Another Quick Update

Just an update on my "condition" (I have a Japanese friend who always asks when he sees me, "How's your condition?" referring to the pregnancy and I just think it's funny, lol). It's hard to believe it's still growing bigger and bigger! Only 4 more weeks til the due date! (Oh and please excuse the mismatched clothes, this was late at night when I was about to go to bed! haha)

Robot Wars

This past Friday was the school's closing social for Spring 2009. For the first three hours there were four giant blow-up things for people to play on, and then a dance afterward. Since I was not allowed to participate in any of the blow up toy activities due to my "condition" I was the camera girl and took some pictures of Taiyo and some of the other guys battling against each other.

Taiyo and Hema going at it in an Air Bot war...




Unfortunately they broke the thing and the workers had to deflate it, fix it, and then put it back up.


Taiyo "velcroing" himself to the wall.


Racing through the Iron Man obstacle course



The boys did this one sooo many times trying to beat each other's scores. They had to run forward with a bungee cord strapped to their back, and see how far they could reach. Taiyo was proud of himself for getting the best score of the night :)


And finally one with me in it to prove I was there

Memorial Day Feast

My plan was to get quite a few things done over the weekend for school, particularly yesterday since we didn't have any big plans for Memorial day, but it didn't end up as productive as I had hoped. Yesterday our neighbors Paula and Lose called and then Taiyo said to me, "Do you want to go to Hauula and see how to cook a pig? Paula is going to cook one at their uncle's house." So I just thought Yeah, sounds fun! And off we went. Little did I know that we were actually going for a two-pig get-together feed, with some friends of Lose's uncle's that were here visiting from Canada. So anyway we ended up staying there for the rest of the day, late enough that we just went straight to bed when we got home. But it was quite fun to see the boys preparing the pigs, from freshly dead to pulled apart on the table in front of us. I helped prepare some of the other food inside with the aunt. And all the food was really good!! Some cousins even came by and put on a show for us with 4 boys under the age of 15 doing fire knife dances (they're Jr. champions~ so good!!) and a couple little girls dancing Tahitian. It was adorable. Here are some pictures.




Notice the tourist neighbors watching from the porch next door, hehe...



Taiyo roasting one of the kidneys before they put the pigs up.... eww.



I even got a couple turns, haha. Although total I spent maybe 5 minutes doing it. Paula and Taiyo sat there and turned the pigs for almost 2 and 1/2 hours.



Mmm, finally, looks about cooked and crispy!


The feed:


The entertainment:

I love chocolate milk.

Not the thick, strong kind you get pre-made in the cartons, but just regular milk with some Nesquik powder mixed in... Mmm... This weekend we stopped by Taiyo's uncle's house to visit because we hadn't seen them in a while, and we ended up coming home with a bunch of food, including a big bottle of Nesquik powder! They are always soooo giving... I was especially grateful for the chocolate milk though, lol. Yum~

Who Sped Up The Clock?!?

Not only is it spring already, but the spring term is even half over! The school's semesters/terms recently got a little shorter so that they could fit 3 terms in between the two semesters, instead of just 2. As a result, the terms are only 6 weeks, and extremely fast paced. Weeks are going by in the blink of an eye. I really can't believe it.

I've even fallen behind on belly picture taking, so this one is 5 weeks since my last (nearly 10 since the last one I posted on here!). >.< There's a pretty big difference since then! But I am grateful that the pregnancy has continued to go very well, with no major complications. I feel good and the baby is definitely getting strong! They say the last part of pregnancy is the hardest-- the part that makes you willing to go through childbirth. Luckily for me though with the spring classes going on I think the next 4 weeks will completely fly by, I'll be a college graduate, and we'll be in Arizona before I know it. Then I will be able to relax, free of school and work, and it's only a short matter of time before baby comes!

I am grateful for so many things in my life. My husband, our son on the way, our health, the Gospel plan and our knowledge of it, education, my family... I could go on.

Today in particular I am grateful for my mother, and I am about to finally be able to start to understand more clearly everything she has gone through for me.

Happy Mother's Day!

To my mother, and all mothers past, present, and to-be.