Family & Food + My Birthday part II

After picking up our food from Applebee's I HAD to have Jamba Juice. I haven't been to Jamba Juice since before we left Hawaii. So, I got me a Peanut Butter Moo'd, which is the only thing I get from there lol.
Then we stopped at 711 to grab some shrimp chips and Hawaiian Sun juice.

When we got to 711, we grabbed the juice but couldn't find the shrimp chips. When we got to the register, I asked the guy cashier if they had run out of the shrimp chips and he said no "the Hawaii section was in the back." So, I walked behind the cashier area and OMG I was ecstatic! They had everything I've been craving since we moved here except for teri patties. They had mochi crunch, li hing mui candies, the Hawaii diamond crackers, laulau. kalua pig, manapua, portuguese sausage, and redondo's red hot dogs!!! That made my night! We landed up going back to the motel, working on some homework, watching TV, and then going to bed. 

This morning we checked out, went to 711 and grabbed some Hawaii grindz! 

Then we drove back home. 

Just because.. here are some pictures of the boys in the hotel room.

Family & Food + My Birthday part I

Our original plans were to go to Vegas, but due to a few different reasons, we decided not to travel that far. Instead, we drove up to Provo. One reason was to use our gift cards and the other was to spend some time out of our little town and sort of celebrate my birthday. Here are some pictures on our way up there:

we rented a motel room for the night, took our bags to the room, and looked up where Olive Garden was (where one of our gift cards were for).

Here's the motel room. 

 I've always wanted to eat at Olive Garden. In Hawaii, I would see commercials and I would drool! It was such a tease since Hawaii doesn't have an Olive Garden! 

This is my ziti! It was sooo yummy!!

After eating, we drove around and looked at what kind of stores and restaurants there were (for future trips) and then we hung out in the room and watched TV. 

For dinner we ordered Apple Bee's Carside to go (another of the gift cards were for here). I got the Philly Burger 

Continued in next post..

8 ways to win my heart

1. Be honest.
2. Have a sense of humor.
3. Be family oriented.
4. Accept my goofiness.
5. Buy me food ;)
6. Be honest.
7. Cook me food.
8. Love me for me.

Our Christmas

I'm blogging about this a little late, but better late than never, right?

I'll start off by saying that this year we weren't able to buy our boys anything. With both of us being students, finally purchasing a vehicle last month after needing one for a year, and paying rent, we had no extra to buy gifts. We were expecting gifts from my mom and younger sister, since they told us they got the kids some gifts but that's it.

Last Monday after Tay's Christmas performance, we were hanging out in the living room when we heard our doorbell ring. I opened the door and no one was there. There was, though, quite a few gifts! The boys were so excited that Santa had arrived a few days early. About a half hour later, there was a knock at the door. Again, no one was there but there were a few more gifts! I couldn't believe it. I had tears of joy and gratitude to know that people care about my kids and us. There are great people still out there. Thanks to the kind people from church, some friends and some family, my boys had a great Christmas when we weren't expecting much at all.

On the morning of Christmas Eve, we drove up to Salt Lake City to my husband's uncle and aunty's house. It was good to see everyone. The boys, of course, were excited to see their cousins. They played with them the whole time we were there. On Christmas morning, all the kiddos opened their gifts. My boys got gifts from their cousin's. It was so very nice of them. I also got a gift from them--some socks and lotion. That afternoon, we went to my husband's aunty's family's house. It was a lot more traditional than the other parties I have been to with my husband. There were "talks" given and prayers said all in Tongan. The adults sang songs in Tongan too.

Anyway, there was a lot of food! My boys decided to act up (Trenton was tired and Titan was tired and hungry), so I didn't really get to eat, but my husband's cousins grabbed a huge foil pan and put some food in it for us to bring home. Lu Pulu, tapioca, mussels,and octopus in coconut milk, ribs, ota, pig, noodles, and lots of desserts. We got home, warmed it up, and ate like we were starving. I love Tongan food! Lu pulu is my favorite. I swear I could eat it every day. :P

I can't wait for the next time I can eat Tongan food. I think it'll be in April for my husband's friends farewell. He's going on his mission. :)

So, overall, we all had a great Christmas. Of course, I missed my family but it was so much better than staying home and being sad.

Thanksgiving

So, I thought we were just going to be celebrating with just us this year since we don't have a car to travel to my hubby's family's house, but our neighbor (the wife is my hubby's cousin) are staying here too.  Now, we're going to celebrate together! It'll be all of our first time cooking everything ourselves because we always just went to a family member's house to eat and didn't need to cook anything. 

We'll be doing the ham, stuffing, potato salad, green bean casserole, and candied yams. They are doing the turkey, more stuffing, the dessert, and I'm not sure what else. 

I was thinking it was just going to feel like another day, but now I'm actually looking forward to it. :)

English Muffin Pizzas

On Wednesday, we made english muffin pizzas for lunch. 

The boys helped put the toppings on. 

The tomato sauce went on first.

Titan was the audience :)

The cheese went next.

Then the pepperoni got put on after the cheese.

Mommy & Daddy's pizzas had mushrooms on it ;)

The finished products!!

He is mobile!

So.. Titan is now crawling!

Today is the first time he actually got up on his knees. He can now get around all over the living room and he loves it. :)

He loves to smile and show off his two bottom teeth. He loves his older brothers and likes to play with them. He loves to stand up! Sometimes when we try to make him sit he'll stretch out his legs because he doesn't want to.. lol. He's trying to pull himself up and almost has it. He can now say mama, baba, and the g sound. He likes to blow raspberries too :P He eats cereal with some baby food once a day and he now eats Gerber puffs.

Decorating Cookies!

Yes, I know lots of sweets this week. :P

Since we had leftover icing and sprinkles, we decided to bake some sugar cookies and then decorate them.

I helped Trenton make a smiley face

This is Tayven's design

Being silly.. He said it looked like blood o_O

Another silly boy

Mommy's Cookie! TT for my boys :)

The boys watching daddy do his cookie,

Daddy's final product.

Reisa's Birthday

Last night we celebrated Reisa's birthday by baking and decorating a cake for her. Trenton got tired and fell asleep before we decorated. Tayven helped me with putting the sprinkles on.

Here's the cake.. It was my first time writing with frosting so don't laugh :P

We sang to her as she came through the front door. Then we ate cake and ice cream. After that she hung out for a while and we watched the new episode of Teen Mom. :)

Lazy Night Dinner- Spam & Cabbage

Things you need:

-1 can spam

-half head of cabbage

-soy sauce

-garlic salt

-pepper

1. Put a little oil down in the pan. Put stove on medium.

2. Cut up spam into cubes and put in the pan. 

3. Stir up the spam.

4. Cut up cabbage and place in pan. 

5. add in about 1/2 cup of soy sauce (the spam and cabbage shouldn't be drenched with it)

6. add garlic salt and pepper to taste

7. Stir around and then lower heat.

8. It's done when the cabbage looks a bit transparent and withered down like this.. 

and here it is plated with rice..

Dinner Tonight.

Tonight I made bell peppers stuffed with seasoned ground beef, rice, red onions, and black beans. We also had honey roasted red potatoes, red onions, and asparagus. Yum!! I love veggies :) 

The boys had spam & green beans.

I am exhausted!

Woke up did some homework, got ready, then went to Walmart to get some groceries. Then went with a friend to the Scandinavian Festival that they have every year here. I tried some new yummy food. I ate funnel cake, Navajo taco, pulled pork sandwiches. Everything was expensive though.. but we walked there and walked back it was about a mile total... and I had to carry Trenton on the way back ugh.. that kid is NOT light! We came home and Trenton crashed and the rest of us are just relaxing. :)

Things we have put in our Saimin.

For my non-Hawaii followers :P Saimin=Ramen Noodles. 

Some things we have put in it are (& not always together):

- Spam

- Eggs

- Cheese

- Green Onions

- Fishcake 

- Vienna Sausage

- Hot dog

- Onion

- Hot sauce (tabasco & sriracha)

That's all I can think of right now.