April Happened

April has been good!

We've been sooooooo anxious to reach May that April seemed to be just another block in the road...but it definitely had some great highlights!

Started off the month with general conference!!! Woohoo!!!
Can never go wrong with general conference! Of course with 3 youngens we don't always get to catch all the talks but good things we have modern technology! Yay for lds.org.

Here's the kids during the Saturday morning session! Wasn't bad at all! Can't say the same for every session afterwards lol.



We also took a short family trip to Wyoming for David Magalogo's wedding! It was so much fun! Aljay grew up with the Magalogo's in Samoa and is very close to their family and after we got married we found out I was related to them! Small world.

We call David our 'son' because he stayed with us for a while at TVA. This was the first time we had seen all their siblings together! We had so much fun eating, dancing, and celebrating! Seeing all their siblings together got us all excited for Hawaii.






Then a week later our Orem 9th ward split! We are now in the Pleasant Grove 10 (PG10). Our chapel is now in PG. We're excited about the change. We miss a lot of people from O9 but it's a good change!

Then to end the month....Aljay closed his best month at Vasa!(WARNING: I am going to brag.) I cannot explain how proud I am of my husband and all that he has accomplished in less than a year at his job. He has had two stressful past months as he has had to adjust to responsibilities of being a manager, changes within the company, commission cuts, and building a solid team. But he has persevered and ended the month of May with the highest percentage out of all the clubs in Utah. I'm so proud of him and I admire his work ethic, positive outlook, and his no shame attitude. Love my hardworking husband. 

On the last day of the month all the clubs had to do some sort of setup/promotion to push the specials and end the month with high numbers. Of course Aljay did BBQ and music and it was a success! Thank goodness for those two guys in the middle pic. Ants and Tuvili were life savers! They bbq'd allllllllll day. 

 It was a great way to end the April month....

And now it's MAY.

My baby turns 1 in a few days!!!

We leave for Hawaii next week..chheeeeeee!!!

And I finish teaching at the end of the month! Yessssss!

IM. SO. EXCITED.





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