Of course I remember I have a blog!!!

WE ARE HAVING A BOY!!!!

Ok ok so sorry for the 2 month delay on getting any updates! Sheesh summer months are so busy with activities, reunions, holiday festivities, parties, bbq's, showers, weddings and yada yada.........
I am over 6 1/2 months along and just so excited to meet my little boy. No we dont have any names picked out yet, some that we like and maybe I will add a poll question on the side bar to get our votes. Sorry I dont have a cute new ultra sound pic of baby Rock. I have a 3D one but honestly it looked kinda funny and almost scary, i wanted just a black and white one but i didnt think of asking. You will just have to imagine it for now. My belly is getting so big and i just feel so huge! I crave sweets and candy and ice cream along with crunchy foods yum! So whoever says that if you crave sweets and sugars its a girl, and if you crave salty/sour and starchy foods its a boy.... YOU ARE WRONG!!!! my latest fix has been ice cream sandwiches & almond snickers bars for breakfast! yep you heard me FOR BREAKFAST :) who cares dont judge me I take my prenatals so baby is getting the nutrients he needs OK!

Thanks hunny for taking this pic, I made him take like 8 diff pics and of course the guys will say they all look the same but i was trying to get an angle where i dont look like a freakin giant umpa lumpa!

We got a new kitchen table too! well it was a hand me down. Dude if its free its me! i love free gifts that are totally in great conditions. Thanks mom and dad Rock, it makes our house feel more like a home :)



I also got a new phone!!! Since i got home from the mish in 2006 i have upgraded twice now i love my new phone since i am a texter i got a key board feature. my last upgrade was to a camera phone. So from left to right is the birth and death of my phones! I love you Gizmo. yes i named my phone. Technology these days is impressive. We are so blessed.
oh man and we came home one morning and walked into this!!! our back door was busted. i was so scared. we stayed at our families house for the weekend in SLC and came home early morning and the house had a chill in it and was all drafty, i thought someone had broken into the house. My first thought was, what the??? of all the places to rob AGGIE VILLAGE wouldnt be MY first pick with all the broke college students lol, i mean unless you were trying to get away with some killer text books, lots of cereal, Top Ramen, & maybe some DVD's hahaha you are a dumb burglar! anyway it was just USU housing. They fixed it all for free. apparently someone was weed wacking and a rock flew thru the machine and shattered our glass. jeepers! at least leave us a note ya know! i was still a little freaked out. but i am over it.

**HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY MALIA GIRL***
SHE IS 1 YEAR OLD!
JULY 30TH.
I CANT BELIEVE SHE IS A YEAR!

Yummy Kings Hawaiian Paradise Cake! To die for! You haven't lived til you have tasted of this divine sweet treat. It's a guava passion fruit cream cake with spongey moistness & a cold layer of light whipped frosting, not too light, not too heavy.... JUST RIGHT! I miss LA Bakeries!

You are such a good girl!

Little Princess Mia on her special day :)

Ok the following pics were just from Sat Aug 1st. My hubby is so amazing! we bought a king size white sheet from walmart (the new one in providence-like we needed another walmart- I WANT A TARGET!) its a nice walmart. tied it up to the wall in our back yard, hooked up the projector, and POOF! our own big screen TV to watch movies and play Wii games! we are going to have a wii tourney soon so you are all invited.

We hung out with our awesome friends & neighbors the Lawrences & the Taylors. Ate some pop corn, cookies, raced mario cart, & watched star wars 5 :) i fell asleep but it was so much fun. w

YAY FOR OUR OWN HOME THEATER SYSTEM COURTESY OF LEVI & DAVE.
it was up in like 30 min.

I love my baby Chloie too! Such a cutie and lots of fun to play with. This was at levi's fam reunion BBQ lunch in West Point UT

Our Bear Lake Weekend with Dave & Chels.
OH MY GOSH OK FUNNY STORY......
When Levi and I were dating he kept talking about his jet ski and wanting to take me camping so he could show me how to ride a jet ski he said he had bought one for himself.... i was like wow, he bought his own jet ski, this kid must have some serious savings to by such a purchase and still be in school full time. either that or he has his priorities all mixed up.
So months pass and we finally go camping and we are packing the truck with his bro and sis and he takes me to the garage to show me his new jet ski and this is it........
a BLOW UP JET SKI!!! I laughed soooooo hard! this was totally Levi!
such a kid at heart. It squirts water and all! it has a motor and goes like 2 inches every 5 min LOL, it is actually loads of fun! it was $30 at Albertsons! Great purchase huh. we have had so much fun with it. it is hilarious watching the people around us stare at us grown adults trying to ride a little kid toy hahahaha but it holds like up to 250 lbs for reals.
I love our jet ski!

During the summer months there are tons of ward/student activities going on. This is just a random pic I made the girls take after our amazing enrichment activity. GREAT JOB PAIGE so much fun. I love the girls in my ward they are so sweet and giving and great examples. I'll have to post more later.

MY BFFS!
Congrats to Derek & Nativa. Derek was accepted to med school in West Virginia and so we threw them a farewell BBQ to send them off with our love and support. We miss you guys!
Susiane organized the whole thing I just showed up with my food assignments and was ready to grub! it was a blast.
Our cute lil husbands :) they are such great hard working men.

Who cares that its like amonth late. We went to bear lake again to celebrate the 4th of July with my cousin Linzie & her inlaws the Hennessey's SOOOO MUCH fun! we ate BBQ like 3 days in a row. cant complain about that!

These are my awesome cousins, my lil bro in white shirt & older sis from the wedding we went home to cali for. My little cousins are getting so big! They are all taller than me. Congrats to Deveney who got a full ride to play vball at Cornell University! So proud of you.
I love my family.

ok thats it for now i am tired of typing. I need to better at posting so my blog updates dont take me like hours to compose! sheesh. there ya have it. just a few events that happened in the last 2 months that i can remember to post right now. thanks for tuning in.

Camping, Birthdays, Preggie Updates & Weddings Oh My...

Here is my first preggie profile pic taken at 3 1/2 months... good heavens i am showing already, what a fatty huh? this was taken May 13, so now we are 4 1/2 months CRAZY!!!

Ok well i guess this is what you get when you dont update your blog for weeks and months on end. So much has happened since my last post. My morning sickness has gone away thank heavens. I am almost 5 months prego and we find out the gender in 2 weeks!

My newest favorite breakfast craving is a toasted honey wheat bagel (has to be honey wheat and has to be toasted) with cream cheese & crunchy hot cheetos on top!!!! hmmm hmmm good :) can't wait til morning.

One of my BFFs had a bday on June 2nd and we had a girls day out getting one hour full body massages & pedicures. Happy Bday Nativa!!!

We went camping up Logan Canyon with our cousins Natalie & Jason who are newlyweds as of 2 weeks. We just did an over nighter roasting hot dogs and playing Killer Bunnies and of course had to have some SMORES. It was heaps of fun!

Here was our latest vacay to cali for a week for my cousins wedding. it was amazing and so much fun! i miss my polynesian sisters and my poly food! chop suey, luau/palusami, fa'i, pisupo, and all the yummy restaurants like In and Out, Rascalls, Elephant Bar, Soup Plantation, The Loft, & the list goes on!!!

Congrats to the newly weds Linzie and Tyler Hennessey! We love you guys it was so fun!

Here is the wedding party line, such a fun groups of relatives and friends.

my beautiful little cousins Amber and Deveney.

Behind the scenes right before they introduced the wedding party...

my handsome hubby and I right outside the LA temple.

AND THE BEST PART OF MY VISIT WAS MY NIECE MIA GIRL!!!! LOVE YOU BABY MALIA.

Here she is blowing auntie kissies :0)

This is her pretend sad face haha when you say make a 'monkey face' thats what she does.

she is seriously the happiest baby, and her facial expressions are so precious!

She loves Barnes and Noble and reading books...

Auntie Lithie loves baby Mia!!!! Soon she will have a little cousin to play with

I am sure that when i have babies of my own i will stare at them all day like i do her. i cant wait. they are such an overwhelming source of inspiration and encouragement, so innocent, loving and pure in heart. So humble and giving. just so darling.

WE'RE HAVING A BABY IN NOVEMBER!!!!

Baby Tribute......
Ok, so Levi and I have been married for a little over a year now and we thought we were going to wait for a couple of years (2-4) before we started building our little family. The Plan WAS... Levi would get his under grad in Dec '09 & jump into the Masters Program for Elec Engineering for 2 more years and I would just work full time to support things until he finished and then we would have babies & I would finish my degree from home & online while he makes the buko bucks bringing in the dough as a full time Elec Engineer. We pondered and thought about it, prayed tons, and we just felt that something was missing..... Here is the missing link.....

~BABY ROCK~
He/She is upside down so you can see his little head at the bottom and his cute little feet are at the top.... awwww our little gummi bear :) you can make out the little arms right under the head, they look like little donut holes lol and his cute belly right under that.

I keep saying Him or His b/c i think it's a boy but we'll find out in 2 more months. I am not like most of my friends who wanted to get married and have kid right away. Our plans have changed. I wanted to travel, to work, build my own empire in broadcast journalism or a career in finances & investments. I never saw myself and still don't as a stay at home "soccer mom". But the more I read my scriptures and listened to the General Authorities & Prophets council not to wait until you are "financially stable" or "finished with college" or "Home Owners" to start a family, the more my heart ached for a little one.

I know they bring such joy & open your eyes to see the world & life in a whole new light. I suppose it will be like how it was when I came home from the mission.... Priorities change, interests change, habits & activities differ, sleeping patterns change haha, perspective & insight is altered to view things in a more eternal compass.

I realized I was being selfish and trying to convince myself, and made excuses to wait until we were financially stable & had degrees & a home before we brought children in this world, but that was just my fear speaking. I dont think you will ever be able to "afford" children ha ha, ya know? you will always want more for them and work harder to make sure they have it.
I dont think I will ever feel adaquate to be a mother but I am sure most new moms feel that way.

Levi was so excited when the test came back positive, he did a little victory dance haha. It was so surreal. I didn't believe it so we took two tests! I wanted Levi to pee on one stick so we could test the accuracy LOL hahahaha so funny I know I'm so weird like that....

We look forward to this new journey & can't wait to have fun family vacations! To start traditions of our own. Tell them fun stories at bedtime. Watch them grow and say and do funny things..... oh the joys of parenthood... here we come.
I finish with pics of some of my favorite little people... thanks for inspiring us to have little ones of our own :) Aunty & Uncle Love you!!!

Malia (mia) Girl (Malu)

Baby Mya (Lutali)

Baby Noa & Niko Hafoka


Little Malachi Aulava giving loves to cousin Mia


& Baby Chloie Rock (check out that grill lol)

Thank you for sharing our joyous news. I'll try and keep people posted as often as i can! Stay tuned....

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Family, Friends, Faith- It's what shapes who we are.

Best Birthday EVER!

Alright its been a month exactly since my bday (3/14) and i am just barely posting these pics!!! sorry i have been so lazy and busy and sick and yada yada blah blah excuses excuses but some of my BFFs came up from salt lake with their hubby's to surprise me with a little bday dinner/celebration it was so cute!!!! It was a secret so my hubby Levi actually played it off so well. I love him to pieces!!!

This is the top tier of our wedding cake that we saved and never got a chance to eat it on our one year on 3/08 so we tried for my bday a couple days later on 3/14, yeah still kinda gross and weirded out, but it was a Guava Passion Fruit cake from Kings Hawaiian Restaurant in LA (thanks Sepa and Kalani- love you guys)
i made Levi try it first then i was too chicken after i saw the look on his face, apparently there is a special way to preserve the cake over the one year span.... wish we knew that... lol

03/08/2008

03/08/2009-one year later

Levi and I went to a movie and the night before he took me to Le Nonne, an authentic Italina restaurant here in Logan, it was fabulous! But at our movie in Sat i was so hungry and he know the girls were at the apartment preparing a feast but i had no clue so i was grumpy b/c i wanted to get some grub before the movie but he insisted that we wait after!
NEVER get in the way of a hungry girl ok!!!! so that made me mad and then after the movie he made some lame excuse to go back the house b/c he forgot a coupon to the restaurant where we were going to go eat..... seriously girls..... what guys saves COUPONS for dinner??? i was so frustrated b/c i was FAMISHED!!!!
Then we get the house and he insists that i come in for a bit..... ok i am starving, its my bday, i want food, and i'm already grumpy hahaha, anyway i walk in they were like SURPRISE!!!! the house was a little smoky so i freaked out thinking i left the oven on.... later i apologized to my hunny for being so mean but it was kinda funny!

Thanks Nativa and Susiane seriously you girls and your other halves made my day!!! it was so special, escpecially b/c i HATE surprises and i had no idea. you put in so much time and thought into it i really will always remember it. I love these girls!
let me post a before pic of all of us when we were just dating these guys.........
(kendra and Mike were there too she and i were roomies that's how Levi and I met)
This pic was at my bday dinner March of 2007 right before all the wedding mania took place!!!!
check us out dating and living it up and now we're married and still partying like rock stars lol...

(L-R, Jon/Susiane, Kendra/Mike, Levi/Lithie, Derek/Nativa)

Well this is us 2 years later married and practicing some cooking skills! we had a delicate seafood buffet, baked salmon and walnut shrimp, coconut muscles hmmm, salad and for desert yummy cupcakes and ice cream!!! We played some games and just hung out, good time!

I love the party favors Jon! our bracelets say Best Friends!!!!! perfect choice!

Here are some bday cards from friends and family... thanks for remembering!!!!

This last one is a pic of us girls getting make overs at the Mall practicing for Susianes wedding. taken some time in the spring of '07 good heavens you can tell how much weight i've gained LAME!!!! I wish i could eat whatever the crap i wanted and not gain an ounce like Susiane or be a health fanatic and run marathons everyday to stay in shape like Nativa, they such great examples of love, service, & kind hearts! i love these girls and they have great men beside them too! So we all married white boys SO WHAT!!!! we'll have exotic looking kids right? haha who knows? thanks again for making my bday so memorable!