10 years....And missing you more each day!

Portrait of Daniel with our SAVIOR miss you baby bro!
One thing Daniel LOVED....HIS NEPHEWS!!
"LITTLE BROTHER"

"I will remember you, will you remember me?" as I think of this song tears just start to fall, when I hear this song I remember Daniel automatically and the memories of our time with him will be replayed, for this is ONE song Daniel LOVED, as well as guns in the ghetto (UB40), and one of Kenny Rogers song. Ten years ago today Daniel returned to our heavenly father and has become a heavenly angel to our family, he was a blessing in our lives and in very many he came in contact with. He fought his hardest to overcome the cancer (osteosarcoma), Daniel has taught me many things, never give up, have FAITH, and to LOVE. Our family became close while Daniel was in the hopital we always looked forward to going to visit him and LOVED every minute of it, but what we LOVED the most was when Daniel was able to be at home with us. I remember the times when we went to nicklecade with him and the cousins all the joy we had with him, the sleepless nights the boys we would have with him, the list goes on and on and on, I still remember when Karl Malone called him the SMILE on DANIEL's face was PRICELESS. I even remember when Daniel would call me and tell me he would want SUBWAY and I would tell him I don't have money and he would say "come on sis just write a check", and he KNEW I would and I did I can honestly tell you NOW I WOULD write more checks if I had to for him I didn't care about the $20 bounce fee LOL. I can't imagine how hard it is for Daniel's twin my little brother Brian him being the closest to Daniel it's been extremely hard for him as well BRIAN we LOVE YOU MORE, and MORE each day stay strong and KNOW that we do LOVE YOU, and to my little sis Silia, and Older Sis Lani (who was there when Daniel passed) we Love you and know how much it's truly hard for you both. So in memory of my little brother Daniel this blogs for you. WE LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH AND MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY. I know your happy where your at now pain free and reserving a spot for us in our celetrial home, and I know in my heart your with us everyday. Love you for eternity DANIEL.

Cookies for DAYS!!

Ok so this past weekend (8/8-8/9/2009) has been a VERY productive weekend. On Saturday morning the YSA for Granger 8th ward had a farewell BBQ for Elder Alo Moli and I was requested by Lisi to make some cookies, I also got a text from Fatai Tavo requesting that I bake some cookies for her bridal shower the same saturday, and with NO hesitation I agreed to make cookies for both of the events not thinkin' it would be to overwhelming which it wasn't I felt honored and blessed that they requested the order LOL. Anyways I ran to the store to grab the ingredients and started my baking I got done about 1 p.m. and I ran over to the stk center to drop off the cookies for Fatai, then afterwards headed on over to the BBQ, when I got there, there was quite a few YSA's there which was a good thing cause the ward reps are fairly new to the YSA program, and they are doing an awesome job with the activities and what not. We played volleyball, kickball, and I missed the water games it's sooo much fun being with the family ward I've been tempted to transfer my records back but it's on standbye right now, only cause I really need to give the YA ward a chance (and by this I mean I need to attend the ward, as well as the activities). Anyways the bbq ended about 4 p.m. I went home and just chilled. Then I remembered sinai's youth was going to have a fireside in her backyard and I wanted to see if she needed help or if she wanted me to bake some cookies, while I was still in the baking mood LOL. She then says ok I'll bring the cookie ingredients over so I sat there and waited, she called said she was on her way this was bout 9 p.m, she said she would drop it off before heading to work and she did indeed and when I looked I was like uhhhh did you want me to bake all this? she's like if you can IO I started baking saturday night I ended up baking 20 dozens from 9pm-1am and I figured I need to go to sleep and finish up the rest in the morning uhhh...woke up in the morning and started mixing some of the dough and still didn't finish LOL, went to church cause I wanted to attend Elder Alo Moli's farewell, omg his testimony NOW is amazing can't wait till he returns with honor, Alo reminds me sooo much of my baby brother Daniel the whole time he sang, and spoke I couldn't hold back the tears much Love to Elder Moli and may the Lord continue to bless him.

Church ended at 2pm and I headed home to finish up my baking, this time me and Gideon decided we would track how many cookies we were making, by marking it down each time the batch of cookies were done cooking and this system worked when we had finished 4:30pm, Brian had text askin' what we were doing and I mentioned to him that I was finishing up my baking and he then asked if I could drop some off for baby Daniel (which I KNEW it was for him LOL). So Gideon and I headed out to Brian's to drop off some cookies then head on over to Sinai's house for her fireside. Ok so are you ready for the total amount of cookies I made?? I had made over 500 cookies not counting the ones from Fatai's shower, and the YSA Bbq and I can tell you now I'm sooo COOKIE'd out if that's even a word...but OVERALL my WEEKEND was VERY PRODUCTIVE and helpful. Thanks guys for requesting the cookies:)

I DARE YOU!!

Yesturday (8/13/09) coming into work at 6 a.m. was the best feeling ever thanks to my little sister Silia for allowing me to catch a ride with her to work while she dropped off the diva's soo early in the morning. Work was pretty good doing something different is ALWAYS a good thing. My co-worker Merridy came in for a quick sec then headed back over to the hospital to be with her mom, she hasn't been doing to well so I was able to take over her job for the past couple of days and honestly the more I have to do the faster time goes by. Anyways I was finishing up the last couple of waybills before heading home, when I decided to text Sinai and see how Raging Waters was and had told her that I might come and sidebust on their youth conference activity. Sinai then responded that she had a ticket for me if I wanted to come let her know for sure so I told her ok standbye I'll let you know when I get home.

So I get home and sit in my room thinkin' OMG it's freakin' HOTT LOL, so I texted Sinai and said ok sis I've thought about it and I'm sooo coming LOL, I then sit and ponder more and I'm thinkin' I'm going to hit up Leslie and see if she wants to go. So I text her and she's telling me to standbye that she's trying to get a hold of her mom to see if she'll be home to watch the nieces and nephews so she can come. Well Les was still waiting and I decided that I was just gonna go ahead and if she does come she'll hit me up. Well I get to Raging Waters and Sinai's at the gate to greet me with my ticket woohoo it's been soo long since I've been to Raging Waters and I'm thinkin' hmmmm what slide will I go on...My first instinct was the little old white slide cause I soo wasn't in the mood to hike up to the slide LOL yeah lazy I'm sooo outta shape I probably woulda held up the line hahahaa. Anyways Leslie Lapuaho came to me and said lets go and slide and I told her hold on let me think about it, we walked around and I told her wait I wanna go and get wet first so we went to this pool area and just chilled in there for a bit then went back to the pavillion cause I was sooo hungry LOL. As we were eating Lee Langi came and I was soo happy she came in to grab the tickets for her and her brother. So when lee came we went to find a slide to go down.

To make this long story short I know I'm making you wonder about the title I chose, I said ok I would Love to go on a slide I just don't wanna hike up there LOL, so I see this slide just across the pavillion we were at and it only had one set of stairs to climb and I said lets go on that one. My niece Leslie was like the shotgun? I said yeah that one I'll climb those stairs and she's like ok, we climb the stairs I then ask how deep is the water? she says 9 ft uhhh what's wrong aunty I said I don't know how to swim and they both DARED me to go I was then thinking to myself well I gotta overcome my fear, then I tell both of them I'll go if you both go first LOL, my niece says okay we'll go first and then we'll wait for you to come down why did I believe her LOL. Leslie and Leslie (my niece), go down and Lee was sayin' she didn't know how to swim.....yeah right, I look and she's full on swimming does that make me nervous HELL yeah it does. But I couldn't chicken out cause they DARED me to go and I told them I will if they'd go down first. So there I go shooting down the slide and screaming my guts out but before I can take a breath I went strait down into the water OMG, talk bout panic mode I started to struggle in the water getting paranoid that I can't feel surface underneath my feet the more I struggled the more I went down, I was then thinking Kalo what the HELL were you thinking I started running out of breath thinkin' again are they going to notice I'm not coming back up I opened my eyes looking around me and still see nothing I then stopped struggling and rested my arms to my side and put my head up I opened my eyes again and start to see it's getting bright I then can hear both Leslie's say where did she go she shoulda came up already...all of a sudden I POP up and went gasping for air literally gasping and trying to catch my breath and try to act like I didn't almost drown..Leslie then asks Morena are you ok I said I just swallowed tons of water and told 'em uhhh that's my one slide I'm done LOL, but overall I did do it and when I do go back to Raging Waters Shotgun will be the first slide I'll go on, cause maybe I'll know how to swim once I go back again LOL, who knows when that will be I think I'm fine with staying in the 5 ft water. I then went home showered washed my hair and waited for Silia to pick up her girls and Brian to pick up his son, the kids LOVE grandma she is sooo good to them, and just watching her with the grandkids is priceless, I KNOW MY SISTERS and BROTHERS Love how active she is with the kids. Love my family, Love my Life, and Love the DARES LOL!!

ABC's

So last night me and mom as well as sinai's twin boys went over to brian's house to pick up baby Daniel (they're going to Raging Waters today). On our way home he was singing his ABC's and I was sooo mad I didn't have my camera with me. We got home the kids grabbed something to eat and they all wanted to watch a movie...Daniel comes charging to my room saying Auntie I watch movie so I grab my camera and say before you watch a movie you have to sing your ABC's and he was sooo quick to start singing so he can watch his movie here's a video clip of baby daniel singing..Love you baby boy.

Did you say Pedi's & Massage

Saturday 8/8/09 after all the hustle and bustle with the youth conference I was soo ready for a nap and just time to RELAX and just chill. The Fili sister's had planned a little get together at Ash's place this night with just a time to relax chill, get pedi's and massages by Crystal & Ashley who are currently goin' to school for this, what a blessing it is to have sister's in this field which by the way I'll be joing crystal soon after I get my bills situated. I almost didn't go just cause I was soo beat and tired from bein' with the youth all day, when I got a text from ashley sayin' are you ready for the girls night tonight. I then responded to ash sayin' girl I just got home from bein' with the youth for their youth conference and I'm sooo BEAT gettin' ready to take a power nap, she then responds so does that mean you NOT coming LOL, I text back in reply girl I'm comin' I'm just takin' a power nap LOL. So I get a text from my Lindon sister (Kelissa & Ofo) sayin' you ready sis for the get together and I reply the same reply I sent to ash, when they texted back you know what we'll come and pick you up LOL, guess they know me to well if I napped I would totally knockout and wake up the next day LOL...anyways they picked me up and we headed to wally world to pic up some junk food for the get together. We had soo much fun just catching up and getting pampered just wish all the other sisters made it, but all to the good there's always next time...here's a few pic's. Thanks ladies for the wonderful time Love you muchos!!

Ashley givin' "O" a Massage
Oh yeah that's what I'm talkin' bout goooo ASH
Crystal workin' her magic on Kelissa's toes
WahLaH...purrty toes...good job Crys & Ash

Oh to be in the YOUTH again

Oh the joy of being a SLACKER you have TONS to catch up and talk about. This pass weekend was pretty hectic I ended up taking last week friday off (8/7/09) in hopes to be of help to the Granger 8th ward with their youth conference. The theme they chose was "ANXIOUSLY ENGAGED" friday morning they had started off with service, they had all met up at the stake center to clean (and a wonderful job they did), after the cleaning we had breakfast in the pavillion in the back of the stake center said prayer and then headed on out to Lagoon at about 11 a.m, I could tell they were excited to leave already (I soo remember those days, I don't know if it was excited for the rides or to see new faces LOL;) we were all once teenagers hahaa..) anyways so my truck was nominated to load the youths food, drinks, snacks etc and boy was is FULL. All passengers in my ride was basically the YSA bunch LOL ok just 2 other (Mone, Leslie Langi). Anyways so we loaded up and headed on to Albies to pick up the chicken for the kids lunch then off to Lagoon we went. As we pull up to Lagoon, the kids are anxious and ready to start their scavenger hunt while Lee goes and pays for the tickets and I wait to unload the truck which I was seriously dreading LOL. Anyways we got lucky we got to drive and park by the pavillion seems we brought the whole house and some LOL, so we were blessed to be close to parking where the workers at lagoon drove their little trailers and loaded it and drove to our pavillon. Anyways the kids were then off and ready to handle the scavenger hunt below is a couple of pic's of the kids of the YELLOW TEAM, the leaders of this team was Meliani & Hola Mila 2 wonderful leaders who will also be wonderful parents...in addition to this game they were also playing gottcha with their team members where they had to eliminate the eachother, RED, and GREEN, anyways YELLOW team ended up winning the gottcha game cause the hitman (HOLA) knew this game well and got everyone silently LOL. We were at Lagoon till closing which was 11 p.m. the kids were sooo tired and drained I wasn't sure if they were gonna make it to the hike the next day (sat morning). But to my surprise they had ALL made it to the hike and I WAS the one SLEEPING in LOL, I was able to catch their service project at the food ban I'll attatch those photo's as well, it's sooo good to see the kids work together and just have a close knit bond with one another LOVE YOUTH CONFERENCE, after the service project we headed on over to the stk center pavillion where they had the activities committee bbqin' for the kids while they practiced their tongan dance number for the big celebration for the stk, and can't forget the games and whatnot that followed the practice, which I missed cause I went home to catch some zzzz's for the fili sister's night at ash's place later on in the evening but I'll blog about that on another page seems this ones getting to long. But I've come to realize that I sooo miss my family ward especially the youth. Thanks Granger 8th ward for letting me be a part of your conference.

Yellow team on the CLIFFHANGER
Yellow team doing the Karate kid pose infront of the Samurai
Yellow team after the scavenger hunt

Yellow again at the spider doin' the spider pose..can you tell Yellow team borrowed my camera LOL
Yellow again on and empty stage doing I'm a little tea pot
Service at the food bank, Leka, Lisi, Ani retagging the chai tea LOL
You best BELIEVE I was in on the service LOL
The boys had a system going & so did the girls
Granger 8th Youth hard at work.
Uhhh huh, they had a system going
GROUP SHOT...cleaning up...and headin' to the Pavillion
Waitin' for the kids practice: Mel, Me, Lisi..and Lee was behind the camera
Dance practice, good job kids...I didn't get no pic's of them playing games but apparently they had some home run kicks from the leaders playing kickball.

Welcome Jayden Paul Misinale

Oh man, oh man has it been FOREVER and a day since I've jumped on here to blog, guess the heat has a major part of my slacking LOL, ok what a lame excuse but I totally have to say it's the total truth. Ok so much has gone on yet I didn't get the chance to write about it. I guess summer is just been fun chillen with my family, you can NEVER go wrong with that.

Just recently we had a new addition to the Misinale family (Brian & Sela, gave birth to a healthy Baby boy Jayden Paul Misinale) he weighed in at 8 lbs 6 oz and 20 inches long. Daniel is such a good BIG BROTHER you can already tell by the video he's ready to take charge. Congrats bro on the beautiful baby boy. Just had to let cha know that this year 2009 summer has been nothing but FAMILY LOVIN' Love my family and sooo thankful for them everyday.

Big Brother Daniel with Jayden
He's such a Good big brother
Daniel with mommy
Jayden Paul Misinale
Grandma LOVES her GRANDKIDS