I have a ONE year old!

A year ago today we were blessed with another beautiful baby girl, Talanoa Moeata Samani.  We are so blessed to have you in our lives.  You are the most cuddly, soft-skinned, independent, loving, calm but feisty, sensitive, funny, loud, and helpful baby anyone could ask for!  We love you so much!  Happy 1st Birthday Talanoa!

Our 8 lb 11 oz bundle of joy just a couple hours old

1 day old

1st car ride home from the hospital

1st time Elina got to touch her little sis!
She was so excited to meet you :)

2 weeks

6 weeks old w/ Dad by the pool

2 months: battle wounds after her shots

Blessing Day 7/3/11

@ her blessing kai

3 months

4 months

4 1/2 months

Our chicken/duck for Halloween

6 months

7 months

8 months:  Meeting Santa with cousin Lynnea

First bath with her sister :)

10 months

1st time to the zoo

Cool girl @ 11 months

Love that smile

1st Easter!

My Birthday Girl :) 4/28/12

All Wrong

Ever have times in your life where you feel like everything is all wrong?  I'm sure my period has a lot to do with it (tmi?) but I feel like I need a good cry or a pedicure or ice cream or all of the above.  Everything is just too much today.  My kids crying is unbearable today.  My husband is here but not here the way I want.  And I.....I'm just....burnt out.  Maybe a good nap?  I don't know but today is one of those days I just want to disappear.

Picture Perfect

We took family pictures a couple weeks ago thanks to the very talented Kristi Suguturaga!  Here's a few....or should i say many.....of my favorites.  Can't wait to get these hung up on my wall.  Thank you Kristi for getting such memorable pictures of my little family.  I love them!

Easter Egg Hunt

Last year around Easter I was like 8 1/2 months pregnant so I was too huge, tired, and lazy to do anything for Elina's first Easter.  Judge me!  Lol.  Luckily, Dom was super excited and made Elina the cutest treats and a mini egg hunt here at my apartment.  She loved it!  So this year I was the one all excited since there's more babies to celebrate with.  Dom and Elisha helped me get everything together for it and I think the girls enjoyed it.  Some more than others.  Lol.  It was funny to see how each baby reacted differently too.  Elina took off the second we opened the door.  She was on a roll and it didn't stop there.  She wouldn't stop hunting until her basket was overflowing and she even resulted to taking the other babies' eggs from their baskets.  Haha!  Talanoa could've cared less about the whole thing.  She was content with the eggs we found for her and decided to sit down midway to play with the few eggs in her basket.  Lynnea would hold two snacks in each hand and that was pretty good until she discovered the leaves.  Lol!  All she wanted was to sit and eat leaves and grass.  It was so funny!  Little Molly was too young to even know what was going on but she was all smiles the entire time!

*I've never been good at narrowing down and cutting back on pictures.  Hence, the picture overload.  Haha!  Better too many than none is the way I look at it ;)

First cousins :)

Getting ready to find those eggs!

Ready, set, hunt!

Errrr....I said HUNT not sit!  Lol

Lynnea finding eggs

Such a good little walker

My happy Molly girl

Reeeeaaach!

I got it, Mom!  I got it!

So serious about filling her basket!  Haha

Notice her bucket is the pink one but
her hand is in the green one.  Hmmmmm!  Hahaha

We hide cereal and snacks too!  Don't hate!  Lol

Eggs?  Pffft!  I've got leaves!

She wouldn't let her bucket out of her sight