A new beginning

This last year or so has been marked by so much change in our family. We welcomed a new member to our family Daluchi Jordan Leialoaha (she came on my birthday).

Brian graduated with his associates degree from HVCC.

We welcomed a new niece/cousin Olivia Anya.


We said goodbyes to many people include the girls great grandfather on the Dawson side Brian's grandpa.
And our biggest change of all was we moved to Hauula, Hawaii, aka Paradise, for Brian to pursue school at BYU-H. A lot of changes you think... I think so...
It's hard to fill in all the gaps as to what we did in between all of these major events because there was a lot that was done, but rest assured the Lord has been with us by our side all throughout these changes.


I hope that now that we are in Hawaii I will be able to find more time to blog about and update the growth of our family... but I will make no promises. The least I can do is take lots of pictures and put my favorites on here for you to enjoy. I really want this to be a way for us to keep in contact with old friends who want to know how we are doing... especially since we are 6 hours behind from NY. If you are curios about anything going on at all with us feel free to comment on our blog and I'll be glad to update you. Enjoy!

It's been a while

I know I know it's been awhile but i don't even know who reads this blog anyways so I figure it's mostly for my entertainment. Well at leas I have a lot of good excuses to not keep up with the blog for the last couple of months. It's been quite a whirlwind of adventures in the Dawson household so i'll try to recal them one event at a time.

My favorite thing that happened in the month of November was Chioma learning how to walk. Our little 9 month old decided it was time to give up living life on her knees. I'll post a video of that later.

Another highlight in November was spending time with some of my cousins that live in New jersey for Thanksgiving it was a blast there was somewhere between 25 and 35 people that were there inculding a set of triplets that belong to my cousin. There is nothing like spending time with family. Here are some pics for memory sake.

Did you miss us? 8 month Chioma update

SO the last 2 months have been a blast I wish I could slow down time but it just seems to be picking up speed the older and older Chioma gets. Here are some highlights from September and October.

• We went to Vegas for Brian's cousins wedding and Chioma flew on a plane for the first time she was a champ! She only cried on the way home but it was only because she was constipated. She also survived a three hour delay in Richmond VA because our plane ran out of fuel from flying around and not being able to land in NYC. That trip is a whole blog in itself I may get around to it later
• Chioma loves to wave bye and says "Hi", "dada", "bye-bye", and something that sounds like "all done." (I'm still working on her learning "mama"
• Brian quit his retail job that he's been doing for the last 7 years of his life and traded it in for books at the local community college and his midterm grades are 2 A's and 2 B's (That's after not being in school for 10 years way to go baby!)
• Chioma started climbing up stairs and off of the couches.
• I'm still working at the same job with the same pay (Albany Medical Center Endo clinic administrative staff) but now I'm the bread winner (scary) budgeting has never been so FUN :)
• Brian got 2 tickets a speeding ticket and a cell phone use ticket while driving it was on two different days at the exact same exit (like I said budgeting is fun lol)

That's most of what I remember from the last 2 months that warrants blogging and now for the good stuff here are some pics for memory sake.

Chioma spending quality time with her aunt Susie and aunt Judith it's always a good time with them.


This is when we took Chioma and my nephew Kayson on a nightswim in Vegas Chioma loved it Kayson not so much


Finally this is how she lets me know that she's hungry for real food lol


Chioma would really like to come out and play (notice he drool down the front of her shirt lol)


The Dawson Family at the Enrnestburg/Thompson wedding (Brian's cousin)






Chioma loves following her older boy cousins around above she is insisting that she be let out to play with Cousin Kayson and below she sits with her adorable cousin Ocean


Acting real cool because they are swimming at night those two are such a cute pair.



Chioma waving bye bye as we get ready to take her to the pool

6 months

Chioma is now six months and is actively crawling, screaming, falling, laughing, and playing. She is so much fun at this stage and she has so much personality we can't keep all of this to ourselves! So I will be nice and share some fun pictures and videos of her and her silly self.

Chioma's new hobby

For the last 2 weeks our little Chioma has been on the go. It is absolutely amazing to see this little child progress. It all happened one day at church as she watched the older children crawl around her and crawl away from her. She tried earnestly to grab onto one of them and keep them next to her but that was to no avail!! So I guess she decided if you cant beat them then she might as well join them.When we came home that day she started imitating what she saw the "big kids" do. Anyways ever since she started she just won't sit still and it's very entertaining watching her crawl after daddy's remote controls and keys. We thought we had at least a month more before the need to baby proof the home arrived but I guess we were wrong our 5 1/2 month old baby is a genius as is destined to keep her parents busy. Enjoy the videos

Dawson Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family web sites - Geneology

This is really funny to me because ever since she was born everyone has commented on how she looks just like her father spitting image even. Well HA I guess this proves some people wrong it seems she needs more facial hair in order to look more like Brian... lol. OH well 6% more like me isn't saying very much I mostly think she's a pretty good blend of the 2 of us.