Rock Angels

Why is it that when it finally hits 50 degrees in Utah in the spring, all of the BYU students head outside in shorts and t-shirts for some sun-bathing..............but when it hits 50 degrees in Texas in the fall/winter, we send our kids out bundled up as if it's below freezing?!

Seriously - it may have been 52 outside today - but it felt like 30!! And I wasn't about to let my boys get pneumonia! So I bundled them up!

And when you're all bundled up - what do you do? You make angels of course.

No snow? Improvise.............

Rockets.....and Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we had a fantastic treat. Troy's dad, Mike, and family came down from Wichita Falls (aka "The Falls") - and Mike cooked a feast. Turkey, gravy, potatoes, sweet potatoes, adobo sweet potatoes, 3 different kinds of stuffing, 3 different types of cranberry sauce, veggies, rolls.......the list goes on and on!! It was fantastic - Thank You Mike!!

The rest of us got to fill our day with all kinds of fun activites while the feast was being prepared.

The boys kicked off the morning with the Turkey Bowl........we took home some dirty, dirty boys.

Next.....the highlight of the day for the boys!! Troy had been working on rockets for days - he made one for each of the boys, red for Matt, blue for Jake, white for Zachy and black for Nathan.

Armed with their rockets, they headed to Old Settlers Park and shot them "to the moon" in Zachy's words.

And did you know that you eat pumpkin pie like just like you eat pizza?

Why, you ask? Because they're both triangles!!

See......................

Christmas Card 2008

The Sheen Family, Christmas 2008......let the festivities begin!

Evidence...............

Do you know how to make sure cd/dvd's stick to the little windows on french doors?

Well, just ask my boys - because they figured it out. How did I not notice, sitting here in my study (which is guarded by the said french doors), reading updated blog posts and ignoring my ill-behaved children?! I don't know - I just didn't!!

How do you do it you ask?

Well - you go and get the soap from the hall closet and put a little bit (well maybe a TON) on the back of each of the said dvd/cd's.................................and VOILA.........they stick!!

And I hear from a really excited Jakey, "Dad's gonna be so excited we put these on here!!"

OH REALLY!!!!!

I'm off to get these boys in a bath and find my trusty Windex!!

Halloween 2008

For weeks and weeks before Halloween, the boys could be found in my closet, trying to find some way to get up to their costumes. They are officially OBSESSED with Power Rangers.

Jacob informed me that his "whole" name is "JMS Blue Power Ranger". And of course Matthew's is "MPS Red Power Ranger". Zachy is happy to take whatever Power Ranger is left over (what a good boy)!

FINALLY Halloween came - and my 3 boys turned into Power Rangers (keep in mind that I only had 2 Power Ranger costumes!)

A blue one for Jakey..................

And a red one for Matt..........

So when I went to put on Zachy's costume, here's what I got.........
We convinced everybody we were with to call him Black Power Ranger. Of course everytime people called him Batman, I cringed and waited for the drama!!! Thank goodness this kid can be easily distracted by a couple of suckers!!

The boys had a great time Trick-or-Treating and fell in love with one of the girls we were out with!! She was SO fun!! Matthew keeps on talking about her!!

Look at all of that candy..................their buckets were filled to the top!

And when the red and blue Power Rangers were distracted by all of their treats, our little Zachy took advantage!! FINALLY he got to be a Power Ranger!!

And of course, we all become our mom's right? The next day, I let them each pick 10 pieces of candy and got rid of the rest!!

What a great Halloween!!

Daddy's Week Off!!

Aside from Christmas, Daddy rarely gets time off!! So when he does, we try ti fit as much fun stuff in to one week as we possibly can!!

Well - this time, it didn't happen so much like that because on Daddy's first day off - he got STREP!!! We really only had a weekend once everybody felt better - but it was a great weekend!!

We went camping with some friends and the boys had a BLAST (as did mom and dad)!

Here's our brand new tent - which was apparently the "cool" tent on the block because that is where all of the kiddos played!!

Daddy cooking a YUMMY breakfast - his taquitos - along with Brian J's yummy secret recipe pancakes!!

Zachy enjoyed the rocks and the water faucet in the middle of the campground!! I guess it's smart to have water there - but honestly - trying to keep a 2 year old away from a water faucet...........

After we came home from camping - we took the kiddos to Austin Park!! It has EVERYTHING, bumper boats, race track, batting cages, arcade - all things little people can't take part in (but it's also free 3 and under - so I can't complain!!).

They did have teacups that Jake took over - the kid is AMAZING at spinning us!!

And then they rode on a little train which was cute.

The main reason for going was mini-golf!! The boys LOVE golfing with daddy - so we thought they might enjoy it. And they did really, really well - surprisingly!!

Look at Jakey's grip - he's born to golf!!

Matthew, after a hole in 1 (ok - maybe not, but almost)! (Daddy did get a hole in 1, by the way!)

Zachy needed just a little help from mommy!!


What a fun weekend it was!!!

And just for a little added bonus for the grandparents - here's family picture we had to take for the boy's classes!!