A Little Bit Country

I've never really been a fan of country music, but lately it has been growing on me a lot. Taiyo likes it, and so we've been listening to the local country station lately, and I must say I'll openly admit that I like it now. I'm still not into the old style real twangy kind, but the modern poppish country is nice. It's catchy and the themes of the songs are often a whole lot better than what you hear on other types of popular music these days. I mean, it's so refreshing to once in a while hear a guy singing a love song to his wife, rather than to the stripper or bartender at the local club. I guess my conversion is official now that I'm listening to it while I'm home alone with Soni and Taiyo's at work!

Playtime

I finally thought I'd put up some videos of Soni. Here's one of him playing tonight and us being silly just to try to get him to smile, haha :) {Please excuse the poor quality; it's from a web cam...}

It's beginning to feel...

a lot like Christmas! (or at least a little bit)

And I like it!

Happy Halloween

Here's our jack-o-lantern! Taiyo's second one ever. It took us almost 4 hours to make! But we thought it turned out pretty cool.

Hawaiian Superman

Happy Halloween!

We haven't even carved pumpkins yet, but we're going to today as soon as Everett gets here after his scouts activity. But this morning I found a tiny little lava lava in my mom's closet, and I started playing dress up with Soni.
I don't even know where it came from but it's cute! Soni has a lion costume for tonight but this morning I put the lava lava on him and made a little superman logo to put on his chest, and he was so happy! lol

I'll post pics of the pumpkins later!

Ko E Ta'u 'Uluaki

Today was our one year anniversary! :) It has gone by so fast!

Since it's Sunday Taiyo and I went out to see a movie together yesterday, after a Texas Roadhouse dinner with my family. We saw the Time Traveler's Wife, and of course it made me cry because I cry sooo easily (I have even choked back tears several times watching things like 'America's Got Talent' and 'I Survived a Japanese Gameshow'. I'm not kidding.) But we enjoyed it and it was nice to have a night out with just the two of us. Thanks Mom and Dad and Erin for watching Soni for us! While we were on our way home I was so anxious to get there and scoop up my little baby in my arms and kiss him all over because we're not used to being away from him for so long!

We decided to start a little tradition for our anniversaries. Each year we'll each write a letter to each other about our favorite happenings of the year and our love for each other. Then in years to come we can look back and remember how our marriage has progressed and some of the things we've gone through together. We wrote the first ones today. Maybe if I get crafty someday I'll find a clever way to scrapbook them or store them somehow.

I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father for my wonderful husband. I love him so much and am grateful for the sacrifices he has made for us. I know I am far from the perfect wife and I still have a lot of growing room, but our life together has been great so far and I am looking forward to the rest of it. I love you Taiyo!

Baby Blessing

Soni was blessed yesterday in the Mesa 67th (Tongan) ward! My grandma made him a tiny white tupenu to wear and it was soooo cute! After church Grandma and Misi's family came over for lunch. Everything turned out great and it was a great day. I'm so grateful for the gospel and for the priesthood. I'm excited for Soni to grow and to teach him all about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and how to be a good person. Before we know it, we'll be writing about his baptism!