Tika was born on December 15, 1984. His parents were taking a short trip to American Samoa when Tika decided to come 6 weeks early. Tika was a health happy 5lb 13oz baby boy. His parents were able to fly him back to Fiji when he was just 1 day old. His birth certificate actually says "Please take this for a real birth certificate" (Yeah it's been fun whenever we have to turn it in for something). Tika only lived in Fiji until he was 2 years old when his family moved to Utah. He lived in Salt Lake from 2-6 years old. His family then made the big move to Guam. While in Guam Tika lived a very simple life, at one point they were without electricity for 2 week due to a typhoon that hit the island. When he was 11 he moved back to Utah. Tika played Varsity basketball team all 4 years of high school, he also earned his Eagle Scout. Tika got his associates while attending Salt Lake Community College on a Basketball Scholarship. We then made the big move back to Orem where Tika played 1 year at UVSC and got his bachelors in Community Health. We then moved to Wyoming were Tika sold cars but was away from his family too much so we decided it best to yet again make the move back to Orem. Tika has been looking for a job for the last 3 months and is happy to announce that he was offered a job with Enterprise Rent a Car in the management training program. Hopefully in about a year he will be promoted to assistant manager and from there the sky is the limit. In October Enterprise was included in the top 50 places to launch a career so we are very excited about this opportunity. All of these experiences have helped Tika become the man he is today. He is a wonderful father and husband. I have been able to celebrate 7 birthdays with Tika so far and I look forward to many more! Happy Birthday and I LOVE YOU!
Tika with his best friend Tevita at his wedding.
Our trip to Cancun in April.
Our wedding.
Our honeymoon in Cancun, Tika would pick the coconuts on the tree and husk them in our room.
Hawaii at Motsomoto, Tika made us get a shaved ice just about every day!
Tika with his best friend Tevita at his wedding.
Hawaii at Motsomoto, Tika made us get a shaved ice just about every day!
6 comments:
Happy B-day Tika! Love the pictures. Tika looks like a little boy in that one with the coconut!
Happy Birthday tika! You have been a amazing friend to Tevita! We appreciate and value you and your family so much!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIKA!!!! We're coming into town tomorrow! We hope we can see you guys and meet your sweet little boy! He's adorable!
Wow, I can't believe you have had SEVEN birthdays together! Are we getting old or did you guys meet when you were like 15 haha lol. And you and I have been friends for what? Ten years? wow. Anyways, Happy birthday Tika!!!!!
thats crazy to think you've had 7 bdays with tika! wow! happy bday tika! hope it was a good one. and i hope you guys had a good christmas and a hpappy new year!
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