Kuulei loves vegetables

 Our sweet little Kuulei loves to eat.  She will sit in her bumbo while I spoon feed her fruits and vegetables.  She's growing so fast.  She's our little smiley baby!

I'm 7 months old.  I like my new room and I'm actually in meimei's crib instead of the co-sleeper.  It's about time momma!  Meilia got a toddler bed when we moved into our new house.  Of course I get all the hand me downs!  I'll get use to it.  I'm sure mommy did since she was the youngest in her family, like me. 

I'm eating more vegetables but they are getting old.  I think I'm ready for more variety.  I do love green beans though! 

 Kalani's taking pictures of me on the camera while mommy takes pictures on her phone.  I love all the attention!

Keep it coming....I'll smile all day!

St.George

After all the graduation partying we were pooped and ready to relax.  Mainly we didn't want to stay in our new house and unpack all our stuff and because daddy didn't have to start work until Monday.  So we headed to St. George with Grandma and Grandpa Norton and the Glaziers.  It was lots and fun and relaxing.

 

 

The boys loved riding the wave runner. 

 

Yesterday when we got to St. George the first thing the kids wanted to do was get into the pool.  Just as we were getting done swimming I took Meilia's floaties off and started walking back to the house.  Meilia on the other hand started heading towards the pool, got in the pool and started walking toward the deep.  I screamed to Brady to get her, he sat there saying she's okay.  Then with my motherly instincts I jumped in the pool and grabbed her.  As I was grabbing her I saw my phone sinking to the bottom of the pool!  Brady then got up from the lounge chair to save my phone.  Thanks babe....we know what really matters to you!  Glad Meimei is fine but sad for my phone.  It is now in a bag of rice.  Hope it works!  Anyway that was our first episode.  2nd episode happened at the lake.  Brady and the boys were on the wave runner pulling a tube on the back.  Kailoa had the rope and threw it in the water and the wave runner sucked the rope in it's engine.  That ended our lake trip real fast.  But good thing we were about done at the lake.  We were there pretty much all day!

 

 

Meilia loves to follow Addi.  Addi showed Mei some of her gymnastics and Mei would try to imitate her.

 

 

Meilia loved the water!  When it was time to go, she didn't want to get out of the water.

 

Kuulei was such a good baby.  We were there all day in the hot sun and she didn't complain once.

 

She loves to suck on her toes!

 

Graduation Party

 

Brady, me, the boys and Kuulei drove home to Utah from Oregon on Sunday.  It was a long drive and Kuulei and the boys did great.  Meilia got to fly on the airplane with grandma and grandpa.  Good thing she went with them, she would of hated the 12 hour drive.  When we got home I threw a graduation party for Brady in his parents backyard.

 

marshmellow "cotton balls"

 

No we weren't handing out prescriptions.  Don't worry they were filled with candy!  Chris thought "What kind of party are the Norton's throwing!"  These prescription bottles read:

 

 

 

EKG cookies

 

Sad, I didn't get to taste this cake because when I was putting it away I tripped and it slid off the cake stand right onto the floor!

 

Chocolate dipped "thermometers"

 

Brady's family and friends came to celebrate!

 

Tutu and Siona

 

I was so glad this was finally over!  We had been partying all weekend and I was ready for a break!  Brady got offered a job with the Jackson Doctors at Central Utah Clinic.  He starts August 20th.  We are so grateful that he was able to get hired right out of school.  Now the pressure is on to pass the big TEST!  He will take it August  .  Good luck babe!  I know you will pass it!

We did it!

Graduation August 10th & 11th, 2012

 

 

We have been waiting for this for a long time! I mean a long, long, time! 8 to 9 years of full time school, full time work, and raising a family in all the mix. We have been anticipating this day for a long time. It has finally come and we can now stop to breath and take it all in. We are so proud of our daddy for all the hard work he has done for the last decade. He has always put family, school and work as his top priorities. He has worked so hard for this we can't be more proud of him!  This program nearly killed the both of us.  We made it more challenging by adding two more children to our family.  I was pretty much a single parent the past two years with Brady in class full time and studying until midnight during the first didactic year.  Then the second year he was away from us the whole half of the year.  He came to visit maybe once a month, the longest he was away was 6 straight weeks which was his trauma rotation and could not get away.  Although it was tough it brought us to appreciate each other and made us work harder to keep our family together.  Whatever time we had together we cherished.  Meilia had the hardest time whenever Brady would leave.  She would give him the death stare then when he would leave she would cry.  She would always ask where daddy was and when she saw an airplane she would point to it and say "daddy airplane."  We are so glad we can now be together and have a normal family life.  Lets just hope with all the time, effort, sacrifices, and debt we have endured it will all be worth it!  For now we will celebrate this big accomplishment!

 

On Friday they were presented with their PA certificate acknowledging them for graduating the PA program.

 

Brady's closest friends in his class. Brady, Blair, Jason, and Anthony.  They helped him through it when he was missing us! He's going to miss them but they've had him long enough! He's coming home to stay! Yay!

 

We were the biggest family in his class and one out of 5 families out of the whole class that even had a family.  Most were either single or married with no children.  Everyone couldn't believe we had another baby during the program.

 

Graduation day

 

 

 

I had the kids "lei"  daddy with candy and flower leis.

 

"We did it!"

 

Kuulei can finally get to know her daddy!  He hasn't been around ever since she was born.

 

We couldn't have done this without our family.  Thank you tutu for taking care of me and the kids while Brady was away. I couldn't have done it without you! And thank you Brent and Robin for always being there for us and making it possible for Brady to fly home and see us every chance he could.  We are so grateful for our supportive family!  We love you guys!

 

 

 

Party at Tiffany's house!

 

After seeing the boys mohawk Blair went home and got himself a mohawk too!

 

These guys would not let Brady go!  They were in tears saying goodbye!  Brady's going to miss them.

 

The boys had to jump in the picture! 

 

Meimei was ready to go!