Hello to everyone! Well, in case you haven't heard, our plans for me to go back to school have changed. I'm back to providing daycare and giving piano lessons as my life's work. Things just didn't work out, but it's okay.

We had a nice couple of weeks. The last week of June Anita went to our neighborhood stake's girls camp. She had a good time and certified for her 3rd year. While she was gone, we went to our ward campout at Deer Creek. It was fun. Anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT a camper, but I actually enjoyed it. It was a nice break in the usual routine. Siu was in the water from sunup to sundown. She's a little fish. The boys played cards and swam too.

We had a pretty relaxing 4th. We went to see Spiderman 3 and then we went out to dinner. We came home and took a nap and then did our little fireworks in the front yard. It was fun.

Last week was pretty uneventful. Tomorrow, Anita, is leaving to go with our (Tongan) stake to girls camp. This will be her last camp this summer (thank goodness!). I sure do miss her when she's gone.

We're getting ready to participate in the Pioneer Day Childrens Parade on July 21st. Faha and Pasi will march in the parade.

Well, gotta go and take Anita's camp stuff to be loaded up. Have a nice week everyone!

Love,
Michele

This is just a quick update. Cody had an awesome time at Disneyland. I'll have him post some of his pictures. Anita and Cody did very well in their theater workshop this month. They both were teacher's assistants and had a great time. The teacher appreciated them so much that we only had to pay one fee for the workshop. Also, Cody didn't try out for the Shakespeare team, but the teacher put him on it because he impressed her so much! He and Anita are natural actors. They are both really excited for the competition which will be in October in Cedar City.

Anita is now at her second camp of the year. She went to Oakcrest two weeks ago. It's an LDS girls' camp for 7th and 8th graders. Now she is with our Palangi (English) ward at their rough camp. In two weeks she will go with our stake to their rough camp. After that I think she'll be home the rest of the summer, thank goodness! She was gone every weekday from 9:00am-3:30pm for 2 weeks this month and Oakcrest was a week long camp. I've missed her!

We are getting ready to go to our ward campout tonight. We're hoping to leave about 6:00pm. Lincoln is working today and I'm babysitting and giving two piano lessons before we go. I'm hoping to get at least one blanket finished with all my free time at the camp! We'll be back Saturday.

Not much else happening with us. I just try to keep up with the kids and the house and that keeps me pretty busy. Well, gotta go get ready for my morning walk.

Yea! I finally was able to post Siu's picture. I will try to get photos of the other kids posted soon. It seems to take me forever to post, so I usually don't have time. Well, I better go get ready for the day. I've spent an hour trying to get my scanner and computer to work together! The daycare kids will be arriving soon! Wish me luck today!

I had hoped to be able to post every day, but with up to 13 kids in the house at times, that is very difficult! I think I may be in a little over my head this summer. And to make things worse, it rained today so we were all stuck inside. Actually, the kids were okay. I relaxed my rules for video games due to the circumstances and things weren't too bad.

Cody calls me a couple of times a day. He's having a great time at Disneyland. He said he has had fun on the rides. He said the scariest ride was the Tower of Terror. They will leave tomorrow night and be home sometime around noon on Friday.

I've been trying to scan some more pictures to post, but my scanner is not cooperating! It's making me mad. I have an adorable picture of Siu from dance. She's wearing an Alice in Wonderland costume because one of her dances was to "A Very Merry UnBirthday". She looks like a doll.

This evening was rather nice. None of my piano students showed up! I haven't had a free Wednesday evening in months. It was strange. Could it be because their monthly payments are due this week????

Well, it's time for bed, you know how I know? Perry Mason is about to come on!

Good Night!

Welcome to our blog! As you probably know, from top left we are: Cody (13), Anita (14), and Faha (10, almost 11) and bottom row: Pasi (7), Lincoln (definitely over 30), Michele (somewhat over 25), and Siu (5). This was our Christmas photo taken in December 2006.

June 2, 2007 The first day of our blog!

Hi to everyone! I've been trying to get this set up for awhile, but haven't really taken the time to finish it. We had a busy day. It was Faha's last soccer game today and we got his soccer pictures. I'm going to try to put them in. Cody and Pasi don't have their pictures yet because their last game was two weeks ago and they had a "by" this week. After the soccer game, we came home and I got a cleaning bug and put everyone to work getting this house clean! It looks pretty good, just don't look in the garage!

Siu's last day of school was May 23rd, Cody's was May 31st and Anita, Faha, and Pasi had their last day yesterday. There are some happy children at this house! Cody is busy getting ready for his trip to Disneyland with the school orchestra. They leave Monday night and will get back Friday afternoon. He's pretty excited.

Well, enough writing. I want to try to get some pictures posted. Love to all!