Sitake Family

Pona's 2nd Birthday

2010-11-13T22:10:00.001-08:00

Little Pona had his 2nd birthday on Nov. 7th. He had so much fun. We went to chucky cheese, which he LOVED! Then on Sunday, we had spare ribs because they are his ultimate favorite food. Then his Toy Story Cake and presents. He loves toy story so much. He wants to watch it every day. It's on our play station, so every day, he turns the TV on and hands us the play station remote. He watched it on his bday and held his balloons the whole movie. Gma and Gpa Durtschi came and Gpa Pona too. He got a big boy bed from Durtschi grandparents. It's the one my dad made for us when we were little. Now, it's little Pona's and he loves it. It's so cute. Anyway, I'm so tired. I hope this is grammatically correct for how tired I am. Cheerio! Oh and Lish, there are some pregnant pictures just for you! Love you

Halloween

2010-10-31T22:00:00.001-07:00

Pona was a lion for Halloween because my friend at school lent it to us. Also because he loves growling. Thank you Natalie. Someday I may be a cute mom who makes super creative costumes, until then I will not be that cute mom.
We didn't take him trick or treating last year because he didn't like candy last year and I don't like candy either, so who's gonna eat it? He loves candy this year.
Then that night, we went to the ward party. There were lots of games and an insane amount of desserts. I planned it with the other ward and it was a lot of fun. It was pouring rain though, so we didn't actually trunk or treat, we trick or treated up and down the halls. He got so much candy. We thought we'd go through a lot of hot chocolate with the cold weather, but since we were stuck in the super full hot church, we ended up dumping about 12 gallons of hot chocolate. What a shame.
First, we walked down to main street because every year all the shops on main street hand out candy. It's quite cute how everyone's out on main street together. Here he is with his loot. He loved it, but was getting tired.
I was an ostrich rider at school for Halloween. Fred, my ostrich is covering my belly, so you can't see how huge my 6 month pregnant belly is, but it's HUGE. ( In case you didn't know, I'm due with another boy Feb. 1st) I'd love to post my class pictures, but I don't want to get sued or something crazy. So, you can just know that they were adorable.

2010-10-31T21:50:00.000-07:00

Hawaii Trip Summer 2010

2010-10-31T21:15:00.001-07:00

Just so beautiful. We love it so much!
Complete relaxation on my favorite beach. When we stayed here for our honeymoon, I never even layed in the hammocks! How silly of me. I made sure to do it this time.
My poor flower was slowing falling apart.
Just taking a nap on the Queen's bed in the Tongan Village at the PCC. It had to be quick since I went behind the rope and sign that said - do not enter.
Some awesome tree climber at the PCC. One of Mato's friends had his family in Hawaii meet us at the front entrance and they got us the whole entire day free. Even the luau, which was delicious! It was so nice of them. Whoever they are, I am so thankful for all the money they saved us.
I love making things in the sand. This day you can see my super lovely turtle. I always build a little too close to the shore, but that's because you need the sand to be a little wet. When my little turtle was in danger of being swept away by the ocean, Mato built me a super huge protecting wall. That's usually how it goes when we play in the sand. I build and he builds the protection for my silly creations.
We got to stay in our honeymoon bungalow for the 2nd half of the week. Actually the exact same one. It was fun. There were 3 geckos in our room one night. 2 big ones and a teeny tiny one. The baby one fell in my suitcase never to be found again???

Mato snorkles for hours upon hours. He doesn't like to snorkle where there are a lot of fish though because the fish, "freak him out." Last time we were in Hawaii all these white fish surrounded him and one bit him. Ever since then he's been scared. So, one day we walk to Shark's Cove. A great snorkling spot. I anticipate we'll be there a long time that day. We get in the water and the white fish started surrounding him again. I actually watched from under water. IT WAS HILARIOUS!!! They leave everyone else alone. EVERYBODY! Then he starts trying to hit them underwater because now they are darting at him. The fish still won't leave him alone??? So weird. Then, he takes off towards the shore. This was about 5 minutes into our snorkling adventure. He was done ville as I like to say. Those dang white fish ruined my morning. It was so so funny though. I don't get to see my husband scared very often.
This is our absolute all time favorite beach. It's keiki's beach. When I came to BYU Hawaii with Sara, we decided this was the beach we wanted to come on our honeymoons on. They have the cutest bungalows here. So, this is where Mato and I honeymooned and then we came back 5 years later. SO BEAUTIFUL! And so empty. Not too common for the north shore.
We took a trip to Hawaii for a week the beginning of summer 2010. We left lil Pona with gma and gpa Sitake. We had a lot of fun.
I think pineapple plants are so cool looking. Maybe just cuz I don't see them much. The field smells so yummy when they're more ripe.
This is Kumorah and Momo. We stayed at their house the 1st half of the week. They are so cute!!! We miss them and thank them for their room.
Mato had never been to Pearl Harbor, so I decided we needed to do that this trip.
Our first day on the north shore we saw 6 different sea turtles at various beaches. It was awesome. A couple of them we saw while we were just swimming and snorkling. Then, holy crap, we would see a sea turtle next to us. They are so pretty.

I love kindergarten

2010-04-21T16:43:00.000-07:00

Today my class went to a short play about how reading is great. We came back to class and we talked about reading for a minute. This little angel raised her hand and almost made me cry. Her name is Alivia and her mom has been struggling with cancer for the last 3 years. She's getting really bad. They just amputated her leg and hip on one side and just today she is having surgery in her back to remove another tumor. Things aren't looking good it seems. Little Alivia who is the sweetest little thing said that sometimes when she feels so sad about her mom she reads Book of Mormon stories and it helps her feel better. She's just so cute. And she actually can read well enough to read the stories. I just love her and my other cute kindergarteners. Sorry no pictures again!!!

2010-03-08T22:08:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody. Our camera's battery has been dead for a couple months now. So, no pictures. This happened a couple weeks ago and it made me laugh so loud. Mato (big Pona, his middle name) was sleeping on the floor in the living room. Whenever he's sleeping little Pona tries to wake him up. So, Pona was poking and pushing and yelling at his dad. Mato didn't budge. So then, Pona climbs onto his face and straddles it. As soon as he's situated he lets a nice big juicy fart go. Then he gets off and walks away. Funny, I think so. It was HILARIOUS! It looked like Pona was mad at dad and was punishing him. The really funny part is that Mato never woke up through the whole thing.

Today something funny happened in kindergarten. I have the cutest big Tongan boy in class. He's Sione (see-oh-nay). Very lovable and sweet and also a huge liar. He's always lying about the stupidest things. Well, Peyton came out of music class to tell me that his leg was hurting so bad he needed to go home. I asked him if he could be tough for the last 20 minutes of school. He said he could, but looked pretty stressed out. When the class was walking out of music, Peyton proudly announced that he knew what to do. Sione's dad was a doctor and Sione said he would take care of his leg. At that moment I couldn't stand the lying anymore. I told Sione to STOP LYING AND TELL PEYTON THE TRUTH! So he did. Then I said, goodness gracious. You've got to stop lying. Then Macks says, Sione promised Cassidy he'd give her a puppy. Then someone else said he also promised them a puppy. It was just so funny. I wonder how many kids he lies to everyday? Love my kindergarteners.

2010-01-10T18:03:00.000-08:00

It's been a while! Well we went to Florida for an early Christmas and had a wonderful time. I love the ocean so so much. I didn't even hardly care that it rained the whole time. It was beautiful. I met my newest little neice, Ellie May. We went to a pier where lil Pona almost got poked by a pellican (well, I think it's a pellican). We had a fun little pool in the backyard. That was fun. Pona played on the beach for his first time. It was cold and the water was colder, but he seemed to like it. He loved the waves. He also seems to really like his cousin Lucy. They're the closest in age. She's nice to him, but sometimes they fight and it's quite funny. 'Ema and Leone came for a little visit earlier too. 'Ema and Pona looked so cute in their matching jammies. And Pona loved to copy Leone who was taking apart a TV table. He worked on his stool as long as Leone worked on the table. He kept checking behind him to see if his uncle was still working. He loves tools. Guess he gets that from his dad and gpa Durtschi. We went to Arizona for real Christmas and had a great time, but forgot the camera. Then I went to my gma Rose's funeral in Canada. It was such a nice funeral. Gma's a good lady. It was a great holiday season!

Happy Birthday Son!

2009-11-21T12:15:00.000-08:00

It was Baby Pona's bday on Nov. 7th. Can't believe my little guy is 1!!! We cancelled his party because I got the stomach flu the day before his bday. I was so sad. Gma and Gpa still came up though. That was nice. We went to eat at his favorite pizza, pasta, and salad buffet, but he didn't seem to like it that much that day. Silly boy. Then we opened presents and he was too tired for cake. He had cake the next day. He didn't feed himself any of it. He just loved making a mess. I fed him a few bites and he liked it I think. Then we just threw him in the sink. That was his first time in the sink. It was pretty cute.

2009-11-03T18:33:00.000-08:00

Halloween. This was at our ward's trunk r treat. Baby was Annikun. I was a Stirling High School Cheerleader.
I couldn't believe it. Pona carried all of these groceries up a flight of stairs in one trip! It was amazing. I really didn't think that was possible.

Helper

2009-11-03T18:23:00.000-08:00

Little Pona always gets in the way of everything we do. Here he is helping with the dishes, vacuuming and laundry. He usually follows the vacuum all around the house. He loves it.

baby's first byu game

2009-11-03T17:32:00.000-08:00

Gpa Pona always comes up for the first game of the season. We also always sit with Derick and Regan. There's cute little Regan. We were so excited to take baby Pona to his first game. And then it was a horrible horrible game. We also realized it's not so fun with a busy baby. He hasn't been to another one.

2009-11-03T17:21:00.000-08:00

Aunty Lata comes to visit a lot because she flies for free. We love having her visit. She's so so so cute. We're so sad she can't fly for free anymore. We'll miss her.
Just too attractive.

Heaters

2009-11-03T17:01:00.000-08:00

Most of the time our little boy is very cute and sweet, but sometimes he is a devil child. And usually, we love that about him. Exhibit a of the sweet little guy and directly below, exhibit b of the devil child who tries to burn our house down.
Little Pona loves hiding things. Well, we started smelling burning plastic. We quickly went to our heaters. Our house is heated with electric heaters on the bottom of the walls. We were sure he'd put something in the heater, but we couldn't find anything? So finally big p took the thing apart and found it. The little guy put a marker in the heater. That's the mangled blue thing. Since then, we have found big P's phone and and a medicine dropper in the heater. Little Pona likes to help his dad try and fix things too. Or maybe he's just trying to look cute because he was caught trying to burn our house down. This should be a fun winter!!!

2009-10-23T17:40:00.001-07:00

Hello All!

Baby Pona is growing up. He's almost one. Can't believe it. He's been doing some really funny things lately. Pona was changing his diaper and as soon as the diaper was pulled off, baby Pona who I will refer to as P3, crawled away super quick. He stood up next to the chair and proceeded to pee while standing. What the heck?

He lately loves putting his little toys in the craziest spots. We 'll find his toys inside the kitchen garbage bag box. Under all the walmart bags in the bag drawer. Behind frames. He loves hiding his little toys and then the next day he'll go back and get them out. Pona watched P3 do it finally. He saw him pick up 2 of my hair ties. He crawled into our room, opened his little drawer and put the hair ties in the corner of the drawer. Then he closed the drawer and left. Pona watched him do it again. He grabbed a little toy crawled into the room again. Opened his drawer, but just before he put his toy in, he noticed his dad watching him. So, he closed the drawer without putting the toy in and left.

Whenever I find one of his little hidden treasures I just laugh. It is so funny where we are finding things. He actually hid Pona's keys too. Ha ha! That's not funny when you're running late. We are having so much fun with our little guy. He loves animals too. Whenever he sees dogs or cats he laughs and laughs. Sometimes he tries to bark like a dog. Well, anywho, the time I allotted myself on the internet is up.

Random Sitake Stuff

2009-09-13T09:39:00.000-07:00

Baby Pona is 10 months now. Hard to believe. He's almost 1. We have so much fun with him. I think big Pona plays with him more than any dad I know. It's quite cute.
College football has begun!!! We had a kick off party at our house the first night of college ball. So far, BYU is doing awesome! We love it. Go BYU!!!
Little Pona is crawling all over and getting into everything. He starting crawling a month ago. He just loves terrorizing our house. Here you see he's ripped up the Book Of Mormon and the Ensigns and dumped all the dots from the hole punch on the ground. Having so much fun. Now we have put those baby things on the door so he can't open them. So now, he pulls so hard on the door we think he's going to break the plastic thing off!
In August, all of us kids and our families went to our parents in Idaho for a week. It was great to all be togher. The little boys are taking a bath together. Cute cousins.
We all went to beautiful Jackson Hole and went camping.
Baby Pona's first family camping trip.
In Yellowstone we had a picnic and let baby Pona play in the dirt. He was having so much fun and getting so dirty. The bathroom there had a really big sink. We just stripped him down and stuck him in the sink. He looks embaressed to be naked in a national park.

Just looking so cute. Gma Donna gave him this church outfit. It's for 24 months. It fits him perfectly except for the height because he's so chubby. I just sewed the bottom of the pants up 3 inches. He's usually grumpy after church. Missing that nap is just super fun every Sunday.
My boy. I love him. Excuse my cheesy smile.

Pow Wow

2009-08-30T13:37:00.000-07:00

This video is for anyone who wishes to see it, but is meant mostly for Gma Donna. The boys loves to sing and drum. Since you guys haven't been here to teach him to pow wow. We're trying. He may be white in color, but Native in blood. Well, at least that's what he said after the video. It's too bad we turned the camera off right before his first sentence.

summer time

2009-08-09T21:20:00.000-07:00

Yet another attempt to make baby Pona eat. He finally started eating a few days ago. We are so so happy! Weird little kid? I didn't know if he'd ever eat? It took him 9 months to decide food was good. I thought I'd have to send breast milk with him to kindergarten. Thank heavens I won't.
Poor little Elisia. Pona was attacking her. She looks terrified. Hopefully they'll be friends someday. Cute cousin picture.
Me and the babe went to Tennessee to visit Lish and Paul and the kids. We went to a beautiful park called Cheekwood.

Random Shots

2009-06-04T18:40:00.000-07:00

My little Ponas are best friends. When baby Pona sees his dad walk in, he knows it's play time. Once Pona came in and baby started jumping and looking his cutest because he knew his dad wouldn't be able to resist him. When Pona walked by, baby looked so depressed, and started crying. They are like 2 peas in a pod.
Once, when I was vaccuuming I put baby in this basket. He got pretty bored. He just watched the vaccuum and kind of zoned out.
Whenever Pona is on the computer he sits baby on the desk with him. This is a common sight to see when I walk in our room. I think they're so sweet together. Once Pona was putting baby to bed, but he didn't come out for like 40 min. So I went in the room and saw them like this in the dark watching Wall-E on the computer.

Sleepy Time

2009-06-01T21:03:00.000-07:00

This is for you Lish. So, me and my sis were on the phone and she could hear baby Pona start to fuss. So, we got off the phone so I could put him to bed. This was him a couple minutes after he was fussing. He always gets hyper when he's tired. After he gets past the fussy stage, he gets a little slap happy. He always thinks the bottle is funny when he's slap happy. He just laughs and laughs. Then in usually about 5 minutes, he's asleep. I love him! Welp, lovely chatting with you Lish!

Graduation!

2009-05-03T17:12:00.000-07:00

Pona and Lata graduated! Yipee! We had a big Tongan party that night to celebrate. Their cousin Tonga graduated too. His Auntie made so so so much food. I could not believe it. It was unbelievable. So good! Good to see friends and family. I made baby Pona a gown too to match Dad's, but I don't have a sewing machine so I hand sewed it. What was I thinking? Actually it didn't take that long. I made it too small, it barely fit. He looked cute in his cap and gown though. I'm proud of my husband and Lata. Yay!

Exersaucer

2009-04-12T22:16:00.000-07:00

Lately, baby Pona spits like crazy. It's pretty funny. He also loves his exersaucer from his cousin Talitha. I like when I tell him to be happy and he does, at least for a min. So, this is us chillin Easter evening. I told him he wasn't going to get anything for Easter cuz he wouldn't remember it. I think he's ok with that. Welp, he has to be!

Girlfriend already?

2009-04-12T22:10:00.000-07:00

Sara had her little Charlie 6 weeks after we had little Pona. She was 12 lbs. at birth!!!!! But, good thing our kid is older so he can be big and strong for his girlfriend. Notice in the picture that they both look like, "Stay away from me!" But Charlie is making a sneak attack diaper grab. She looks so innocent too?

Ponas sleeping

2009-04-06T21:49:00.000-07:00

Both of my Ponas love sleeping with their hands up. I walked in the other day and they were asleep like this, but they were holding hands. It was so stinkin cute, but the camera was dead. I just love my husband and my baby so much. Just can't stand it!

Exhibit A and B of our son's obesity

2009-04-06T21:43:00.000-07:00

Neglected Child

2009-04-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

Pona and I were having a nice time visiting after I came home from work. We left Baby Pona in the living room to play under his toy. We decided we should stop neglecting him and when we went out this is what we saw. He looked so cute and he wasn't even complaining.

Tia's Wedding

2009-04-06T21:26:00.000-07:00

We went to Pona's cousins wedding last weekend in Vegas. We had so much fun with his family. I always love going to his family's weddings. They are so fun! Baby Pona went to his first temple and got to meet his cousins. It was lovely!

Baby Pona Rolling

2009-02-22T10:29:00.000-08:00

Little Pona rolled over for the 1st time yesterday. This was the 3rd time he did it. He was getting tired by #3, so it took him a little while, but at least he did it again for the camera.

2009-02-22T10:19:00.000-08:00

Pona gave me the best birthday ever. You might not want to read this because you'll be so jealous that Pona isn't your husband. You've been warned. So, he picked me up from school at 3:20 with a snack because he knew I'd be hungry. Then he dropped me off at the spa. He had already schedule me an hour massage and an hour facial. They were awesome!! Ridiculously awesome. Then he picked me up and took me home. There he had a big birthday cake for me and a present. He bought me guitar hero! I love guitar hero. Then we were going to dinner. Our friend Regan watched baby Pona for us. He took me to Tucanos. I love Tucanos. So delicious!!! The best part was that he had called all my old roomates who still live in Utah and they all came too! It was so awesome to see them all. Then we came home and watched 7 Pounds cuz I've wanted to watch it for a while. Now, that's an awesome bday! I don't think he could've fit another surpise in there. It was so fun. I love my husband!

My sister is the bomb!

2009-02-11T21:10:00.001-08:00

My sister Alisha made our bedding. Isn't it beautiful!!! I love it. It's even more beautiful in real life. She's so talented.
She also made baby Pona's bedding. It's so adorable! I love it. Sometimes I just stare at it because it's so perfect! Baby Pona loves sleeping in it too! I think she's super amazing to get so much done with 3 little kids. I feel really good if I can just keep my house clean. And let's not forget that gma and gpa Durtschi gave us this beautiful crib. It's the most awesome crib ever, I must say. We are so blessed. Thanks family!

2009-02-10T15:58:00.000-08:00

I was way too curious!
I love how fluffy his hair is after a bath. The picture is all fuzzy, but it's a good fluff shot and he's posing with his best friend, tigger.
A kid in my class gave baby pona this tigger. who would've known he'd love it so much?

Future Daughers?

2009-01-18T16:10:00.001-08:00

Perhaps our future girls might look something like this? This is what they may look like if they take after dad's side of the family.
This is what they may look like if they take after mom's side. Have to wait and see?????

Baby Pona's Blessing

2009-01-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

Baby Pona on his blessing day looking very handsome. Gma Donna bought him this adorable suit. Great Gma Durtschi made this beautiful blanket. Thanks Gmas!
We love our little boy so much!
Baby Pona with both of his namesakes. He must love his Gpas. This is the only picture all day where he was smiling. Pona, Pona Mark, and Mark.
The 3 Poponatui's. Cute cute cute.

Sitake Family Christmas

2009-01-07T21:22:00.000-08:00

We Sitake's love to eat...
and eat...
and eat...
and eat...
and eat...
and eat. But for sure 'Ema is the cleanest eater.
All Christmased outl
Baby fell asleep with his hand on Gpa's mouth. It was so cute.
Every year Pona's family plays basketball on Christmas at the church. Here's the annual gaming.
Christmas Morning. Santa's little helper.
Christmas Eve. My little elf.
Bath time. Check out his double chin.
Temple Square with everybody before we left for Arizona.

Baby Pona loves his Auntie Lata.

Durtschi Family Christmas

2009-01-07T20:49:00.000-08:00

Maggie and Brady are so cute!

Chuck E Cheese
Me and Axel sledding. The Ponas are giving us a push.

Baby Pona's first time down a sledding hill. He's all bundled in dad's sweatshirt.

Baby Brady and Angela.
Gpa and little piglet Lucy staying warm.
Tyler, Maggie, and Axel sledding.

2009-01-07T20:44:00.000-08:00

Missionary Baby Pona. I think he looks like a total dorky missionary here. I don't even know what that face is he's doing. Cracks me up.

2008-12-05T14:09:00.000-08:00

This is my favorite sleeper. One of my cute little students gave it to us.

2008-12-05T13:50:00.000-08:00

Big Pona playing video games with baby Pona in the baby bijorn. He's such a cute dad. He does tons of stuff with baby in the baby bijorn.

2008-12-05T12:31:00.000-08:00

My little gamers. Sometimes when big Pona is up with little Pona in the middle of the night, I will hear click click click. I know he's playing NCAA football with the volume off. Angela, my sister in law, gave us tons of baby stuff to borrow. That's where we got the baby bijorn. Baby Pona loves sitting in it. Thanks Angela!

2008-12-04T21:48:00.000-08:00

I have no comment, except that we did not teach him that!

And He Sleeps

2008-11-26T19:11:00.000-08:00

Right now our little son does a lot of sleeping. He doesn't like his hands to be tied down. He likes them to be free. If they're tight in the blanket he gets mad. It's really cute when he covers his eyes to sleep when it's bright outside. So, here's some sleeping shots.

Baby Pona is Growing!

2008-11-26T18:46:00.000-08:00

He's getting bigger and cuter. His first couple days at home we didn't have our crib mattress yet, so he had to sleep in the laundry basket. Then our awesome friend Devri gave us her extra baby mattress. Now baby Pona can sleep in his crib, although he doesn't like sleeping in there. He already even had the flu! Poor baby! He's doing a lot better now though. I swear I don't take him outside in the cold and cough on him. He still got sick though. At least he is gaining lots of weight. About 9 pounds now. He thinks my milk is delicous!

Baby's First Bath

2008-11-07T22:48:00.000-08:00

Poor baby Pona, he was born at 1:53 pm, but we had so many visitors and we wanted to hold him and keep him with us so much, we just kept forgetting to take him to receive his first bath. So finally, near midnight, we took him into the nursery for his bath.

This is him before his bath, note the dried milk around his mouth

Notice how much he enjoys his head under the faucet

Little Ninja Pona right after

So Fresh and So Clean

2008-11-07T17:25:00.000-08:00

A quick inspection, listen to those pipes

2008-11-07T16:52:00.000-08:00

Baby Pona getting checked out by the respiratory specialist, just moments after his travels through the vaginal canal!

2008-11-07T08:32:00.000-08:00

So at around 6pm Thursday night, Heidi and I were enjoying a lovely evening of college football, when she began having contractions. They were pretty consistent, so around 11pm, lots of discharge and the mucus plug came out so we decided to come to the hospital. at midnight, she was dilated at 3cm, then by 2am, she was at 5cm, then by 6am, she was at 7cm, and now it's 9:30am and she is a solid 9 cm. luckily Heidi opted for the epidural, so it's been a stress-free somewhat pleasant night, and now we're just waiting for Dr. Judd to come and brake the water and get this show on the road!