Tagged by Doodle-Loodle

Sorry doodle, better late then never right?

8 Things I am Passionate About:

1. Family
2. My Baby
3. the eternities
4. becoming a good mother
5. memories
6. the importance of wisdom
7. the beauty of the earth
8. the ocean

8 Books I Have Read and Enjoyed:

(this is imbarrasing)

1. What to Expect when Expecting
2. What to Expect the first year
(contradicts #6 on my last one.... I know)

8 Words/Phrases I Say Often:

1. Nehemiah!!!
2. Baby!!!
3. what do you feel like eating?
4. want boobies?
5. whats the matter baby?
6. tasi, lua, tolu, fa, lima, ono, fita, valu, iva, sefulu (1-10) in Samoan...im working on it...
7. hey little munchkin!
8. im over it

8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die (In no particular order):

1. Raise happy healthy children
2. visit the Great Pyramids
3. finish my education
4. own a house
5. visit the "Rock" with my family (Samoa)
6. Make a differnce in the lifes of children with cancer
7. live long enough with my husband to celebrate our 50th anniversary
8. become really good at something

8 Things I Learned in this Past Year:

1. I am definetly not scared to die
2. Motherhood is the greatest gift
3. I hate not having friends
4. your really spoiled in high school
5. I hate doing laundry
6. Life is short
7. Administering of Angels is real
8. I am SO blessed

People I Want to Tag:
1. Mamma
2. Brittany
3. Farren

Yes, we're still alive

sorry i've been extremely slacking. I've just got a bad combo of busyness mixed with laziness... Nehemiah is continuing to eat his food and he's growing SO FAST! He said mama (while crying) a couple weeks ago, and has said it a few times since but only while he was crying....until...TODAY!!! as i was in his room and he was in the family room, he clearly said "MA!!!" like he wanted me to come get him!!! yay! Nehemiah also murmured the word "dada" while bathing two days ago... he said it again yesterday, but unfortunately chris wasn't around either time the hear... Football season is about to start so chris has been really busy with two a days. We're excited for the season to finally start on the 30th. I bought nehemiah probably the coolest nikes for babies Ever! I'll take a pic of them and post it cause they are so cute!

Happy 6 Months!!!

Crazy to think my little baby is six months old today. We celebrated by giving him a big watermelon...just kidding....it was cold so he liked to suck on it. Happy Six Months Nehemiah!!!

And More...

We all went swimming, but it was the weirdest thing because the pool water was hot. Not warm not kinda warm it was hot. So unforunatly nehemiah couldn't go swimming for very long. None of us did infact, because it didnt feel good because it was hot outside.

Family Pic infront of Yellowstone falls...I know you cant see it...

I forget the name of the mountain but this is at the very top of it, its supposed to be prime area for grizzleys... It was so beautiful i started running and twirling singing "The Hills are Alive" from The Sound of Music...

Nehemiah was having a whole lot of fun having his Daddy carry him around like that. He was also getting a kick out of how hard the wind was blowing, our little man loves being outside...

More...

We were very fortuante to vist my Great Grandma, very possibly for our last time on earth. It was a very neat experiance to be near her. I could feel michelle's presence with us as we visited her. Nehemiah was able to meet for the first time his Great Great Grandma. Its a very rarity that a person meets their Great Great Grandma, he was fortuante enough to be able too. She loved having him near her.

We went to bear world... Befor we did however we decided to smother our cars in oranges so the bears would come to our cars. It was alot of fun!

Nehemiah saying goodbye to Grandma Butler... very sweet

We stoppped in Yellowstone on our way back and decided we needed to see more bears so we ventured around looking and looking. Unfortuanatly we didnt find any but we got to see all the famous sites, this is in front of a big waterfall, it was beautiful...

Catching Up

Sorry about not updating for over a week...thats a record for me, anyways we had to drive down to Malad and take care of a ticket, it just so happend that same weekend my family was all in Rigby Idaho waiting for the Boys at EFY. So luckily we were able to hang out and have some more fun adventures. So I'll just do a little summary of what has happend since i havent posted anything. Befor we left, Nehemiah at his first solid food...HE LOVES IT!!!!

Nehemiah wore his mommy's sunglasses the whole trip down....okay not really but he liked wearing them...

Chris found a new best friend in my Uncle Jim's enormous dog...

Chris rode a horse for the first time...what you dont see in this picutre is about 30 seconds later as the horse was rounding around the pond he began to speed up and bucked chris right off....

PURE COMEDY

Make Babies with friends and celebs!

Sparklers

he's scared...but he likes it more than he's scared...

The 4th

The fourth was a good day, we just hung out, BBQed, played video games then finally around ten thirty it was dark enough to do some fireworks. That's not to say fireCrackers weren't going off ALL day.

I love this picture, Nehemiah was laughing hysterically at his Daddy

This Is a picture of Nehemiah and his Uncle Lou
The latest and greatest pic of the Kolone Fam Bam
I insisted on getting sparklers, everyone made fun of them all day until night when we actually lite them, they all loved them...oh and i wasn't lying when i said i was hanging out with a bunch of guys...(there were more, they are just not in the pic)
Nehemiah was very scared of all the fireworks including the silent ones that were just pretty, but like his mommy he LOVED the sparklers

Happy 4th everyone! Were heading to Louis Saucedo (chris's friend) house to celebrate. ill post more pics later!

If I Had...

If I had an extra $112 i would buy these shoes i designed to train for and run my next marathon in honor of my sister Michelle...