A Kiwi and an Eagle

Friends, promposal and practices.

2026-03-24T06:03:00.000-06:00

Friends looking for hotwheels

Friends Takeshi brings home for lunches.

Nawang had a birthday. So I had lunch with her ❤️

Yuki broke up with Emery then they got back together. It’s been quite the ordeal. His family is a hot mess to say the least and basically Emery is too. I didn’t last of course and it’s been a whole thing. But for now they’re in for prom.

Red flag!!!!! Emery said he didn’t want to do a promposal. Super disappointing of him. I kinda knew he wasn’t gonna make it because of stuff like this. If he knew and loved Yuki he would know this is a big deal to her and would’ve made an effort. She deserves better. He’s not a good boyfriend and is not from a good family. It was doomed from the start.

Anyway she did a poster for him.

Cause that’s who she is bro. I hope Emery felt awkward. I would

Here she is giving it to him.

Then the girls did their own flowers cause I guess dudes are lame??? Honestly guys if you can’t tell I’m not impressed with boys these days.

But the flowers are cute.

This is us practicing her hair. Looks awesome.

Emiko and the bathroom

2026-03-24T05:49:00.000-06:00

So our bathroom is coming along and here the latest. So pretty.

And here’s Emiko playing volleyball for a second. Her coaches yelled at her and degraded her so we let her quit. She also did it infront of Dru. He told her off. We reported it to the school and got zero response. Super disappointed in Les Bois.

Skills USA

2026-03-24T05:37:00.001-06:00

Takeshi competed and got second in his skills USA comp. He was a little bummed but is still happy.

Rugby, parties, friends

2026-03-24T05:32:00.001-06:00

Sweet pictures of Takeshis rugby game.

Love these pics. He had a tough time on this team this year. He got kicked off at the end cause the coaches suck.

Emiko went to her friends party and they made bowls ❤️

Emily and I worked out together for a while and were really good friends. But our girls had a falling out so it seeped into our friendship and now we don’t talk anymore. It’s pretty sad. But also I’m so busy, having one less friend really isn’t a big deal or makes a difference in my life to be honest. I’m so busy that things just get filled where something else once was. Wish her the best. But can’t say I feel much of a difference.

Yuki’s rugby season was fantastic. She’s a great player. This ended up being her last season as this senior season she didn’t like the coaches. Rugby struggles here in SE Boise which is tough. She’s a great player but we just can’t get decent coaching. Masaru tried to help coach but no one took him to help which is crazy to me. But whatever. She’s got a lot of man of the matches.

Moab day 3 and 4

2026-02-25T17:59:00.003-07:00

Our awesome ride ^^^^

Having fun with our pics.

The boys making it up the ladder. This was over by our camp spot. We went over there to see if we could do it. It was fun to watch the boys figure it out.

We also went on a MTB ride as a family we had so much fun it was one of those moments I’ll cherish always really easy, really happy, really epic

These guys at captain ahab.

Getting a family picture.

We went to dead horse point. It was amazing. So vast and so beautiful.

The ladder by the camp.

Some of the views at dead horse point.

Isn’t it amazing?

Love this picture of yuki.

Dru trying to get the perfect shot of our family.

We also hiked up Moab rim. It was beautiful up there. Also close to our campsite. The boys took their bike up. Crazy!!! The view was beautiful.

The first one is masaru figuring things out.

These four videos below are what the boys took while riding captain ahab.

Yuki and I took some time out and watched Emery’s race online. He did well.

Here’s Masaru’s above and below, figuring out a part of the trail we did together

Here are the boys figuring out how to climb up this ladder to the top of the cliff.

We had a really good time together camping and eating and hanging out. I loved that we took the time to go and be together and that our friends were there for some of it. It’s a long way, but we had tons of fun.

Moab continued

2026-02-25T12:41:00.005-07:00

The next day we went hiking with the tuckers and Chandler to delicate arch. It was awesome. Here’s a picture of all of us.

Then we continued on as a family and looked at the other arches around in the park. Here’s the kids trying to climb to this arch.

Here’s another arch we walked to.

Isn’t that so cool.

Here’s one of the kids at the top of the rock. I think it’s yuki.

I like to call this Dru on a rock ❤️

Look at this huge rock!!!

Such a great picture of all of us.

We tried to get some family shots.

Here’s me and Dru at the same rock just engaged.

That’s us under the arch.

Sweet pic of us.

Cute picture of these guys.

Such a great day. We showered at the hotel and camped at our own place this time. It was a lot better. We just had McDonald for dinner.

Another wonderful day.

Moab trip day 1-2

2026-02-06T08:46:00.002-07:00

So after I served in the temple we took off to Utah in the sprinter van.

We got to bountiful and had dinner at this local ramen place. It was awesome. We all loved it.

We hung out with Drus brother and parents for the night.

The next day we headed down to Moab and met the chandlers and tuckers down there. We did some riding with them. It was tons of fun. Gemini bridges was one of the places. We the headed to macdonads and the hung out at the tuckers hotel and played games the slept the night in the car park.

Super fun day with our friends.

Rugby

2026-02-04T14:37:00.003-07:00

It was cold watching the game. So I came up with a plan.

Some sweet shots of Takeshi playing.

I’m pretty sure after this game his coaches kicked him off the team. So he’s gonna go play for Boise.

Also it was my dad’s bday. So shout out to him. Left too early bro.

Friends and fun

2026-01-30T06:14:00.002-07:00

Yuki had her last bball party with her team with awards. It was bittersweet as I’m not gonna miss it. But I loved watching her play.

I love this picture so much.

Dru when he was young and I shouted him a surprise bday gift of jumping out of a plane.

The cutest little Takeshi you ever did see. At Niagara Falls.

Masaru and Yuki at the place where Joseph smith hid the plates.

Emiko having fun with Tess at her party.

Escape room!!!!

Emiko at a choir concert. I love her.

Masaru old (above) and young (below)

With his homies.

Masaru turns 20

2026-01-24T06:51:00.000-07:00

Having fun with friends

Just a little guy.

Happy birthday to masaru.

Photos for the occasion.

I just love these quotes.

Masaru turned 20. He loves his job, I’m not sure how he’s doing. He doesn’t talk to us about deep things. Another year older and I hope he’s learning and growing and moving forward. I don’t really know if that is happening. But it’s his life, his journey, his decisions to make. We will love him and we’re glad he’s our son

Emiko turns 13

2026-01-23T13:43:00.008-07:00

Emiko had three celebrations for her birthday.

We got her shoes that she wanted. She celebrated with her bball friends. Then her mtb friends and then her school friends. She liked it being separate. It’s easy for me to do. They just hang out. She was thoroughly celebrated. 13 So now she’s officially a teen. So here we go. Now I have four teens.

She has a great time and is worth celebrating. We love her and are glad she had fun with friends. Grateful she’s in our family.

Morgan dropped off this for her. So cute.

Knitting, friends, bathroom progress

2026-01-16T08:35:00.004-07:00

I finished this blanket for Lizzy and her baby. I love it and need to make more.

Drus tiling progress in the bathroom.

Yuki made this hat for Emery.

It’s big. I’m sure he’ll never wear it.

Yuki gave blood

He will wear his necklace however.

Emiko had fun for Millie’s birthday.

Look how good this tile looks

I just love it so much.

Here’s Takeshi on his lunch date with his homies.

It’s pretty cute

Sledding fun

2026-01-14T09:24:00.002-07:00

The Bleazards wanted to go sledding so we were pumped to go with them.

It was a super fun time with them.

Life

2026-01-09T13:56:00.005-07:00

How beautiful is this view

Goban hanging out with me.

Emery taught yuki how to ski.

Emiko went to the temple with friends for a bday.

Date night.

Learning how to knit.

Hanging out in seminary.

Goban helping me work.

Beautiful walk by the river.

Learning how to ski.

Seeing beautiful Herrons on my walks.

Takeshi having fun.

Yuki’s bball career comes to an end

2026-01-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

Playing ticket to ride. I don’t like it. But I fulfill my duties as a mother sometimes and play when bullied.

Beautiful snow.

Yuki had a great final season and game. They made it to the finals and it went into overtime. It was crazy.

Yuki crushed it.

I’m grateful for these photos Ellen king took.

She’s such a great player for not playing club. Very naturally talented.

She got tons of playing time this season.

I won’t miss being stressed out at her games when they’re tight.

My best bball buddy over the years.

Cute Morgan coming to support.

It was an easy decision for yuki to not move forward in bball her senior year. The coaches aren’t nice. The environment is toxic and not cohesive at all. I’m not impressed with timberline in the slightest. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time.

End of an Era. 🥹Yuki played her last season of bball. Watching her play has been one of the highlights of my life. I love her to the moon and back.

Sometimes I would see Yuki like this on the court. She would be saying a quick prayer to Heavenly Father during the game to steady her nerves and ground her into the game. They made it to the finals and lost in overtime. They played their hearts out and I was so proud of them and her. She was on 🔥 fire that night and finished so well. Timberline bball hasn’t been the best to her. They tried to strip her worth numerous times. But she kept fighting her way back and I couldn’t be prouder of her. But she’s not playing varsity because it’s a horrible atmosphere and team for her. The varsity girls is not the place she wants to be and that’s so sad to me. But hopefully these new girls can change the atmosphere of the team and pull them up rather than down. I’ll miss watching her play but I won’t miss anything else. Goodbye timberline bball. I won’t miss you. #teamyuki 📸: @ellen.m.king

Having fun

2026-01-08T10:30:00.000-07:00

Masaru having fun on his bike.

Yuki’s bball games and highlights.

Snowboarding.

My fav spot to be

Winter hikes with friends.

Amazing views while on walks with friends.

Haircuts.

Knitting projects.

Getting frozen.

Hanging out with besties.

Date nights.

Temple baptisms.

Morgan asked Takeshi to the dance in the cutest way ever.

Everyone helped out.

She did an amazing job.

Yuki got curls to stay in. It’s a miracle.

Winter fun.

New Years Eve

2026-01-08T10:23:00.000-07:00

We spent the day playing games together outside and inside and at night we went to Hayden and Jessy‘s place and played games all night and ate and stayed up till midnight being with each other, it was a fantastic day

We got cats

2025-11-11T15:49:00.001-07:00

Masaru had friends who were getting rid of kittens to the pound. Masaru asked us if we’d like them. We thought about it. It was gonna be hard because we’d have to keep them inside for their training since it was winter.

Of course we folded and took them. We wanted boys and got a boy and a girl. The girls name is Shichi and the boys name was Hatchi.

They were pretty cute.

Hatchi died a couple of months ago (it’s November right now) He was run over. We only had him maybe 6 months. But he was super gentle and kind and nice.

Goban was horrible to them and took off for a while.

He’s come back a few times to visit us. I’m glad he’s still alive.

Shichi is smart and loves us. She’s just not as kind and loving as Hatchi. But it’s good we have a cat. I don’t think we’ll get more until Shichi dies. She’s not a year yet.

Seeing friends again.

2025-11-11T15:34:00.002-07:00

Yuki and Takeshi both surprised their partners with turning up a day early. It was pretty cute.

I got back into hiking.

Goban missed us.

Emiko went to a dance with her homies.

Morgan made cute videos for yuki.

Emery’s mum was a little weird when Yuki surprised him.

Takeshi pretended he was the Amazon guy. Morgan was shocked.

Fiji

2025-11-10T08:51:00.003-07:00

We had about a nine hour layover in Fiji and we made sure we utilized it to the That we could.

We got picked up by the service and taken out to the place where we would go on the flying fox through the forest.

We were excited to go, Zipp lighting and see the forest and the beach and learn a little bit more about Fiji.

The way that they love is interesting and humbled me. Half of the houses that I saw were tin shacks. It made me realize to be grateful for what I had. The weather was really nice and the people seem really happy.

The people that helped us on our zip lining adventure were really nice

They only had two zip lines a day, but DRU asked them if they could do a special one for us since we were right in the middle of those two times and they did. We were really grateful for that.

They were really good at taking lots of pictures and I would totally go back and do it again. It made me want to go back to Fiji and continue to discover it.

It took them a long time to build peace by peace, the stairs, and the railing for the whole zip line.

They were telling us the story about it as we walked with them to each zip line that they had.

So beautiful.

They showed us these caves that are Fiji tribe used to live in.

The caves were amazing.

They said the spot is where they were kill people. 👀

This is a beautiful tree just hanging off the cliff face.

They also took really good videos

They fed us lunch afterwards, which was really good and then they took us back to the airport to wait for our flight back to Boise. We talked and played card games and Takeshi 💛 got himself a Fijian shirt which he still wears and loves to this day. It was a really good layover and Fiji and I’m super grateful that DRU booked it for us.

Packing up, saying goodbyes and seeing Doana.

2025-11-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

These next couple of days were really good.

So we did all of our washing and then all of our packing and cleaned mom‘s house and her car. Mum has been really good to us and we wanted to make sure we left her car and her house clean.

We said goodbye to Pete. Bevin and Dior and their family came over and spent dinner and the night with us. We played games. It was nice to see them. I’m really glad they came over. We watched the movie with Josh and had a late night.

The next day we went to the temple and did baptisms which was awesome. We had lunch and went to Hayden‘s house and went to the Greenstone factory to pick up last-minute things. We then went to my friend Doana‘s house.

We stopped off at Job‘s grave and said hi to him.

It was great of Haydn to be able to take us to Auckland to our friends house so that he could see her too. It had been a lot of years since the last time he saw Doana and her family. Grace and Josh came to with us so it’s good to be with the cuzzies.

Doana had made us a really nice dinner and we got to catch up with her and the kids got to meet her which I loved and we were able to get a good nights sleep. It was really nice being able to see her parents as well. I hadn’t seen them in a long time and they were a huge part of my life when I lived in Invercargill.

My Ruapehu and family visits

2025-11-08T09:48:00.000-07:00

So we got up early and headed to mt Ruapehu to do the hike. It was fantastic. I’m glad Josh was with us. He was amazing company.

It was so beautiful. I’m so grateful I was able to do it.

It was amazing. It was a little windy. The hikes were hard and in snow a little so slippery. It was good though.

Afterwards we hung out with having for the night which was amazing as well. Good to play games and hang out.

We were able to see Rylie and his girlfriend after our hike. It was so good to catch up with him and to meet his new girlfriend. I had an amazing time chatting and catching up.

This was our lunch spot.

E to the gondola up and down.

The Mt with mum and dinner and games with Haydn

2025-11-05T10:32:00.000-07:00

On this beautiful day we went to tauranga with mum to do the hike up the mountain.

We had some lunch then headed up on the hike.

It was beautiful 🤩

It was a tough hike too. So it was a great workout.

We went to the beach afterwards. Also awesome.

We then went to Haydn’s place and played games and hung out all night and had dinner. We took Josh with us to come on the hike the next day. He was happy. We got things ready and slept.

Luge day

2025-11-04T22:09:00.001-07:00

Today was great. It’s one of our favorite days. Luge day. The weather was awesome and it was fun as always. The kids always have a blast.

Playing games with mum at night.

After luge we had lunch with everyone. This pizza meal is always a hit. It was good to hang out and talk with Haydn.

We then did some shopping in Rotorua then headed back to mum. I knitted and we had a great dinner. It was a really nice day.

Last day in tairua. And a first for Dru.

2025-11-02T08:02:00.004-07:00

Today we deep cleaned Jen‘s house. Then we headed over to Haydn‘s place and had some lunch there.

The girls went into town and went shopping. We then played games. Bevin and Dior went home. We had dinner and Gareth went home. Then we played some more games and went home.

The next day was Sunday and we got up for church. It was fasting testimony meeting, and it was awesome. DRU bore his testimony for the first time ever. It was really good to catch up with people. Had a nice chill day doing wash and watching movies. I knitted and Mum came home and hung out. I’m a little sad about my family.