Announcing . . .

Happiness everywhere! We are so excited! Gotta love Nalia!

Anela

Today Namu took Pomai and Nalia to Haleiwa Surf Center for a day of fun with Parks and Recs and Helaman magically slept for four hours. That allowed me to spend some quality time with Anela.  FUN! She grows everyday and is getting so smart.  Preschool has been such a blessing for her (and us). She has grown leaps and bounds in such a short time. It was so much fun just to hang out with her and watch her trace her hand, color,  glue, and pretend cook.  After that decided to "write words" and started asking how to spell different family members names. 

"Mom how do you spell your name?" 

"M-O-M" As she is writing it out -  

"Pomai has a M." "How do you spell Grandma?" Again as she is writing G-R-A- . . . "I have an A. No, two A's and Pomai has and A and Nalia has an A . . . " 

It is just so fun to see how smart she is becoming and I loved being able to spend time with just her (for more than a 3 minute stretch).  Thanks for playing with me today Anela - I LOVE YOU!

Grateful for. . .

After many months of not blogging I realized I have been avoiding blogging (my journal) just because I felt there was too much to catch up on and where would I start.  So I resigned that I will just catch up later. But for now I want to talk about the things my family and I are grateful for.  We have again resumed our weekly family council.  I have missed it desperately and realized that we slowly got off track as a family without it.  But anyway one of the components is what each of us is grateful for so here is the list - Anela - Mommy - why?  because I love you.  Nalia - my family why? because I love them.  Pomai - my cousins and playing with them at the family reunion.  Mom - all the support I got during the family reunion especially from Namu who took care of the children and cooked while I took care of business.  Dad - being able to be a missionary.  Kena (a volunteer from his work) will be taking the discussions next week.  There are so many things everyday to be grateful for . . . seek and ye shall find.