Graduation and Blessing

The main reason we all went to Hawaii was to see my oldest brother Jared graduate with his Master's degree from UH. Congrats brother, we are all soooo proud of you. Can't wait to see where you go from here. Now we will see who will follow in my dad's footsteps and go on to get that Ph.D!!!! Hopefully Tale. :) Lots of people attended the graduation but we never got a big group shot, just pictures of different groups with the graduate. But here is a picture of teh Ken Galeai crew along with nana and papa.

We also had Tale's blessing that weekend. My mom threw a bbq for Tale and Jared after church on Sunday. Oh the food was soo ono. Mom bought Jared and Tale matching outfits to wear to their party. sooo cute yeah?

Hawaii

Hawaii was a blast, I don't even know where to start. I was nervous about Tale travelling so far but he did amazing! What a good boy I have. :) Here is a picture of him at the Denver airport. So cute right? He was giggles the whole way to Hawaii too, he hardly slept! When we arrived at the airport, gigi was there to greet us and Tale got a lei. Also there to meet us was Grandma Forysthe, Aunty Ronette (his blue eye twin) Kealani, Josh and Julie.

Papa was waiting at home for his grandson, he couldn't wait to meet him. The first thing he did was take off all his clothes and put him in the swimming trunks that he bought him and took him into the pool. Tale did so good. I thought it might be too cold for him, but he was just cruising with his grandpa. I have a ton of pool pictures of him but i'm already overloading this post with his pictures. :) I am sooo mad that I forgot to take the camera with me when we took him to the beach. Again I thought he was going to be too cold and fuss but again he was just cruising with his grandpa. He really loved the water. Of course mommy wouldn't let him stay in there too long, I didn't want him to get burned or have too much sun. Overprotective? :) One of my very best friends Lei came out to see me. Oh I just love this girl. She brought her son Peiton who is one month older than Tale. They look about the same size though. He is such a cutie, and was a very good baby while visiting with us. These two love their hands.
Okay lunch is over, I have to get some work done. More on Hawaii later. :)

Mother's Day Part 2

For mother's day my mom flew us out to Hawaii. How great is that gift???? Mom you are the best. It was soo great to celebrate my first mother's day with my mommy. My dad took all of us to eat a prime rib dinner at the polynesian cultural center. It was sooo yummy and so expensive! Thanks daddy for the great meal, and for spoiling us all week!

All of us

Mom bought her and Tale matching tops. Aren't they so cute?

Mother's Day Part 1

Because a few of us were going to be gone for mother's day we decided to celebrate a little early. I know i'm not very early with my post though. :) It was a nice evening, we all got to together at Kira's house, and exchanged gifts, ate some appetizers and dessert and just hung out. Mom Fua got us all these really cute bracelet watches, and she got a bunch of different things from everyone.

The moms and future moms. :)Tale and Mommy

Sunday Tahri and Tale got up and made mommy breakfast, then gave her lots of presents to get ready for the trip to Hawaii, and then made a yummy bbq for dinner. It was a great first mother's day for me.

Easter

I finally found my camera after 2 weeks of looking for it. So I missed a lot of picture opportunities dang it. Easter weekend was full of activities, but I have to start the week before. On Wednesday I got my gall bladder taken out, it wasn't too bad, I have 3 incisions below my rib cage and then one below my belly button. I guess gall stone are pretty common to get during pregnancy and of course I ended up getting them, so my doctor recommended that I have my gall bladder removed to prevent the horrible attacks I was getting. So when I came out of surgery, I was pretty drugged up. They gave me some pain medication to help with the pain, and I was hoping that Tale would take a bottle so that I could load up on them, but of course he wouldn't, so I had to feed him. The first day was really awkward because I had to hold him in a different position because of my incisions and he didn't like it very much, but he adjusted. He was soo sleepy that whole night, I'm pretty sure from all the drugs, so I stopped taking my pain medication because it worried me so much. And that wasn't very fun, oh the things we will do for our children right? And the toll pregnancy takes on one's body, geez! :)
For easter weekend we had some friends from California come to visit, it was so nice to have them over, but it hurt so bad to laugh and that is what we did the most of. :) My niece Tilera got baptized that saturday and then on Sunday her baby brother had his blessing. So we had a ton of family in town, and it was a blast laughing, singing, swimming, and just hanging out with them. Of course I was still recovering so I couldn't participate in all of the activities :(. So since I didn't have my camera I don't really have pictures from the weekend. But I do have some new ones of Tale.

He is wondering what the red light is flashing on his face, :) (its the flash)

Okay so how cute is his smile here, oh i just love it, as you can tell i'm out of focus, not a very good picture taker!!! er!

Again he is giving me the look like what are you doing mommy? ha! but wanted to show he still has his beautiful blue eyes.

A few weekends ago we went to salt lake for my uncles wedding, my grandparents flew in from Samoa, and i just love this picture of my grandfather and Tale. This is their 3rd great grandson, they have 5 great grandchildren so far.

2 Months..........

Oh my goodness I can't believe Tale is 2 months already, he is growing so much and so fast. I was looking at some of his baby pictures when we first brought him home and he was soo tiny. But we are soo enjoying every minute of him, he is starting to ooh and goo at us and just smiling everytime we talk to him. I just can't get enough. He is awake a lot more now and just loves to look around and have us talk to him and tickle him. I think he is camera shy because once i get the camera out he doesn't smile as big, I keep trying to get a picture of his little giggles because they show his little dimples but he will just stare at the camera confused. oh they are just so cute. We took him in for his check up and he is doing great, in the 90 percentile in just about all areas. He weighs 12 pounds and is at little bit longer than 24 inches. He got his 2 month shots too and was such a trooper, mommy had a harder time than he did. He let out one big scream and then that was it. He is such a tough baby.

Blue eyes

okay so how does my son have blue eyes? Ha! Tale is about 7 weeks now, i can't wait to take him into his 2 month visit to see how much he has grown. i think he has doubled in size since we have brought him home from the hospital. he is starting to smile a lot more at us, and talk in his baby language, it is sooo cute. i love listening to him and just staring at him. i had to go back to work this week and oh the first day was soo hard. so is today but i'm soo glad that i'm only working half days for now. while i'm here i just can't wait to get home to him. i miss him so much when i'm away. these are just a couple of recent shots of him. one to show his long chubby body and the other to show his blue eyes. oh he is just so handsome! :)