mum also made everyone easter baskets! She gave Filipo a spider man one that is actually for Finau to use at Halloween that came with a spider man outfit!

[All of his goodies for easter.
He thought the pictures in the
big book were him
and so he saw the faces
and laughed and laughed, too cute!]

After everyone was ready we went to church. I was trying to figure out if I wanted to go to our home ward or our old ward but I ended up staying for all of our home ward. It was so taeoli so I wish I had gone to the other ward. Finau and I did have fun in Mum's class. I forgot how childish and dumb wanna-be cool highschoolers act, it was pretty entertaining.

[With Uncle Scott, the youngest of my dad's brothers]


After church Grandma Weber and Uncle Scott came up from Chester to have dinner with us. Aunt Heidi, her boys Robbie & Spence, and her husband Doug came over too. That meal was really good too especially all those yum cheesecake desserts!! It was a great easter and good to have so much family around especially that Grandma was able to see one of her great-grandchildren finally. He was almost as big as her but she loved holding him and spending time with Finau.

[Grandma Weber holding one of her great-grand sons
for the first time]]

Grandma with her boys

Cousin Spence holding Finau

Aloha 'Oe Hawaii!!

Filipo & I finished our finals and packed our bags and we were off. The flight was so packed and they moved our seats about four times which kind of made me mad because I picked the ones I did so that we would be in the two seat by the window but they said their excuse for moving us was "There's so many infants on our flight we're having trouble placing them." Okay so someone else's bad planning means that I have to be uncomfortable?? Thank goodness Finau was really good though and his first flight was great. Everyone was asking us if he was always so good and they said it must be a Hawaii baby thing.

[stuck in ATL]

So we got to Atlanta after a VERY long flight. There were AT LEAST FOUR flights to DCA before ours through Delta. So since I didn't want to wait for five hours I went up and asked if we could get on the next flight flying out. The guy looks us up and says "The FAA does not let anyone voluntarily leave their baggage" So we couldn't. I really wanted to say "Can I get your badge number and name because this has happened to me three other times. I have a six month old baby and I don't want to wait for five hours. If my luggage is already in DC when we get there I'm filing a complaint and report against you and I hope you get FIRED!" (Of Course it was there when we arrived)


So I asked the next two gate employees on the next two flights and they said similar things. At that point I was too tired and didn't care. We finally got on our original flight and made it to VA. Mum & Dad bought Finau this awesome car seat and we went home after a long day(s). They had so many toys and things for Finau and it was so good to sleep in a nice bed and shower in a shower that is clean and not all yucky and swarming with ants and cockroaches. I love being home!! It was also nice because mum and dad kept Finau in their room and he slept right through the night, he loves the cold!



*Isn't Finau's chair that mum got awesome. He lived in that thing all afternoon & it's his new favorite thing!

Kickin it in Haleiwa

I had a group meeting and spent five hours basically doing NOTHING. When I came home I decided Finau and I were gonna get away to eat out, just the two of us. Of course Filipo was jealous and wanted to come so we all hopped in the car and started driving to Haleiwa. It was a good idea because we were so stressed with all of the things we needed to get done and it was nice to get to spend some time together and just relax and get out of Laie.



We drove thru Haleiwa looking at all the different restaurants deciding where to eat. I grew up with my parents cooking all different kinds of foods especially thai food but I hated it! So it was pretty funny to me that I told Filipo we should eat at Haleiwa Eats (Thai Food). I heard everyone talk about it so we finally settled on eating there.




Filipo wanted to eat outside so we were right there in the mix of everything. I ordered Onion & Potato curry for Filipo and I got cashew chicken. If we go back again I am definitely getting what Filipo ordered, it was really good. We met up with Maafu's family and Tio and Suli. After that we came home.




Filipo went to work but Finau had a night out with the girls. We went with 'Isa and Keti to Mililani. We ate out, went shopping, and watched some of Duplicity. The girls had no idea what was going on so they left in the middle. It was pretty funny (them not the movie). We didn't finish so who knows if it's a good movie or not?



Anyway less than a week to Virginia!!!!!

SUPERSTAR

Finau was the star of Night Show last night. He was so good and he didn't cry at all. Everyone thought Laisani was gonna drop him though since he's almost as big as her LOL...It was really good, well FINAU was really good!!

Half a year

It's so amazing to think that little Finau has been with us for six months. That's half of a year! Wow, time is going by so fast. Sometimes I'm just so tired and I try so hard to get Finau to sleep. I'll feed him or put a movie on or rock him to sleep and then I look back and think how I'm letting the time slip by me and I'm gonna look back and wish I had spent more time playing with him. Then it makes me sad especially when I realize its been SIX MONTHS and it feels like just yesterday when we were finally taking him home from the hospital. He was so tiny and tall and such a cute bubba. Now he's getting taller and bigger and growing so much. I love him heaps. It's the best feeling being a mum and hoping that my son sees me as a good example for him like my mum was for me. I hope he knows how much we adore him and especially Filipo. He spends all his time playing with him and they laugh and laugh for hours. It's been a great six months and we're looking forward to all the great stuff he has in store for him.