Waiting for the sun!

My little cuties are just waiting for another sunny day when they can go outside to play. It was really nice for a while but today is REALLY WINDY! And the forecast said that we are going to be getting A LOT of rain in the next 10+ days, and maybe even a little SNOW!!

As you can see they are ready to have some fun in the sun. I am excited for the weather to get better too. I know that we really need the rain, and I am OK with it, as long as the sun follows. What I am really looking forward to is going to the zoo. I think we are going to try to go for Anela's 2nd birthday which is coming up in just a few weeks.

And hopefully we will get to go to Lagoon sometime this summer. I was really wishing that I could go to Lagoon today because I have been pretty stressed lately, and I think that some of the rides would wipe that out, at least for a while.

My sister Colby gave me Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights quite a few years ago, and I really like Jane Eyre. I just re-read it recently and wanted to re-read Wuthering Heights but I couldn't find my copy. Last week I was looking at books at DI and saw Pride and Prejudice. I hear references to this story in many places, but I have never read it or seen any of the movies that have been made from it. So I decided that I should read it. I really like it. It reminded me a lot of Jane Eyre, there are many similarities. If any of you have not read these books, they are highly recommended by me. Especially Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. Wuthering Heights is something that everyone should read because it is a "classic" but it is really quite crazy! The only reason that I want to read it again, is because it has been so long since I read it the first time, I don't remember all the details.

What a cute mess!

My cuties after church today!

OK, so on one of the other posts there was a picture of Anela eating cereal and I commented on how she is really good at feeding herself. Well obviously that does not include a bowl of ice cream!!! When her ice cream started to melt she put her hands in it and was rubbing it all over her face and in her hair! I guess it was fun. Then when I put her in the bath, the water looked like hot chocolate!
Nothing will stop her from smiling for the camera!

From now on......only popsicles!

It's a good thing I love her so much!!

Dancing (kind of)

Anela wanted nothing to do with it when they tried to include her in the dancing.

She was happy to watch and eat her watermelon.

On Sunday I put on some music for the kids so they could dance. They love to turn the music up and dance all over the place and make up new moves. I wanted to get some pictures of them dancing, so I turned up the music and let them get started. Then I pulled out the camera. As soon as it came up they were more interested in doing tricks and jumping around than actually dancing. That's OK though, I think that I got some pretty good pictures. As you will see, they did a lot of jumping. I like the pictures of them in the air, and was surprised at how high they were able to get in some of them! Anela was having a bad day and didn't want to dance so she just sat with me looking at the pictures and cheering them on while eating watermelon.

He couldn't hold her up...

when he tried to give Ariana a piggy back.



They weigh the same, but she is a little taller. And apparently a little stronger.

Gerry tried to play guitar, using Ariana as the guitar...

but she is too ticklish!

Gerry made a good guitar for Ariana

Tuckered out after dancing and doing tricks all day!

He sure can get up there!

Look at that air!

Jumping Jumping Jumping

Gerry calls this the "funkadilly" it's from a Backyardigans episode about surfing.

surfing moves

More high jumps!!

I don't know where that came from that they can jump so high, I know it's not from me!

These last two pictures I thought were kind of funny with the couch in the background. It almost looks like a couple of giants sitting on the couch instead of them jumping.

Stuff, and Mom's new house

Mom thinks that I am crazy for
putting this on, but I love the
laundry chute!

View of the front

Downstairs family room

Kitchen

Front room upstairs

Beautiful china hutch at the other end of the

kitchen.

Guest room downstairs, which I hear

is different now. Mom had A LOT of

company recently when her step-daughter

went on a mission to Chile. Before

everyone arrived, they fixed up their

house to accommodate all the people.

Play area in the downstairs

guest room. (Don't know if

this is even still there!)

Not a whole lot has been going on around here. We are just spending a lot of time home, which is not so fun. Afa is working in Nevada right now, so we don't see much of him. It is finally starting to warm up so we did go to the park twice this week. Hopefully soon we will be able to go on some bigger field trips, like to the zoo and the aquarium and Lagoon, Disney Land, Paris.........

Oh well, we are making the best of what we have here. The kids are good at keeping themselves entertained with coloring, reading, dancing and when the weather is nice they play in the back yard. Of course I have no trouble keeping busy as well with laundry, dishes vacuuming and trying to get/keep the house organized.

Yes, I do still have a job away from the house. I still work two days a week at the airport. I think that I have the best shift possible. I only work Thursday and Friday nights, and I get to work in the "cage" which means that instead of being outside throwing heavy bags, I am inside giving out equipment and logging it. Then I put everything away at the end of the night. It's pretty nice, but sometimes it gets lonely in there. But there are always willing people if I want to trade for a while to stretch my legs and visit with my friends. After a while in the cage it actually feels good to be outside and throw a few bags.

One thing of note that did happen this week is that my sister-in-law Fa'atonu, moved out. Again.

She came home on Wednesday and said "I think it would be better for our relationship if I didn't live here, so I am going to live with my friend." Fifteen minutes later she was gone with all of her stuff. Basically she was mad at me because I didn't want to become her personal driver. She decided that she didn't want to pay her car payments anymore and when her car got taken away while she was asleep she expected me to take her to work every night. Her shift starts at 2:30 or 3:30 in the morning, and as I said Afa is out of town. So she wanted me to take her to work wile my kids were sleeping! I told her that I couldn't leave them, and she said it was OK since they were all asleep! I told her before the car got taken that she would have to figure out a way to get to work when the car was gone, and she said that she would. But when it came to it, she was mad that I wouldn't do it. I told her that I wasn't going to be the one to pay the consequences for her actions and decisions, but that just made her mad. That's OK though, she is 31 years old and it is about time that she learns to take care of herself. I was actually glad when she said that she was leaving. It means that I had to get someone else to watch the kids, and I will have to take them there, which is not fun since I don't get home until 11pm. But now I wont worry about them while I work 'cus I know that they are with someone I trust. Kinda sad when you can't trust family, but I was never entirely comfortable with her, she didn't keep a good eye on them.

OK enough of that rant. I took a bunch of pictures of my mom's house while I was there because I love it. So anyone interested in seeing it you're in luck, I finally got my pictures in my computer and know how to use it (kind of). Make sure that you see all three posts that I did today!

OK I did the writing first, then put the pictures on and then did the writing of the pictures. Obviously I need to figure out how to get the writing next to the picture that I want it next to. When I did the preview it looks right. Then when I post it, it is wrong. So you will just have to figure out what caption goes with which picture. Sorry!

Park in St. George

This is at the park next to my mom's house in St. George. No we didn't go down again yet, these are from February. As you can see the kids had a great time. Unfortunately this was the only day we were able to spend any time at the park, because it was cold and rainy most of the time we were there.