all because 2 ppl fell in love..

JULY, lets catch up

So lets CATCH up..

Most of July my family and I have been spending alot of time with family!

Lets START w/JULY 4th

Truly GRATEFUL to live in this land of the FREE and for those who have served in our country and who continue to fight for us.

It was our 1st 4th of July in Las Vegas so we decided not to go to Cali. Now if you know my Hubby he likes to go all out and spend about $2-$3 hundred on fireworks, but not this year due to funds..lol but No worries Oli and Latai totally made up for it..hehehe

Because we live in apartments we were not able to do fire works @ our place so we went to the Hubbys cuzn Latai and Oli's house. It was FUN!!

My daughter swam w/lil Chris all day until it was time to eat and pop fireworks and even then they didn't want to get out..lol We had a GREAT time with friends and family laughing, joking, and of course BOMB bbq by the BOYS Sam, K.J and the HUBBY!)


                                                 $800. worth of FIREWORKS
So you know we had alot of FUN FUN.. and this was the 1st year EVERRRRR LiL Chris stayed outside to watch and light fireworks.

Highlight of the night my Hubby actually thot he could light a rocket while holding it, too HILARIOUS!
Best Part of the night I GOT TO EAT and HAD NO COMPLICATIONS, YAY MEEEE!
Here are some more pics, we were too busy having fun to really take pics=)

So as we're reaching 4 months of being on our own and having our own place, I miss HOME. I know I know GROW UP right..lol (thats wut he says)

I love having our place its GREAT we've  grown so much individually and together as a family. We can do our own thing and most importantly BE OURSELVES. My husbands family thinks they know him, but they don't..lol He's more himself when its just us and when ppl are around well let the show begin..lol but i love him, hes such a character and I see alot of my daughter in him..lol
Being on our own has helped us be independent and TRUST in the LORD to guide us where and what he wants us to do. We have callings in the church and I love seeing my husband go and do his home teaching or bless the sick. Its a blessing to have the PRIESTHOOD in my home, I remember what it felt like to not have it and it was horrible.
Our time schedule is all off especially with my husband and his sleepless nights and well now mine. So we're up all night till the morning and try to catch a nap and still get the days work in. My poor daughter is also on the same schedule but she loves being up. Thank goodness its too HOT to even go outside. We ride are bikes, skooter, and skates indoors. We play ball and anything else to keep my daughter busy..lol thank goodess for vinyl floors!

I am sad that I have yet to put up ANYTHING on my walls, and its not like I don't have pictures because everyone knows I have pictures. I love taking pics!! So its my goal to start putting up pictures still debating if i want to paint. I always wanted my home to be simple and warm and loving and well all I got is comfort and clean..lol

I hope to do a make over soon but my streangth is not all here and well not eating is probably the reason.

I really do love our lil home just miss my family..

sleeplessNIGHTS

So I have soooooooo much to complain about but I wont, in the END i know it will be worth it. I am thankful for this opportunity and literally always giving thanks to my Heavenly Father.
but in the mean time sleepless nights PLEASE goooo away so i may sleep tonight, nausea go away so that i don't have to sit in the bathroom next to my least fav spot and bladder please don't wake me up when I've finally fallen asleep @ 4 or 5 in the mornting.. that's all, THANK YOU!)

anotherYEAR

I just don't know where all the time has gone, and I'm already 28..lol

I use to sit and think what have I done with my life, what have I accomplished.
I didn't finish school
I didn't serve a mission
I don't have a career
I have no Job
I don't have alot of money
I haven't bought me a house.

As i sit here in my living room and my daughter is JUMPING around on the sofa and my Husband is doodling, I SMILE!)
I have the knowledge of a wonderful and TRUE Gospel
My life is a mission
I'm a MOMMY and WIFEY
being a HOMEMAKER is a FULL TIME JOB
No money is the WORLD can buy ETERNAL HAPPINESS
and my HOME is where the <3 is and its with my LiL Family.

Material things come and go, but the gift that I have to be with my family for ETERNITY is one that I cherish for a life time and is irreplaceable.

Living the Gospel and LOVING my FAMILY and grateful to my Heavenly Father for these GIFTS that I have and hope that I can return the favor. Pres. Harold B.Lee says it best..

“Life is God’s gift to man. What we do with our life is our gift to God.”

Another Year, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEEEEE
28 and feeling GREAT..LOL

theMENU

Since being prego cooking in the house is kind of for bidden..lol No foreals or I have to lock myself in the room till the smell passes. All week I've been planning his Fathers Day Menu.I told myself I have to do this. I had to be brave and make my Hubby a lovely dinner for Fathers Day.
                                                                                 Menu for Fathers Day:
                                                                       Steak
                                                                                   Pink Salmon
                                                                                        and faalifo Potatoes

He tells me as I'm bout to start cooking Hun I had a dream about DUMPLINGS and I really want some, do you think you can make me some? Ummm hello I don't know how to make that and that's not on the MENU..lol Thank goodness for YOUTUBE..lol So I YouTube DUMPLINGS and found a nice and easy recipe. I got light headed nauseous and hungry making these things, the dough part is what took forever everything else was easy.
I think I need to work on presentation a lil, but they were really good especially for my 1st time.
Dough Ingrediants
2 cups flour
pinch of salt
2 tsp of oil
125 ml of HOT water
I cut up the steak I put out already and it went perfect.

                                         HAPPY FATHERS DAY HONEY

                                                AND HAPPY DUMPLING                       
                                                                                                
                                                                               NEW FATHERS DAY MENU
                                                                                                DUMPLINGS
                                                                                                   RICE
  

 p.s Thank you Baby for helping Mommy you are the BEST HELPER EVERRRRR

theTUB

Our Apartment has this POOL that it is LITERALLY the smallest POOL EVER seen in an apartment and we call it the TUB..
Since its getting HOTTER here in Vegas and my daughter has wanted to try out the TUB, I told her we could but only in the mornings when it opened. The pool opens @ 9am and we go @ 10am.. I have to say the TUB is not so bad..lol its actually PERFECT for my daughter and she LOVES it.
I do have to say it has been nice to just RELAX @ the TUB(pool)

Friends she's made

We would do well to slow down a little, focus on the significant, lift up our eyes, and truly see the things that matter most. Its the simple things that makes her HAPPY and when shes HAPPY, MOMMY is HAPPY . I love my LIL GIRL she is my RAY of SUNSHINE EVERY DAY!              

                                                                   

FAMILYtime

LOVE is really spelt TEE EYE EMM EEE (TIME)

Went back home this past weekend and had just a LOVELY TIME! I was so excited to leave I forgot to take care of sum stuff because then I would have stayed the WHOLE WEEK there.. Next time I PROMISE to be more prepared..lol

We got in FRIDAY afternoon on my SONs birthday and I'm so HORRIBLE i fell asleep @ my Moms house and missed his BIRTHDAY dinner.. I felt so bad made up to him the next day..

It was too late to go to my sisters house so instead we went and visited our other nephew (for theee 1st time) Baby Atunaisa Kalake Fonua he is just so adorable. I thot i would be holding this lil light weight baby but know he was a WAAAPPING 10lbs and u could totally feel it. It was so good to see him in his home with his Mom and Dad, you could totally see how HAPPY his Mom was as she spoke about him and held him and fed him.. I did not take a pic, but best believe it baby the next time i see you i'll 50 + pics to pick frm..

SATURDAY spent the day in L.A with my AFUTITI family. Met up @ the LAX airport to pic up my 2 of my Dads lil sisters, my unkleTU, my cuzzn LagiBeth and my Neice Lauren. Eating, laughing and hanging out @ the BEACH and LAUGHING some more it was so FUN, and normally I'm tired and grumpy, or NAUSEAS but NOPE i did good..lol

fun at the BEACH..

SUNDAY Baby Naisa's bbyBLESSING
had breakfast @ my Moms well my husband did..LOL but my Mom makes the BEST PULINI everrr real stuff.  So I took sum to go.  We made our way to Chris's parents house to get ready for Church my daughter went sacrament @my parents ward and we picked her up before going to our old ward RANCHO CUCAMUNGA WARD. I have to say I love going back to visit, i always feel welcome when i come back its like the 1st time every time. They are so loving and there is always a great spirit about this ward, i do miss them. Naisa's blessing had alot of ppl in his circle including my husband which is why he didnt want to join the circle, but I'm glad he joined the circle even if it was by force..lol Chris's Dad Naisa came to the back to get Chris and told him to get in his chair..lol
The blessing that Don gave his son was so moving, and just BEAUTIFUL i have to admit as soon as it started I was in tears. Baby is named after both his grandpas and Don mentions that bby bares the name of great men and the hands who hold him up will be there for him when he needs them, and like I said there were a lot of ppl holding him up..lol You definitely felt Dons LOVE for his son and for his wife. There was a eat after wards to celebrate bbyNAISAs blessing and it was such a LOVELY day outside and its always nice to see family come together in JOY, LOVE and of course LAUGHTER. I wish I could have had some of the food but due to NAUSEOUSNESS it has not been easy to eat especially meet=(.. But there was this CRAB SALAD that was by FARRRRR theeee BEST I had ever had I really mean that, it saved me because I was STARVING oh and lets not forget the FRUIT table (Heaven) I love FRUITS and I'm so glad I can still eat them. Back to the CRAB salad I sat there and ate 3 plates of it, thanks Ofa for not judging me every time I came back..lol Over all weekend it was wonderful and we were so sad I had to leave, even my husband was bumbed and he usually wants to jet back.
                                               This is the BOMB CRAB SALAD..lol

Some pics frm the Eat 
                         
I didn'd get to hold bby but thats ok, there will always be a next T.I.M.E so GRATEFUL for my FAMILY and the time we spend 2gether. Sad that the weekend came to an end but we'll be back=)    
                       
                               "We must place high priority on our families. We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time." 
By President Dieter F. Uchtdorf