Uncle Mose's Funeral

12/1/14
During the day I walked down from my work to the church office building to see Tyrell perform with his school choir. They did some Christmas songs in the lobby. Went to see the Temple lights for FHE before it gets too cold. Parked at the mall then walked around Temple Square and the nativities at the church office building area. Listened to the one at the visitors center. After we went to Leatherbys and got cheese fries and sundaes for a treat. I love the cheese fries. I didn't get a sundae but there was enough left over from the others that I had some ice cream.

12/6/14
We put Leila in Rec center basketball and she had her first game today. Her team only had one practice before hand. Leila has already played it at our park so she knows how to dribble and shoot. I practiced some with her too. She is pretty good. They lost. Leila got 9 shots off but didn't get any but I was proud of her for playing well and not being afraid to shoot the ball. It's fun to watch. We had to leave our ward party early to get to the game. The breakfast was good. Love the fried bread and honey butter. We went back to it after to help clean but it was already done. They gave us lots of fried bread left overs.

12/8/14
For FHE we watched the church's video "He is the Gift" and had a lesson on Christ being the gift at Christmas and always.

12/13/14
Leila had her 2nd game. She played well and got 2 shots off but didn't get any in. Kage came with us to watch. The other team girls were good defenders so it was a tough game to get a shot off. Leila likes playing it.

12/15/14
FHE activity was going to watch Tyrell's choir perform Christmas songs at his school. Their were other choir groups singing. He is in the concert choir. He seems to enjoy singing even though I don't hear him sing a whole lot at home.

12/18/14
Thursday evening took Leila to her practice at 7pm. The 3rd Hobbit came out yesterday so Candi, Tyrell and I saw it at 10:30pm. I liked it. It was good.

12/20/14
Uncle Moses died this past week of age related complications when he got sick.  He was 80. He will be missed but I know he has had a happy reunion with his parents, brother (Dad) and sister (Waima) and son Jono Jay. We didn't go to his viewing Friday night but came to his viewing and funeral early at 9:30am at a chapel in Alpine. Vaughn's ward chapel. Got to see him in his casket. It started at 10:30am and was a nice service. Got to mingle with many relatives. We went to the internment at the Alpine cemetary. It was lightly drizzling rain and was about 40 degrees or something. His son in law read a jewish prayer, Uncle Don dedicated the grave, Nephi gave a maori tribute then we did the haka. I was trying not to cry during the haka and wept a lot after it trying to keep my composure. We went back to the chapel to eat. We mingled a bit then went home.

Cute Erana Sayings

• Erana was watching Mickey mouse in reading nook. The rest were watching Godzilla. She comes up to go to the toilet then says, "You kids will have bad dreams. Mickey mouse gives good dreams but this (pointing to the tv while noisy monster sounds are going on) will give you bad dreams." Lol. She said more that I can't quite recall exactly but she was so cute.
  

10/22/14

• Jaxon had hit Leila. He was in bed, Leila was crying quietly on her bed. Erana comes up and tells on Jaxon. She says to go down and make Jaxon cry. lol. I question Jaxon and then Leila. Erana climbs on the bed in front of me and says, "That's the truth." "Is that the truth?" "Looks at me with a big grin and puts a finger on her chin and says" Hmm". She is so funny. Jaxon cries when I smacked him. Erana is giggling and Leila is telling her to keep quiet, it's not funny.

10/23/14

• Just baked chocolate chip muffins, cause baby was asking for muffins yesterday & then this morning she's crying for muffins, but she was watching 'daniel the tiger' & they were talking about being 'fustrated' & she says to me 'Mum I'm so fustrated I want muffins' lol. She ate some and says to me 'mum your muffins are good'.
• Went to get Erana out of bath and i told her i burnt the muffins and she says 'Are you fustrated?' I said yup! then she starts singing 'when your fustrated Stop and ask for help' lol I said, 'no one can help those muffins their burnt. She said let's blow them, I said nope you can't eat them their black and hard lol.
  

11/20/14

• The room was dark and Erana on the sofa going to sleep. I open drawer to sneak some lollies. Erana says, "uh uh uh, you don't eat lollies, you need to brush your teeth."
  

12/1/14

• Erana: "mum I'm still hungry" she had for breaky about 2hrs ago, omelete, meat, pumpkin cake? Me: Your not hungry you just ate, your gonna get fat!  Erana: "Mum I just poop - food means poop"! lol

12/10/14

• Candi: Put your seat belt on. Erana: You do the honors

Thanksgiving & Wedding

11/1/14
The All Blacks played the US on the way to Europe in Chicago. It was on tv. They wasted them 76-6. Shaun and Jared went to the game. Shaun and Lawson went to their practice the day before and got photos with Julian Savea, Dan Carter and Liam Messam.

11/20/14
Went and saw Ariana perform as Epinine in her Les Miserables play at Jordan High. I had never seen that play. She did awesome. A very good singer and actress. But singing every word is just not my cup of tea.

11/22/14
Wesley got married today to Jenilyn a sister missionary on his mission. They came home on the same flight. Wesley had contacted her after and got to know her better. They married in the SL Temple. We went for the sealing. It was nice. We went to the reception in Lehi at 4pm. Mina and Leila did a tahitian dance for them. They did awesome. And of course we did the haka as well. Wesley led it, did a good enough job.

11/27/14
Thanksgiving was at Tania's as usual. Lots of food, kids, and smelly fumes from the couch (dog smells?). We ate around 1pm. The weather was in the 50's. The kids played outside a lot. We left around 5pm when it was obvious the Cowboys were going to lose to the Eagles. We had Julia and Talia stay the night and Mina stayed at Madi's and Leila at Kage's. Candi and I went to Target at 6pm to check out the sales. Ended up getting a few things from the kids Christmas lists. There were a lot of people but not too bad. Waited in a long line to check out.

Leila's 9th Birthday & Halloween

10/29/14
We had her birthday in the basement. She had Kage, Drey and Talia over. They went to a jumpy place while I was at work but was home by the time I got home. Candi and I had taken her to the Chinese Gourmet buffet for her birthday on the the Friday before, 10/24.

10/31/14
The costume theme this year was Dr. Who. Candi was the Tardis, Jaxon the 10th doctor, Leila a weeping angel and Erana a Dalek. Candi started planning and making the costumes in June I think. Spent forever making them the weeks and days leading up to Halloween. They turned out really well but I thought the whole effort was a bit overboard for the amount of time they actually used them. Halloween was on a Friday so I didn't have work that day which was nice. Got to Jody's home around 5pm. The backyard was covered in leaves so I raked them all into piles. We had lots of soups for dinner. The kids went trick or treating but didn't really last that long. Erana's shoes hurt her feet and Leila got tired. I picked them up in the van and took them back.

Lava Hot Springs

10/16-17/14
Went to stay the night at 'Lava Hot Springs'.  It took about 2hrs to drive there. When we got there we looked around a little and got some lunch from the grocery store and the kids played at the playground, went for a walk with Daddy. While Mummy had a nap in the van.

We checked in around 3:30pm, we were staying in a room attached to the arcade. It had 2 queens, and couch and we put the blow up bed on the floor. Connecting bathroom and a little kitchen. It was nice and clean. Went to sit in the nice hot 'lava hot pools', they were very hot. Erana found a little friend to play with.

We left and played at the arcade, played pool with Tyrell and Mina. Got some more food from the grocery store.  Kids had some hot chocolate and Cup O Noodles etc.  At night time, Jason, Tyrell, Erana and I went back to the hot pools and sat in it till it closed.

Ensign Peak

10/4-5/14

General conference weekend.

10/6/14

Went to the annual Ashworth Halloween party for FHE. Erana got her face painted as well as a temporary tattoo on her arm. They dressed up in costumes and had a good time. Jared and family came too.

10/11/14
We hiked up Ensign Peak today and took some family photos on the top. We're going to use some for the Christmas card photo. It was a nice day for a walk. It was the first time I went up there. Quite a nice view. Right after we went to Tania's so I could help fix a computer problem. They also showed us the Grantsville reservoir after. They were catching little crawdads under the rocks. Tania likes to eat them.

10/13/14

I had today off for Columbus Day. Didn't do much. Took the kids to Arctic Circle to get fries and shakes for a FHE treat.

Jason's 43rd Birthday

9/21/14
Wiramina recieved her patriarchal blessing from Patriarch Vandertoolen.  Wiramina bore her testimony. She was very emotional describing a witness she received from the Holy Ghost when she asked if Jesus really did die for us. We all felt the Spirit as she bore witness of the Savior. What a wonderful and special daughter we have and a beautiful blessing she receive with great blessings promised.

9/29/14
Jason turned 43yrs old, he took work off.  Him and I went and had lunch at Tucano's, which was very delicious and filling.  For dinner he shouted the kids to where ever they wanted to eat, they chose Noodles & Co. It was the first time we ate there, eh it was ok.  Jason's birthday cake - 'steamed pudding' & custard wasn't ready so he had a little taste of it & then had to have the rest the next day.

9/30/14
Tyrell and Leila had their 3rd Piano recital.  I couldn't make it because I had to work and so Jason went and took the kids and film it. I heard they did awesome!