Today is my little sister's birthday!! Happy birthday Aunty Ela! She is serving in the Philippines and we do love and miss her. Happy birthday to Clayton, too! I think my Bro in law shares the same bday.. woot woot for all the december bdays!!!
Friday, December 16, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Today is my little sister's birthday!! Happy birthday Aunty Ela! She is serving in the Philippines and we do love and miss her. Happy birthday to Clayton, too! I think my Bro in law shares the same bday.. woot woot for all the december bdays!!!
Thursday, December 15, 2011
4!!
Brett Halaleva turned 4 in August!! Where the time has gone, I have no clue, but it was a low key bday, right after World Market, I was tired and didn't want to bother with anything. We had cupcakes in the morning :) Our kids LOVE birthdays, LOVE parties, LOVE singing happy birthday, and above all, they LOVE SWEETS. Who doesn't? We had sugar in the morning, took him to the store so he could pick out his present, he is just like Jesse, knows exactly what he wants and will be glad to let you know..its been 5 months now and since we got him the dragons for his bday he's been asking for the one we "forgot". Then we went swimming, my kids were super dark this summer, all we did was swim. Good fun. That night my sisters came over last min to watch movies with Leva. the next day I took him to the park to test out his truck from Aunty Moli and her fam.
(These pics aren't in order either, I've been waiting days for my blog to upload photos and it's finally working so I'm trying to wrk fast to do as much as possible before I get lazy or before it crashes again. Bare with me, people!!)
The only one willing to smile for me at the pool.. love sesi. :(
HOT FEET!!
We bought Leva goggles in Florida, we didn't have any here so he took these out to the pool and used them as his goggles. Everyone had a turn.
He is very into "How to Train Your Dragon" it's a kids movie, filled with dragons.
It was a fluke that I captured the next moment with Jesse and 'Ala. I was trying to get a close up of her smiling without Jesse in the picture and somehow this happened while I was snapping away..
She wanted her hair out, as always, told Jesse to take it out and being the man that he is, he pulled her hair tie out and wasn't very gentle about it.. she got mad at him and wouldn't go near him after that. DIVAA!
Now these two.. This makes me laugh, if you know my niece and nephew, they will fight to the death about anything. Which is pretty much what they did the whole time at the pool. Here they are fighting about who sat where. Latu sat first.. then Lina said, I want to sit there!.. so she did. lol! It was near the end of the day and in the picture above, Leva had this look on his face that was so funny to me. He had this blank stare, then got out of the hot tub and left them alone.
HAAPPY FAAMILY!!!
(These pics aren't in order either, I've been waiting days for my blog to upload photos and it's finally working so I'm trying to wrk fast to do as much as possible before I get lazy or before it crashes again. Bare with me, people!!)
The only one willing to smile for me at the pool.. love sesi. :(
HOT FEET!!
We bought Leva goggles in Florida, we didn't have any here so he took these out to the pool and used them as his goggles. Everyone had a turn.
He is very into "How to Train Your Dragon" it's a kids movie, filled with dragons.
It was a fluke that I captured the next moment with Jesse and 'Ala. I was trying to get a close up of her smiling without Jesse in the picture and somehow this happened while I was snapping away..
She wanted her hair out, as always, told Jesse to take it out and being the man that he is, he pulled her hair tie out and wasn't very gentle about it.. she got mad at him and wouldn't go near him after that. DIVAA!
Now these two.. This makes me laugh, if you know my niece and nephew, they will fight to the death about anything. Which is pretty much what they did the whole time at the pool. Here they are fighting about who sat where. Latu sat first.. then Lina said, I want to sit there!.. so she did. lol! It was near the end of the day and in the picture above, Leva had this look on his face that was so funny to me. He had this blank stare, then got out of the hot tub and left them alone.
HAAPPY FAAMILY!!!
Too Many Mangos
This is going to take forever, the blogging website is acting up and will only allow me to upload a couple pics at a time, so they're all out of order and because I don't have the patience to fix it, and because it's taking forever to upload, I'm leaving it that way. That being said...
My sister, Ela, sent books to the kids at the beginning of the year. Any time I ask which book they'd like me to read, they scream, "MANGO BOOK!!". At the time, Ke'ala and Leva looked like this...
..so when I read it to them for the first time, I changed the names of the characters in the book to Ke'ala and Leva. They are siblings and I thought they resembled them. They loved it and for some reason after I did so, they named a few of their own characters, without my help, and it stuck ever since.
above: 'Ala & Leva pulling the wagon full of mangos to share with the neighbors..
Eating with Grandpa all the mahalo gifts the neighbors gave them.. I didn't name grandpa, that's the original name in the story, but they always tell me that's not Grandpa (my dad) cause my dad doesn't look like that.
'Ala and grandpa trying to figure out what to do with all the mangos. Give 'em to our neighbors!!
I don't know why, but the moment I turned the page and they saw this picture, both of them shouted in unison, "AUNTY ELA! IT'S AUNTY ELA!!" so they gave aunty ela mangos and she gave them bananas in return.
Aunty Lusi gave Ke'ala an orchid from her garden after they gave her mangos. 'Ala likes to emphasize that it's HER orchid from Aunty Lusi.
Then they ran into Sadie and Latu and gave them mangos as well. Latu is my nephew and Sadie is pretty much the only blonde friend they have.. It's Travis' daughter (a friend of Jesse's), who is the same age as Leva.
. Sesi makes sure to point out the puppy on EVERY page. At least I know he's paying attention.
My sister, Ela, sent books to the kids at the beginning of the year. Any time I ask which book they'd like me to read, they scream, "MANGO BOOK!!". At the time, Ke'ala and Leva looked like this...
..so when I read it to them for the first time, I changed the names of the characters in the book to Ke'ala and Leva. They are siblings and I thought they resembled them. They loved it and for some reason after I did so, they named a few of their own characters, without my help, and it stuck ever since.
above: 'Ala & Leva pulling the wagon full of mangos to share with the neighbors..
Eating with Grandpa all the mahalo gifts the neighbors gave them.. I didn't name grandpa, that's the original name in the story, but they always tell me that's not Grandpa (my dad) cause my dad doesn't look like that.
'Ala and grandpa trying to figure out what to do with all the mangos. Give 'em to our neighbors!!
I don't know why, but the moment I turned the page and they saw this picture, both of them shouted in unison, "AUNTY ELA! IT'S AUNTY ELA!!" so they gave aunty ela mangos and she gave them bananas in return.
Aunty Lusi gave Ke'ala an orchid from her garden after they gave her mangos. 'Ala likes to emphasize that it's HER orchid from Aunty Lusi.
Then they ran into Sadie and Latu and gave them mangos as well. Latu is my nephew and Sadie is pretty much the only blonde friend they have.. It's Travis' daughter (a friend of Jesse's), who is the same age as Leva.
. Sesi makes sure to point out the puppy on EVERY page. At least I know he's paying attention.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Warning... picture overload!
The longest I have gone without posting, but ever since I found out I was pregnant in
August, it seems like events have happened, one after the other, keeping me and my family very busy, leaving my poor brain burnt out and forgetful. After working World Market the first couple of weeks in AUgust, it was birthday after birthday after birthday after birthday.. and we're STILL going with the birthdays until January is over and then, SIGH, a break in Feb then bdays start again in March. The many blessings of having a HUGE family. I will TRY to keep it to a minimum and in order, but if not, oh well.. it's 4 months worth of crazy. Deal with it.
August, it seems like events have happened, one after the other, keeping me and my family very busy, leaving my poor brain burnt out and forgetful. After working World Market the first couple of weeks in AUgust, it was birthday after birthday after birthday after birthday.. and we're STILL going with the birthdays until January is over and then, SIGH, a break in Feb then bdays start again in March. The many blessings of having a HUGE family. I will TRY to keep it to a minimum and in order, but if not, oh well.. it's 4 months worth of crazy. Deal with it.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
New Do's
A little while ago we had Jesse's cousin, Kara, give the boys a haircut. They needed them big time, the problem is their hair grows so quickly we had to cut it again. So the picture of them in the bath post is their most recent haircut, we just shaved their heads. If i can get Leva's picture up I will but here's Sesi's in the meantime.
Letters to our Missionaries
For an FHE activity last month, we wrote letters to our missionaries. I decided to take a picture, for our missionaries, of the kids hard at work. I busted out the camera and said, " Say CHEESE! " To which everyone said, " CHEESE! " I started to put the camera away and then Leva said, "Say 'hamburger'!" I took another with them saying hamburger. I went to put it away again and Ke'ala said, "Can we say 'Fries'?" So we took another one with them saying 'Fries'.
They make me laugh.
They make me laugh.
Silly Nilly's
We LOVE to take baths. Well, the kids do.
Yesterday Leva did this silly thing and said he was on the toilet.
The things they come up with!
Yesterday Leva did this silly thing and said he was on the toilet.
The things they come up with!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Random Pictures
I turned on my old camera the other day and realized that I
had a few pics that I never posted. They are nothing
special, but they're four or five months old so I thought I'd throw
them on here so I can start fresh on the next post.
I actually took this picture a week ago. I sent the pic to most of my family members, but for the sake of my youngest sister, I'll re post. If I don't put pants on this kid, he usually takes his diaper off. It started a while ago, so I made sure never to leave him without pants, but lately he's been really good about leaving his diaper on. I ran out of shorts for him and I didn't want to stick him in sweats, not in this heat, so I thought, what the heck? I went in to check on the kids in the middle of the night and found sesi sleeping in the nude.. almost..
What child doesn't climb? Ini left her son's toy here for my kids to play with a month ago. I couldn't get Sesi to stop doing this, so I had to hide the darn thing! At one point, the car was about a foot away from the window but he still had is toes curled on it, gripping to the edge of the window sill.
This is the most recent pic, taken today. I told him to smile and he said, "DEEE!" (cheese)
Took a picture of Sesi's side profile so I can remember his pot belly forever. Forty years from now I'm going to show him this picture and tell him that he started out an old man from the very beginning, belly and all!
Breaking in the new room.
I can't remember what we did with the kids, but I do remember it was a cold and windy day, they had gotten wind burn on their cheeks. When Sesi would sit on the couch to watch t.v., he'd never sit back. I always pushed him back to try and help him relax, but he'd slide himself to the edge of the couch again. It seemed he was very into what was going on, but it never lasted. A minute would go by and he'd hop off the couch and find something better to do. He is the one child out of my 3 that does not care for t.v.. I laughed every time because he looked so intense. Now he sits back like the big kids. It makes me sad to realize how quickly they grow up.
had a few pics that I never posted. They are nothing
special, but they're four or five months old so I thought I'd throw
them on here so I can start fresh on the next post.
I actually took this picture a week ago. I sent the pic to most of my family members, but for the sake of my youngest sister, I'll re post. If I don't put pants on this kid, he usually takes his diaper off. It started a while ago, so I made sure never to leave him without pants, but lately he's been really good about leaving his diaper on. I ran out of shorts for him and I didn't want to stick him in sweats, not in this heat, so I thought, what the heck? I went in to check on the kids in the middle of the night and found sesi sleeping in the nude.. almost..
What child doesn't climb? Ini left her son's toy here for my kids to play with a month ago. I couldn't get Sesi to stop doing this, so I had to hide the darn thing! At one point, the car was about a foot away from the window but he still had is toes curled on it, gripping to the edge of the window sill.
This is the most recent pic, taken today. I told him to smile and he said, "DEEE!" (cheese)
Took a picture of Sesi's side profile so I can remember his pot belly forever. Forty years from now I'm going to show him this picture and tell him that he started out an old man from the very beginning, belly and all!
Breaking in the new room.
I can't remember what we did with the kids, but I do remember it was a cold and windy day, they had gotten wind burn on their cheeks. When Sesi would sit on the couch to watch t.v., he'd never sit back. I always pushed him back to try and help him relax, but he'd slide himself to the edge of the couch again. It seemed he was very into what was going on, but it never lasted. A minute would go by and he'd hop off the couch and find something better to do. He is the one child out of my 3 that does not care for t.v.. I laughed every time because he looked so intense. Now he sits back like the big kids. It makes me sad to realize how quickly they grow up.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
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