Oh, How great it is to be 8:)

3 Down and 2 more to go... For being baptized and receiving the gift of the holy ghost and becoming a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. Yay for ShaCe she did it.

Having been that I just got back from a 2 week trip and the baptism was on sat and I got back Wed, I was pretty stressed out. I found out that Shaun didn't pass out the invited that I made before I left and then to top it off we were having a party for our September babies ShaCe 3rd, ShaLi 8th and ShaDen 24th that day of the baptism and party. So I was pretty freaked out. Long story short we got all the invites out and I FB people to make sure they knew and the day turned our beautiful. ShaCe is my middle child and gets looked over alot because she has her older 2 sisters and then there's 2 younger brothers under her. She is my middle child and has the attitude to back it up. Well this day was all about her and it seemed as if she didn't know how to react. I was sitting in the 2nd row and her dad was sitting in the 1st row with her, But she just kept trying to go to the 2nd row. So I move to the 1st row and she was like no I wanna sit there. She was so shy about being the center of attention. But after awhile she got use to it she was overwhelmed with the spirit. I loved that people love her and us that they came out early in the mourn and during soccer games and just plan waking up. I loved everything about that day. My Nieces Fahren and Lizzy Niu did a great job on talking about baptism and the holy ghost. THE TONGA GIRLS were off the hook with there singing during the break and I love love love that mama sia got up to sing with them. Got it from there mama. It was such a great experience. You think by the 3rd kid it would be like yeah whatever. But It was great to be 8!!!

MY BIRTHDAY WEEK

So I turn the big 3 0 this sat. and I thought why not make it my bye bye 20z birthday week. Shaun was like really who does that? Um I do and I hope to set a new trend.lol. So for everyday Ill do something I love... Monday- Went to eat at gateway at PCC with my sister Berta and her family and Brother Sione and his family. After we ate they continued on to the one and only haunted lagoon. That will be my Wed. thing to do. Tuesday-Service. I love giving service. It blesses me way more then it blesses the people I serve. So I will be cooking a meal along with my RS Presidency for a widow who just recently lost her husband. I love you Uncle John and Aunty Bobbi Nauahi. I will also be cooking for the sister missionaries that serve in our ward. Wednesday-Going to tackle my fear at the Haunted Lagoon!!! Please pray for me. Thursday- I love love love me some good pedi:) lol. So Im going to get my toes done. Friday-Is still open??? any suggestions??? THE BIG DAY-LOL- going to watch BYU-hawaii play Volleyball. I love Volleyball. and thats the sum of my birthday week. Ill fill you in if there is more then just blah blah blah.lol

Trip of a lifetime

My little family that goes no where for family vacations took one this past May!!!

We started off in Las Vegas were we spent a couple of days hanging with family. My kids loved seeing the strip. Even with the slight nudity it was a great thing for our kids to see something other then Hawaii.



Then we took a drive up to the one and only Salt Lake City. It was about 5 an Half hours drive and I was scared that my kids would be crazy being in the car that long. But that was one of the best part of our trip. They slept most of the drive and were way nicer to each other. We sang our favorite Glee songs and told dry jokes.

When we got to Utah it was all business for us. Getting everything ready for Nai’s graduation and his party on Sat. We never really had a chance to relax and enjoy being there. But It was so nice being with all my brothers and sisters and there kids. THAT BY FAR WAS WORTH every penny spent.

After Utah we headed down to the greatest place on earth “DISNEYLAND” We spent 5 days and Disney and 2 at Universal Theaters. My kids had a blast. We rode every ride like 6 times each. Shaun loves theme parks. I more of eater at the theme parks.lol.

My favorite part of all was coming home and listening to all my kids relive there memories from our trip. I hope Shaun knows how much we appreciate him working so hard so we could have a trip of a life time….

What does Wheat, Sesame seed and dust mites have in common?

ShaCe is allergic to it and a lot more… The worst of them is WHEAT!!! How do you tell a child that loves loves loves to eat that she cant because she’s going to have an allergic reaction to it!!!

ShaCe has been going through a lot this past month of august. I have to say that it was one of her worst. Right up there with here first January when she was just 4 months she had a bad case of chicken pox. You when things are bad when the Doctors are asking you if they can take pictures of her and bring in there students.

Now right before here eight is great birthday she has allergy’s that is driving me nuts and her. She is allergic to wheat, milk, sesame seed, shell fish, penicillin, all the weeds and the grass out side and dust mites and mold!!!

Her hives have gone away with a pill and some melaluca oils. But talking to a lot of people that only last for a while then you have to try other things. HUH. Don’t get me wrong things could be worse then they are But it still sucks.

I think its going to make me re think the way I cook from here on out. I have to remember a lot of can’s and cannot’s. Like last night I said ShaCe go a head and eat that fry chicken its not that much wheat. Sure nuff she had hives with in a couple of hours.

She’s been a great sport about this whole thing and I should be too…

Here’s to my new adventure with living with children who have allergies!!! Wish me luck…

My ShaRae is a Red Raider…

All her life which is only 12 years, Ive prepped her that she will go to a private school. Punahou was our #1 pick, I mean c'mon who wouldnt want to go there. So I went through the process of getting applications for 3 schools Punahou, Iolani and Mid Pac. Filled them all out, talked to to the admin at all schools so much that I know them by first name. Got some contacts in at punahou. Got letters of recommendation. So basically I got the works. She is a great student and should be a great athlete if she pushes her self. So we were crossing fingers, Toe's and everything that she would do well on her testing... Well it didnt even get that far.

So the night before I was to mail out her app’s I fasted and prayed about what is right for her and our family as a whole. Because it just accrued to me that not only will she be making sacrifices But so will our whole family. Whether it be picking up the slack because I have to go get her from school or just her time away from all of us. So the next morning when she got up I said “ You are going to be a Red Raider For Life”… Ive never seen her jump so high in my life.

Im not saying that private school is not a good thing, Im just saying that for my family it wasn’t the best choice. So she is now riding her bike to Kahuku on the brand spankin new bike path thanks to HRI.

If one thing I know she’ll get at Kahuku that no other school will have is FUN, FUN,FUN!!! Hehehehe. She’s happy and Im happy that the school is only 2 ½ min’s away.

And if my kids are good in anything I would want them to make our community school good or even better!!! So good luck to everyone this school year.

Dilemma’s mean different to different people…

What is a REAL Dilemma? Cause for 2 weeks I forgot. I was being selfish ol me and only thinking about the worldly things like going to watch my brothers football games. So here’s the back story….


I love Heart Love college football in all its glory. On my bucket list I have WATCH USC PLAY IN THE COLOSSEUM close to the very tippy top. So when Utah moved over to the Pac 10 which is now the Pac12 I was like HELL YES!!! I’m going to check that one right off. So then comes my dilemma the BYU game is the following week and so I thought Okay Ill stay there so I can watch Jray and Nai play for the last time. Good idea right? Well that’s what I thought….

So ,in order to stay that long which would be about 2 weeks, I would have to take ShaDen. So that’s not 1 ticket but 2. I began the hunt for everything from Hawaiian miles, Maikai rewards, Buddy Passes ect. Even though there are a lot of people that I know and have helped over the years there are just a hand full that are willing to help in any which way they can. Which I am grateful.

And here comes the Set backs , Cause I didn’t get much. So now it came down to figure out how I was going to find $900.00 to buy the tickets… Well it didn’t happen! I cried my eye balls out to the point where shaun was like OMG Is it that time of the month, Cause your killing me right now.

On Wednesday night I had decided that Im not going. I was still really bumbed and didn’t feel like going to the temple session Id plan on going to the next mourning, But my fear of God is much more stronger then my natural women . So like a good daughter I went the next day.

Let me tell you that I got in there and felt like an idiot as I wrote names down on the prayer list.These are people who have REAL DILEMMA'S like fighting cancer, Fighting addictions, Fighting to keep their marriages going, Fighting to keep their families together. How selfish I am for not seeing what matters most in life and who matters most. The spirit was over whelming and all I could do was ask for forgiveness, because here I am pissed and balling over not going to a football game while my cousins fight for their lives. Who am I to feel so unloved and abandoned!!! It was one of my lowest moments in life.






I’ve repented…. I still am repenting….. it’s a life time thing me and repentance we hold hands a skip around all day.LOL.

Moving on, shortly after my dear sweet friends start telling me to just leave ShaDen and I should go. That they would help taking turns watching him. Keep in mind Shaun has been telling me this all along. But why listen to him? Anyways, We decided that I go just for a week to the USC game, But when it came down to buy my fare he looked at me and said “ Alvina, You should stay for the whole 2 weeks. We’ll be fine and your friends will be fine with ShaDen. So you go. But you better find a Job ASAP!!!”

I was floored. I was speechless and for most of you know that really hard to get me to that point. First thing I did was thank the Lord. Because I know in my heart that it was his hand that got me to go on this trip.

What Ive learned for all of this is that I had my little self centered moment and I hated the after taste so I will never see or here that part of me again, But so ever you her here coming out please feel free to slap me. 2nd Put other people before yourself and the Lord will bless you… Ate a good helping of humble pie and that tasted delish… Every now and then we all need a good helping of it.

The Worst thing Shaun could say...

Alvina its time for you to get a Job...

I have not been looking forward to the day Shaun would need me to go to work. I am not above working my any means, But I have this 10 ton fear for applying for a job and then getting rejected.

REJECTION does not settle in my stomach very well. Not that I have faced my fare share of people saying no to me... Its just the fact that Im 30 years old and I have lifted anything educational since high school and Im afraid I will fail anything they throw at me.

My advice to teenagers... GO TO CLASS AND NEVER HAVE A BOYFRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND in high school.lol. Yes to the first part and no to the 2nd. If I never met Shaun I would never have the 5 things that make life worth living.

But coming back to my fear of getting a job. I know to most of you reading this you most think IS SHE FOR REAL? YES I AM!!! Other the my 1 1/2 month McDonalds job I had right after High school Ive never had another job job. Ive coached for high school volleyball one year and coached club ball, But never had another job. AND ITS BITING MY WHERE THE SUN DONT SHINE NOW.

Ive had good reason not to get a job. My 5 Crazy coconuts need a mother to mother them and I guess since Im there mother that makes me the one to do the mothering.lol. Try and say that 10 times. Anyway. There are allot of things I could of done to put my self in a better position then I am now. Like 1 go to school!!! Yeah never stepped a foot on a college campus as a student Cause I just figure let Shaun do that... and plus Im not a school person. I more of the arts type. But not an artist. So where do I fit in the education world. I have to say I pride myself on my creative mind. But faith with out works is dead. So my NIUDESIGN INC is still in my brain because I haven't done a thing to make myself public. So right now my services are FREE.

I think what I want is to be my own boss. Because I want to be able to always tell my children that YES I can make it to all your functions. I dont want to have to ask someone for time off to go. But that is a life that I cant afford right now. So Ive sucked it up and turned in my first app. Lets pray I get me act together and make my brain child NIUDESIGN INC come to life. Wish me luck.

And if thats the worst thing... think of all the nice things I should hear him say.LOL.

CAN YOU SMELL THAT?!?

Its football in the air. I took a great big breath and desisted that I love this time of the year. THIS IS MY CHRISTMAS…

Last year my football heart was thrown on the ground and smushed like the ulu’s that fall off my tree and splatter all over my drive way. I was crushed first because my brother wasn’t playing due to injure, then just when I thought the cowboys couldn’t get any worse they did and then to top it all off Kahuku got DQ from the OIA championship game. Which meant No state champs for us. Im sorry but you can throw that honorary state championship plaque in the laie loa pond next to foodland cause it doesn’t mean a thing…

So this year Im so pumped not going to linger on the past… Not going to recent some of the coaches and there decisions… Not going to swear at other peoples kids cause they missed a tackle or dropped a pass or never move there feet or because they when clip and the touchdown got called back… Im going to be POSITIVE!!! Yes you heard it RIGHT… IM going to be using what teachers call Positive reinforcement!! And it better work or Im going back to my old ways.

The first light of football for me was the Kahuku Waianae game and to sum it up. We did all right. There were high’s and lows. There are a lot of injures which in a contact sport you have to expect, But that’s why there’s back up’s or in football terms strings.. So my biggest concern with Kahuku is that there not prepping there back ups for action. I love that my nephew Beni plays both ways and he’s done it all his life. He did it last year and it worked But not everyone is cut out for that kind of play. So I ask Please play the 2nd and 3rd string you never never ever going to teach them if they don’t get to play. Especially on games where you already know you’ve won and you don’t want to wear out your starters or worse get them hurt. I am not a coach so I might be all wrong. So in that case don’t mind me.lol




So now brings on my Brother Nai Fotu…. Nai Nai Nai has dyed his hair red. I have to admit his kind missing some screws up there But that what I love about him. On the field he’s Fearless and Relentless. He would never back down from a fight. I love to watch him play when he has his game face on. Off the field he is the nicest guy. Some people don’t understand how to separate the two, not some people just mostly BYU fans. But this is his last year and Ive never watched him play before. So heres my chance to not only watch him play at a college level But also GO TO USC for a football game. Im on cloud nine right now. Got my bags packed and ready to go… only set back is I have to take ShaDen  hehehehehe.




So lets just say that football is my favorite scent and its in the air… Not the locker room smell that’s gross But nice new football smell…lol.

My small kine problems….

A lot of times I sit her and think WHY ME! But when I listen to others problems like REAL Problems… Not like me wondering why its so hard to find Hawaiian miles to get 2 tickets to the USC game. Yeah Big Problem…

This past Saturday I visited with my cousin who is fighting cancer. She had just recently found out and has a hard road in front of her, But yet she had ask how I was doing. She was happy and upbeat. She is what I say Living life to its fullest. She may not be jumping of cliffs or traveling the world, but she is savoring every moment of every day.

I left there feeling like she had comforted me instead of the other way around. She has squared up with both fists ready to fight this battle she has in front of her. She and others like her are my Idol!!!

Kahi I stand up to cancer for YOU!!!

Loss of a love one...

Death has so many different shades of emotions that effect us... Death has so many different faces... It doesn't discriminate on age, size, color or the way it presents it self to you or our love ones...

Ive felt and seen every different emotional shade of Gray's and whites.Death, all though sad and hard is apart of the plan of salvation. But its still a hard pill to swallow at times. Even our Late Prophet Gordon B. Hinkley mourned the loss of his wife, Not that he was afraid or scared, it was her physical absents that he missed. It was a simple glimpse at true and unwavering love. He know he would be with her, But missed her all the same...

Ive learned allot by watching him and know how to handle my grief of a loss one who really isn't loss just physically absent. So I smile tho my heart is breaking and know in my heart that this to shall pass and if we CTR we shall be in the presents of our Heavenly Father, As well as those who have gone before us and those who will follow, Because death is part of the Lords plan.

Everyone Dies, But not everyone LIVES!!!