HAPPY BIRTHDAY FATSO!

Also, before I forget, I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to the most irritating sibling in the world. To my first best friend, my favorite child, the kid I look up to Ofa Ki' Liahona Latu, Happy 21st Birthday bro :) I wish I was there to celebrate with you, but I'll be seeing you next week! A little something about this kid.

After we had Gabriel, a few short months after my family moved to Hawaii from Utah. Everyone except Ofa. Of course I had cousins and other relatives around but I didn't feel comfortable asking any of them to help me with my son. This guy, still in High school, playing football and with his studies he still managed to find time to watch my little man for an hour or two every day. Even after I had my Gissi he still helped me watch them BOTH. Of course his amazing GF at the time helped him watch, but my point is, idk many boys his age who would have done that EVERY SINGLE DAY, and I admire him for it. Fatso you're one of the best brothers I know, and I am lucky to have you as mine. I pray for you daily and I know that you'll go far. You've got a bright future ahead of you and I hope that you can remember that the Lord is ALWAYS on your side. Even when we're not doing everything were supposed to. That's what the plan of salvation is for and I hope that you can take advantage of it and do what's right. Happy birthday small dawg;) see you next week! OFA ATU!!!!!

The beginning...

I feel like there is SO much to blog about that I haven't been blogging about at all! So now I'm just going to play catch up with everything. First I'll start with Josh and I. How in the world does a health enthusiastic Latino from Utah end up with a fat eat errefang Tongan from Hawaii?? There is NO way that God didn't have a hand in our meeting. Ya Utah is pretty small world but I did not EVER mix with any type of "miko" like at all. It all started in 2008. I was new at UVU and he worked at the Multicultural Center, the MC. I couldn't help but notice that this miko was hanging out with the poly's. WTF? Not normal. (To me at least). So I decided to talk to him. I asked him for his name the next day, and as soon as he said it I forgot. Our conversation went something like this:

Me: Oh hi, um.. what's your name?
Him: Josh
Me: I'm Lala, nice to meet you.
Him: Hi Lala.
Me: Oh sorry but I'm not good with names so sorry if I forget yours.
Him: If you do, I'll never talk to you again.
Me:(WTF???? jklfsoinkclhjwoijklhejiyhsoidhjfklankj??!!!)

And that's when I decided I didn't like him. At all. But as the story goes, I saw him again later that day, we exchanged numbers and the rest is history. We got married, have 3 kids and now we're in Hawaii. How things like that happen? Only God knows. I am grateful though, and I do love Josh. He is the most annoying person in the world! But that's only because I just don't want him or the rest of the world to know how crazy I am about him :) 

We were married on June 28, 2008. We went to Grand America for our "honeymoon" and a week later went to NYC, New York for a week. December 2, 2008 we were blessed with our first baby. 16 months later Gissela followed and by June 2011 we had our third child, Melena'a. We've had LOTS of trials and we've almost been divorced. (I think every couple goes through something similar. Especially nowadays.) We will be getting sealed next week in Utah and as hard as our journey has been, it has been worth it. Josh is an amazing man. I could go on and on about how wonderful he is. Even if he is my biggest pet peeve. I am lucky to be married to him and I wouldn't have it any other way. Don't get me wrong, we fight A LOT. We disagree A LOT. (He's freakin vegan raw and I'm like eat erefang.) But we work together and keep our love alive and our family going. "With God, nothing is impossible. But you, must learn to take His hand... Those who have ears to hear, will understand." I forgot the name of the song but if WE can do it, anyone can. No joke. But that's how we met and that was the beginning of our beginning.

Catch up.

So over the past year or so, a few things have happened.


1. We are now on the beautiful island of OAHU. I previously just wanted to come to have our 3rd child here with my family. Being away from them for so long I just wanted to come home and be with them for this baby. Josh was a bit stubborn about it, but it all worked out and we were supposed to just be here for the summer. Evidently, Josh has fallen in love with HI<3 and I think we will be here a little longer than I'd planned. It went from the summer, to just Christmas, to just graduation and now I'm not sure if we'll ever leave. We'll see though. For now I'll just enjoy the HILife and be happy with the sun :)




2. Baby number 3!!! We were blessed with a beautiful baby girl on June 13, 2011. Melena'a Vileti Kawailani Mana Gwyneth Garcia. She was 8lbs something oz I don't even remember and 20 inches. She is absolutely WONDERFUL and I just can't get enough of her. She reminds me so much of her siblings and sad enough I wish that I was "normal" when I had them so I could have enjoyed them as much as I enjoy her. She brings so much happiness to our family and to everyone else that meets her. She really is the happiest baby in the world and I just love it!! Now we have 3 beautiful children. Gabriel, who turned 3 in December; Gissela, who just turned 2 last week; and Mana, who is now almost 10 months old! They grow up so fast...


3. Lastly, Josh and I have just got our endowments and we will be getting sealed in the next few weeks :) We've come a LOOOOOOOOOONG way, and it sure was pretty rough. I'll probably blog about our trials and problems we faced a little later on but I am just grateful that we have been blessed with these amazing opportunities.

I think those are the most important events that have recently happened, life has had it's ups and downs but we've been able to weather the storm and pray that we will continue on in faith! I  have been so blessed and I'm just so happy to be here at this time. I'll be sure to keep updating regularly unlike before. All in all, life is beautiful.

Back to Blogging

It's been a LONG while since I've last blogged. I guess I got too excited and then life just got the best of me and I haven't done it since. But now that I've got my head on straight, life is a little more "organized" and I'm ready to be who I want to be, I think I'll give it another try. If all else fails, follow me on instagram @lalatu913 and twitter @heilala