I forgot to wish my blog a happy birthday! I started using blogger on December 19, 2007! So to our blog, happy birthday! I hope you have a great year ahead of you! We've had a lot of fun with you telling our stories and updating our friends on the up and up of our family! Thanks for being here and thanks to Jackie Auna who introduced me to the Blogger family! (I had another blog before but I like Blogger much better!) Thanks for coming on over to read about us!
You've probably all heard about the rain and the flood on December 11th. It was one CUH-RAZY day!! It rained so hard and for so long! We were really blessed that our house didn't flood. Our neighbors had it really bad though. David went out to help our neighbors and then went off to help his family that lives in Laie. His aunty lives on Iosepa and that street got it pretty bad, they had to rip out the carpet in their house.
These aren't even good pictures but these are the ones I took when the rain kinda died down by our house.
The water had actually gone down when I took the picture. The highest it went was almost up to the slipper.
The water is up to the back wheel of our Kia but our neighbors across the street had to sandbag it. 
This is definitely worse than the one time that it rained for like forty days and forty nights! I don't know if you guys remember but the front field back then with all the water looked like a pond compared to the lake it looked like last week!
We put up our Christmas tree!
We put our tree on top of a box so it would look taller.
David's angle of the tree
my much shorter angle of the tree
This is a picture of the tree without the flash so it's kinda blurry.
Even though it is a fake tree, there are some of the fake tree falling off and making a mess!
Aaron likes to pound on the computer keyboard and take my laptop keys off. He gets mad when I don't share my laptop with him because he thinks I'm watching Super Why without him (I downloaded 2 free episodes from iTunes) and he'll close the screen or push it down so I can't see. BUT THEN I discovered this little gem from Fisher-Price.
click on either image to go to website
It's a website with games for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. I looked at the infant games and it's pretty neat. Every time they press a key, something will pop up! It teaches them cause and effect, because I press a button, something will pop up.
Aaron enjoys it but then he starts closing the laptop and gets mad that he can't open it. So I have to open it back up again but it's fun!
You should check it out!
My family came to visit for Thanksgiving. The original idea was so that we could take family pictures again since my brother was going to come back to Hawaii from boot camp BUT long story short, he couldn't make it. We were sad but life goes on.
Here are some photos of my parents and my sister in various places.
top left: My Mom and Dad, me and David in Chinese restaurant, Mom and Aaron
Middle left: Aaron playing with my dad, Mom and Dad on Thanksgiving day, Olivia (sister) and Mailani (sister-in-law)
bottom left: Dad, Mom, Olivia and Aaron playing, Aaron is tired of taking photos, Mom and Aaron
All in all, they had a super fun time with Aaron and Aaron liked playing with them too! Whenever he saw them, he would get so excited! When they left for the night, he would get mad because his buddies were gone!
Here is a picture of my dad's excellent photoshopping skills and voila, my brother is in the picture with us!
My sister Olivia, my mom and me!
My friend Mariko and I both work at Kahuku High. Pretty much everyone we see or know thinks that we're either twins, sisters, each other, or students.
Must be the stereotype that all Asians look alike.
The funny thing is, she's half Japanese and I'm full Chinese.
Do you think we look alike?!
Okay, so according to this tag I'm supposed to choose the 6th picture in the 6th folder and the 4th picture in my 4th folder, and post it.
Here is the 6th picture in my 6th folder. Surprise, it's Aaron! It was one of the first activities in David's student wards...maybe not. It was a talent show and someone made a hat for Aaron.
Hello! It's Aaron again! This time it's Easter!! Like the bunny ears we made?!
David had a Philippines Quezon City Mission Reunion on Tuesday Nov 25th and I got to meet his mission president and his family and the other people from his mission. There was really yummy food and dessert! Aaron even got some pie!
After that we went home and my parents came over to play with Aaron. We were showing my family "Camp Rock" because there is this one part where it totally looks like my brother is singing and dancing in it! Anyway, as the music is playing, Aaron is dancing along and he's so excited that he stands up! WHAT?! He finally stood up on his own! Must've been the pie he had! I took a couple of videos but this is the best one. Sorry it's so dark!
We have bad lighting but you can see his diaper!
Here are some pictures if you can't see the video.
My little baby isn't gonna be a baby much longer!
I have a lot of blogging to do so stay tuned for these upcoming posts!
Aaron standing on his own
My Cali fam in for Thanksgiving minus lil bro at boot camp
Thanksgiving
shoes for Aaron
Kelly's picture tag
Christmas tree
Meanwhile here's a picture of Aaron holding his sippy cup using chopsticks.
He's so silly!!
Remember how I told we loved High School Musical 3?! Guess what?! We're dancing in it! Watch and enjoy!!
