Maia's Poem

Maia is doing a project for English tonight. She had to paste some pictures of her family and write some stuff about herself. She also put this poem that she wrote about her grandpa, Anthony Salema. He was a very wonderful man....

I LOVE YOU
By: Maia Salema
3 years
3 years of happiness, love and
3 years that I felt special
These 3 years were what they are
Because you were there right next to me
I miss those years
I miss your hugs
Your kisses
And you’re loving and comforting voice
When you sing me to sleep while holding me in you arms
I love the feeling I got when you
Held me and sang to me
I want that feeling again
I miss you coming home from work
And me hiding behind the kitchen counter
You always knew where I was
But it still took you forever to find me
But… I don’t know where
You are anymore
And I don’t know if I will ever
Be able to find you again
Where are you
Why can’t I find you?
Why don’t I have you next to me papa?
I want you back
Why did you let that cancer take you from us?
Why couldn’t you have fought that cancer
Just a little bit longer?
Just long enough for me to have more memories with you
More time that we spent together
More stories to tell
Your 2 beautiful granddaughters today
I think if you were here today
That I would be a better person
Making better decisions
Here today
I want you to come back
Appear in front of me when I wake up
To pick me up out of my bed
And say, “ Maia, I love you and I missed you so much”
So I hope
And will keep hoping until it happens that
When I do wake up you will be there
Why I keep hoping you may ask,
Because I still think I am in
A nightmare that I can’t wake up from
I miss you
I love you
I want you back
I want you hear to put my heart back together
That broke when you left me
You don’t know how many tears I have shed
Because of you leaving
But, for malia and mealani
I put on a straight face when I talk
To them about you
I want them to think of you as happy
Not sad
So papa
Keep reminding me
That you will always be with me in my heart
Your love I will share with malia and mealani
Help me remember
That you left for a reason
But never make me stop feeling
The sadness I feel
It makes me remember you
I want to remember you
All I ask is that
You never leave inside of me
Don’t ever leave my heart
Because…
Well Papa

I Love You

Spring means busy!!!

It seems like most of my posts talk about just how busy we are. But seriously, WE ARE!!! It's not that I'm being lazy or anything! ;)

Spring / Summer is the craziest time for us!!! Kiale has started his baseball season. He had his opening Jamboree on Saturday. They played 3 games and won all 3! He had a couple plays in the outfield that resulted in outs and hit everytime that he was at bat. He was super excited and proud.

Maia has her first track meet tomorrow. She's actually a really good "discus-ette"! (Sorry couldnt come up with a better word) I found it funny that she joined track since she HATES running!

Kalani's softball season is in full effect. They have played 2 tournaments thus far and have won both of them! The Sidewinders Tournament is this weekend. That should be a good one. And they're playing right down the road, so no early morning on Saturday :)

We're getting ready to do a poker tournament on May 30th. If anyone would like an invitation, just let me know. The guys had a blast at the last one! We're also doing one at Gordon's on the 9th for my nephew brody.

Kiale's sign up for Roughriders is next week. I can't believe that we'll be back in Football season in just a few months! Maia's sign up is the same day for Roughrider Cheerleaders. Can you believe that they practice everyday just like the football players ?!?!? Not quite the same kind of "cheerleading" that I remember.

Maia will also be doing Volleyball Camp at PLU this year. It seems to be a sport that she really enjoys, so I figure that I'll encourage it.

On the social side, we got to see our ohana last weekend at my niece Kealani's Quincenera. It was really cool since I'd never been to one. It had actually been over 2 months since we were all together! Minna even made the trip up from Astoria!!! It was so nice just being together, as we all got sentimental saying things like how it "just feels right" (Minna's quote)!!! We did miss a few of the group... Shalana and Ilima, John and Missy, Kevin and Allyne... But we'll all be together on the 16th for the Uncle Manu Race. Can't wait for that one. I FINALLY got to meet my nephew Micah Fontes.... And he is a chunky one!!! And Kiale's buddy Gabe got to come home with us that night. They are so good together!!!