Wow, it's been fun reading and learning from everyone else's posts for the past year! Thanks guys! IT's time I contribute!
2011 has flown by and was THE MOST challenging year of my 30 years of life here on this earth! lol...Along with the challenges I have done things I never thought I would be able to do.  For that, I'm proud of myself.  Within the past few months our family graduated from the 0-1-2 year old crew -- to the 1-2-3 year old crew.  It's great and the difference is huge.  A year makes a difference and things are getting easier.  Hallelujah for double strollers and our baby sling.  The kids started TUTU and ME traveling preschool.  It is on Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours a day.  They love being with other kids and especially going on feildtrips.

November feildrip to the Keauhou Firestaion

Maunalani Christmas Tree Festival Feildtrip

They love being together.  This is in their room hiding under their futon.

Kienna Mika just turned 3 years old in August.  She will be starting a daily preschool in January.  She is sooo smart and witty.  By witty I mean that she can dish out some wise cracks. (Sometimes we laugh with her and sometimes we send her straight to time out.)  Just before her birthday she was able to accomplish our summer goal of potty training!  She loves to paint, sing Japanese children's songs, and loves the color pink.  Her favorite animal is a giraffe.  She loves to decorate Christmas trees and loves ornaments.  She is also a chocolate person like her daddy.  One of the silly things she likes to do now is pretend ballroom dance with Kingston.  She calls herself princess while wearing a crown and calls Kingston her Prince.  She is inquisitive and asks questions about EVERYTHING.  We are excited that she is starting preschool next month and hope that she make lot of new friends.  

They gave us reindeer hats for taking a picture with Santa @ Prince Kuhio Mall in Hilo.

Kingston just turned 2 in October.  He loves to play outside.  He loves to climb and jump.  He is probably the most social out of the 3 children and other kids love to be around him.  He loves fruits and icecream.  He is our snacker and not much of a meal eater.  He loves to eat ketchup with his food and sometimes that's how we get him to eat.  His favorite color is orange and his favorite animal is an elephant.  He can count to ten out loud and knows his basic colors. He loves to hug his teachers at school.  The funniest thing he does is one of his dance moves when he hears music.  I call it the "dog making shishi on the pole" dance move.  He basically gets down on all fours while kicking one leg in the air.  It's hillarious.  

Kelan is a full on MAMAS BOY!  He is killing me.  He always wants to be with his mom.  Hangs onto my legs while I'm washing dishes, follows me into every room I walk in, and crying for me for just about everything.  But I sure do love the little guy.  
  He loves to EAT.  He can grind.  I should have known he would eat anything after he ate chips and salsa with guacamole at 7 months old.  He is actually an early walker and talker.  He started walking at 7 months like Kingston.  I can't believe these guys try to take off so early!  
A few words he says now are, "Mommy, Tutu, Daddy, Nena(Kienna), Mine, Cookie, Drink, Onion, Carrot, Door, Light, Baby, Bye, No, Kaukau."  Kelan turned 1 in September and we had a Baby Luau for him in Laie this past Summer.  It was held at the BYU Stake Center.  He loves to dance, sing, climb, and pull out all the DVDS and throw them on the floor. On the bright side he loves to help with cleaning.  He's depressed if his sister and brother are not around.  He loves to watch real animals.  (Especially dogs and birds. )

Joe is a one of a kind amazing Father and Husband.  Geez...he's just the best.  I really don't know how he can separate work and home but he is very patient, loving, and hardworking .  We are really proud of him.  In July he was asked to step into the Vice Principal postion at Kahakai Elementary.  At first he declined because he didn't want to take more time away from our family.  But I made him call back the principal to accept.  And BOY have our lives changed since then.  His job is very demanding and he is responsible over SOOOOO MANY different things!  His leaves for work around 6am and comes home around 6:30 pm.  The kids go to bed between 7:30 and 8:00 so some days they don't even see him.  He is still learning the ropes so his job requires alot of his time.  But I am sooo proud of him for all that he IS and all that he DOES.  He currently has 2 callings.  He teaches the Youth Sunday School class and is serving in the Elders Quorum Presidency.  

And there I am... Tired as HECK!!  I was reading my first post when Kienna was born about not being able  to bathe a baby and feeling uncomfortable with diaper changing.  Well I'm proud to say that those days are LONG GONE! 2 big accomplishments that I am able to see through this year are 1)  Cooking and 2)  Going out with all 3 kids anywhere all by myself!   First about Cooking...  I am now cooking every night.  Thanks to all my iron chef friends who share their recipes with me.  We still have Pizza nights, and hot dog and rice nights but I'm comfortable in the kitchen and getting more familiar with dinner in the crockpot.  Second about going out with the kids... It is me and them ALL day everyday so we are used to doing grocery shopping, errands, parks, and school together.  Our house is always a mess but it is clean in the morning and before dinner... all other times are just crazy.  Some days are tough and I lack motivation over the motherly/wifey duties but after a few hours of feeling sorry for myself I can usually swing back into the right mode again.  Thank goodness for the gospel and all u wonderful examples of motherhood... I can press forward with the day.  I love my  little family so much and thank them for being so patient with me.  My 3 children and husband are always showing love to me and I feel so lucky.  I've been serving in the YW Presidency for 3 months now and I love it.  The youth in our ward are awesome.  There aren't alot of members at the highschool here so they are  pretty tight with each other.  We love our ward!


Well... hope I was able to catch everyone up.  Thank you Mary Latu, Harm Kahaialii, Tali, Hafoka,  BrennaJean, Hardy,  and Crystal Hafoka for the uplifting posts over the year. I enjoyed reading your posts and always learn something new.  I've been a frequent checker-outer of your blogs this past year.  Happy Holidays everyone! Love ya!