Where has the time gone?! 2016 has come and gone, and it's already almost March of 2017.
It's been a couple of months since I've updated the blog, I've been buy with life, but I'm back and ready to get you all caught up with what's going on in our life.
November 2016:
We moved out of Trevor's moms house and got a place of our own! It's so nice to have our own space and a place to call ours. It's a 3 bed, 1 bath with a fenced yard and garage. It's a couple blocks away from his moms house, which is nice if we have an emergency or something.
After dropping out of beauty school, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Being a stay at home mom, was what I've always wanted to be, but I needed to do something else that helped distract me from my depression and anxiety. So I convinced my husband to let me sign up to be a SeneGence distributor! If you don't know what that is, SeneGence is an international company, that sells skin care and cosmetic products. Have you ever heard of lipsense? It's a lipstick, that lasts up to 18 hours, you have over 70 different colors to choose from, it's budge proof, smudge proof and kissable! It doesn't come off on anything! If you want to learn more about it, or join my Facebook group click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1967546560139162/
November 2016:
We moved out of Trevor's moms house and got a place of our own! It's so nice to have our own space and a place to call ours. It's a 3 bed, 1 bath with a fenced yard and garage. It's a couple blocks away from his moms house, which is nice if we have an emergency or something.
After dropping out of beauty school, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Being a stay at home mom, was what I've always wanted to be, but I needed to do something else that helped distract me from my depression and anxiety. So I convinced my husband to let me sign up to be a SeneGence distributor! If you don't know what that is, SeneGence is an international company, that sells skin care and cosmetic products. Have you ever heard of lipsense? It's a lipstick, that lasts up to 18 hours, you have over 70 different colors to choose from, it's budge proof, smudge proof and kissable! It doesn't come off on anything! If you want to learn more about it, or join my Facebook group click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1967546560139162/
For Thanksgiving, we spent it with Trevor's family on the Oregon coast and it was so much fun! It's not very often, that my mother in law has all three of her boys home. I've never really been to Oregon before, let alone the Oregon coast. We ate a lot of delicious food, walked on the beach, took Bentley to the aquarium, and just spent time together with the Simpson side. Even though the weather wasn't quite good, I can't wait to go back, and hopefully that'll be soon!
December 2016:
For those of you who don't know, i was adopted when I was 3 months old. I had the amazing opportunity to meet some of my birth family at the beginning of the month. Trevor and I went and saw Moana the night it came out for date night. The movie just spoke to me, and I cried way too many times. I've always been interested in learning more about my culture, heritage and where I came from. I decided I wanted to try and find my birth family, but I didn't know where to start. I decided to start with Facebook and it worked. I searched the island that I came from and different pages came up, I hit the first one at the top of the page and wrote a post that said, "I was given up for adoption back in February of 1993, I was born in October of 92. I would love to find my birth mom. All I know is that my birth grandfather was the chief of Aunu'u at the time that I was found by my adoptive parents. Also, my middle name is Taumaoe and my birth father was ran out of the village because he was Tonga. If you can help me in anyway, I'd really appreciate it, I've been searching for years."
The next morning, I woke up to a Facebook message and a friend request, from someone I didn't know. I clicked on the message and it read, "Hi, I know you don't know me, but I know you. Here's my number, call me." I was shaking, because I thought it was all a dream. How could my post that I just posted last night, already help me find someone? It was so surreal. I called her, and she ended up being my cousin, who was really close to my birth mom when they were younger. She told me everything that she could remember, we ended up talking all day. I called my parents, and told them the story, and they told me to just be prepared for an emotional journey since they found me. It did seem a little too good to be true, so just to make sure, I had my cousin send me a picture of my grandparents. As soon as she sent it to me and I looked at it, I started bawling. I finally found some of my birth family and it was one of the best days of my life.
When I found out they live over in Seattle, my husband and I made the drive over to meet them the very next day. The whole way I was so nervous and felt like I was going to throw up, because I didn't know what they were going to think of me. They haven't seen me for 24 years, but it all worked out and I love them so much. They welcomed me with open arms and I am so glad my husband pushed me to try and find them.
Another exciting thing that happened in December, was my dad got married! My step mom is exactly like my dad, which is why they go so well together. It was such a fun filled week, being able to celebrate my dad and his wife. All nine of my siblings and I were able to be there, it's not very often that we're all together and that week, and we made it happen. We all love seeing my dad so happy, he deserves nothing, but the best. I love being able to go back home to Utah, to visit my family, especially when I get to go by myself.
December was a pretty busy month for us! We traveled a lot and when we finally made it back home, we didn't want to leave haha.
We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my cousins in Seattle! They spoiled the heck out of Bentley with toys. I love being able to just drive over when I want to see them! So glad to be apart of the Tautolo family.
Trevor's cute little grandpa passed away the end of December, so after spending Christmas in Seattle, we started the drive down to Vegas where he is buried. On our way down we got to stop and see my family! It's always nice being able to see my family, because we don't get to see them very often, even if it's for thirty minutes or a day.
January 2017:
We rang in the new year separate this year! Trevor went and enjoyed a snowmobiling trip with his little brother in Northern, Utah, while I stayed in Salt Lake valley with my dad and step mom. It was a nice evening relaxing and just hanging out with Bentley. We were released from our calling in Nursery, due to not being there for three months and we want Bentley to get use to it without us in there. We did get new callings though, Trevor is the eleven year old scout assistant and I am the activity days assistant! I said goodbye to my blonde hair and my cute best friend Emma, took me back to my natural color!
February 2017:
We've been hit with some pretty rough trials, but it's nothing that we can't work through together. Nothing exciting has happened this month, but we were able to celebrate Valentine's Day with a few date nights! A movie, a fancy dinner at Subway, shopping for a washer & dryer, as well as grocery shopping.
2017 is already flying by, and before we know it 2018 is going to be here.
Until next time,
Xoxo
Emi
