Growing up Gotti....Lao style!!

Sooooooooooooooooo...we've been putting off getting a training bra for Liz for a while now because of 2 reasons. First, we don't wanna face the reality that she is getting older and second, we don't wanna face the fact that she is getting fatter...hahaha...no kidding. But for reals tho...isn't that sorta a young age to get a training bra...she is only 8 years old. LOL. I told Teki, that I swear, if she wasn't so feti we wouldn't be having to get one so soon. But I guess me and Teki are to blame for that....well, partly us, the other part I'm going to blame on genetics....oh crap...we'd be partly to blame for that too....so let's just blame it on the rain!



Aaeeeeeeeeeeeenyways......so we bought her a little training bra. I was a little excited to show her and explain to her how to use it because this will be my very first "girl talk" with her. This talk will prepare me for the many "talks" to come....period's, boyfriends, kissing...you know...the works!! So she comes home and I tell her I have a "surprise" for her, another sidenote...I know I've had a lot in this blog...I feel all over the place with this blog...sorry....sidenote:everything and anything we buy her, she LOVES to get it as a "surprise". LOL..so like if we buy her a toothbrush, instead of saying we bought you a toothbrush, we say, "we got you a surprise"...with EVERYTHING...even candy...eeeeeverything......OMG....so where was I...Okay, yeah. So I tell her that we got her a surprise and she automatically closes her eyes and holds out her hand and I drop the training bra into her palm. She open's her eyes nice and wide, with a huge smile on her face, as she always does and asks, "what is it?". Iiiiiiit's....a training bra!!!!! "Huh??". Then her dad, from the side (cuz I didn't think he'd make it thru this experience cuz she will FOREVER be his little girl) it's for your tata's.
Liz: Ewwee...so it's a bra?

Me: yeah, sort of. It's supposed to help train you how to use a bra for when you get older. You usually have to wear one when you start to have boobs and GIRL, yer starting to have boobs.


Teki: Yeah, everyone who has boobs has to wear one.


Liz: Cooooool, so you and mom have to wear one.


Me: No, just girls.


Liz: But dad has


Me: (before Liz could finish) FOR GIRLS!!!!


Liz: Oooooh...COOOOL!!!


So we put it on. As soon as the bra went on I felt like she was already lost to the world!! It's all down hill from here, next she's gonna be talking about boys, then kissing em, then HOLY HELL!!!......Please grant me the strength to raise kids in this evil world!!! LOL. I can't believe that we are at this point in her life already. I swear she just got outta diapers like....last week!! Where has the time flown too, cuz I wanna book the next flight there. Liz, on the other hand, looooooooooooves her new waredrobe addition. She said it feels weird but she likes it and she feels like she can "work better in it", cuz we were cleaning house when she put it on. HA!! That will all change when she's older. For now, we'll just enjoy watching her grow up...now I realize, like really really realize, how fast she is growing. I love how Teki handled the situation. He did very well. Just kept quiet and watched us take

care of business. He'll have to prepare himself for the BIG talk about the birds and the bees!!

Our BIG little girl!!

Elizabeth D'Vani Lao

Guess what I learned how to do??!!!!

YAY for me!!! I'm getting a hang of this slowly but surely!!! So, tonight I figured out how to add an image...notice I sain "an"...still working on how to add a few images onto one post!!! LOL. My goal is to become "blog savy" like all of y'all.

Anyways, so here is a picture that was taken last fall! I will post up more pix cuz I know my shizz is pretty boring. Like reading a long book with no pictures. LOL...cuz the pictures TOTALLY do it for me. HA! Okay, it seems I do my best work on here when it's way late and I am delirious.

More pix to come y'all!!

Impromptu FHE with the Lao's

Teki and I were planning on have FHE tonight here at our house with just our kids. We were going to go to Gardner Village but the weather didn't look to promising so we switched things up and planned on carving pumpkins at home and making yummy home made candy apples. Then Liti came over to get some cream of mushroom soup to make dinner and so I suggested that we have FHE over at her house with Bruce and Nia and Kime and Pua. It turned out to be soooooo goood and soooo fun with tons of food!! I was surprised how good it turned out because it was so last minute but one thing I have learned about Teki's family is that they don't do to well with things that are planned. LOL....seriously though, we can plan our little hearts out and at the last minute, things will fall thru or not go as planned but when something is thrown together last minute, it runs so smoothly.

I made some enchilada's, Liti made the most bomb pork chops and Pua made some sloppy joes and fajita's....and Nia (poor thing), it is her birthday tomorrow and so we told her that we will also celebrate her birthday tonight but we made her bring her own birthday cake and ice cream...hahahahaha...who does that? I guess we do that!!! LOL. We bought some pumpkin carving books and tools and the kids stared them and the adults finished em!! hahaha....the adults were more into it then the kids. Then we made some home made caramel apples and I must say, I have never tasted a better candy apple then the one I made for myself....dude, ya'll shoulda seen me...GRRRRRUUUUUBIN!!! LOL..it was sooo good.

I just love spending time with family and friends. It gives us time to bond and talk and get to know eachother more and appreciate everyone more. My sister Karma that lives in San Jose, Ca is coming this thrusday and I can't wait to do the same things with her this weekend...I'll let ya'll know how that goes!! Weeelll...g'nite!!!

Families can be together forever!! My conversion story

This is my conversion story!! LOL..I was born and rasied in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but I have been on my share of wide and windy roads. I'm sharing this with everyone because if it can help someone find their way back to Jesus, or answer questions that they may have then it is good and anything that is good should be shared. This is one of the most intimate times in my life, the Cliff Note version. Enjoy :)

For My Little Boy

I can still smell that newborn smell, that babies always have.

I can still feel your sweet soft skin, your tiny baby hands.

I can still see your big plump cheeks, and your long black wavy hair.

I've taken a picture in my mind and in my heart it will remain there.

We used to sit around and wonder about how your gonna look.

If it would be my eyes you have, or dads big smile you took.

I sit up at night thinking, of the features that you had.

Now I know for certain, you would have looked just like your dad.

Than all at once it hits me, you're never coming home.

Youre going up to heaven and we're going home alone.

Our bed to remain empty with no baby lying there.

The clothes to remain new and clean, with no baby to ever wear.

The baby tub will remain clean and dry, it will never fill with water.

The toys and all the things we bought, our baby will never bother.

For seven years we waited,
For seven years we tried.

The day I found out you were coming, I couldnt help but cry.

For 9 whole months we talked, about plans we had for you.

All the expectations that we had, all the things wed have you do.

You've done so much for dad and I, youll never know your worth.

You saved our little family, and now your missions done on earth.

Goodbye my little baby, my perfect little boy.

Dont be sad cause mommies crying, these are tears of joy.

Cause Im sending you to heaven and theres no other better place,

To keep you safe, but up there my son, in Gods amazing grace.

~By Betsy Lao for Isileli Motekiai Lao
Written 21April 21, 2006

I wrote that the night I came home from the hospital after I had my baby. The summer of 05 we found out I was pregnant and that was the best news to hear because we were'nt sure if I could have kids or not. Teki had just got back from Iraq in May and we found out the end of July. We had prepared for this baby to come home and grow up and be with us but on April 17, 2006 we were hit with the worse news ever. I went in to the hospital to get induced, I was 38 weeks along and ready to pop this kid out. When I sat down for the nurse to grab the baby's heartbeat, they couldn't find it. Needless to say, this was the most sad and depressing time in my life, BY FAR!!!

I asked the doctor to just go ahead and do a c-section because I didn't wanna go thru the labor but he advised that I go ahead and labor him out because if I ever got pregnant again I could give birth vaginally...yeah, the furthest thing from my mind at the time...LOL....stupid doctors. Anyways, so they induced me on Monday April 17th 2006 around 5pm and I gave birth Wednesday April 19th 2006 around 2pm. He was a beautiful baby. He was 8 pounds and 3 ounces and 21 inches long...a biiiig boy!! We were able to spend a few hours with him as a family before they took him to the mourge. These are moments that I will treasure in my heart until I'm old and senile and cannot remember them anyomre!! :)

This was definitely one of the most trying times of my life. I know that families are forever and all the jazz but these are moments where your faith is just shaken. I have never doubted my faith in the church...don't get me wrong...just shaken. One thing I knew for sure is that my son came, he had a body, he fulfilled his mission and he was called back to heaven. His mission? To come here and perform an INTERVENTION!! LOL! That was a time in my life where I was on the wrong path...a path that, if continued on, would, without a doubt, lead me into a personal hell and possibly an eternal spiritual hell and damnation. I was addicted to a ton of things including drugs and alcohol. All things of which I had quit as soon as I found out I was expecting. I know that if I had not ever gotten pregnant with him that there was no way my family, my husband or the church would ever be able to get me back onto the right path.

I am so greatful for him. I owe my salvation to him and although I am still not perfect, I will strive everyday to better my life so that I can see him again. He will be our Forever Baby Isi, watching over us as we look forward to the day when we can be reunited. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about him and his purpose here on earth. I wonder about how his personality would have been. I picture him running around with my other 2 kids and I can't help but smile. I know he is here with me in spirit. He keeps me grounded and continuously wanting me to do the right thing.

We didn't think it would happen, but we were blessed with another baby in Jan of 2008. The Lord works in mysterious ways and I will testify of that!!! The Lord is mindful of our personal, spiritual, temporal, physical and daily struggles. He will find a way to see you thru any trial or tribulation that you put yourself in or the ones he puts you in. I love my 2 Isi's, I love my daugther liz and I love my rock, my strength, my hero, my bestfriend, my husband Teki. Teki has been there thru the good, the bad and the really ugly and that is why I can never ever live without him. He is the most understanding, kind, loving person you will ever meet. You would have thought that his patients would have ran thin with me but they didnt. He stuck with me thru times that any other husband would have left their wife already. Everyone already loves him cuz he's so cool but only I will ever know and appreciate HOW GOOD of a person he REALLY is. And I la la la looooooooove God and his son Jesus Christ. And even tho from time to time my carnal desires take over and I take on the natural man, instead of putting him off, I know without a doubt that The church is true and that the Lord was there with me in my darkest hour and that in the garden of Gathsemene he went thru that pain that I went thru that day in the hospital and he felt my pain and anguish and lonliness and sorrow. It is so good to know that I have a divine brother who shared that undescribeable pain with me and if your feeling lost and down, he will share that pain with you and take your yolk upon himself...you just gotta let him!! I love you all. Amen.

Fie ilo people...check it out!!

So, I'm new to all of this blogging stuff. I have friends who have been bloggin and telling me to blog but I've been putting it off cuz I'd much rather waste my time doing other things like facebook and watch TV! But after going onto my friend Dianna Otukolo's page, I must say...I am loving it. This is such a good way to keep in touch with everyone, or if you dont wanna keep in touch, you just wanna keep tabs, this is also a good way to do all that...you know, fie ilo on people you love to hate or hate to like and turn on yer internet stalking skillz!!

This is also a way to talk your friends ears off without having to talk!!!

So stay tuned....Imma hook my mug up cuz I got stories fah daaaaayzz!!!