Happy Halloween!!

I love love love this time of the year. Even though I never dress up, I always encourage my children to and I take them where ever the fun is happening this weekend. Last night we went to the freakiest backyard haunted house. Seriously it topped any other haunted house I've ever been to. They had all the creepy characters, and bloody Mary was the winner. For reals she played her part so good. My kids hated it, except for Jas. I think almost all of them were crying. My sister Anna, brother Bubs and I went with our kids and spouses. At least the adults enjoyed it...lol!
Well here's a Halloween song I remember from school. I taught my kids and they sing it every year.

Halloween, halloween,
Lots of fun on Halloween,
Black cats and ghost
Skeletons too
Witches, bats they all say..BOO!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN. Be safe and eat lots of chocolate!!

My Anniversary Gift!

This is the first year that my husband and I didn't do anything special. Life is so busy with kids, work, school, and life in general. Unfortunate things happened this month that didn't allow us to celebrate financially. We decided that we'd celebrate later. Well on the morning of our anniversary I checked my email, because that is how we communicate now since I've been phone-less and this is what I received...

My Love,

I am Magically in love with you...

You are Adorable...

You are Radiantly beautiful...

I am Crazy about you...

You are Irresistible...

You will Always be SEXY...

Marcia, I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART...

Solomon Lealao

He would so kill me if he knew I posted this, but isn't he so cute. I am a sucker for poems and love letters. This was the best gift ever. I love my husband!!

Technology?

How come every time I need to upload pictures, something wrong always happens. Okay about a month ago I was at my cousins baby shower. I was the only one who had a camera there, so I took all the pictures. The day I was going to upload them onto my computer, my nephew knocked my camera out of my hands and broke it. I still have the SD card, which is good, so at least I can save those pictures to a CD. Well yesterday my husband asked to use my phone because his was charging. I let him use it while he went on a couple of errands. And what happens, he loses it. Can you believe that? I was using my phone as my temporary camera. I had pictures of my daughters birthday party, memorable stuff like that. I know its partly my fault. I should always have a back up. But too late now. I have no phone, no camera, no back up. What to do , what to do?
Just needed to vent!! UGghhhhh

Gabby!!

Gabs turns 1 today. I cannot believe that my baby is one already!! She is so beautiful and the joy of our lives. She loves to eat, especially from her bottle, which is gonna disappear at the end of this month. She screams when she wants something. She absolutely adores her siblings. It's so cute, because whenever they come home from school, she covers her face with her hand and say "ow" and they come to her rescue. She so know how to get her way with everyone, especially Serena. Serena adores her and they sleep together every other night. Gabby's favorite though is Eby, but don't tell the other kids that. Ebony makes Gabby laugh like no one else can. She is literally rolling with laughter whenever Ebony plays with her. It's too cute.
Gabriella started walking at 11 months. She has always had beautiful curly hair and big brown eyes. She is such a doll. She loves me unconditionally and I pray that never changes. When she sleeps with me, she has to hold my neck and our noses have to be touching. Precious, I know. I call her "feti" because she is..LOL and it's funny because she responds to it when I call her. Okay and wrong too..hahaha But Gabriella is named after my older sister Eta. I didn't like her Tongan name, so I gave her the English version of Sulieta, which is Juliet. So her name is Gabriella Juliet Lealao. I love this girl and so does everyone else, especially T.J., my brothers son. He adores her so much, that she has gotten sick of it...LOL! No one likes that Gabby is growing up.
Happy 1st Birthday Gabby. Mommy loves you!!

My Ebony!

Today is my Ebony’s birthday. She is 5 years old. I have always called her “my Eby,” I don’t know why, but I just have. She has such a great imagination. I love this about her. No matter where she is or what she is doing, there’s always some kind of character to it. My brother Kel nicknamed her Dorbony, because last year she was obsessed with Dora. LOL Now my sis Anna, has nicknamed her Carrie, because she said she is so evil..LOL! Ebony has learned to roll her eyes, and did it to Anna first..hahaha It was hilarious. Now she uses it on her all the time. They have a love hate relationship…but its all fun. She has imaginary friends that she feeds at the dinner table and talks to everyday. She tells me her dreams or nightmares in detail everyday. She is one special girl.

Ebony is beautiful. She is my lil white girl, but out of all my kids, she is the most polynesian. Her favorite food is bologna and string cheese. She loves to sing and dance. Her new favorite person is Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. She is such a cute big sister to Gabriella. She is always willing to help me with whatever I need. She tells me I’m skinny…LOL and then on my fat days, she tells me I’m “a little bit fat.” hahhaha I love this girl and all of her imaginary friends she presents to me everyday. Happy 5th Birthday my Ebony! Mommy loves you!

Mr. Fix It.

My husband has had a very hard week this week. He got in trouble at work, both of our toilets were running constantly which cost us an extra $120 on our water bill, and a part on our dryer broke. He turned his anger toward fixing the problems, instead of being like me and praying that they just go away..hahaha
Well we scheduled to have 2 plumbers come out and give us estimates on our toilets. I also looked on the DIY website and found steps on how to do it ourselves, but we wanted to see if that was the problem. Well the first company Rotorooter (I think) gave us an estimate of $210. But he was very honest and told us that we could fix it ourselves if we knew how to work a wrench. Right there, a challenge and a gift went out to my husband. I could see in his face that he was thinking "yeah I can work a wrench, but I don't have one." Good excuse huh...LOL! Then the next company came Neerings and gave us an outrageous estimate of $380. He said that he needed to fix some "extra" things in one of the toilets....yeah right!
So my Mr. Fix it husband went to Home Depot purchased the parts and 2 wrenches for $40. He had both toilets done and working properly within 30 mins. Crazy huh. Thank goodness for honest people in this world, who understand that we're all struggling. We saved ourselves over $200. I'm so proud of my hubby. I tried to take a picture of him while he was being Mr. Fix it, but he wouldn't let me in the bathroom...it was so cute though..LOL!!
So the moral of my blog is to ALWAYS try to DIY things before you waste your money!! Now onto project #2.