Poll Time

Okay, so once again it's been forever since we've posted. We've been in Hawaii for the past month. Since it was vacation time, I thought for sure that I'd be posting like every other night with all my spare time. Reality check, we worked hard and played hard and by the time we were home with the kids in bed I was knocked out. The nights where I did stay up later I had my nose in a book (the very reason why I don't let myself read, cause I do NOTHING else). Anyway, you have my promise of an upcoming post with lots of pics but for now we wanted to take a quick poll.
Our little girl will be here in a little over 3 months. We are still hmming and hawing over the full name. Kaleiloa is a definite, 98% chance of being a first name not the middle name. We've had several people tell us that it'd be wrong not to use Robi (Row-be, still don't know how we'd spell it)since Brayden has been so insistent since the get-go that it was a girl and her name was Robi. Some say use it as a first name, others as a middle.
I have to admit the name has grown on me some but still don't know that I'd ever be able to use it as anything other than a nickname.
Poll:Do we somehow incorporate Robi into her name, if so how?
Can't promise we'll listen but it's always fun to have input!

The Tounge Twister

We've had some request to post the baby's name because no one can pronunce it. All of Junior's family will have no problem but good luck to the rest of you. He he! Her name is Kaleiloa Feagaiga Shum. The first name is a combination of our moms' names (Carol and Sileiloa) and her middle name means covenant. Junior has always really liked the name, the only name he's really mentioned since we've gotten married. But is also considering using Ave'ae for a middle name (his Grandma's name). We'll call her Kalei for short (pronounced with a long "K" and "lei" like the flower necklace) that's should be plenty easy enough. As for the middle name, sorry, hopefully you all will eventually get the hang of it!
Brayden is still very insistant that her name is Robi so if all else fails you can follow suit with him!
We're really excited for our little girl. At first we were in a bit of shock, kind of at a loss as to what to do with a girl. Now, everytime we see a baby girl I start longing to hold our little girl!

Yep, it's a baby girl!

Definitely a Girl!

Drumroll Please

Okay, we found out what we were having yesterday. I'm taking a poll. Are we going to introduce the first girl to the family or are we sticking to tradition keeping the house full of blue, balls, and bugs???
My family flew in for a surprise visit the day after Christmas so we've been busy running around and playing. I will post pictures of Christmas soon!

Lost Memories and Preschool Party

So, I finally went to download pics last night to post on Thanksgiving(a month later I know), only to find the only pictures on our camera were from the beginning of this week and on. I had found Brayden playing with the camera the other day (he finds it no matter where we hide it) my only guess is he somehow erased all the pictures. Such is life, you all just have to use your imagination, only problem is other than the one picture we took on Thaksgiving, I don't remember what else was on there. The good thing is we do have some still pictures we took with our camcorder we bought the day after Thanksgiving so we still have a few.
Thanksgiving: We were very traditional on Thanksgiving. I was at work ALL day, it's our busiest day of the year, plus by working it I ensured get a good amount of time of for Christmas. With no family around and no real plans we figured might as well go ahead and work so we can truly enjoy Christmas. Junior and the boys were going to fill their day with traditional Thanksgiving activites, go to Toy R Us, eat dinner at Carls Jr(the boys favorite place), you know the usual. However, apparently Mimis Cafe(where I work) is the only business with no true Thanksgiving spirit because every where else was closed. They went home and enjoyed a day of playing around and eating a festive dinner of Top Ramen. We did spend a short while observing the holiday. I finished work at 8, brought home a couple Turkey dinners and we had a little picinic on our floor while we watched Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving (This is where I would insert the picture.)
Until I download the pictures from our camcorder, I'm going to skip a couple weeks and bring us to this Monday. We had Brayden's preschool Christmas party and it was an absolute blast. The boys loved being able to run around a play, we had dinner, made little reindeer candycanes, read books, and traded presents. We even had a visit from Santa, and he was the jolliest Santa any of the boys have ever met. Way to go Walter! It was great because he knew all the boys names which really impressed them. The boys then sang some songs for Santa while he danced along then Santa handed out presents to everyone. After Santa's visit, Brayden is even more excited for Christmas, which I didn't think was possible. Tavita was pretty unsure of Santa at first, he ran and hid between Junior's legs. I tried to get a picture but there were too many kids between me and them. After seeing other kids sit on his lap, Tavita decided Santa was an okay guy and wouldn't leave him alone after that.

Making reindeer candycanes. (don't ask why Brayden is dressed as Spiderman, that boy is ALWAY dressed up as something)

Reading a book, attempting to teach the kids the true meaning of Christmas

Santa's Here!!!


Kids singing for Santa

Santa jammin along with the kids

All the kids with Santa (we took a million of these and didn't have ANY of everyone looking or even standing still)

The first time Brayden sat on his lap, Santa told him not to forget to leave him some cookies on Christmas. So right before Santa left, Brayden grabbed a plate of cookies from the dessert table, gave them to Santa and climbed back on his lap to tell him about the Christmas lights on his house (guess he wanted to make sure Santa knew what house was his)

Total random note, but I want to record for memories sake. Tavita's latest thing is making different faces. We say, "do your happy face" and he gets a big smile, Surprised face warrants wide open mouth and eyes, Angry face is made by knitting his eyebrows and scowling etc. Today at breakfast we were tyring to teach him sad face. Junior was showing him by getting a really big pout. Apparently he has a really big lower lip because Tavita's imitation was sad eyes and sticking his tounge out.

Ahh Forget it!

So remember how I said I was going to post a few pics each day until I'm all caught up. Well, apparently I'm more busy than I thought and I just plain old don't have the time. So, I quickly threw a bunch of them into a slide show but unfortunately didn't have any time to flip pics around or edit or anything. But hey, at least you get to see our two adorable boys going through the past couple months. Here's a breif overview of what's in the show:
1st: Pumpkin Patch- we went to a cute little pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkins. The boys loved being able to cut them off the vine themselves. They also had haystacks for them to run around in and play in. Not a lot of hype like other patches just a cute old man making use of some of his farm land
2nd: Scarecrow Festival- This our 2nd year going to this little fundraising carnival and the boys love it. The highlight by far was the bungee trampoline. Thanks again to Grandma for so willingly standing in line for hours so the boys could go on. They also had countless bouncing castles/slide, a little train, pony rides etc.
3rd: Halloween- Our little pirate and ghost got countless compliments. Especially Brayden's pirate costume compilied by Grandma through thrift stores. Our camera battery was dying and we accidently sent the charger back to Hawaii with Grandma and Grandpa so we only got a couple pics
4th: Las Vegas- Grandma and Grandpa Orme came to visit for a few weeks just before Halloween. We all got to go down to Vegas for Grandpa's business conference. The boys had fun seeing a few of the sites but absolutely loved the fact they left the cold and were able to go swimming everyday. The trip home was an adventure since we had two sick boys. The Dell Taco in Cedar City has probably posted pics of us with a headline of "Do not allow in resturant" (Long Story)
5th: Hanging out with G'ma and G'pa. While they were here Grandpa helped fix our fence (Thanks again) and the boys had fun playing in the leaves.
6th: Randoms-the ending pics are just some random pics I threw in cause I think the boys are so dang cute!