Paul's Graduation

Paul finally graduated!!!! My youngest brother is no longer in high school. It makes me think about how much older I keep getting. I know I'm not old compared to my husband :) but I still think of Paul as a little 13/14 yr old boy still passing the Sacrament. I must say CONGRATULATIONS to him though. He graduated with a Senior year GPA of 4.0! None of us kids did that. I just figure he learned from the 4 older siblings mistakes. So, Paul graduated with honors, an advanced degree, and to top it off he recieved the Principal's Award. Prinicipal's Award is only given to two senior students, one boy and one girl, who showed great academic, citizenship, leadership, and athletic skills.



Basically the principal chose Paul as the most well rounded boy in his Senior class. [us older kids showed him something right :) ]

Congratulations to my youngest Coker girl Claire!!! She graduated as well and with high honors.

What was suppose to be a one night stay in Vegas for Paul's graduation turned into a 3 night stay in Vegas. :) We were planning on leaving Las Vegas sometime on Thursday, but that didn't fit in to our agenda. Our choice was to leave early enough to be back in Hesperia before the Lakers game or leave after the Lakers game. Of course I chose after so I could spend some more time at my parents house. Our day was suppose to start after breakfast, but it didn't really start til 3. We had brought Poofy, the dog we are sitting, and well she was outside for a little bit of time and when I went out to go get her, she was gone. We spent almost an hour and a half to two hours looking for her. As soon as I get in a car and drive down the street to the car wash and gas station, there she was. The car wash people were taking care of her and so were all of the people at the car wash. I was so lucky. If we had lost her I would have been disowned by Lisa, John and the girls. Prayers do get answered. Amy, and Alex took the day off as well. They wanted to spend some time with us. I think they just didn't want to go to work and they used us as an excuse. Amy, Mom, Emjae and I went and ran some shopping errands while the boys went shooting. After the Lakers lost James really didn't want to drive home, and he asked me to reschedule my dr.s appointment. I didn't mind doing that because it gives me more time with the family, and I know they all love seeing Emjae. We then were going to leave Friday, and well we just are having to much fun and last night after hamburgers and fries during Spiderman 3 we all decided to introduce Amy to Ice Age. Amy had never seen any of the Ice Age's, so, we decided to bring her a little bit more up to date. The movie ended at 9:00 or so and I then asked James if we were going to be leaving. He just gives me that I don't want to decide look. He smiles and then looks away. Before I got into bed last night Amy and Alex asked if we were ever planning on leaving. I told them nope, we're just moving in. Oh how much stress would be relived from off us if we did.

This now takes us to our 4th day here in Vegas. Our days activities are suppose to consist of shooting, relaxing, and running just a few errands. It makes me glad to know that my husband enjoys spending time with my family and feels comfortable enough to just stay.

Up the Hill We Go

So I am just so amazed at how fast I can pack enough clothes for Emjae, James and Me for a trip. I was able to pack everything that we will need, plus a little more in 1 hour. I felt really good and thought, "If we had to get out of the house real quick for any reason I could get all the clothes and stuff for baby put in the car in 1 hour all by myself, and if James helps out then it can get done so much faster." I had to laugh, and I thought of my sister Kristin and how she probably does that for all 4 boys, Monty and herself while Monty is at work. When she comes to visit at the house I see her doing so much for the boys and I think wow there's Super Mom.

Well we are up in Hesperia and we are house sitting for Uncle John and Aunt Lisa. Lisa and the girls headed back East to go visit her family. James and I are going to be watching Poofy, their dog. I'm excited because it will be like James and Me have our own place and we can be just us, our small little family. I am not looking forward to having to drive back down on Sundays and Tuesdays for church and young womens. Oh well, the price I will have to pay to have 3 weeks of just James, Emjae and Me time.

Emjae and James Big days

Emjae is now 1 month old today! I can't believe that she has been here with us that long. Then to add on top of everything it's also James birthday. The morning started off with me making James a breakfast sandwich to go, since he had to work. I put a card and a burnt cd in his car and he left for work. While he was at work TJ came and gave me a lift to the grocery store so I could get the ingredients for James Banana Cheese Cake that he wanted. It was my first time making it and I had to get the receipe from online, but it turned out pretty good, and James likes it. Of course James eats dessert before dinner, but life is so uncertain you have to eat dessert first every once in awhile.




This was the rest of the pie after James got to it.

We were going to go out to eat, but Emjae is being a little bit too fussy, so we ordered Olive Garden to go. Our plan is to top off the night watching National Treasure 2.

Yesterday was Emjae's Baby Blessing. Mom, Dad, Amy, Alex and Paul were able to make it down from Vegas



and Monty, Kristin and the nephews were able to make it from up North.

Grandma Salanoa made the dress for Emjae and it was just what I wanted. It looked so good, and Emjae was so adorable.



James gave the blessing and all the uncles and soon to be uncle with the grandpas were able to stand in the circle. I feel so blessed to be surrounded by so many worthy Priesthood holders and loving family members.



Some other news that happend was I got released from being a sunday school teacher and a Beehive advisor (teacher). I am now the 2nd counselor in the Young Womens which means I am still with the Beehives and am very grateful for that.


Oh ya Emjae has also rolled over 3 times now. She decided to roll over after we had put her in her crib. We laid her on her stomach to sleep and when she cried about 20 minutes later I come to check on her and she is on her back. James and I are so in trouble if she keeps developing so fast!!

First Trip to the Big City

Yesterday was Emjae's first trip to a big city.

And her longest road trip.

James had the day off so the 3 of us went to the Museum of Tolerance in LA. When you begin the tour of the Holocaust you are given a card with a name and photo of a child. Through the tour you learn a little more about this child at certian kiosk. At the end you find out what happend to the child. James and I ended up with 3 cards. Two out of the 3 died. The last one though was 17 by the end of the war and weighed 65 lbs. As we read on, we found out that this person is still alive and that he actually works at the museum. Unfortunately he left for the day by the time we were done. Emjae was so good most of the time. She cried only really once during the tour and since its a video tour and you move from spot to spot, I ended up moving ahead and fed her. After that she was did great.

Since we were so close to the Temple we decided to make a little stop at the visitors center.




We got there and found that they have been renovating it for almost a year now. So we just took a couple pics out on the grounds and left cuz it was so windy.





On our way home Emjae fell asleep in the car, like she usually does.


We stopped off at Aunt Helenes and Wes' place first though. We had to watch the Lakers play on the big screen and of course Emjae wanted to see her auntie! I fell asleep before the 4th quarter and Emjae fell asleep on Auntie and then Helene fell asleep too.

Over all it was a great day!!!

Memorial Day

Not a lot goes on during my days now except for feedings and burpings and diaper changes. Today though Mom, Dora, TJ and I went and got the material for Emjae's blessing dress. I got to pick out the style and material, I just hope it turns out the way I have it pictured. We came home and started getting ready for the bbq. Aunt Lisa came over and well for some reason people think that I don't know my own daughter and her habits. I told Aunt Lisa to wait until I fed her to change her diaper, but when I go outside and come back she found out that I was right because its a waist of a diaper. Our cute little girl doesn't like clean diapers for very long and she loves making huge messes while shes feeding. Oh the joys of babies.