My Favorites...

I've had like 3 different computers in the past few years.... they were all hand-me-downs and practically on their last leg....they all died in my care!  hahaha I've been lugging them around with me for the past 7 years (since Makai was born) because I have pictures saved onto them that I just don't want to lose.  Well, it was my project tonight to sit and download all the pictures from these 3 different hard-drives to my memory stick so I could transfer them to my new computer!!  Yay!  It was very tedious work, but I'm finally done and I'm so happy!  The transferring of all these pictures made me take a walk down memory lane.  I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE pictures.  It's amazing how you can totally forget about something, and by looking at just one picture, all the memories of the moment that was caught on camera comes flooding back, feelings, emotions and all!  Ova and I were looking through pictures of Makai's birth, and when he was our baby and the only child.... we were looking at pictures of when Filimone was born and Makai was 3 and such a caring older brother.... we reminissed of old family vacations we took, family camping trips, pictures with grandparents that have already passed on.  Lots and lots and lots of memories caught on film!! 
I love taking pictures, and pretty much have my camera everywhere I go.  I take pictures of my kids all the time and I have folders and folders of pictures of them from birth to childhood to all important events in between!  Even with all the pictures I've taken, I can still say I have an absolute favorite for all my kids.... are you the same way?  Do you have a favorite picture of your kids?  A picture that totally shows your child's personality, a picture you absolutely fall in love with?  I found my favorites in a folder on one of my old computers titled "My Beautiful Kids"....

I LOVE this picture of Makai...he's 1 year old in this picture and we were just sitting at home playing around and I snapped this shot.  I love this picture because you can totally see his little personality....his squinting his eyes and wrinkling his nose...he used to make this face every time I asked him to smile for a picture.  I just love it!  This is my all-time favorite picture of Filimone.  I took it when we were on our family vacation to San Diego back in 2007, he was 5 months old.  He was just starting to smile and I caught it on film....I love it!  This picture of Lautala was just taken today....she was ready for church and sitting on the bed waiting for her brothers and me to finish getting ready.  She was in such a good mood today and was so smiley!  I snapped this shot of her innocent little lifted-eyebrow smiling face pose.  I love it!