Erana's 4th Birthday

For Erana's birthday we went to the zoo. She had a great time. It was just our family on a hot day. She loves to look at the animals. W brought sandwiches and ate them there. But I can't believe she is 4 already. Our little angel is growing up so fast. We had her cake and presents in the evening. Kage and Drey came for that. 

May Photos

 Pelicans on the Jordan river. 5/4

Tyrell's school choir concert. 5/19

Burger King. 5/23

Gardner Village. 5/24

Memorial Grove. 5/25

Leis Candi made for Tama and Spencer. 5/28

Month of May

Went to many of Tyrell rugby games, he did awesome and I love to watch him play.  Brenna would sometimes show up and watch with us.

5/11/14
For Mother's Day, I got breakfast in bed with handmade gifts and store bought treats.  I am one lucky Mum, with the best Husband and kids.

5/24/14
It was a beautiful Saturday so we, Jay,Leila, Erana & I went on a bike ride.  Erana sat on Jay's middle bike bar on a cut up pool noodle.  We started at the duck park and then biked to Gardner Village. We stopped a couple of times to enjoy the view and so I could catch up, cause my bike is dumb.  At Gardner Village I wanted to get smoothies or shakes BUT no one sold them? go figure!  We walked around and got some taffy/caramel samples and then biked back to the duck park.

5/25/14
Sunday, after church we drove downtown to Grandma and Grandpa Wihongi's gravesite, up in the avenues. When we arrived the Petersons were there so we hung with them, visited with them at Aunty Rosie's and Uncle Frank Heimbergs grave too.

Then Jay drove us to the Capital bldg. and showed us where he works and where he parks.  We then parked across the street and he took us on a delightful walk around this park that had monuments for veterans of war etc.  It was right across from his job, and we looked at this quaint' neighborhood right next to the park.

5/26/14
Monday was Memorial Day.  We had nothing planned, Mina had her friend Moana over, and I put together 4 slip'n'slides to make one long one.  The kids had fun playing on it. We had a firepit, roasted hotdogs, and made smores.  Went to homedepot with Jay, our special time alone together.

5/27/14
The next morning when Jay went to work he discovered that his bike was missing!  Then we realized after questioning everyone that someone had stolen it! Poor Jay. This is a flyer we made to put on our neighbors doors to warn them of thieves!

Hi Neighbors,

This is a warning from your neighbors in #3 Jason & Candice Wihongi. On Monday Memorial evening between the time 7pm to 10pm someone went in our garage and stole our blue Trek 820 mountain bike. It is old but had sentimental value. We discovered it was gone the next morning. We just wanted to let you know so that you can be careful of what you leave in your garage and to keep your garage closed as much as possible when you're not outside.  Case #1481291

ERANA SAYS: 

5/8/14

• So I asked baby why she was crying in her sleep this morning, I said did you have a bad dream. she nodded yes. I said what was it about? she said 'about my precious, he's mad and wants that ring'.

5/31/14

• Jason: What do you want for your birthday baby?Erana: A dog!Jason: No, dogs are stinky and poo everywhere and cost a lot to feed... What else do you want?Erana: A Cat!  Cat's don't poop outside!

Other highlights for May:

• Spencer and Tama graduate from High School. 
• Mina, Leila and Lofiana practicing their tausala for Relief Society activity in June. 
• Kage turned 9yrs old, had pizza, cake & ice-cream at his house. 
• Fasted for Taylor Wood, he has pneumonia. 

New Job

There's a bit of change that has happened in my life. I started a new job with the Department of Technology Services on April 28th. I now support the State's Enterprise backup system with a guy named Forrest Nielson, a really nice guy. The backup system is IBM's Tivoli Storage Management or TSM. The location is the 6th floor of the State Office Building behind the Capitol. It is about a 20 minute drive, 15 miles instead of a 3.5 mile drive I used to have.

I used to attend the TSM meetings for a few years being the sysadmin that took care of it for UDOT and DPS. When one of the TSM admins retired in the middle of March on the Enterprise team they wanted me to take his place. I didn't think I wanted to, I didn't want an extra long drive to work and also I didn't want to work at that place. But the day before my supervisor warned me they would be asking me to take the position I was praying hard to Heavenly Father because our expenses had gone up to where we just have enough to pay them and we can't save anything anymore. We had bought a new car, which I was doubting the timing of it. Our savings went down and insurances went up for the new car as well as a new car payment we hadn't had in a long time. I was complaining that we have been frugal, pay tithing and we're trying to follow the prophet's counsel to have Candi stay at home with the kids and now she will need to get a job. So I thought that maybe this was Heavenly Father's answer to my prayers. It turned out it was and the car was good timing for the longer commute because the escort is getting old. I didn't want to accept the position without a raise so I asked for one and they gave me it. It is a 15% raise. About an extra 10,000 a year for the hourly wage and then being on-call every other week will add another 10,000 a year. I'm grateful and humbled that Heavenly Father hears my prayers and my soul's complaints even when I think I'm undeserving of it. The windows of Heaven were truly opened.

I have a lot of new stuff to learn on the job. My desk is in a dumb spot but that's ok. My new supervisor Paul Kearsley is nice. I have a window to look out of now instead of being in the basement.

Rest of April

4/12/14

Tyrell went to his prom with Brenna.

4/18/14

Jack Green in our ward died. He had struggled with cancer, beating it for years. This time it cam back too strong. He was a humble, kind man. His wife plays the organ in the ward.

4/20/14

Easter Sunday. The gathering was at Scott's home. The kids hunted for eggs in the back.

4/23/14

We drove out to Heber City for Tyrell's rugby game. They beat Wasatch High school pretty good. There was no ref so Tony, Tyrell's tongan coach did. He tried to be unbiased and sin binned 2 of his own players and Tyrell was one of them. That was funny. Can't remember if it was a head high tackle or something like that.

4/26/14

Tyrell's team beat TC Fusion 17-7.

Erana Sayings:

4/8/14

• I was taking baby to grandmas in the morning I asked her what she wanted to eat for breakfast she said, "I eat chicken nuggets at grandmas".
• When we were walking up to the front door, I pointed out to Erana the mint & plants that were growing.  She then said, "Jesus helps them". 

4/9/14

• When u went out the door this morning after kissing Erana. She must of heard the front door close, she says "Mum I didn't say goodbye to Daddy"? and then she said "Mum I want my Daddy to come home".
• Everymorning I have her get in bed with me and I snuggle with her and talk to her & muck around, till she says, "can I watch tv"?

4/10/14

• Erana's sees people feeding ducks on Daniel the Tiger tv, & now she wants to do it, shes saying to me lots, "Mum can I feed the ducks please"!
• Candi: What did she say to you this morning when you kissed her goodbye? Jason: For me to come home, something like that.Candi: Whaaat how come you don't know word for word.Jason: She was mumbling it.Candi: She's saying to me, "Dad i want you to come home Dad"?

4/15/2014

• Erana, "Mum look at my new shell", I looked & she has the toy container stuck on her bum lol

4/16/2014

• Me: Baby lets get ready to go get honey.Baby: No I don't like beez, like sting me.

Spring Break Vacation Day 7

Woke up and went and had breaky with the younger kids, they had cereal, toast, & waffles.  Came back to room to wake up Tyrell and Mina who were still asleep, they were wondering why we didn't wake them up to go with us.  I said, "We did, but you guys just stayed asleep". Mina said she didn't hear us, and that's because they were sleeping near this very loud air conditioner lol. As we were leaving I smelt skunk and it wasn't an animal. I told Jason not to stay here anymore.

Jay drove all the way to Beaver, where we stopped and got cheese and huge ice-cream cones, I got my favorite - licorice.  It was too big I couldn't finish it.  I drove the rest of the way home, it was rainy and Jay had to remind me a few times to slow down.  We listened to some of General Conf. on the radio.  The weather was nice when we got home, we unpacked and were glad to be home, but sad our vacation is done.

Spring Break Vacation Day 6

After our last yummy breaky at the hotel we were off to Buffalo Bills.  Jason drove first, and when we got to Buffalo Bills we stopped and filled up.  Then Jay took the kids on the log ride. I didn't go I watched Erana and bought her an expensive ice-cream cone - ripoff!  She also went on the frog hopper.  The nice kind frog hopper operator let her ride it as much times as she wanted, because no one was waiting in line.  Jaxon & Leila went on the roller coaster too, Leila didn't like it that much, she got scared.

I drove the rest of the way to St.George, we stopped and bought tickets for 'Captain America II' for 9pm.  Went and checked into our ghetto hotel called the 'Corona', was spacious but a little dirty for my taste. It was cheap & had two queens & a couch bed.  Mina & I went & got us dinner, Mcdonalds & shakes from Nielson's Custard.  We really wanted Cafe Rio but the line was out the door - dumb one! The movies were crowded but its assigned seating.  The movie was awesome, Erana was a little tired & hot she fell asleep, which was good. Went back to hotel to sleep.