BYU Women's Conference 2012

My 2nd year at the BYU Women's Conference.  Surrounded for 3 days by other Sisters of Zion is just AMZING!!  It's so inspiring, uplifting and helps me to get back on my feet and strive to be my best!!  

There were so many pics taken...just waiting on Nancy to post them so I can steal and post here!!  Hahaha!! 

My two monsters were down in Cougar Town hangin' with aunty Toree the first day....
daddy picked them up later that evening.  

Trying to eat healthy...haha!!  

Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day for the Jr. High!

Aren't they just the COOLEST Grandparents you've ever seen?

My Pops posin' with the KING!! 

Gma Norah decided to copy and tried to "one up" Pops by her pose!!
These two always competin'...especially when it's against eachother!! 

There was a swing dance competition and sure enough Grandma & Grandpa were up on stage ready to compete!  Grandma wished that Ala would have told her she could have dressed up 50's!  We all KNOW she's got a closet full of poodle skirts for this occasion.  Still, they STOLE the SHOW!!  Afterwards, Ala joined them on the floor...I love that this kid isn't shy at ALL!  He gets it from his grandma alright!!

Ala and his band mate, Michael posing one time!! 

Ala performing with his band to entertain their grandparents...he plays the baritone!

I think Ala had the youngest lookin' grandparents there tonight!  
So grateful for my mom & dad being so supportive and of course, SUPER COOL!!   =)

Family Program leads to FHE FUN!!

Our family had the sacrament mtg program yesterday.  Kids did so great!!  Koloi & Andrew even spoke and bore their testimonies!  Our topic:  Sacrifice.  We were given a week to prepare...so through the week we studied, pondered, fasted and prayed that we'd share the message Heavenly Father wanted us to.  Beanie sang a solo:  He Sent His Son, Koloi bore his testimony, Andrew bore his testimony (they both did it all by themselves!  We were so PROUD of them since they are only 2&3 years old.) Beanie spoke, Ala spoke, then we sang "Choose The Right" as a family.  We chose that song because  Drewby & Koloi know that song too.  Ended our program with myself & then Justin speaking.  I felt the spirit so strong and only pray our ward was able to take something in and remember the importance of sacrifice.  =)  Well, the past week was a bit stressful and busy with so much focus on the program, that we decided this week would be filled with TONS of FUN for our family.  We decided to go swimming for FHE!! 

We took Bobo & Naki with us.  Then we ran into a couple of the Havea boys at the rec center.   Look at that lil' Beanie, only girl, but can still HANG with the boys!!  =)

Justin, Drewby & Koloi with Tui Havea

 

Our poor boys gettin' REJECTED to come back down from the slide since it was now 9p.m.   LOL!! 

Jason Thompson's Master Class

Jason Thompson is an International Presenter touring the world for Zumba Corp.

It is a BIG DEAL that this dude even came to Utah!!

EMZ REPRESENT!  Here we are at the Master Class.  SO MUCH FUN!

Get this...at EMZ earlier that day, 5:30a.m...Jason WAS there!!  

It was AMAZING!!  

The AMAZING gal who made it all possible, Jocie DeCorte!!
Jason said, "This girl's got SWAG!!" 
AMEN to that!! 

Most touching moment of the night as Jason  spotlighted our very own, Sherry from  EMZ by surprise!

I had my partners in crime with me that night..Nance & Twiggy!!  Love them!!

Kaufana Squeezes!!

Ala & Daddy J!!  Never too old for the Kaufana squeezes!!  Daddy's still GOT it!!  LOL! 

MyBabyRocks.com.  Ever heard of it? Neither had I, until a friend posted on FB, that there was a free day at Kangaroo Zoo for kids 4 & under.  MyBabyRocks.com would have displays of their baby/kids clothes and there would be drawing all throughout the day to win clothing.  Well, FREE was all I had to hear and we were THERE!!  Called my sis, Brenda to come, took my two lil' monsters and then we called up Baby Toree to join us.  She brought her momma & aunty Ebony too.


I like to call them, "TRIPLE TROUBLE!!!"

Drewby, Loi & Tally...they can seriously do some major damage!!  Kangaroo Zoo was the perfect place to take them to release all their MADD energy!!  We had a BLAST!!

Check out the TUTU Baby Toree won!!  I looked this sucker up online with MyBabyRocks and it is $24.95..WHAT??  Holy Mamafa!!  We also won a Bob Marley bag, which I certainly put to good use!!  In addition to the free prizes were fun snacks too!  Perfect to get us through the 4 hours were there!  =)  Total SCORE for the day being here!!  Look at our babysitters below...don't they seem to be having a BLAST too??  LOL!!  Thanks for hanging in there with us gals!!

Cougar Town!!

It was a SPUR of the MOMENT day....mom, Bren, Drewby, Loi & I decided to go with Uni to Provo!!

We spent the ENTIRE day in COUGAR TOWN!!  We LOVE it HERE!

(Notice my Drewby's unbuttoned jeans.  I didn't notice until I posted this pic!  oops!  Poor kid grows so fast!) 

 We went to see our Lizzy off to the MTC!!  She'll be serving in Detroit, MI for the next 18 months.  I already know she's going to ROCK it out there!!  Detroit is SO LUCKY to have Sister Kinikini!!  Our Uniboonz and our Lizzy have always been attached at the hip....not sure how Boonz is gonna hold up after today.  =(  I'm kidding...she'll be fine!! 

My lil' Drewby thinks he's funny sneakin' my phone and snapping shots of peeps eating!!  He does it ALL the time!  (I'll have to blog about that specifically and show you all the shots he catches.)  Here we are at Chucks...grandma Norah's treat!  YUM!! Drew got me, Grandma & Koloi. =/

I did some fun shopping at the D.I. in Provo.   Do you know all their BYU clothing there is always marked at $1?  I've noticed it for years and have YET to ever find it priced differently.  LOVE IT!!  Found some fun things for my sister Toree who just started a job at VIVINT and has her handsome hamo who will RWH soon!!  LOL!!  She didn't find it as funny as I did...but she sure took the shirts!!  Hahaha!!

Later Aunty Toree got off work and we took her grocery shopping & filled her car up with gas.  Poor college kids!!  =) Then we kicked it at her place...watching movies, sleeping, watching Uniboonz shed more tears missing our Lizzy, and eating again!  Didn't get home until 11p.m.  Long day, but good quality time with the family!!

Life is Good!!

My two lil' monkeys.  

They LOVE to DANCE.  

They LOVE to SING.  

They LOVE to PERFORM.  

Today, they decided to make themselves a stage on Aunty B's car!  

OOPS!!  

They were just too cute to be mad at!