Throw the SHAKA!!!

Shaun and I never really get to go out anymore due to the fact that we have 5 lovely children that have not yet reached the age where one of them could take charge and babysit the rest.So when we do get to go out I like to think we have to make every minute count.

This past Saturday Shaun and I when to the "Throw the SHAKA" concert that was held at the waikiki Shell. My cousin Anthony was kind enough to invite us and we dragged my other cousin Tuika along with us.

I have to say from start to finish the music was SOLID. I love every bit of it. It was upbeat and the could was eating it up. Ive only been to one other concert there and it this was by far much better.

I love people who sound just like the do on CD's when there singing live. Everyone shut it down that night. I loved 3 doors down, Never heard of them until tonight, But love love love them:)

Till next year I will hold on to my SHAKA to THROW it down and the THROW THE SHAKA...

SEQUENCE! What have you done to my family?

Who would of thought that a board game could bring my family (Brother's and Sister's) Closer together. NOT I!!!

While visiting our Uncle Falamani's Families New Years camp Out at Hukilau one of my cousin's Uila was like " Girl you need to sit down and learn how to play this, cause you'll love it!"

Being the competitive person that I am, I was up for a challenge. I love learning new games and take some names while I'm at it.LOL. So its a game that you play with a partner, You have a board that has face cards on them and you have face cards in your hand as well as chips to place down when its your turn to show one face card at a time. You have to make a Sequence of 5 chips in a row using the cards that you and your partner are dealt. Hence, SEQUENCE. Its almost like connect 4 but not. There are ways to block other people from making there 5 and thats when the fun comes in for me. I love to play Defence, But thats not always the best way to win. And you all know how much I love to win.

So my mom went to thinker toys and paid $35.00 for this board game, But I think that its wroth alot more.

Before this we would see each other only at family eating's, or when my brother Nai is in town. we wouldn't just meet up at mom and dad's to just hang out. But because of this game we do. If you tell me this game is only worth $35.00, I wouldn't believe you Because to me it's priceless.

Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?

All the voices in my head where telling me not to start reading these books, But too late. I have readed them not Once but Twice and thinking about reading them again.

For some reason I have a very good minds eye and these books took me in to the world of vampires and werewolf’s and the very wet town of forks. I could picture everything so clear as if I was standing in the clearing preparing to fight. But as what?

At first I was all team buff n’ brown, But after reading all the books in what I like to think was months but was really 5 ½ days from start to finish, I’m going to stick with what I’ve always thought I was and that was the best of both a HYBRID!!!

I wish I could get myself to read the scriptures like this.

I’m now looking for another good book to read. I doesn’t have to have vampires, but would love for it to be a good romance book. So Holla…

Thats How we do on Mo. St.

What do you do in Laie when its New year's eve and you dont want anyone to drive up and down your street while your kids are running around crazy?

You Shut the street down and have a block party!


So I had to walk down the street and get everyone to sign saying that its okay to close our street. That took me 3 days. You think it take me 30 min. But I have to remember that not all people just sit home like me and do nothing all day. Make a long story short I got everyone to signed and turned it in to HRI.

New Years eve was here and so we all started to Put the tents on the road, But wait who called the police? Yes! So one called the cop's because we shut down the road. I thought Lice and Aunty Bale were going to start reading him he's rights. We found out that it was someone for the loop saying "Because Moana st. Shut down there's to much traffic coming down our st." He talked to HRI and then said Happy New Year and Left.

We even had t-shirts made. It was great and I hope everyone will be game next year and the tent wont fly away.LOL.

The Wrestler!!!

(Shaun is in the Gray)

The last sport I thought Id be putting any of my kids in would be Wrestling. Ive thought about water polo, paddling, golf, tennis, volleyball, basketball and soccer, But Wrestling never crossed my mind.

We heard through the coconut connection that there was a PAL wrestling going on at Kahuku High School. So I figured that it might be something new and fun for us and the kids to do. Well the 2 older girls said "NO!" But ShaCe and Shaun were game.

They practice for about 2 weeks and then the coach said " OK who's going to be wrestling in the tournaments?" Sure enough we let Shaun. Thinking that it was going to be like them just rolling around. Well I ws dead wrong.

The First Tourney was Terrible. It was like watching my son get beat up and I couldnt do anything about it. I let after the first match Because we had to drive to Waiau to Watch ShaRae's Soccer game. I cried for the Kahuku to Waiau. Thinking that I was the worse mother in the world for letting him just pretty much get beat up in front of what seemed like the world watching.

But Im not a quitter and I dont teach my children to be quitters. So I told him that he would just have to stick it out. Well turns out Shaun came in first for 3 tournament, 2nd in 2 and last in the first one he entered.

My Grandfather and Uncle Stu were great wrestlers and so I guess its in his blood or thats what people keep telling me. I hope he keeps the tradition alive.

Whoever thought I would come to love wrestling and watching my son do something like his Grandpa Lilo.

(Shaun is in the Red)

What a crybaby?

Have you ever just had that day where you find yourself crying for nothing? Well today is that day for me. And NO IM NOT PREGNANT.

This morning I started watching “This Christmas” and every time there was a sad or happy part I was balling!!! I mean what the heck is going on. When Shaun saw that he was like “Okay see you later I’m going to work, before you find a way to pin your crying thing on me”. I think I heard him running to the car and when I tried to call him an hour later he didn’t answer.LOL.

But I only can think of one other person that today me they had a day like this and HE wasn’t pregnant or gay. So I think today is my day to cry over sad and happy things in life or in movies, cause that’s what Ill be doing on this furlough Friday.

Oh wait, Its Furlough Friday! Okay never mind I know why I’m crying.

Christmas Time in Laie brings out the all the FOOTBALL in you.

If you go to a park in the USA your probably going to find a pick up game of Soccer, Volleyball, basketball or better FOOTBALL. During Christmas in Laie we have a Pick up game like no other its called the "CHRISTMAS BOWL"

This year was its 20th year in action at are dear ol' Laie Park. Our own Mr. Jr Ah You and his lovely family put this all together with the help of others in the community.



The last time I played I was baby less, husband less and 125 pound less. My Dear Friend Maraiaha asked if I wanted to play and after telling myself " You've had 5 kids, You not in the shape you use to be, Your going to make a fool out of yourself" I went against all the voices in my head that keep me sane and said "What the heck!!!"



First off, I never felt hurt like that before But it was well worth it. If you dont know Im very Competitive and hates to lose. Hey but we came in 2nd place, the only bad thing was we lost to my sister Alberta's team and that tasted like crap in my mouth.LOL.




The only thing for me that was sad was watching the talent there. It always hurt me to see some of the best talent to ever play football in Hawaii due to whatever there situation not really make anything of there talent. I also wish my brother's wouldn't give up on playing college ball.

And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!

Family Pic 2009 By Marianna Ah Quin

These are just a few of our family photo's of 2009. I love Marianna and her work. she really captures the charaters that are my children. Please check out her blog if you get a chance. www.mariannaahquinphotography.blogspot.com

My Examples

This past year my sister in law Tiana was baptized. She has had the gospel in her life for about 3 years now, but sometimes you need to find if it’s true on your own.

Through her example she is helping my brother come back to church and with that allowing her children to grow up with the gospel of Jesus Christ in there lives. She just woke up one Sunday and said “Were going to Church!” That Sunday just so happen to be fast Sunday and low and behold who gets up to bear their testimony…. None other then my brother Esera.

This is a great example of that scripture “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

I was also excited because Shaun got to perform her baptism. He’s Challenge was saying her 2, not 1 but 2 long Hawaiian names and having the area authority there didn’t help him one bit. I am very proud that my husband is a worthy priesthood holder.

Tiana and Esera are great examples to me and have strengthened my testimony in Jesus Christ and this gospel Heavenly Father has blessed us with. Her example has also touched her friend Tiara who was baptized 3 months later.

I’ve heard a lot of stories about one person getting baptized and then there whole family converts and through there conversion the generations after grew up with the gospel. Made this is a start.

Eddie would go and so we did!!!

Eddie would GO!!!

And after 5 long years. He did.

As a Typical North Shore girl I lived at the beach, Gym or at a park. I also live 15 minutes away from the best surfing spot’s in the world. The summer bring the heat at Ehukai, But the winter is OWNED by waimea bay. During the winter months all the way up to Feb. they hold the Eddie Aikau Classic at waimea, but it’s not something that happenes every year. Because it’s up to the waves, they have to be at least 20-25ft swells for it to GO. Eddie Aikau was a Big Wave Rider. Watching this contest is not for the fate of heart, because most of the surfer get pounded, hurt, boards broken or worse death. Thank the Lord no one was hurt.

The Eddie is like a Holiday for us Kahuku High School kids. What was the CP’s going to do. Run us all over as we left the school to head down to Waimea? I don’t think Erma could out run the slowest of the bunch.LOL. There were even kids would go as far as popping fire crackers to get suspended so they can go. Or they could have parents like me who takes her oldest daughter to watch her first Eddie and see her fall in love with it just as I have not so many years ago.

That’s on the the perks for being a stay at home mom. You can plan you own schedule out, Like Im not doing any house work today cause Im headed to waimea bay. But another fun thing is dragging your fellow stay at home mom’s along with you.

So today Myself, ShaRae, Kari Uluave and her to daughters and Ipo Uluave and her youngest paid $30 for parking and walked from pupukea foodland to the EDDIE. It was well worth the walk and the money, because there were people parking way way way too far.

We got to see Kelly Slater ride and awesome set all the way up shore, at least 5 boards get broken, People going crazy when someone dropped in, then heard the awwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhh when he eats it, Almost getting swept away with the waves as the surf reached were we sat… It was very nice to share that with my fellow North Shore Stay at home mothers.

Till’ next year EDDIE… We would go too!!! Bless us with great surf…