After a year and a half hiatus....we're back!

That's right! The Sheens are back online!

You might have a bear with us a bit as I go back and update the year and a half that I missed. I'll be as brief as I can!!

First things first! Let's do a "where are we now"!

Matthew!
Age: 5 years old

Favorite Color: Red

Favorite Food: Mac N' Cheese

Favorite Wii Game: Mario Cart

Bed Bud: Jacob (and Zachy)

Other Friends: Jane, Daniel, Ainsely, Connor

Matthew just finished his first season of t-ball! By the end of the season, Matthew was able to hit off the coach pitches every time he was at bat! He was 1 of 4 boys voted to the All-Star team by the rest of his teammates! (We think it might have been a bit of a popularity contest as M &J were the 2 smallest on the team! But twins are COOL!)

Matt is finishing up Joy School, his last year of preschool and will start Kindergarten in August! He is excited to be a Bull Dog! He's also ready to go to a "real" school (instead of people's homes!)

Matt just started Taekwondo and is loving it!! Believe it or not, the thing he struggles with the most is being LOUD ENOUGH! If you heard him at home, you'd never believe it!

Matt LOVES music. When nobody is looking, he is constantly dancing. And he never stops singing (right on tune - just like his mom!) : ) He begs for piano lessons and we're about to start being a little more consistent.

Matt is a great big brother and is the peace-maker in our house! We love this guy!

Jacob!
Age: 5 years old

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Food: Black beans

Favorite Wii Game: Lego Batman

Bed Bud: Matthew (and Zachy)

Other friends: Jane, Daniel, Ainsely, Connor

Jacob is SO excited right now for his dad to come home from his Asia trip. He sent dad with a list of things to find for him: 1 - a necklace with a shark tooth, 2 - a necklace with a dragon tooth, 3 - an elephant tooth (apparently still attached to the elephant). As his dad was leaving, he asked to see his dad's reminder list to make sure he wouldn't forget! This kid is thorough!

Jakey just finished his first t-ball season as well. He played a whole game at short-stop and didn't let one ball get by him. He has worked hard and really learned to get his body in front of the ball! He was also 1 of 4 boys voted by his teammates to the All-Star team.

Jakey also just started Taekwondo. You should see this little guys' form already! It's like he was born to hit and kick (that or he's had a lot of practice at home!) He's excited to test for his yellow belt!

Jakey loves to draw and color and he's getting really good at writing as well. He just colored and wrote a Thank You note for his grandma-great for the shirts she sent him and his brothers! He also draws pictures to send to dad on his business trips!

Jakey is also finishing up his last year of preschool and is excited to start kindergarten! They'll be in separate classes this year - but I know they are going to thrive!

Jakey is our little thinker - he figures things out and asks lots of questions! We love him!

Zachary!
Age: 3 years old - almost 4

Favorite Color: Black

Favorite Food: Toast with butter

Favorite Toy: Wolfy Power Ranger

Best Buds: Big Brovers

Other Friends: Derek, Matthew, Noodle (Miro)

Zachary just started preschool! He loves it! The very first day, his friend Matthew came straight up to him and asked him to go see the fish-tank and the kid has loved it ever since. No crying, no wanting to stay home! He's ready! His friend Miro is from Finland and his name is pronounced with an accent that Zachy can't say - so he calls him "Noodle" - that's how he hears it!

As you can see in his picture, Zachy is our comedian. He'll do ANYTHING for a laugh! And he quite often has all of us in tears from laughing so hard!

Zachary has found his independence - especially with clothes! His likes 4 outfits - and if he can't wear one of those, he LOSES IT! His favorite outfits are (1) a black long-sleved Harley Davidson shirt with a bird on it (his "birdy shirt") with black exercise pants that he calls his "noisy pants" cause they make a noise when he walks, (2) a long-sleeved green shirt with matching green sweat pants, (3) his glow (or gray) outfit which consists of a grey BYU shirt and grey sweat pants and (4) his striped red shirt with red shorts. Anything else - HE WON'T WEAR!! Most of this stuff is hand-me-downs and are on their last leg! It's a good thing he has such a cute face! : )

Zachy is so big, people ask us where ever we go if we have triplets! As of right now, he is 1 inch shorter than his brothers and he weighs more than one of them!!

Zachy is our baby - we keep asking him to stop growing, but he just can't help it! We love him too!

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!!