Erana's 3rd birthday

June 6th:
Erana's 3rd birthday. She is getting older too fast. She is such a joy. It was also the last day of school. Tyrell struggled getting homework done that was overdue during the last couple weeks but he did enough to pass each class with a c being the lowest grade. It's a relief school is over for him. Mina on the other hand gets A's without us having to get on her case at all. That's so nice. All the kids did well. After rugby practice we went to eat at Arctic Circle for Erana's B-day then had dessert and she opened presents at home. Mum, Scott & Heather & kids came over too. She loved her presents and had me read her books to her that night and held onto her Ty-beanie sea horse all night. I wasn't paying attention at one point with her book and she grabs my chin and pulls my face to her and says. "Dad, talk to me, talk to me." So cute and funny.

June 8th:
Jaxon played his first 2 games of rugby. Lost the first and won the second. We have some work to do winning rucks. Later in the day we went fishing at the Willow pond. The kids like to fish especially Mina.

June 7th:
Forgot to mention on the 7th Candi and I went to the Draper Temple with Joshua while he did his endowments. They ate at Cafe Rio after while I went and got the rugby uniforms and met them there.

May Highlights

May 23rd:
First practice coaching Jaxon's rugby team, West Jordan U10s. Coaching again kinda helps me get out of my comfort zone, but thinking about it made me a little nervous but I'm over that now. There are 9 kids, Jaxon, Jackson Zander, Isaiah Caver, Nuu & Iti Tuia, Braxton Bosch, Abinadi(Binny) Bigelow (a half-maori kid) and Benjamin Barrows.

May 25th:
Had a BBQ at Fisi's house and watched UFC. A kiwi samoan fought named Mark Hunt, but he lost, too old (39).

May 26th:
In the evening we took the family to the  cemetery  where Grandpa Hono and Nanny Jean are buried. We met Mum and Scott's family. We sat a little and sang some songs with the ukulele.

May 27th:
Memorial Day off. We went to the ward scout breakfast at the duck pond park. Had a fire-pit in the evening with hot dogs and marshmallows.

Driving Us Crazy

Today is Thursday today. Erana wanted to come with me to get Jaxon from Scouts - actually every time I try to leave the house she wants to come. Well she said "I come get Jason - I need to drive" and I said "No you can't drive." She struggled a little getting in her car seat - trying to get to the drivers seat.

Every time I pick up Tyrell from school & I move over to let him drive baby cracks a fit & cries & says "Get back in your chair - you drive." All the time, it's funny.

We are on double prayer mode with Erana. She always wants to say the prayer so to not have her cry we have her say a very small one sentence prayer & when she's done she points to the person who is supposed to say it & says "Your turn".

(Added by Jason)
Mina got a couple award certificate for academic excellence during her school's end of year award presentation ceremony Wed, 15th. Very proud of her.

May Catch Up

Today is Monday & I see we are behind in the journal because of Jay. It was his turn. So I left off after General Conf. So we have been back to school, rugby, tahitian & piano, etc.

Tyrell still not behaving about 10:30pm bed curfew so we got more strict with that. And still has missing homework, grr. So stressful with that. Mina on the other hand is doing great at school. We don't have to check on her - she likes getting straight A's. She also wants to do online school next year so we've been investigating it & probably she'll do K12. She's still messy & has a bad habit at picking at her pimples.

Jaxon & Leila still the same, no big change. Jaxon still cries alot & Leila argues & thinks she's correct all the time. Erana is still cute as can be & funny. We treat her a little different cause she's the baby & the last. I let her fall asleep in bed sometimes when she cries. And I call her sweetheart.

We had Camila's baby shower, a get together at Olga's to visit with Strantz, Vicki, Jojo Hemi & family from NZ. We had a surprise quincanera for Serina at her Stake chapel with friends & family. It was small one, we had spaghetti, garlic bread & salad, fruit & cake. We had a fun time dancing.

Tyrell got injured in his game on Saturday with Herriman, they won & now play in the playoffs. 

Spring Break Vacation Day 7

Woke & got ready to leave, had breaky. Filled up on gas. Stopped at the mall & went in with Tyrell so he could buy his shoes he saw the other day. Carbon grey with blue laces. Went on a wild goose chase cause Tyrell & I for a store called Carbon when actually called 'Forever 21'.

We stopped at the cheese Factory after we filled up on gas & got a couple of burgers. We got jalapeño cheese & diff kinds of flavors of ice cream - licorice, cherry cordial, coke, coconut almond!!

When we got home we saw that it had been raining a lot. We unpacked and relaxed & wondered where our week went?

April 7th
Sunday we watched General Conference and then went to Fisi Moleni's home for dinner. Liz & OJ were there as well. We had lots of yummy food & great company.

So blessed we had a safe fun vacation & glad our home & family were safe too.

Found out that Liz & OJ were in Vegas the same time we were -  we went to the mall at the same time but didn't even see each other, lol.

Spring Break Vacation Day 6

Woke and had breaky & then went to the pool all morning. Then Jay & I had to go to a meeting. So the kids stayed in our room & had lunch, watched cartoons. Our mtg was about buying a vacation package priced around $8000 & then we could vacation at any hotel in the world. Our hotel & other expenses would be covered including travel for life. Sounded really good but we didn't buy it, we were there just for our free $75 visa & hotel deal. We then went back to the pool with the kids after mtg. We sat in hammocks and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

(Jason wrote this part)
In the evening we went to the Bass Pro store so the kids could look at the fish and stuffed animal displays as well as the big aquarium in the Silverton Hotel that is attached to the store. There was a mermaid in it and the kids had photos with her.

(Back to Candi)
Jaxon wanted to buy something like a bow& arrow but we said no - cause he already has one - his distraught reply was "This is the worse day ever, first I get sunburned & now I can't buy whatever I want!" Lol. On our way back to the hotel we picke up Panda Express & Raising Canes - I made a big booboo & got the four piece boxes instead f the 6 piece - worries grrr!!! We had a nice evening though - packed our stuff for our trip home tomorrow. Vacation went by too quick cause of so much fun!

Spring Break Vacation Day 5

Slept in, had breaky then went to the Outlet mall. Just as we started off in the mall some young salesman guy sucked Tyrell over to clean his shoe!! And of course I had to go over & bail him out - but maybe shouldn't of to see what Tyrell would've done when the guy wants Tyrell to pay $25 for shoe cleaning stuff.

The mall was huge - kids bought clothes, ties, toys, etc. Finally done went back to the hotel for lunch & swimming. Kids like watching Disney channel & Sponge Bob, etc. And it's nice to have separate tv's.