Drew's Most FAVE!

My lil' 18month old LOVES this clip and can watch it for hours and hours...he laughs his face off EVERY TIME too!! It's now become his most FAVORITE joke to play not only on MOMMY, but DADDY, his big brother, big sister and all his aunties and uncles!! LOL!! I'd say he gets me on it about 95% of the time too!! Now, whenever he sees any of us on the comp, he runs over to jump on our lap, points at the monitor and says, "MOM! MOM!" We know exactly what it is he wants and so this link has become a "FAVORITE" link on the comp and in the Kaufana household. :D

G-HOUSE!

G...R...A....N...WHO'S HOUSE IS THIS? G-HOUSE...E....R!

GRANGER!

who?

GRANGER!

what?

GRANGER!!!!!!!

My back really hurts today! Maybe because I was bit too hyper at Ala's championship game this weekend. LOL! The Granger Lancer (Mighty Mites) faced the West Panthers this past Saturday. They'd been the ONLY team we'd lost to this past season and we came to face them again. This game was certainly INTENSE...you know two poly teams ALWAYS are...from the football players to the fans on the sidelines!! Heck, I lost my voice big time! Yet, our boys sure didn't let down and we came out with the victory 22-13! As soon as the ref held up that ball stating the game was over, us fans were running into the field to celebrate with our boys...(hence, the reason I am having back pains today...lol). It was AMAZING!! Here are some pics after the game. Thanks to all our family who came out to support..it was certainly a memorable day! Alafoki played with his cousin, Sione Tauataina (my cousin Taina's son)...here we all are right after the game center field...The FONUA family! =)Ala with his dad, lil' Drew and Bobo!

Ala posin' with Joe and Lomes!

Johnny and Seni with Alafoki...So happy these two came out to support!!

Aunty Toree with Ala! Thanks for takin' the early bus out from Provo to make it sis!

DeeDee and Alafoki

Ala with his lil' sis, Beanie and his aunties: Maka, DeeDee, Toree, Lomes and Seni

Ala and Bean with Uncle Bobo! =D

CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT SEASON!! WAY TO GO GRANGER!

G-HOUSE!

WHO FLIPPED THE SCRIPT?

Ala and Beanie came home with their 1st report card of the year...they've started at this new school which has been more challenging so we've all been anxious to see these grades! They gave me the sealed envelopes and Ala wanted me to open his first.

Ala got all A+s and one B in math. He usually got all Bs and a few Cs.

Justin and I were speechless and Ala was over excited!

Then we opened Beanies grades...she always outdoes her brother in grades.

Bean got 5 As and 4 Bs!!

Again, Justin and I were speechless and Ala was over excited!

Beanie on the other hand....stomped her way up to her room 'cause she was upset!! LOL!

A's and B's are GREAT...but for Ala to OUT-DO his sister in grades has never happened! We as parents were so proud of them both and will defnitely be treating them somewhere nice as promised.

After a lil' chat with Beanie, she congratulated her big brother and told him to BRING IT 'cause she's gonna hit all A+s this next term. Ala's up for the challenge!

I love their motivation!! =D

Reuniting In All Aspects

October flew by so fast...heck this year has! We're in NOVEMBER already. I have to jot down Ocotober's happenings, because there was a whole lot of reuniting in all aspects for our family.

Justin's lil' cousin, Latu Ongoloka passed away 09/26/09. He was 18 years old and had continuous heart problems the past couple years. The week before, Justin's aunt, Tolokina passed away in New Zealand, but not much of the family could make it out there. Latu's passing brought all the Kaufana family together which hadn't happened in a while and it was lovely to see Justin's aunties from Florida and Oregon here with their kids. Justin didn't wanna miss a minute away from them and loved hanging out with the family. It was an opportunity for our own kids to meet more of the family from their dad's side as well.

This is a picture off of Justin's phone. Latu's family after the burial services.

October 16th, I lost a cousin of my own, Naki Maile passed away unexpectedly. He was 32 years old and left his wife and 6 lil' girls from the age 9 down to age 1. This tragic loss also brought together much of my extended Fonua family and we were reunited with much of our family we hadn't seen in years as well. With both of these cousins passing away so young, I continue to remember that the Lord needs the BEST on the other side to help serve and certainly Naki and Latu are exactly those type of servants...I love thinking of their reunion with our Father In Heaven.

Twig, Nancy and I were invited to a surprise party for our good friend, Felika Tahi. We had been looking forward to this fun party 'cause we knew we'd see friends from our younger years. Funny thing is that we thought it was some kind of birthday party and so us three went in on a gift card to Applebees for Felika and her hubby to enjoy only to arrive to the party and find all pink decoration and a huge sign saying, "It's a Girl!" Weh...MODED! Felika had her 9th child, a lil' girl and her sisters and sis in laws had put together a fun lil' shower. It was tons of fun and we were ever so happy to see old faces and catch up! Good times!

This is a picture of mom with one of Naki's girls, Eva. Taken right after the burial services.


My momma turned the big 5-0 this past month as well! We didn't do anything big for my mom for this birthday, although I wish we could have, she loves to be the center of attention so a dance to celebrate her birthday would have been nice, but we had the funerals and weddings each weekend and so my siblings and I all pitched in some $ and gave it to her and she LOVED it! Mom and dad spent almost a week at a hotel and dad says she splurged on shopping and eating good food! I was happy to hear she did that! Now if ya know me, you know my mom and I butt heads all the time...we really don't compromise well, but this past month was so different. I don't know what it was, but she seemed extra nice, always calling me each morning to see how I was, what I was doing and we could talk for hours without any arguing. You see, my mom had surgery the week before I had baby Koloi and so we've both been off of work on Short Term Disability and so we've had tons of time together...it's been such a great time with her. She had to return to work this past week and I realize how much I miss seeing her throughout the day, so when 7pm hits, I know she's off work and I'm on the phone to talk to her and chat. Totally love her!

To end off the month of October, I was able to see some of my most FAVORITE people who I hadn't seen since July! Now that may not seem so long, but for me it is 'cause these gals know everything and anything about me. Les came out on Halloween with her girls! Not only was it Halloween, but it was also Les' birthday! Monika also was here with her lil' Pataleone and it was such a TREAT to have them here and to finally meet lil' baby Leone! Baby Koloi got blessed that following Sunday so they were here to be with us and it just made my month complete!


This is Monika's baby Pataleone with baby Koloi on his blessing day...we'd been waiting to meet lil' Pataleone since he was born end of July.

A Patriotic "Reality Check!" for Momma!

The kids new school, American Prepatory Academy (APA) had their opening flag ceremony and Utah's governor came to speak to the kids and participate in the flag ceremony. Ala reminded me each day the week prior to make sure I'd be there. I'm glad I made it because it was a neat experience.

It was held outside after school on Monday. There were tons of parent support which I was happy to see. Along with the governor was one of the Utah Sentors and other members from the board. It was neat to see the school director (principal) introduce each member from the government, then asking the students which government branch that actual member served in. I was so impressed to hear the students answers, they knew each person and whether they served in the Legislative, Executive or Judicial branch. The kids then recited by memory some patriotic poems and then he governor gave a motivational speech and then he helped the boy scouts raise the flag. I was actually standing right by the flag pole so I tried to take pics, but they weren't the best.

Once the flag was raised, we all said the Pledge of Alligance and sang the National Anthem (didn't know there was a 2nd verse to the antehm and felt dumb that I didn't know it, but my kids did...lol). After some closing remarks Ala's class was chosen to sing the closing song, "God Bless America" and they sounded so great!! Here's a picture of Ala and his choir. Notice how he's front and center...I knew right away that his music teacher put him there because he is so LOUD! LOL!

Here's a picture of Alafoki with Governor Herbert. He came over to thank Ala's choir for singing, then we caught a quick picture. Beanie felt she was too cool to be around her momma this day, and I didn't catch any pictures. Silly girl!

I realized that I better get up to speed with my own knowledge of the government, 'cause on the drive home we talked about the whole experience, then my kids totally "schooled" me on who the members of the state senate were as well as these government branches...my head was hurting!! LOL!! Totally impressed with this new school of theirs.