Andy's Shred Video and EBAY store.

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They are 5!!!

I can't believe it!...We now have THREE 5 yr olds!!! It is crazy! It seems like just yesterday that I had our precious miracles, that have brought so many miracles and blessings to our lives!

Loggan: He is super smart and remembers all the details and makes sure to tell you all the details too! He loves playing with friends. He is a perfectionist already! He has to have things a certain way or he will have a meltdown. Loggan loves to play with Parker. It is so fun to watch him teach Parker how to wrestle and play with his toys. We love you Loggan and are so glad you are part of our family! Also, they have been asking lately who is the oldest, so with Loggan being the oldest he holds that over the others heads...I get to do this first because I am the oldest, I get to sit here because I am the oldest, etc. Andy and I just laugh!

Benson: Benson has the personality and the ability to do anything he sets his mind to. He puts in 110% to anything he does. He wanted to do soccer and played his heart out and practiced to be the best. He wants to ride a skateboard and he gets out there and just tries and tries. He loves to do all things his dad loves...snowboarding, skateboarding, watching sports, etc. He asked me the other day when he could get a motorcycle!! I told him never! He recently just learned to ride his bike without training wheels. He asked Andy to take them off and a couple tries later he was riding by himself. Benson is very kind and sweet and the entertainer of our family! We love you Benson!

Tayson: We love our Tayson! How can he just not melt your heart when he smiles at you! He loves music, as always! Our friend that helps us, Maddy, got them fish for their birthdays and he could sit and watch them all day! He is very smart! I would say that he has at least 3/4 of the 100 LDS temples book memorized and can tell you which temple is which if seen anywhere. He scored a goal in his very last soccer game (with the help of his coach) and he could not stop grinning. He liked soccer but I think he liked watching the people cheering or yelling on the sidelines more than paying attention to where the ball was. He loves riding his scooter and playing with his cars. We love you Tayson!

I decided to do an 'Angry Bird' birtday for them as a surprise, because they couldn't really tell me what they wanted. I maybe enjoy making the cakes and cupcakes and they don't really care too much but hey I want to make it a special day since they will always have to share it with each other. They had a few friends over for our first party without parents. It was a lot of fun and the pictures will explain...

While we were decorating and the boys were at school, my little helper Parker decided to get into an ink pad and put it all over his face! He always gives this look like 'hey I shouldn't be in trouble I didn't do anything wrong' and then he will just start laughing because he really knows he is in trouble. He is too cute!

I had the boys build angry bird towers out of lincoln logs and I made a pig to put in it and they could take a swing with the ball. We also played pin (or tape) the beak on the angry bird.

The boys at the party! They loved making angry bird balloons too! What kid doesn't like balloons!

Angry bird cupcakes for the party and their own Angry bird cakes. (Don't look to close)

Singing Happy Birthday and blowing out the candles...

Opening presents after our family dinner to RED ROBIN...their favorite place to eat!

We had to put this pic in because they got church clothes (they really needed them) and Loggan opened them and said "church clothes?" We said yeah church clothes whats wrong with that and he replies "they are just churchey!" (and he said that with attitude just look at the picture!) We just laughed!!

The boys making their birthday wishes!!

We love you boys and are grateful every day that you are in our lives! Happy Birthday!!

Soccer, Halloween, and Friends

The boys had their last soccer game this last week, and i must say that it was amazing to see them progress and see what a difference a season made in their skills. It was fun to watch them play with their teammates. Go Tazmanian Devils! Benson showing his skills! Next came Halloween! We wanted to do a theme again, so the boys decided to be the viking warriors on HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. It was alot of fun to come up with their costumes and make them. Benson has talked about wanting to ride his bike without training wheels, so Andy took them off his bike, and in about 15 minutes he was riding around like crazy. Our boys are growing so fast....

Last, we had some of our friends come visit us from Boise and Longview. Olivia and Noah Edvalson wanted to play a trick on Rena and Ben, so Olivia dressed up as a homeless person downtown and was going to beg for money as Rena and Ben walked by on their way to meet all of us. the video is how it went down, too too funny!

Finally...

I am trying to get back to blogging now that our boys are in preschool! (Yippee, oh yeah, you know it!) Don't get me wrong, I love my boys! but I do need a break...yes I am excited to have them in preschool and they are just as excited to be there! They just started on Tuesday and are totally loving it!! They didn't even say 'bye' to us. I wasn't that surprised but I think Andy was a little. They are just getting so big and so much fun but also a little challenging as well. Our days consist of school, playing, wrestling matches, someone gets hurt, wrestling matches, someones hurt, wrestling matches, someones hurt, soccer, bed! I decided I may just start wearing a black and white striped referee shirt! Ha ha! Boys will be boys and I love it! Parker is taking steps and can totally walk, but only when he chooses and if I try to make him walk his legs turn into jello! I think he is probably going to give us a run for our money when he can talk and walk! But he is just so stinkin' cute, I mean handsome! He loves to ride skateboards and play with balls and just do whatever his brothers are doing. As of lately he has started walking on his own though. So I really have needed to post our trip to Utah at the beginning of August, I know I am a slacker! There are soooo many pictures so I will try to let them do most of the talking...

We had so much fun! And we were so crazy busy!! We saw soccer games, hung out with family and had BBQ's. We went and saw the dinosaur exhibit at Thanksgiving Point! That was a lot of fun and Andy and I commented that we don't think we have ever seen that many kids under the age of probably 6 in...well...EVER! Then I heard a mom say that it was $2 tuesday so then it all made perfect sense. Seriously I have never seen so many kids! Our boys loved it especially digging for fossils! We went and visited Grandma and Grandpa "Peaches" and saw a lot of my cousins there too. The boys always love going there because they get to have peach shakes, ride on the 4-wheelers, and ride on a little gardening box on wheels over, and over, and over again until the tops of their shoes almost have holes! They love it and we love watching them almost crash into the stairs every time! We went to my grandparents barn and have dinner and rode the 4-wheeler. My grandma bought squirt guns for all the great-grandkids and little did they know what they were starting!!! It was WAR! and then the parents started to get in on the action! Needless to say, most of us were drenched by the end of it, but oh it was so much fun! Then we had our "Staycation" that my mom did an AWESOME job putting together! She went to so much work and it showed because we all had a Fabulous time! We went swimming and then onto a picture scavenger hunt to visit my great-grandparents graves. My grandma and grandpa Shaum were there to talk about my great-grandparents and not just a few minutes into it the sprinklers came on and oh how I wish my video camera was on at that moment! Can you imagine 28 people running in all different directions to avoid getting wet! Can I just say...HILARIOUS!

Then we made t-shirts and family flags and hiked to the top of Ensign Peak in Salt Lake. That was fun...and hot...and thank you to all my family members who helped me because Andy was back at home working. Our family wouldn't have made it to the top without you!!

My parents and my Brother Tanner

The 2 boys "Hamming" it up

The Kaps

The Sandalls

The Stuckis

Me and the Boys (Andy had already returned to Oregon for work. We all missed him.)

The Tuellers

Then comes our famous...Money rolling game that has become tradition. Us adults wrap tape around our children and my dad puts money on a tarp and 3, 2, 1...Let the rolling begin! They try to get as much money as they can stuck to their tape. It is a joy and I think the parents get a bigger kick out of it than the kiddos!

And then we were off to "This is the place state park", where they hammered on leather and Benson even got his face shaved. Totally pretend though, except that there was a little cut on his chin that the "barber" said was there before. Ahh, Benson enjoyed it and all the kids watching had fun too! Now, off to Ryker's football game, ordering tons of Chick-fil-A and the movie 'Rio' on the back of the house with popcorn and donuts....And that is just day 2!!

Day three was Kangaroo Zoo...a bunch of blow up bouncy things and then BBQ and swimming. At least until one of the kiddos swallowed too much water and threw up in the pool. But it was time to go anyway...We finished it off with dinner and then and adult talk session of memories! I love this time to just sit and chat with my siblings and their spouses and my parents. I love my family and am so thankful for all the memories! Thank you MOM and DAD for such a fun staycation. What will it be next year??? Cruise!??

We also had a chance to hang out at the park with our dear friends Holly and her adorable kids, Taylin, Maren, and Austen! They moved back to Utah at the end of July and I am sooo sad that I don't get to see them anymore! Holly is the friend everyone wants to have! And I feel totally blessed that I have met her! She once gave me a quote that said "Friends are chosen family" and if I could pick and add a sister to my family I would totally pick Holly! She is an awesome mom too! She handles being a mom of twins like it is nothing!! Oh how I miss her! It was just great to spend time with her like we used to...hanging out at the parks. Our boys sure miss Taylin too. She was like a sister to them. They always wanted to play with Taylin and sometimes I think my boys would rather have Holly as their mom than me! Our kids had fun being photographers at the park too! They may just have a new profession! haha

Benson and Taylin

Loggan and Maren

Tayson and Taylin

Sadly our trip had to end and we made the long drive home. On the way home we stopped to see the Brigham City temple that is being built. It is BEAUTIFUL! and then we began the drive home...not a few minutes into it I could hear Benson sniffing and I asked what was wrong. As I turned around he began to sob and said that he wanted to see Grandma. Which started a chain reaction in Loggan and a little in Tayson. They were so sad and I began to cry (I am a cry baby). It just touched both Andy and I at the impact that family truly has on our boys and we are so blessed to have such wonderful families that our children cry when they have to leave them!

1st Soccer Game!

We can NOT Believe it! Benson, Loggan, and Tayson started soccer! They had their first game on Saturday, and while it rained on them the whole time, they still had a ton of fun and did it with huge smiles on their faces! We do need to work on their skills alittle, or at least teach them to kick in towards the other teams goal....We love our boys!

We also have gone out towards Mt Hood a few times recently to pick Blueberries, its a ton of fun for the boys to wander around all the blueberry bushes, pick a few hear and there, and just get to explore whats around them. We come away with a few pounds of blueberries, and the boys obviously have eaten their own share as well. So much fun!