Happy New Year 2014!

I am trying to post at least once a month this year. We'll see how it goes. At the beginning of the year we set our Resolutions. Here are some of the highlights:

Talae 7yrs:   Favorite food: Pizza        Favorite Color: Blue         Favorite Activity: Biking
Favorite Book: Here Comes Trouble
Highlights from 2013: Wet and Wild, and school (Somerset)
Lessons learned: listening to parents and cleaning
Resolutions for 2014: listening better, and improve handwriting

Noa 5yrs: Favorite food: Mashed potatos  Favorite Color: Gray   Favorite Activity: Skate
Favorite Book: To Give a Moose a Muffin
Highlights of 2013: San Diego Vacation and Wet n Wild
Resolutions for 2014: Learn to read, Skateboarding and better listener

Isaia 2yrs: Favorite Food: Mac n Wheels  Favorite color: Blue       Favorite activity: Bubbles
Favorite Book: Noodle Book
Highlights of 2013: Bubbles and fruit snacks
Resolutions for 2014: Potty Training and Independence

Hoku 35yrs:
One word for 2014: Service
What I really want in 2014: Organization, Secure work, Debt Reduction
What I really need in 2014: Peace, Spiritual Home, My kids to listen
What I will share in 2014: A new baby
What I will succeed at in 2014: Family Blog, Family History, Scripture Study

Ammon 34yrs:
What I really want in 2014: Loose Weight
What I really need in 2014: New Job
What I will share in 2014: Love
What I will succeed at in 2014: My Job & Church

We will check back at the end of the year to see how successful we really were this year! This year brings some exciting new developments to come. Talae will be 8 this September and ready to be baptized and starting cubscouts. We have started preparing him for this exciting new chapter in his life. Noa loves to dance, so we have him taking Hip Hop classes this year. We can't wait for his recital come June. Isaia is just a bundle of energy! He is 2 and has been speaking in complete sentences for awhile now. He enunciates his words so well you would think he is a 4 year old trapped in a 2 year old's body. He is giving us challenges in the potty training department. Ammon company change has been a bit stressful to him. He has been used to more organization and focus which is slowly coming to play. My job has moved me around a lot, just recently I am going to 3 different offices. Our exiting news is that we are expecting a new addition coming in August! Hopefully this one will be a girl! Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Here are some random pictures of the boys:

Isaia Hawika Pilimai

Isaia Hawika Pilimai graced our family on May 24, 2011 @ 8:26am. He arrived weighing 8lbs and was 20 inches long, by far my biggest baby. Talae and Noa have been wonderful with their new brother and want to help and hold him all the time. Hawika means beloved and it couldn't suite him better because he is such a sweet spirit of our Heavenly Father. We are truly blessed to have him in our family.

So far this year

It is hard to start from scratch after not posting for a few years so I'll try and give a brief recap.

Ammon is still working for Camden as a Maintenance Technician going on 2 years now. He enjoys working with good people and I don't hear many complaints from him when he comes home! Currently his work is doing the biggest looser and he is in the lead with a total of 23 pounds lost. Go babe, go!! He really has been working hard running 2-3 times a week and trying to watch what he eats.

Hoku is carrying our third son soon to grace our presence in May. They say that three is the hardest so she is really nervous but excited for the challenge. She has been working at Gentle Dental for five years now from Tuesday to Friday and really enjoys her day off on Monday. Besides working, her life revolves around her boys. They enjoy trips to the YMCA pool together, library days, park days and just sitting down to a good book.

Talae is 4 years old and is in preschool two days a week. It amazes us how his mind is so much like a sponge. He told me that he wants to be an engineer when he grows up and make contraptions. His favorite toys are Thomas the train and Backugans, but his favorite things to do are play games on the Iphone and Wii. We enrolled him in his second season of soccer because he enjoyed it so much last year. Talae was hoping that he would be getting a baby sister soon and was sad when he found out it was going to be another brother. It didn't take him long to get over it though.

Noa is 2 going on 3 and is such a character. We have been trying to potty train him for some time now. One day he will be excited to go on the potty and the next have nothing to do with it. Since I've been pregnant, he has been my little shadow. I love his little dance moves and have to place a video clip in the near future. His favorite toys are super heroes. Noa wants to be just like his brother and I can't believe what natural talent he has when playing sports. We couldn't decide on a name for the new baby but when we asked Noa about it he decided for us- Isaia.