"Ahoy, Matey!"

It was Samuela's birthday yesterday! 11 years old!!!! Wow, where does the time go? He got a bouquet of balloons from Nisi & Kolei. He actually said he didn't mind it, he didn't want me to bring treats this year to his class. He didn't want the attention, okay, that was a shock to me.
We planned a surprise dinner, til Seti told him the night before! That kid never keeps secrets, he did so good because he knew about it a month ago. Seti got too excited. We went to Pirate's Island Pizza with the St George cousins. It was Kolei, Nisi & kids, Salote & kids, Grandpa and us. We were seated in the Swamp Bayou, it's divided into pirate theme rooms. Our pizza was HUGE! Foot long slices!
The kids loved the game room! Samuela got everything he wanted for his birthday and more, he says. It pays off at the end of the night, Samuela gives me a kiss and said, "Thanks mom, it was a cool party!"

Go Girl!

My favorite Grammy performance this year, Jennifer Hudson! Thank Goodness for Youtube.

Dave Ramsey for President!! lol.

This morning doing my part time job, I was listening to AM 890. Today was a different show, it was Dave Ramsey. I never listen to him really. Now, Nisi told me about him and I've listened to some of her CD's. He is definitely good at what he does. He's a financial guru, he helps people get out of debt. This morning was an interesting topic that I had to blog about. He disagrees with the governments stimulus package and a listener said if your complaining about it, can you come up with a better one. He did! He said his would be 95% less than the proposed one and simple. The economy is boosted by jobs and real estate. He suggests that companies who hire in the year 2009, should get a tax credit of 20 grand, if that happened companies would hire more and people who buy houses in 2009 get the same. It will stimulate jobs and when real estate does well then the economy does too. Anyhow so instead of the 900 billion dollar stimulus package, it would be 60 billion. That simple! I'm by no means a financial expert, it sounded good to me. He cant stand that the government says its for the people, he feels that each party seeks for power and they each have an agenda of their own. We, as the people, should write our representative. We're already in debt and this package will further put us in debt and not stimulate the economy. I agreed and it made me more knowledgeable about the subject, I had to blog about. I loved too, how the callers call in and say I am DEBBBBTT free! Amazing stories of people deep in debt and getting out within a year or so. It's great to hear their stories. Check out www.daveramsey.com!

She just makes me SMILE!

I took care of my 6 week old niece yesterday, Dylan. It was so fun! I got to spend 4hours with her while Nisi was showing homes for clients. I loved it! I forgot the work it takes to care for a baby, it's been 9 years. Grandpa walked her around when she got fussy, I sang to her, she loves that and tries to coo along. She loves when you talk to her too. She's got these cute lil' dimples when she smiles. Boy, can she eat! She knows her mama though right when she walked in and talked to her, she had the saddest lil' pout and cried for her. It amazes me how babies know their parents at such a young age. Love it! I enjoy her and she just brings so much joy to our family. A blessing from above.

I love BOLLYWOOD!!!!

Ok so my cousin from Frisco got me hooked on Bollywood films about 2 years ago. I have to say I'm an addict. Some say it can be Cheesy, I say who cares? lol. I watched Jodhaa Akbar this past weekend. I don't even mind the subtitles and that its 3 hours long sometime. I know crazy!!! I love romance and it has that and it's clean well a majority of them. If you love musicals you might like the movies.
I didn't know Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world and they show the films in almost every country even Tonga, really big there. These are my favorite Bollywood stars. lol!!! Let me know and I'll tell you the good ones if you want a taste of BOLLYWOOD. The pixs I posted are some of my favorite Bollywood Stars! hee...hee...hee

It's been a long time....

Oh my it's been awhile since I've been on. Let's see what's the update...I would say my time has been occupied with Primary, Scouts and my kids. I got a new calling a few months back as 2nd counselor for our Primary and I'm over Scouts. I am training to be a Scout Leader and it's meetings after meetings. I now can say I can relate with Hiroko being a fish out of water. We took a break from Scouts last year and now we're getting involved again. The boys are enjoying it a lot and I'm slowly realizing the importance of Scouts in boy's lives. I'm learning a lot and enjoy the kids in our ward, they are so cute and the answers they give are at times funny and just so innocent. It's been a blessing and a humbling experience for me.



Samuela just had a Super Bowl game on Friday, flag football against the teachers. They lost by a touchdown, he said the teachers said it was over when they were ahead. He's really enjoyed Flag football this year in school. We're going to sign up for tackle this year, his teacher really encouraged me to get him involved in football, says he's good at it. His teacher, Mr. Whitmer has been so good for him this year. Samuela finished a Give Me Liberty course, first one in his class to complete it. He was so determined to memorize the booklet and wants to know more about politics. He loves to learn new things and his mind is always wanting to know more. He also turns 11 yrs old on the 9th and has his first Boy's scout campout in March. He's just growing up so fast and getting so tall! He loves Chess too, he's an avid chess player his goal to beat his Uncle Kolei. lol!



Seti is into his looks always wants to look hip and cool!!! Too funny. He loves to dance and sing. He's my shadow, always will be my baby. He's been into video editing on my camera. He's a creative little kid. It's getting on my nerves because I'm always looking for my camera. He loves basketball been playing with his friends at school, Grandpa's been going with him to teach him to play better tennis too. He loves math!!! He is such a people person. He just finished another book report and drew an alternative book cover. He's an American Idol fan so he's always making sure we're not missing the show. Gotta love it!!!

All in all we're doing good!