Happy Birthday to me 30!!!!

Officer Julian, and Tuatagaloa
My sweet Aja.
My Granny and me.
This is what my dear Branson gave me for my Birthday. These are pictures he took in New York and I love them.
Crazy Stacie with a knife.
This is the sweet card that all the kids made me.

Love my Mom and Dad!
Alisha, Cami, and I.
Breanne and me.
Kevin and Keo. He is mad about something and it makes me laugh.
My lovely brother.


Well I feel old. I do not know what it is about having a problem growing older, but I do. I turn 30 today. I told Kevin all that I wanted for my birthday was a party with my friends and family. He told me all week stuff that was quite rude, like, "that is way too much planning, I just want to go to dinner." I was sad. Then he had this elaborate plan to make me stay at my mom and dads while he went back and forth to get plumbing parts, and really he was going shopping for the party and coming home to cook. Then when I came home, there were my lovely friends and family. SURPRISE! I cannot believe he pulled it off. My mom too. She is usually the worst liar and yet she pulled it off.

I have to say it was so perfect. Thanks so much to Kevin, Cami, Alisha, and my mom! They made it perfect. I have a wonderful family and the best friends! Thanks everyone. You made turning older easier.

Body World's.

Cami, Alisha, and I have always wanted to go to the body's exhibition. We wanted to go while we were in New York, but it did not work out. Then we decided to go to St. George and take one day, stay in Vegas, and go to the show. Well as you can read below that did not work out. We went all the way to Vegas, went and checked in and found out the show had closed up the night before. All that way, and the show had been there for over a year. Our luck was bad. Anyways when we found out that it was going to be here we planned a girls night out in Salt Lake. We got a hotel room at the Little America. It was a very nice room. We went to dinner and then in the morning we went to the show. It was fun and nice and a good break. Oh and the show was awesome. I learned so much about the human body. It will definitely help me with my nursing career.

St. George.

When Kevin went to Alaska I decided that I would take the kids on a lovely trip with my dear friend Cami and her kids. I have no clue what was I thinking???? CRAZY! This was the hardest trip I have ever been on. I cannot say we did not have fun but when I think of this trip I cringe and want to throw up....It was that bad. I realized I need Kevin. It was like 113 degrees there and my kiddies were feeling it.

Notice in all the Ke'Lao pictures he is making a face of some sort. That is Keo, never conforming.

Here is the kids enjoying the rain. You would think they have never seen water before! They were so cute here and then who knows what happened. We stayed at Cami's dads beautiful house and that really stressed me out because my kids are beasts. Plus I wanted it to stay clean and then Ke'Lao knocked over a lamp and dented in the shelf. I got really good really fast at patchwork. I was proud of my work but then we did not have paint to match so her dad had to do that part. I felt so bad! Then Kee'Onu decided to be a teenager and that was the worst part. Talkin back, being mean, crying, angry, you know, teenage stuff! Oh it was awful and Kevin was trying to help and teach and guide over the phone 2,000 miles away. Did I mention it was awful?

House For Sale!!

Well it is a long story and we really have only told our immediate family, but we are going to try and sell the house. I have to say that after many prayers and Kevin's unwavering faith, (I am a little weaker at this point) we have found a lot near my moms house in South Jordan. It is in a wonderful ward and neighborhood. My kids already have a ton of friends there and we will live houses away from my mom and dad. Plus it is closer to the kids' school. I have to say I am sad to leave our wonderful happy home. We love our house, I cannot help but think of all the hard work that everyone put into this home. Kevin, my dad, and all the other family that spent many nights here, helped to create our home. We have decided to do the same thing again. I know we are brainless! I swore I would never never be an owner builder again, but you save way to much money doing it this way.

I know the market is awful and I know that it is a buyers market....but I cannot deny the answer to my prayer, so house for sale....I think I should actually say, "HOME for Sale!" If any of you have someone looking for a house let us know.

Happy Birthday Alisha!!!!!!

Alisha had a wonderful birthday long ago, and again we celebrated it late. We went to the Cheesecake Factory, mmmm! It was yummy and I loved it. I hope she did. It is always nice to get together and celebrate. I met Alisha in Nursing School and I am so glad we are friends. Cami, Alisha, and I have been through a lot together, and we are always there for each other. We are Diva Nurses--I just made that nickname up, maybe it will stick. We have traveled to several places together and the funniest was when we went to New York and she told me I could not pick my nose because it might be a gang sign and then we might get shot! She was serious and I had to laugh. Happy 29th Birthday Alisha, Love you.

My Stacie

My dream girl Stacie.

I decided to add a post just for Stacie. I love what my Stacie has given me in this life. We met in elementary school and as time flew, our marriage has grown to ten years and four incredible children. I have to thank Stacie for that. She has given so much of herself to bring these children into this world. My Stacie is the greatest mom and wife. She is spontaneous and fun. I am so grateful to have her. I have never been so blessed in my life until I married Stacie Dawn. I feel comforted and strong to know that such an incredible women chose me to be her man. I am so lucky that she chose me. I always have discussions about perfection with Stacie and she always thinks things about herself could be better but in my eyes, Stacie, and this life that I have with Stacie, is exactly what perfection is. Just look above and you can see what I mean. Perfect! I love you babe.

Alaskan Bear Story called The Death of us all, or so we thought.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather around and hold tight to the driver car seat. Not because you need to go to the bathroom and can not hold it anymore but because the story of your life is about to start. It was a beautiful morning at the Klutina river in the midst of the Alaskan wilderness. I was going fishing for the big King Salmon, (the biggest of all river fish). Don (Stacie's dad), my friend Mike and I were having a slow morning trying to catch these suck wad kings but I am very stubborn so I did not give up. Don felt sleepy so he went to a nearby tree and made a comfy seat in the dirt and fell asleep leaning against the tree. I looked out into the river and saw a river raft drifting down the white rapids. The people inside the raft were looking in our direction. The people then started to take pictures of us. I wondered why? I was not all dolled up or anything, I was just fishing for goodness sakes. Shortly after the raft took the pictures, the woman on the raft yelled "BEAR"! I looked behind me and saw a black bear three feet away from Don. Don apparently heard the women yell BEAR as well because I have never seen anybody move so fast as he did. He sprung up out of his cozy bed like a spring chicken. He ran straight into the river for safety. Well there is not any safety in the river because bears swim you know. At the same time Don sprung up the bear was startled and ran into the forest about ten feet away. I realized that my backpack and camera was over by Don's bed. Me and Don had a wonderful idea to sneak over and grab our packs. We scurried to the left watching the bears every movement. As soon as we were close to the bags, the bear looked straight at me, stood up and walked towards me and Don. I felt fear at this moment. At this point Don made a joke. Wrong timing but funny now. He said that he heard you do not need to outrun a bear you just need to outrun your friend to survive a bear attack. LOL huh? Well we scurried to the right and were trapped between the river and the path where the bear was. The fear hit Don at this point and he started yelling over and over, "we are dead, We are dead!". Mike yelled that we are not dead but we need to "play dead" in the river. I told Don and Mike that we need to make a plan. We either fight the bear or jump in the river, either way we knew we did not have much of a chance to survive. The bear started to tear apart our bags. We decided to fight the bear if needs be. Mike grabbed two large tree branches and handed one to Don. I had some police Oleo resin capsicum (pepper spray) that I brought just for bears, just in case. We were all shaking in fear as the bear looked our way. An overwhelming fear came over me and I heard a jet boat coming up the river. Mike waved the jet boat down. The jet boat was full of river fishing guides and they were all packing 45 colts. We jumped on the boat as fast as Stacie jumps on the bed after scaring herself that someone is following her. Sorry I had to add an inside joke. Anyways the guides got off the boat and shot and killed the bear. A second bigger bear arrived as well and the guides shot and killed that one as well but it ran off and was not found. As everybody knows I am a cop and I have been in many fights with prisoners. I have dealt with knives, guns etc.. and I have never been more scared than this episode with the black bear that could have killed us all. See ya.

Sunday fun.

This is sweet Victoria. Kevin's nephew Stetson and his wife Natalie's baby. I just love her and as you can tell so do my kiddies. They will not let her go. They are all baby hogs.




Officer Palmer wrestling Ke'Lao.

Stetson, pick on someone your own size.

Providence Hall!

Kee'Onu started fourth grade, and Ku'uipo started second grade at Providence Hall in Herriman.
I love their uniforms!


So I have to say that I am excited that they started school and they absolutely loved their first day. They each made friends already and they love their teachers, however I HATED the driving rush. We are about 20 minutes away from their school. I leave here at 8AM get there at about 8:20AM drop them off, (after waiting in a huge carpool line), Then drive home. I get here at about 8:50Am. Get Ke'Lao and Aja breakfast and then get them ready and then we leave again at 11:40AM. I drop him off at school at noon, then me and Aja drive back home. I may get some cleaning done--(ya right) Then at 3PM I leave again for the 20 minute drive to go and get them. They are out at 3:30PM but with the way the carpool lane was I did not even see my kids until 4:00PM. Then we got home at about 4:25PM. I drove 90 miles in one day. Kevin and I want our kids to have the best education and I feel that this school can provide that. It is a charter school in the Jordan School District. The thing that really appealed to me was the bilingual curriculum and the music program. The kids should know Spanish very well and have the opportunity to learn to play an instrument. Ku'uipo already came home singing a hola and chao song. They also wear uniforms which I guess could be a good thing. I was sad because I like the kids cute clothes and all, but now I think the uniforms are stinkin cute also. Well lets hope I can find someone to carpool with or that gas prices go way down.

My Kindergartener Ke'Lao!

He really thinks he is cool. I'm kinda biased but I think so too.Ki'Aja wanted to be a part of the action, she even had her own uniform dress to wear. Too bad she wont even go to kindergarten for 2 more years. I am OK with that.
Ke'Lao had to show us how strong he is.
I cannot believe how much that they look alike. Love them so much.
We found out when we got there that Keo and Sasha are in the same class. People thought that they were twins. I can totally see that. Cute cousins. I am happy that Keo was so excited to go to school. I have to admit I shed a tear, but only one!

Goodbye Pepsi!

Aja says goodbye to our good old pup Peps as she calls him.
Ke'Lao was just fine with Pepsi living with Anabell. In fact he wanted to take her dog stitch home because he was fun.
Here is my good friend Anabell. She took Pepsi in and is giving him a good home. Her dog and Pepsi are already good friends. Thanks Anabell for loving our Pepsi.
This was Ki'Aja on our way home. She was the only one who was mad that Pepsi was not coming home with us. She stayed like this for about 5 minutes and has not complained since. In fact, none of my kids have. It was almost like Pepsi was never even here. I mean do not get me wrong I love Pepsi, but I have decided that we are not pet people we are supposed to admire them from a far. That is just fine with me. We love you Pepsi, have a good life with Anabell!

Happy Happy day to Cami!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a best friend! Cami Lou Miller. I know the Lou is not real but it is my gift to you. So to all it was Cami's birthday on August 12, and I was out of town and she decided to go to Disneyland....So hence we were not together. We celebrated much later at "our" place Iggy's. Anyways food, friends and presents are always fun. My presence was the kicker. Alisha, and Cami, and I met in Nursing School.

I have to say what I love about Cami Lou:

• No fears when it comes to going to a scary crime infested city with a bunch of girls. Or even going out of the country by herself, but when it comes to arriving home to hear her dog barking......"oh, no call the kids, call the friends, wait in the car and do not enter the home in fear that there is a murderer waiting for her arrival." Don't most dogs bark when the owner gets home out of excitement to see the owner??? Call me crazy! Kinda funny but a true story.


• I love when she laughs and she has those cute happy lines around her eyes.


• She is a good mom, always trying and thinking and doing the best she can for her 5 kiddies.


• Ask her a questions, any question just in randomness, forget about the question, because you never really cared anyways...wait 2 days and Cami will have the answer.


• She talks to herself like a drunken stumbling out of bed women when she wakes up in the morning. Kinda hilarious.


• Money is not an issue.


• She gets excited about good food.


• She reminds me of my mom.


• She knows I am mental and she still is my friend.


• She knows and agrees with how AMAZING I am!


• When I cry she cries......and that my friends is a best friend.

Anyways, I am thankful to have her and her kids in my life. We were meant to meet. I am hoping that she had a wonderful birthday and that she knows we are sisters by heart. Love you Cami Lou.