Mr. ALL-STAR

YANKEE'S FAN IN THE MAKING
[Thanks to Marianna for the photos of our little slugger]

Family...

matters.

*On a side note Filipo got his papers! Welcome to the USA Mr. Resident!!

Memorial Day

Finau Leka's first beach outing
beautiful havaiinei

about to go in
(thanks grandma for my swimming shorts!!
I love the animals on them)

smiling and laughing before he fell in

The boys out in the water

Contrary to what everyone thinks the waterpark is so OVERRATED!! The natural waterpark is THE WAY TO GO & IT'S FREE!! Finau's been having trouble sleeping because it's so stuffy and hot right now so he had a good sleep all of Monday morning. I made breakfast for Filipo and then we woke the little man up and went to Malaekahana. We bought Finau a floatie a few weeks back so he got to use that. Two minutes in the water and he accidentally fell in so he was coughing for a bit. Then his whole little body started to look cold so they went out and came in for about 15 minutes before we left. I spent our whole two hours just relaxing in the water. It doesn't make sense to me why people go to the beach but don't go in the water especially when it's overcast (which it was for the last hour), I mean come on I can do that in the comfort of my own home. So then we went home and perfect timing because it started to POUR while Filipo was outside washing the car...too funny. It was nice to take Finau to the beach for the first time and just spend time together as a family because we're never together with Filipo's crazy work schedule and everything we have going on. I can't wait til we're done with school so we can spend some quality time together.

His super cute honu (turtle) floatie!!

Fale Fo'ou

We just realized that we never said anything about moving. Well we had to move out of our apartment because they're moving missionaries into our building so they moved us into a two-bedroom. We had a lot of choices but we finally decided on a building that was still in our ward. It's across from one of the families that watches Finau sometimes. The little kids came over all the time when we moved in to watch movies and their dad always came over to yell at them to get in their own house when none of us where there. It was pretty funny since we were cleaning out the old house and we couldn't find any of them and it turns out they were inside our house haha.....

It's a really nice apartment since it's only a few years old, it's one of the new buildings in TVA. The rooms are bigger except for the kitchen which is annoying since Filipo spends so much time cooking for all the people that come over. Finau has his own room now but Filipo always drags him in with us. There's doors for everything so we can separate the rooms/bathroom from the rest of the house which is nice when there's lots of people over so we don't disturb Finau while he's sleeping.

We've been here two weeks but we're still working on finally getting settled. I did tell Filipo it felt like we moved from a home to a dorm room because all the furniture is the dorm furniture! What is that about?!! At least we finally have a new couch! We can't wait to finally get Nau Leka's room all sorted out. I think once that's all done we won't have any trouble keeping the house clean but now it's kind of the "dumping ground" for EVERYTHING. Hey at least we've only had one refugee so far! LOL...

Sunday Breakfast

Even Finau wanted some of the good food

French toast, Eggs, Sausage,
and
my favorite strawberry/mango smoothies!!

Yummy breakfast!

[Finau ready to eat! And NO I didn't even
notice that knife until I was uploading this]

I decided we're going to have a nice family breakfast on the weekends and just sit and talk since that's the time we're usually home together. I made french toast, eggs, sausage, cinnamon rolls, and strawberry/mango smoothies! It was so yummy and we are definitely doing that again!! Yeah for summer time and making smoothies every day in the heat!!!!!! Gotta Luv It!

*On a side note we went to our friend's house and they served us poison 'otai!! LOL.....It was super bitter but they couldn't figure out why. I think it was the milk but then they finally decided it was the watermelon which I still don't think cos I tasted that alone and it was fine. Anyway it was funny because another of our friends came over while we were there and they poured him some and he said it was fine and so he tasted Filipo's and made this horrible face and spit it out! TOO FUNNY!!

put a smile on your face

I couldn't help but smile, how cute is this?

tonga pride

how precious is that....proud to be a tongan boy...