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.

A Bunch of pictures of my cuties

Silly kids playing dress up.

Anela sleeping on the shelf with the movies.

Anela being cute!

Afa trying on his new harness for work.

Anela giving her best friend Kimmy a kiss.

Gerry getting a kiss from Daddy, and showing off his dimples.

Spring Break

Ariana got out of school early yesterday and has spring break until Tuesday next week. It has not snowed for quite a while now, and it has been even longer since it has stuck to the ground. I thought that it was kind of funny that the first day of her spring break it snowed all day long, and as you can see quite a bit has stayed.
I didn't even realize that she was going to have spring break this weekend until I got a note about it on Tuesday. It would have been nice if I knew about it earlier cus I would have loved to take this time to go somewhere, but I guess that will have to wait. Hopefully we will be able to go back down to St. George next time she is off track which is only a couple of weeks away. Afa really wants to go to St. George too, so we're hoping that it will work out. The only thing is that we will probably have to make it a really short weekend trip if Afa comes, because he has to work. Even if that is the case, it will be nice for him to come with us, he hardly ever gets to go down because of work.
Bye for now, more to come soon..........

Poor Baby!

Anela has been sick all week. It is nothing serious but she has been very uncomfortable and has not been able to sleep at night. Of course that means that I have not gotten more that a few hours sleep each night as well. Today she went down for a nap at about 1:00, around 3:00 I heard her get up and she was knocking on her bedroom door to be let out. When I opened the door she was sitting on the floor next to the door. I picked her up and took her into the family room and set her on the couch while I got her a drink of water. She hasn't been eating that well, but drinks a lot of water. I gave her the cup and she just set it down and leaned her head againt the couch. This picture is of her about 5 minutes AFTER she got up from her nap. I am glad that she if finally able to get some good sleep, I just wish that she would sleep at night so I could sleep too. I would love to lay down with her now while she is napping, but with Gerry and Ariana up I am afraid that I would wake up to the house burning down around me!
I know that I said I would post more pictures last week, but I have so many & I have not had a chance to go through everything. When I get them organized and onto my computer I am going to try to do at least one post every week.

FINALLY!

Well, we finally got a new computer about two weeks ago, and yesterday we got the internet hooked up. I am really happy about it because getting this was mostly for me, and I feel like I needed to finally do something nice for myself. When you get married and have kids you sometimes are so busy taking care of others that you don't take care of yourself. I don't remember the last time I got something nice for myself. So now anyone who is following our blog wont have to wait so long between posts and I will be able to put pictures up every time! Not much right now because of course I have laundry waiting and kids and a husband to feed! I will do more tomorrow.
The picture of Anela eating is the first time that she ate cold cerial with milk by herself, She feeds herself pretty well but I held off on the cerial because of the mess that she could make with it. But she gets mad if we try to feed her now, and of course she was doing so good and not making a mess so I had to take pictures. Then when the camera came out she was more intirested in it than the cerial. The other picture is from yesterday. She kept asking for cheese, and I didn't know why cus she never eats just cheese. I thought maybe she wanted macaroni and cheese cus that's one of her favorite things to eat. But then she went over and pulled my camera out and said "Cheese!" while handing it to me. So I took her picute, and she is saying cheese in it. If she had her way we would just constantly be taking her picture all day every day!

Not much going on out of the ordinary right now. I just wanted to do a quick post while I have access to a computer. The kids and I are down in Washington Utah visiting my mom for a little over a week. Afa is getting full time hours right now which is good because this is a slow time for them, but he has gotten pretty high up in seniority so they are working him a lot. It's nice that he stays busy so I don't have to work so much, and I can take time off the visit my family. It's just too bad that the only time I can take off is when he's busy so he never gets to come with us.
Ariana is off track from school right now, but goes back next week. Also next week we get to register Gerry for kindergarten. I am very excited for that! It will be nice when I have two kids in school, and even better the next year when they are both full time. I love my kids but I really go crazy being with them all the time. My new shift at work starting the 19th of February will have me only working Thursday and Saturday nights. It's kind of funny that I wanted the shift that would let me spend more time at home because whenever I am out of the house without them I worry about them the whole time (if they are being taken care of properly, if they got a good dinner at the right time, if they got a bath, if they are put to bed on time ect.) But when I am home with them ALL THE TIME I tend to go a little crazy. It's hard to take them out much because they get so exited about being out of the house that they drive me more crazy when we're somewhere else. It will be nice in the summer when they can finally play outside again and get some othe their extra energy out. Also I am making plans whith Kirah to take the kids to the park a lot and go to the zoo and other summertime activities invented to keep mothers sane!!
OK gotta go for now. I have some pictures of the kids here at my mom's new house and the park two houses down (the one day that was not raining or cloudy and cold) Hopefully I will be at a computer that takes my carera card soon to post them.