Wild and Crazy Month of July

July has been a wild and crazy month for us. Lots of traveling between SL, WJ, Midvale, Hurricane, St. George, Vegas and Phoenix. We celebrated the 4th of July and 24th of July with friends and family. We had our fair share of visitors come through Hurricane and Tommy and I celebrated 10 years of marriage this month. We also attended The 'Iloa Family Reunion (Tommy grandparent's 9 kids and their kids... and their kids).

This weekend Joey and Tommy got home from Phoenix, AZ. Tommy had been with Joey the last week of his 3 1/2 week stay. Joey was staying with Tommy's awesome cousins the Vaioletti's while he worked with an ADHD specialist. Joey went through a comprehensive evaluation process that includes computerized testing, rating scales, and Quantitative EEG topographic brainmapping. His progress was pretty remarkable and we are so excited and hopeful that he with be able to use what he learned for the rest of his life.

We all woke up late Saturday morning and hung around in our PJs well into the afternoon. It was so nice to all be together again. Everyone was happy to sleep in our own beds and have nothing on the agenda.
We had a celebration dinner for Joey's homecoming and successful work with the specialist. We also got a good chunk of the school cloths shopping out of the way. I love to shop for the boys because they all have their own cute little style. Joey is especially fun to shop for because he will pretty much wear whatever you tell him. I am hoping to move him from the ProTeam Tshirt and bball shorts to a more preppy look. Nifae is not loving the preppy look anymore. He now hates polos and button up shirts and is more into sports wear. Not my fav. Reminds me too much of all my guy friends in High school. Odogg will still let me dress him up but he SUPER DUPER loves a tacky graphic t and character Ts. :( I will take sports wear over this ANYDAY! Lilia did not get A DANG THING. The girl has SOOOOOO many options in the clothing department thanks to her Aunty Tonya and Cousin Gigi. They just dropped off another santa size bag for her so she will continue to have her cute 100% girly girl look well into the next year:)

School clothes shopping got us all excited for school to start. The kids found out their teachers and are so excited for the first day of school. I am so sad thinking that everyone will be going every which way. Lilia in Preschool, Owen in Kindergarten, Nifae in First Grade and Joey in 11th Grade. If you have kids of your own you know that means I have 4 kids starting and ending at 4 different times. This is why I now drive a minivan. Bahahaha! Joey is jumping right into Football conditioning starting Monday AM and 2 a days start next week. Their first game will be in August against West Jordan High School. Booya! My high school will be repp'in and so I will be rooting for both teams. Which side do I sit on???

Tommy was released from the Sunday School Presidency this month and was put into the Elders Quorum Presidency. He is planning their end of summer bash this Saturday at Quail Lake. It should be lots of fun with good food. He is also in charge of the 2012 'Iloa Family Reunion for around 200 people. We can't wait and are looking for cabins/campgrounds for that. Let us know if you know of anywhere great in Utah for that kind of stuff.

As for me I hope to catch up on this blog, catch up on my FB, and catch up on lots of craft and re-purposing projects I have been wanting to do. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, there is a little update of what Team 'Iloa has been up to this month. Wish us luck in the month to come!

Team 'Iloa

July 2011

Jumping for joy and kicking butt! I love these pics!

Lills has a fun daddy!

In case you didn't know, Our neice kicks butt:

Literally~!
June 2011

Blast from the past.

I was looking through the old blog (teamiloa.blogspot.com) and have been coming across the funnies stuff. The boys are so tiny and cute.
Check out Odogg in this funny video:

Good Morning Beautiful

or this cute video of the boys trying to say Lilia's name


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or this video with a gazillion Haka videos:

how-we-waste-our-time

Check out my tiny little baby Lills and how much her brothers adore here:

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I love this one of my dad reading the scriptures in Tongan:

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And last but not least..... this one that always makes me laugh:

iloas-funniest-home-videos

If I don't write this stuff down I will forget it!

Tonight during Song, Scripture and Prayer we read in Mosiah about being steadfast & immovable. We were talking about what that meant. I had the kids try to stand as still as the could while someone tried to push them off their mark. Kennedy my oldest sisters daughter is here and she got all the little kids to move pretty easily. Since she is 12 it was pretty hard for my kids to get her to move. We talked about how we can choose the right and be immovable. We talked about things they see other kids doing that are not so good and how they can be immovable when they are around things like that. We talked about Jesus Christ and how he can help us choose the right when it is hard. Lilia was so cute. She burst out and said, "JUST PRAYER!" Which was so cute since she can not say her "R"s. It was a good reminder to me to just pray when I need help choosing the right.

Nifae started to get really emotional and was holding back tears. He has always been such a spiritual boy since he was very very young. Actually, I remember my mom holding him the day he was born and she said, "Wow, he has very wise eyes". He had a look about him, his eyes were very clear and he looked like he was looking at your soul. Wow, that sounds dramatic! LOL (Looking back at his hospital picture I think he looks just like Mr. Miagi from Karate Kid... maybe that was it.).

ANYWAY, back to tonight~ I asked him what he was feeling and he couldn't talk. I asked him if he knew what the warm feeling inside him was and he said shook his head, no. Before Kennedy (my awesome niece) could say, "The Spirit"... Lilia blurts out, "YOUR LOOSE TOOTH!" LOL What am I gonna do with this girl?????

We all had a good laugh and that helped Nifae to get his words back. We had such a great talk about feeling the Spirit and how it can help us so much. Kennedy, Nifae, Owen and Lilia were all apart of this and had so much to say.

We talked more about trying to be immovable. Kennedy said she had some people in her family that are movable. We said that we do, too and that sometimes we ourselves are easily moved. I was so grateful to tell them that it is ok when we make mistakes and how we can get that bad feeling to leave us and the good feeling to come back and stay with us. I could not believe I was talking with a 12, 6,5 and 2 year old. It is crazy how much they already know about the gospel. I learn so much from them. I love their primary teachers so much for all the time and effort they have spent preparing and teaching those lessons to my kids. I love it!

Nifae and Kennedy talked about their Grandpa and Grandma that had passed away. Nifae was so emotional and said that he prays for his Grandpa all the time and that he misses him. Owen said he prays for him all the time, too. This is so surprising to me since Tommy's dad died when Tommy was 5. So my kids have never met him. I, as are my kids and my niece, so happy to the Plan of Salvation and for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ so that we can live together again one day. I am grateful that I can share this beautiful gospel with my kids and in turn they teach me so much about what it really is.

So, I guess that's pretty much my testimony right there.

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O celebrates Easter in Preschool

Myles gives Joey a quick lesson

2011

SPRING in full SWING

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