HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK! (As well as a little about my dinner with 3 generations of Bailey's)

So, it's my little brother's birthday today. Nicholas Albert Peters, he turned 22? I'm pretty sure it's 22 because when he went to Vegas after dad's funeral, he was excited about being "legal"...VEGAS legal-lol. Gosh, I can't believe how grown up my little siblings are becoming. *Correction* I should be saying how "old" they're becoming, not grown up, because they're far from grown up. HAHA JUST KIDDING! Of course you're grown up, living with mom, "working" for dad, driving mom's car, eating her food...BWAHAHAHA Nah nah nah, you know I love you! :O) Anyway, I wish I could call Samoa to wish you a happy birthday personally, Nichole, but a blog shout out is 10x better, right? I mean, it lasts FOOOOOOOOOOOOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. You're grandkids are gonna be reading this and laughing at this post. With that said, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I love you!

Ok now on to part dos of this post. I totally forgot to blog on Saturday (freck!) and Saturday was fun. Grandma Saunders (Mani's Grandma on his Mom's side) was in town and so my MIL, Grandma Saunders, and all of my sisters-in-law and myself went out to lunch! Grandma treated (so sweet) as a Christmas Gift to all of us-Thanks Grandma Saunders! We went to Los Hermanos (no shocker there-lol) my SIL's and MIL LOOOOVE Los Hermanos. Me? Not so much, but I was not mad at kickin' it with some of my fav girls!! It was pretty cool to see three generations of Bailey women. They're all very sweet and I love them so much.

Can't wait to do it again!

Ok I think that's it :)

Love,

me

My Nichole

My little brother, Nicholas, I call him "Nichole" or "Nicola" (Like the Ricola commercial). Nick is Numela Valu (That is Samoan for Number 8). Man this kid used to be so annoying when we were little. He was such a NERD, we thought for sure he was a fafa. But then again, all of my brother's went through their femmy phase.

I can talk to Nick about anything, and he knows he can, and does, talk to me about anything. We are 3 years apart but sometimes it feels like I'm 10 years older than him =)

I remember one time, me and Nick smoked banana leaves on the roof of my dad's house. That was so dumb! LOL And I Think he even confessed this to my dad, because he felt "guilty"---whatever! SELLOUT! haha

Nick was quite the football star, just like the older boys (minus Riki). He looooooooves his football. Nicholas can speak Samoan, which is AWESOME. I so wish I could, but I don't think I'm any less Samoan, because I can't. Nick was a very smart kid. He rocked it out in Geography, something I still don't get.

Nick is a good saver!! My dad would give me $3/week as an allowance, and Nick would get $1/week. Dad said we had to pay tithing every week. Let's do da math people's...10% of $3=.30 cents. Believe it or not, I could NEVER save that .30 cents. I always had to borrow from Nick. LOL Usually he was a punk brat about it, but sometimes he let me "borrow" the .30 cents.

Nick's been through some "bad" times, as we all have. I'm proud of him regardless, and I love him regardless. I wish we all lived closer to each other, but then we'd probably not get along as much!

I love you Nichole,
Rina