June - Erana's 12th & Tyrell's 25th Birthdays

Candi and I went on our first hike of the year on the Mineral Fork trail up Big Cottonwood canyon on Friday the 3rd. We had been on it before. We didn't really go far. Went to the first water fall and a little beyond that. We did a few other hikes this month too. To Moss Ledge and to the Green Basin. Maya came and stayed the weekend. On Monday was Erana's 12th birthday. She's getting old so fast, by beautiful baby girl. She went to the mall with Candi and Maya and Leila. She chose out some gifts. We ate at Leatherbys and then had cake and ice cream and she opened her gifts.

The next day we went to Scott's and Talia opened her mission call. She's going to Fortaleza Brazil, something like that. Starts the MTC in Sept. Very excited for her. She'll speak Portuguese better than her father.

On the 8th Leila had a performance with her THS Poly club. They had a dinner and show for the families to attend. Leila did well. Candi and I did another short hike on Friday the 10th to Moss ledge water fall. That was a nice place. Then that evening we drove to a Place just before Logan to attend Helaman Finlayson's wedding. It was a nice venue in the country side. Had a chance to visit with Kingi, Matt, Deb, Riki and Uncle Ken and others. They had a Maori program with the girl cousins, it was very quiet. We joined in for Kamate. They had a food table along the wall with an ice-cream machine, crackers, cheese, fruit, dips, chocolate etc.  We threw white paper streamers at them when they were leaving. We stayed to see them drive off in the car. The food was snacks so after we were still hungry and stopped at a Burger King in Brigham City on the way back.

The girls had a piano recital this month. They did well. Went to Taylorsville Dayz again. the performers were a Pat Benatar tribute group and a Dolly Parton tribute band. They were pretty good. We had pizza. The girls had girls camp on the 28th to the 1st. Leila had Drivers Ed classes during June. She'll be driving soon, scary. We want her to drive herself to school when it starts up after summer. We took Tyrell out to eat at a Korean BBQ. Just Him, Alisa and Candi and I.

May

Candi took her sister shopping and stuff while she was here. We also went to the Bennion Jr High awards show. Erana got an award for excellence in 2 classes, Word processing and something else.

I dropped the newly weds off at the airport the day after Mina's Wedding. They are staying in Orlando for the week and are going to Universal, 2 Disney parks, Volcano Bay and Aquatica. Scott's new spool hot tub was ready so we got in it Sunday evening before Memorial day. It's nice and can fit about 15 people. 

May 20th - Mina & Tane's Wedding Day

On the 20th it was Mina's turn. The day before we went over to the church to get the decorations ready at about 4pm. I went over later. They hired a company to do some. A couple and 2 hired hands. They did curtains around the gym walls, covered the baskets, brought in chairs and had table cloths. We helped them bring their stuff in. We had a lot of Tane's Moleni cousins helping. They would have taken forever getting it in if we didn't help as the gym was up some stairs from the outside.  Deanna Barlow came to help with the table settings and other decorations. We left at about 11:30pm but Candi stayed until about 12:30am when the decorators were done. We got up early for the sealing at the Draper temple. A lot from both sides came to the sealing. OJ Hawea and his mum were there. The sealer gave a beautiful talk at the beginning. It was a bit chilly with the wind blowing after for the photos. We went home after and had some Sagato pies for lunch. The pilot light went out on the heater so I went to start it again. I leaked out some gas and lit it and it blew in my face and I felt the hair on my face burn. I was thinking. "Oh no, if my eye brows are gone I'm not going to the reception". My eye lashes were singed together and couldn't open them properly but luckily it wasn't so bad. Mostly my eye lashes were gone not my eye brows. The reception was at 6 and we went early to finish preparations. The food turned out great and the decorations and the whole evening. A lot of people came. Mina and I danced to the "It won't be like this for long" song. She did the Tau'olunga a traditional Tongan dance. We did Tika tonu. They left about 9:15pm and we stayed until almost midnight cleaning up. Whew, glad it is all over!! Candi can finally get a good nights rest!

James & Moana Moleni
38 N 200 E
Alpine UT 84004

GUEST LIST 400

INVITATIONS:

VIDEOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER: 500

DJ:
Fui Taotua
Sui Amaama
$500 x2

FLOWERS:
JuneBug $300

FOOD/CAKE: $4000

DECORATIONS: $4000
Legacy Weddings/DeeAnna

VENUE:
Ivy House
Granite Tabernacle
2005 S 900 E SLC 84105

Tables:
Long 16
Short rectangle 9
Circle 16

PROGRAM:
Money dance/Tauluga
Daddy dance/video/Jody sing?
Cut the cake
Throw bouquet
Maori songs 1x
Haka
Couples 1st dance

CHECKLIST:
Decorations
Food
Cake
Ice
Waterbottles
Projector - works
Cutlery/napkins black
Drink container holders 4x (Tin)
Garbage bags 1box
Garbage bins
Containers for food
Boxes 6x (pack decor) *
Stickers 2 different colors small dots *
Cooler bag
Garlands
String Lights
Foam food containers
Glass containers *
Bubbles/guns
Ribbon (closed off - sign)*
White/gold netting (crawl space)*