Go Lady Steelers!!!

This sport is CA-A-RAzy. Only the brave can do this.

Go Auntie Lavi... (Buff Girl)

This is the only shot I could get of Pasi.  Big Sitani would be so proud.

We'll stick to just swinging on the swings.

A future Lady Steeler...

Marley, Marley, Marley

And...I thought that Sitani was a handful. I can't keep up with this little girl.

She loves to put Haini's socks on, scream the ABC's and jump up and down on her bum.

Holladay Photo

This guy is amazing and these pics made me fall in love with wedding photography. Check him out at Holladay Photo. How cute is this couple? Seriously.

A lil CONTEST!!!

Okay, so in light of conference weekend and the whole spiritual high thing, I wanted to try a little contest.  I recently won a surprise homemade something on Ula's Blog.  It was this post she did in which the first three commenters would win something homemade from her.  I was a winner!!! It was the first thing I've ever won in my life. Yea!!!  The only requirement was that you would do the post yourself, thus spreading happy-giving cheer.  I decided to change my rules though. Since I am horrible cook (Haini can testify to that one) and everything I try to sew or craft I try ends up being a waste of money and not really useable,  I decided to do a FREE photoshoot (not that I have ever charged anyone before, hahaha) to whoever can tell me what is wrong with this picture first.  Hmmmm. Look hard!!!  

I figure that this way, I will be carrying on the post, but I can actually get some practice.  I've been itching to get outside and shoot.  I am totally not a professional but I'll give you a CD with all the pics and hopefully there will be at least one you'll like.  Hahaha.  Good luck!!!

Our Conversations Lately

While driving in the car...

Sitani: Mom, I wanna talk about cars.

Me:  Okay, what do you want to say about cars?

Sitani: Sitani wants a truck and Marley wants a car.

Another time, while driving (just Sitani, Marley and I) Sitani spotted a truck like Haini's.  

Sitani: Mom, look there's a Haini!!!

We were going somewhere together as a family.

Sitani: Mommy loves Sitani and Daddy loves Marley.

Me: Mommy and Daddy both love Sitani and Marley.

Sitani:  No, Marley is Daddy's baby.

One night after Marley had already gone to bed...

Me: Sitani, what do you want to name the baby?

Sitani: Sung*u*tu*ranga

Me: No, that is our last name.  We have to think of a first name.  What do you want to call the baby?

Sitani: Uhhhh... Sitani!!!

Me: But that is your name.  We already have a Sitani.

Sitani: No, I'm da big Sitani.  I'm 3 (while holding up 2 fingers)

This is what our home is like when Haini is home and blasting his music.  

(Does Marley ever wear any clothes? Seriously.)

Sami's Soccer Game

Sami started soccer and we were able to go to a couple of games before they (the cousins) all ran off to California.
Lili took the camera around and snapped all of these pictures. Thus proving my theory that kids are the best photographers. But of course, I my itchy fingers had to edit the colors.

The Flash Game

We went to the Flash game last Saturday night because Haini's work was having a free ticket night. It was so fun. There wasn't a lot of people who were there and so we had great seats.

Utah Valley Thunder

So JayR (Haini's brother) is playing for the Utah Valley Thunder.  It is a new indoor arena football team.  Last night was their first game opener.  We had fun and then after the game we even got to get his autograph.  (oh puh-lease). Haini was going around and getting everyone's autograph on a can of Spam. Now he thinks he is gonna put it on display in our house.  Nice...Right. 




Here is the whole big happy family.

Two Crazy Monkeys

We found some old chairs by the dumpster and decided to paint them with some pink paint we had lying around.  Sitani also got a new hat. He put it on and suddenly grew up. When I got all excited and tried to make him feel cool he said, "Mom, take a picture!"  Then one picture turned into a mini photo session and of course Marley had to find a hat and get a picture, too. AAAAHHHH.... I have two crazy monkeys.

Grandma Came!!!

We had a fun weekend when Grandma and Alisha decided to surprise us two days earlier. We went to the park, ate huge ice cream cones AND went swimming.





Marley is TOTALLY in the dolly stage and I LOVE it!!! She wanted to take her baby everywhere and she kept talking to her baby and asking her questions. I would turn around and hear, "Baby, wanna go down the slide? or Baby, wanna go potty?" (She even put her baby in her lil potty and started jumping up and down screaming, "She did it, she did it!") All I can say is that I LOVE my lil girl.

(Poor baby is a total mess from the potty, park, and ice cream.)





(Love these curls)



We even got to go swimming at their hotel (2X).



On Saturday, we had the whole pool to ourself for over 2 hours. It was a fun weekend. Come again grandma and Alisha.

They Said It Was Gonna Snow

Our weatherman told us to prepare for snow this weekend. NO!!!!  Once you give me a couple of beautiful days like we've had, you are not allowed to mention the "S" word until November.  I'm seriously done with winter for the year, but I AM so excited for Spring and Summer.  It is just so close.  With the beautiful weather, we managed to get a lot done this afternoon.

Lia made cookies for us.

The Roller-skating Restaurant was scrumptious.

 Lili was a wonderful waitress.

The sandbox took me back to my beach dayz.

 I even got to watch the "X" Games on Nata's homemade ramp.

Sitani drove around town for a while and ran some errands.



All in all, I think we had a pretty productive afternoon.