Mana & Kyra

I was going through the pictures and videos I have and found this one of Kyra and her cousin Mana. They were playing in a bucket at my brother's house and I filmed it because they just looked too cute! This video is from January though, so they are both bigger and taller now.

Yo gabba gabba?

My nephew Mana is turning 2 and we're having a big bash for him in Hilo in the summer. Here are the invites for the party:

So who can answer this....who in the world is y0 gabbagabba? Is that even a word? Apparently Mana loves this show....what show is this?! Where does this play? Who came up with it?

So many questions....so little time! If anyone knows what this is, please help a sister out!

Losing weight with Dad

Surprisingly, I lost a lot of weight after I had Kyra...mainly because I was so sick! Well I'm starting to get a whole lot of weight back and I'm freaking out. So my dad and I decided to go on a diet.

A full on...oh my gosh...we are reworking our eating and exercise patterns full scale...diet.

More specifically, NUTRISYTEM! I don't know how many of my friends and family have tried this but if you have please let me know how successful...or unsuccessful...it was. I think a major problem for me and weight is that I'm super busy and I stress eat to get food. Since I'm so busy I have no time to make healthy food for myself. My dad has the same problem.

So...we are going to team up and do this. I am going to be dedicating some posts on my progress (or lack thereof). If this works, I want to shout it to the world. If it doesn't...I want to shout it to the world.

Fat girls unite! We need to help each other be healthier and happier. My goal is to lose 70-80 pounds in order for me to be at a healthy weight for someone my height. I'll give all the embarrassing details once the meals come in and I'm filling out the details! :)

Please feel free to give me other advice, tips and ideas on how to lose weight the healthy way. I've also placed a bet with my dad. If I lose more weight then I get to go to Disneyland at the end of this year!!!! If my dad wins then I need to pay him the $1,000 it would cost to go to Disneyland!

SO HELP! I need to lose weight and win this bet!

Vote for me!

Hey everyone! I haven't blogged in a month so if no one reads this...that's cool. BUT, Hawaiian airlines is having a contest that ends on the 8th. Basically you go to their website, choose the 6 destinations you would like to visit, create a "passport" and you have entered!

Here's the thing: The grand prize is a trip to the number 1 place you picked. The first prize is 100,000 Hawaiian miles. But you can only get the first prize if you have the most "likes". So please, please, please go to aloha.hawaiianairlines.com, find my passport and click "like". I would love to get those miles so I can actually come and visit most of you who left Hawaii!!!!

Here's the pics I used for my passport so you recognize it:

Valentines Day

Since Valentines was on a Monday, Rabici and I celebrated on Saturday the 12th. We went to Germaine's Luau since we're on this new mission to try out everything in the "101 things to do on Oahu" magazine.

We've already been to the PCC luau (which is still way better) and Paradise Cove Luau. Overall PCC is still number 1 with the best dancers and food. Paradise Cove is a close second with the food but not the dancers. Plus they do cultural things with the guests that are fun. Last would be Germaine's with great dancers but junk food.

Here are some pics from Germaine's Luau:

Rabici with a Tahitian dancer

Me with 2 dancers

Rabici with the current Fire Knife Champion!!!

Mele Kalikimaka....a few days late!

It's the end of 2010 and almost 2011 so I figured....why not post on my blog since I haven't done so in oh...3 months! Since September, a lot of new things have happened. Here's what's been going on with the Vuikadavu's since 2010 has been coming to a close.

In early October we went to Disneyland to celebrate Kyra's 1st birthday and my niece Johnna's 8th birthday. We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel and had an absolute blast! Then again, anything remotely dealing with Disney is fun for me! We met the princesses, did trick-or-treating in the park and had breakfast with minnie mouse. We also went to Mickey's Halloween Party where we took pictures, played games and saw some awesome fireworks!

In late October my parents threw a birthday party for Kyra at the chapel. It was huge! Over 250 people came and we had some ono (delicious) grinds (food), an amazing dessert bar, and live Fijian entertainment. It was definitely a night to remember! It was also a night I never want to do again since I was majorly stressed and needed many foot and back massages to recuperate.

In November we spent every available Saturday cleaning and getting ready to move into my parents house. It was a long and junk process to say the least. I was grateful for all of the holidays that month because it let me keep my sanity. Thanksgiving was spent partly in Laie with Rabici's family and partly in Kaneohe with my family. I think I gained 30 pounds that day. It was also the time that the Laie temple was dedicated. We were able to not only go through the open house but work as temple guides. It was an awesome experience! Also, my dad got to meet the prophet and there was even a picture on ldsnews.org of it!

In December I totally overloaded my schedule. I went to a wedding for my co-worker and good friend Nicky and had a great time! (It was a Disney theme that's why, plus we played games and had ono food!) We also had a birthday party for my cousin, a Winterball I chaperoned, a brunch for my friend Brianne's daughter who was getting baptized, a lunch for the Young Men to celebrate Christmas, a lunch for the Elders Quorum to celebrate Christmas, a Ward Christmas party to cook dessert for, and a funeral for my Aunty Nancy.

I'm tired just typing this.

And with all that going on we moved into my parents house last Wednesday, needing to still clean our old place by this Friday to get our deposit back.

Rabici has decided to go to Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) to get his Masters in Business Administration (MBA). We are so excited for him!!! He's still working at PCC and hopes to use some of his years of service there as part of his MBA program. Since there are no scholarships out there for Fijians, we decided to move in with my parents so we could save money and send him to school. He continues to play rugby and watch it as often as he can sneak onto the internet when Kelly is asleep. Rabici is still Elders Quorum President in our Ward and enjoys hanging out with the guys. (They just had a man-date to watch Tron)

Kelly is still hard at work at Hakipu'u Learning Center (a Public Charter School in Kaneohe). She received her Masters in May 2010 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), in Curriculum Studies. She is going for her Doctorate next fall at UHM in either Educational Administration or Educational Foundations. Kelly is still the 1st counselor in the Relief Society and loves being with the sisters.

Kyra is doing well and loves her life! She eats, sleeps and plays whenever she wants. She is babbling more and loves to say hi and blows kisses to everyone. She's been walking since she turned 10 months and now she runs, hops, and sprints whenever she can. Right now her favorite stuffed animal is Stitch from "Lilo and Stitch" and her favorite TV show is a tie between "Mickey Mouse clubhouse" and "Phineas & Ferb". Her favorite food is chicken and rice when she's with her mommy but around grandma she sneaks chocolate.

Kyra's only 14 months, soon to be 15, but we were able to sneak her into Nursery on Sunday's since the President is a good friend and former Kahuku High School alumni! Kyra LOVES nursery and runs to go inside and play with her friends.

I think that's all that's happened to us this year. If I missed something, it's probably because I blocked it out! I'll end with some pictures we took this year and I hope this blog finds you all well and happy for 2010 and into 2011.

Mele Kalikimaka and Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

Me and Rabici going for a car ride to.....walmart probably

Me fooling around with the camera. I'm so pretty!

Kyra and her daddy posing for a pic

Dad shaking the hand of the prophet at the temple dedication!

Kyra screaming....as usual!

Kidney-itis

So, yes I haven't posted and I have a really good reason.....I work full time, I clean and cook, I'm 1st counselor in the Relief Society and oh yeah, I'm a mom! I have had things I should have posted like Kyra's walking all over the place and how she talks constantly (even though it makes no sense) I just neglect this blog so often because it's like journaling. You get really into it and then things happen and you forget.

Anyway, that's my way of telling my family and friends who read this that I'm sorry! I'm back on and hopefully better at this then I used to be.

To explain why I'm back into blogging its because I'm sick! I felt pains in my abdomen on my left side on Thursday. The pain was dull but by Saturday it was horrible. My family convinced me to go the hospital after I collapsed and blacked out while I was alone with Kyra. Yeah I know, scary. So I went to Kapiolani to see what was up.

Well, I have a kidney infection! I thought it was Kidney stones since I looked it up on web md, and now that I'm a doctor I self-diagnosed. And I was wrong. Who would've seen that coming? So a kidney infection has a really technical term that starts with a P but since I can't remember it or say it or spell it I'll just refer to it as kidney-itis. Anything with "itis" after it sounds disease like so its all good.

Anyway, I'm home with some medication and good 'ol vicodin. I get a smile just thinking about the stash I have now (sigh)

Ok, moving on. So as I lay in bed thinking how sucky this all is because I don't want to be in bed it hits me: Get back on your blog and stop being anti-social!

So here I am, doped up and dying. (just kidding about the last part) Hopefully I'll have some interesting stories to tell. I do know I've had a couple of run-in situations with students that are hilarious and when I remember them I will instantly blog them so you all can have a laugh too!