I love to see the temple!

On April 9th 2011 we were sealed for all time and eternity! Ever since I was young I always sang the song "I Love to see the Temple" I can't even remember how old I was. I remember replaying the words in my mind and really pondering about the temple. I pictured the perfect temple wedding my family and friends would all be there. Well that picture was never taken..ha ha ha due to the choices I made in the past it wasn't until earlier this month I actually made it inside the temple! It was a goal we set after we got married back in 2007 that we would get sealed.

A few days before we were scheduled to go through I was so scared! Scared that within these few days something would happen to one of us. Yea only me think the worse. I couldn't help it though, out of these 4 years it was just the few days before we went through the temple that it acutally hit me! We wouldn't be an eternal family if we weren't sealed. I always knew that of course but I didn't FEEL the real meaning of that it until that week. With much prayer and fast I became to feel my fathers comfort that we would have this oppurtunity.

It wasn't legit until Thursday that week that we would be sealed on Saturday. I started to make my calls and spread the word. I felt so bad because there were alot of family I did forget to tell. I'm really sorry but it was a busy week for me =/ 

So the day finally comes and I've never felt more prepared then that day! It was beautiful! I was so emotional through everything. I began to see alot more things clearly all this time I waited and this beautiful temple is only 10 mins away from my house. I can't explain the peace and comfort I felt. I can only say don't wait so long for this oppurtunity to pass you by. Even though this wasn't my perfect picture the temple was perfect and I still made it inside. The temple is so close don't procrastinate your time to enter the holy house of the lord. I love my family and close friends that were all there thank you for your support, love and examples!

Maricopa county fair

Yesss! This 5 day event is finished!! I had to work the fair with kolo and simi. Also manoa for a day..lol.. Business was good and we're just happy we made some money if not came up even.  This week of totally non stop fatty food that was amazing yummy deliciousness has come to an end!! No chans chicken on a stick and giovannis new york style sausage. Until the next event I run into them that is! He he he I desperately need to catch up on a lot of blogging and hopefully tomorrow will be the day! Ok back to tearing the trailer down. Adios

My big boy

My dad drops by to pick booga up since me and alex both work early tomorrow. I kiss him, we exchange our I luhh yous and hugs. Before they drive off he says mommy "If you need anything call papa's phone ok". He says things I wouldn't expect a 3 year old to say not only that he already worries for me! He amazes me everyday and melts my heart away! I love you my booga I wish I could freeze moments like this.

I had to snap a pic on my phone before he went to papa's

Ziggy Marley

I got word from my cousin lila that ziggy marley was going to perform at one of the casinos out here. Of course i jumped all over that and planned to go. I knew we were going to have a busy weekend because tuuta was coming back thursday then the concert was the next day. We all planned to go and purchase V.I.P. tickets. Lucky me,  one of my cousins who had already purchased her V.I.P. tickets could no longer go. Therefore i was able to buy them off her. Come to find out a few days later when the rest of the crew called to get their tickets, VIP was sold out =( They just bought regular seat tickets.
The morning of the concert we all went to the mall tuuta needed to buy some shoes i wanted to go see if anything would catch my eye (hey you never know if you'll see a nice top) and siate just went to go.  I was so tired from the night before welcoming tuuta and having a little eating at their house we didn't leave until about 1am. After the mall we headed home to get ready for the concert. We left 4 hours early because I  wanted to be front row. Yea i the boys actually agreed to leave that early (thanks guys). We made it to the concert area and there was a line of about 20 ppl so we quickly hopped in line.

Then when we finally got passed the entrance i hustled to the front row right in front of the stage to find out that those seats were reserved yes i was soo annoyed!! WHAT THE..i didn't even know you had to purchase front row seats..lol..oh well we ended up in 2nd row which was still really good.

Then my cousin simi came with us to the concert this guy didn't even have a ticket and he got the hook up through one of the tongan girls who worked there! Yes this guy got a VIP pass and then a front row pass!!!Yes i was so jealous ha ha ha I wish i was cool like him where people just hook me up cause they can.

If you can zoom up closer you could see his pass says front row

Anyways so there me and my brother are sitting in back of simi just chillin then i decide to take a trip to the regular seats where the rest of our party was it was so sad they were so far away ha ha ha jk

From left to right tuuta, penili, nese (taufa's girl) and taufa. I was laughing so hard because the look on taufas face was exactly how he felt. lol, but him and siate agreed to switch passes after the concert started so he can exprience it up close. Well Ziggy kicked off the concert singing tomorrow people and it was a good thing he did because the rest of the concert was so so.

I mean i enjoyed it because i was so close but to be where taufa and them were. I would've hated it. He really didn't interact with the crowd. He would smile and wink at all of us in the front and vibe with us. But for everyone else there was nothing. Like we didn't even get any "How you doing Arizona?" or  "Sing it with me". To be honest i only knew 2 of his songs "love is my religion" and "Be true to yourself". At least i made it to the front next to simi ha ha ha and made it on the screens to where everyone saw me lol. Oh and side note 2 people asked me if i was drunk what the?! just because i'm smiling, singing, and making motions to the words that makes me drunk??!?! my brother was like i'm a witness you weren't drinking..hoii people think i'm that weak well sorry ppl i'm a changed woman!! Okkk..lol...The reason i was so excited about this concert was because he's the only son who looks so much like his dad and sounds just like him! I mean when he sang his dads song "Is this love" my heart was literally melting!

 I closed my eyes and pictured Bob Marley singing to me ha ha ha. I'm so serious!! I did expect more from the son of bob marley but hey he winked at me so that made my night ha ha ha. Sadly my phone died during the concert slow me didn't think to stop texting and facebooking to save my battery life for pics. Siate got a text from taufa saying its ok i dont want to switch off, we're gonna bounce. I was like heyyy i mean you spent $$ on this concert try to make it fun at least. They ended up leaving anyways. After the concert we ran into friends and some family so it was nice to see everyone.
Soo after leaving the casino we met up with the rest of the fam at Inn-N-Out. We just hung out and talked about of ziggy wasn't as good as we thought ha ha ha.

 It was a good night. I just loved hanging with the fams mostly =) Just a very few clips of Ziggy singing his dads music the only part i loved! I was too busy dancing when he sang is this love i regret no recording it! he he he

Elder Pulotu Returns!!

 After 2 humbling years Elder Pulotu returns to us honorably! He was called to the London England mission and what amazing service he has given to the people of London =) We welcomed him home this past Thursday and just another one of booga's uncles to look up to.

Me and Kesa just waiting for Elder P's flight to get in

The boys waiting too

My little munchkin

Finallly he's here!!!

So a few of us greeted him and then it was show time his first cousin mote lead his brothers in doing the haka for him! Basically just doing what they do best and letting elder pulotu know the love and respect they have for him esp. for putting the lord first in his life! 

Momma's Boys

The brothers

Our turn!

The other brothers! 1st cousins

March Maddness

Soo its been over a month since i've blogged. Yea i'm a slacker. The whole month of March went so quick! We had the aloha fest March 12&13th it was nice to get back in touch with the polynesian culture! Ever since the Tongan Ward got dissolved there's really nothing else going on. No dances no eatings yea borrring. So yea we got to watch all the groups perform. I can say that i really did miss dancing! Tongan Tau'olunga is my expertise. I miss it i swear if i was back to size 12 i would def. be up on that stage puttin' it down for tonga..lol...seriously. I took so many pics and sadly my camera is missing =( its somewhere i just don't know where i hope it comes up soon. Sunday they had a few poly bands playing and one that we were all familiar with is Kava Kreation mostly because one of the singers, leka we grew up with also was in the tongan ward. Of course we support his group so we all went and listened. They're a very new group so we weren't expecting much but they did very good. They did a cover of "Make you sweat" by Inner Circle and i did feel guilty because it was sunday. There we are breaking the sabbath day yes i really remembered to repent for that one. Well my cousin Taufa (who's more like my brother) his inner rasta wanted to explode and here's a vid ha ha ha.

If theres anyone who knows reggae music its Taufa! If he didn't have the gospel in his life he would def. be a rasta..lol..

After that weekend my mom, me, lil alex, siaosi, lina and teine flew out to utah. We planned a disney spring break vacation but that didn't work out so we headed to utah. I was so glad so i could see my feinga sisters it had been a few months since i've seen them so i was very happy to make it there and spend some quality time. Also we spent some great time with my older bro siate which is always lovely =) We had so much fun tweedy and sita took us bowling. Booga came in 2nd place he had so much fun and now thats all he wants to do is bowl. Then we ate Belgian waffle after again even though we ate it the night before after we flew in.

The Belgian Waffle&Omelet Inn we ate here twice! Waffle Delight is on point!

We were even able to meet up for breakfast with Kass and Moni! So happy we were able to see Toa! He's growing so quick!

Our trip was too quick and here these 2 are waiting for our flight