Sunday, 13 October 2013

The holidays.

My holidays were so fun. I went to my holiday program and this holidays we were fundraising for a 4 year old girl called Malaya who can't walk, talk and eat. She has seizures. She was born having a seizure. Malaya has about 60 seizures a day. I went to my youth and did heaps of fun things. I went to link of origin, and the saturday that just passed my youth had a Huge disco it was so fun!! I wish i could have went to the movies in the holidays and also see my friends that i haven't seen in a long time.

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Link of Origin!!! Indoor sports netball tournament!!

On saturday me and my sister went to indoor sports to support our friends who were playing in the link of origin tournament. It was so fun I got to see all my youth friends and all my youth family as well. I also got to watch Jireh who is now walking.Me and Jireh went into junglerama for an hour it was so fun!!!

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Me, Malia and Lottie!!

This is me Malia and Mr Theobalds daughter Lottie!! She is such a cutie!!

Monday, 26 August 2013

How to use piktochart.

Piktochart is a website where you can make posters and you can make it look really interesting.
You can add colours to your words and the background and to the shapes.You can also insert texts on the shapes.
You can add pictures and images that are on the pictochart website.
You can also make your own images out of shapes e.g.I made a cloud out of circles.
My poster ended up looking rally cool because the website had everything that i wanted on my poster.I also really like how there were lots and lots of fonts to choose out of.
You don't have to worry if you don't save your work because there is a autosave,so whenever you add something to your poster it saves automatically.
It is really good to use if you have an assignment or inquiry presentation to present to your class or to the public.

Clouds infographic


Monday, 19 August 2013

Baby jirehs feeding tube!!!

I have finally found 2 picture of jirehs feeding tube!!! It is in the backround of these pictures of jireh and her mum   coral.

Saturday, 17 August 2013

visiting baby jireh!!!

Today was really cool because i got to go to baby jirehs house to visit her.I had to go to her house because we won a prize from the prize raffle.It was $5 a number my mum picked 29&26,26 had a prize so aunty coral asked us to go pick up the prize.When i got there aunty coral gave us the prize and then told us that jireh was in the sitting room, i like literally ran into the sitting room and sat beside Jireh,she was connected to her tub and her little thing that had the milk in it was feeding her.Baby has to be feed the milk every three hours.It was awesome being able to see jireh!!!

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Lochiel marching tattoo 2013!!!!!!!

Photo: Day 14 - Saturdays during the tattoo are always tough and a very long day!! Nothing like a few red bulls or coffee to get you through!

After a morning off we had a video session and watched a few of the performances to see the problem areas or ourselves, followed by a basic marching practice!! Was good to go back to basics as sometimes we get a little lazy on it!!!

Show 1 - "No breaking" - it's always hard to pull off a perfect march when you don't have the effects of the lights etc however we did manage to keep our 9.7 from the previous night!

With a few hours to waste before the next show Colleen took us up to the back of the castle to see Edinburgh at night, was beautiful!

Back to the changing room and again it's time for Waiata practise and our warm up! I do feel for the NZ Army band who are underneath us with all the stamping!

Show 2 - "Expression" and we nailed a 10!!!  Pretty stoked, now to keep the rest of the performances at this level or higher!!!  With TV nights approaching still a few things to work on so we get the perfect march for you all to see!

party rockers fundraiser!!!!

spread the word because at my youth we are going to be having a disco and all the money will go towards the road trip my youth are having at the end of the year!!!! My youth will be going to slash planet!!!!!!!!!

Monday, 12 August 2013

i miss my sister,because she is in scotland!!!!!!!


My sister Lesieli is in Edinburgh doing the scotish marching tattoo.
I miss her to the moon and back!!

Sunday, 11 August 2013

Google search tools results!! :)

In the picture above is the results of what came up when i was searching clouds on google.In this picture i did not use the google search tools.Without the google search tools it came up with 1,510,000 results,which is too many to look through.It came up with results that i didn't need.

In this picture above i used the google search tools,it really helped because it came up with the things that i needed and it came up with less results.There were 493,000 search results which made a big difference.493,000 results are still too many results to look through but the first couple of options still have the websites and information i wanted.

Sunday, 4 August 2013

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Yay youth tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay dancing with youth tomorrow!!!!!! We are practising for our disco because we are doing a performance!!!! We are going to be dancing for three youth sessions then the disco will be after the lessons yaya!!!!!!

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Earthquake madness!!!!!!!!!!!

In Wellington this weekend has been having quite a lot of earthquakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We recently had a huge one at 5.09pm tonight it went on for more than a minute!!!! I was in the room on my own then suddenly a huge earthquake hit. I think it was 6.5 magnitude.I hope everyone in Wellington are safe and are feeling ok now.Pray that the earthquakes will stop soon!!!!!

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Baby Jireh part2!!!!! Race to taste!!!!!!

Baby Jireh came to the movies today!!!!! We raised 400 and something dollars!!!!!!!!!! Baby Jireh is hopefully going to be learning to eat soon!!!!!Photo: If she does this to you, it means give her a kiss lol We've been so greedy with her over the Christmas period...Reflecting on 2012,chilling at home just enjoying her...there's no doubt about the favour of God on her journey :) We've found ourselves saying 'babe babe come look at Jireh'...she does the funniest things, something new everyday.Wishing everyone an awesome rest of the year...looking forward to 2013!!!Photo: We really want Jireh to eat food and not have to rely on her feeding pump and milk...we've been in touch with a few Mums in NZ who have seen a specialist from Germany who weans kids off these types of tubes!!!Apparently it costs about $20k and he is possibly coming to NZ in September so we're looking further in to this..Not sure on exact details but surely the ministry of health or someone might like to jump on board and get other kids off the tube too :) Shes still booked in for April 19th to get the PEG surgery done..Shes no longer eating yogurt but likes to try different flavours of different foods...here she is experimenting with a pear :)Photo: This baby has been full on :) Appointments started already...shes been to a wedding, a 1st birthday, shes had her first swim..trying a lot more flavour of foods but not quite chewing just yet...shes so so special...love every minute with her xxx
Baby Jireh has C.H.A.R.G.E Syndrome Which contributes to complications with her feeding,vision,heart,hearing and developmental growth.Her family and friends raised $50.000 to get x2 cochler implants so that she can hear.She also wears a contact in her left eye,has a heart mumur and absent balance nerves.Her family are pleased at her progress this far and look forward to seeing her eat!!!!!

Jireh Winiata has been fed via tube for the last two years,relying on milk for her growth.After not having sufficient weight gain at four days old,test results came back a week later to say everything was functioning properly however Jireh was uncoordinated.Being discharged from hospital a month later,Jireh has since relied on this avenue of intake.

Her family have been in touch with a specialist in Germany who has agreed to see Jireh in september this year to help her eat and not have to rely on the feeding pump every 3hours.Markus Wilken, from Austria,specializes in 'tube weaning' and has worked with hundreds of children including 2 from Nz recently.

The total estimated cost for this process is approximately $15.000 NZD.There are a few families throughout Nz and Australia trying to get government support so that the financial burden is lifted from families who want their child/ren to eat 'normally'. You are so GORGEOUS BABY JIREH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, 15 July 2013

Notes about me!!!!!!!!

Name:Mercedes
Nickname:Mena (My saints name is Philomena, so thats why peps call me Mena)
Mums name:Keli
Best friends:Janayah,Alofa, (more but i cant remember all of them at one time because it gets way too confusing!!!)
Fav song:Dont have one i love all music except rock and heavy metal!!!!!
Fav colour:Purple
Fav food:Anything except seafood.
Siblings:Lesieli(17)Alize(6)Amaris(1)
School:Sacred Heart Petone
What college i want to go to:Wellington Girls!!!!



Baby Jireh Race to taste!!!!!!!!!

Photo: Something cool to do these holidays and it supports a great cause :-)

Baby Jireh!!! Race to taste!!!!

Photo: We've been a bit absent on here BUT just a quick update on Jireh: She's almost walking!she needs to be assisted and guided a little but shes almost got it...shes trying different tastes for foods and as she gets older, shes starting to like things she never use too e.g. fruity yogurts,sitting on her couch, holding babies...Next week she officially starts Play Center twice a week so we're excited that she'll be able to learn off other kids...She was so good during this movie so looks like we'll be going back :)Photo: We went to visit the wonderful children at kids on foot today who are doing x2 movie fundraisers for Jireh. They all learnt more about her needs & she absolutely loved her time there ( didn't want to leave :) we look forward to seeing them all tomorrow :)
Baby Jireh was born deaf.Last year they raised 50k for baby Jireh to get a cochler implant!!!! This year we are trying to raise 15k for Baby Jirehs rase to taste. So far they have raised 900o.6000 more then she will be able to eat instead of having to put a tube down her nose to go through to her stomach.Baby Jireh cannot see out of her left eye.Tomorrow we are doing a fundraiser for Baby Jireh at the lighthouse in petone because we are watching Monsters university!!! The doctors said that baby Jireh wouldnt be able to walk but she is starting to make a few steps which is great.Baby Jireh cant really talk either, all she can say is mum or dad.Jireh used to do sign language to communicate with her parents but now that she knows what sounds are she is starting to talk.Baby Jireh is 2 years old,and as you can see by the pics above she is totally adorable!

Dynamite youth Friday night!!!! pyjama jammy jam party!!!!!!

PhotoPhotoPhoto: Dynamite Youth....Pyjama Jammy Jam!PhotoPhoto: The girls took on the boys in a dance comp....and SMASHED IT! Better luck next time boys :-)Photo