Our Annual September Birthday Weekend

When September comes around, it might as well be an Early Christmas in our Aiga (family in Samoan). It use to be only 3 in our family, only counting the ones here in WA, otherwise it would be like 7. But for years it was only my brother Eliu, which is on the 21st, and both of my sisters Mona, and Lisa on the 26th.
Well for 12 years now, Maleko (one of our nephews) has joined the September Crew, his birthday being on the 11th day of September, and our son Puluta'atasi which is the
19th. So our Aiga does one big party for all of them, which was this last weekend.
We all headed up to Shelton for a weekend of Fun,Food, and Craziness!
I love getting together with my family. There is ALWAYS much comedy, which I have discovered that to be apart of this family, you have to have TUFF SKIN! Humor is Big in our Aiga, and if you cant handle it, then your never going to survive in our Krazee'ness!
You know one of the first things that I told Rich about my family before he met them was, " If they Joke with you, then....the Like you. If they make fun of you in some way, that's a good thing!"
Needless to say, he's adopted our humor, and fits right in. You just have to dish it back out when it's handed to you. In our Family, there really is no secret...SERIOUS! You might think your sharing something in confidence..but TRUST..there is someone there that knows about it...it might not surface right away...but lets just say, once you feel comfortable to expose whatever it was or is that you may have been harboring....you will soon discover that...Yup, they KNEW!
But once again, we all managed to meet at our Second Grandmas pad in the Boonies, to have some Yummy EATS..(which by the way, I so gained like 50lbs) GRREEAAT laughs, and just catch up with everyone. We stayed all weekend. Rich and I took Monday off to recuperate...it literally takes a whole day to recover...but we didn't make the drive home until Monday evening...it's always nice to have the Fab 5, the Original Wilson 5 together! I love my family.

The September Birthdays:

Puluta'atasi 9/19

Maleko 9/11

Eliu 9/21

Lisa 9/26

MoE 9/26


It was a Blast...good times like always! So far so good with no one being added to the September Madness! This year we did one cake, but every year before that..there has been one cake for each birthday person..and non stop EATS! Well it's non stop EATS at every family function of ours...but I miss them already! It's always nice to have everyone come up, or down..whichever. The kids are all getting so big and grown up. I always look forward to the September Birthday Weekend Getaway. Until next year.