Baptism by Immersion: Nicolaus Fangupo

Nic turned 8 on September 2, 2012. We finally were able to set a date for his baptism that would allow Ti Tonga to be here with us. As the assigned day drew nearer we were thrilled to find out that our family from Salt Lake would be joining us for Nic's special day as well. It was awesome!!! What a memorable day for him and he was so happy to be able to spend it with his family. Congratulations Nici. We are so proud of you.

Nic was baptized on November 3, 2012 at the Las Vegas Spring Mountain Stake. Our ward just split so he was the very first person to be baptized in the Windmill Ward. He was baptized by his Grandpa Tevita Moala and confirmed by his Grandpa Kina Fangupo.

A Camping We Will Go!

Fatu and his Cedar buddies have gotten pretty serious about fishing this past summer and I told him that me and Ti wanted to come out for the day and fish with the boys. He was totally up for the idea. Misi heard about it and said that he wanted to come too and before we knew it, it turned in to an entire family event. So we set a date and everyone got their time off work. We decided to camp at the site that Fatu works at. Everyone was assigned a meal to provide and provisions to bring that would help us survive the weekend :) Mine and Neo's family were the first ones to leave. We picked up Fatu from Cedar and started our way up to the site... Wow!!! It was way more of a drive than I imagined. But it was sooooooooooo beautiful!!!!! We pulled up to our designated campground and I was blown away. It was perfect!!! We set up our tents and scoped out the site and had time just to hang out with the kids.

First one up, first dibs on a parking for Goldy

Neo & Kauasi's toy tent lol

My parents and Sila & Abe didn't get there til the sun went down... so we ended up setting up their tents in the dark. Yeah... I can't even believe we pulled that one off. Because of all the wild fires in Utah all open fires were banned... booo!!! My parents brought up their grills and we seriously had the BEST prepared meals up there!

The kids were so happy to be together with all their cousins.

Sila's kids watched the Dark Knight the day before so they had these masks they wore the ENTIRE camping trip haha

 

After breakfast on Saturday we did a little sight seeing at Cedar Breaks National Monument.

How's that for a view?!

Then we went to Navajo Lake to hang out and fish.

Kev joined us and helped the kids out with his fishing expertise :)

 

Unfortunately it started to rain, so we all made our way back to camp. My parents had stayed behind to cook so when we got back (fishless) we had terriyaki chicken, rice, and potato salad waiting for us... yum!!!

Kids got a hold of the camera and snapped these...

Fatu ended up running back to his place to grab more hoodies, beanies, and blankets cause it was FREEZING after the rain. The next morning we ate breakfast, hung out and chatted, then loaded everything up and headed back to civilization. We had such a good time that we decided that we would make a tradition out of camping every year.

 On our way down the canyon, we stopped by one more time to soak up the view...