Dean Carroll Shumway Family

Liza love

2009-08-08T18:26:00.002-06:00

look at my blog! http://www.expedientfaith.blogspot.com ! I hope you like!

PS it sure would be nice to see some pictures of everybody!

Love, Eliza Ann Shumway.

2009-06-26T12:26:00.002-06:00

Hey Family!!

I hope you are all reading this blog because we have some exciting family happenings coming up. We had a meeting at our last family reunion and we made some tentative plans for the next family reunion in 2011. That is two years away so all of you should have plenty of time to save and plan on coming. We took a vote and came up with 3 different options. They are Washington D.C., Florida, and Rocky Point,Mexico. Kim is investigating D.C., Suzanne is investigating Florida, and Scott is investigating Mexico. They will be reporting on costs, activities, and places to stay. Everyone can then give their informed input and we can vote on where we want to go. The last reunion was a whole bunch of fun and we loved being together in the same house and hopefully we can have more people come next time.

Well love to you all!! Sharidean

New Blog FYI

2009-03-15T18:06:00.004-06:00

Hey Everybody! I have hardly any email addresses on the Shumway side, so I thought I'd send out an alert on the Dean Shumway Blog. I started my own blog. So look us up if you have a minute.
Beijos para todos, Kristen, for all the Sheldon Shumways at www.hotinrio.blogspot.com

2008-09-16T16:54:00.005-06:00

Camille Elizabeth Rindlisbacher!
8/22/08
6lb 15 oz
18 1/2 inches
Dirty Blond Hair

2008-04-25T12:15:00.000-06:00

Hey Everybody!

As you all know Jess is getting married! Sheldon and Kristen, I need your new address so I can send you an invitation. They are getting married May 17 and we would love it if you can come, but totally understand that the chances are slim. Let me know. Love to all, Sharidean

CAN YOU SAY NUMBER SIX?!?!

2008-01-14T14:42:00.001-07:00

The trauma begins for Audrey and the family. Number six is on its way!

SETH'S BIRTHDAY!

2008-01-14T14:38:00.001-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SETH!!!

Featured Photographer

2008-01-07T20:35:00.000-07:00

I'm this month's featured photographer at PhotoShelter, a new stock photography website. Check it out here.

Sweet New Skills

2007-12-31T04:03:00.000-07:00

Well it looks like we are fulling our mission in coming to Brazil. We are learning all sorts of new skills and growing our talents in so many ways. We have new tree climbing skills, broom flying skills, sun bathing skills, chicken fighting skills, bar tending skills; the list goes on and on. Unfortunately we have been so busy perfecting the other skills that we haven't had to much time yet to focus on the Portugese speaking skills. I hope that we will get around to that soon. Actually, we are picking up a little bit more Portuguese everyday so all is not in vain.

Sheldon

Just What I Wanted! Wedding Photos

2007-12-22T17:23:00.000-07:00

Go to this web gallery for a small selection of the best photos.

Very, Merry holidays.

2007-12-21T09:21:00.000-07:00

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Updates from the Rindlisbachers (still alive in america)

2007-12-19T11:28:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago Regan was in a girls Choir.

They sang beautifully.

Micah and avery were in another choir with her.

When nana came to stay at our house we made some Gram-cracker houses.

Well we're still alive hope all is well with you.
love Rindlisbachers

Still Alive in Brazil

2007-11-18T12:01:00.000-07:00

We arrived to our tropical paradise about two weeks ago. I saw in a travel brochure that they talk about how wonderful it is to visit Rio for the weekend because the flights are at night so you can arrive Friday or Saturday morning and run around for a bit and go home. They must have been talking about first class because it took us a few days to get put back together.

The pool and beach would be great here if it wasn't raining everyday. However, today on Sunday the weather is great so we are confident that after the forecasted raining stops next week we will really be able to enjoy the pool and beach.

We have been hiding out a bit because this rental house dosen't have the greatest security and we are hyper sensitive about safety. We will have a really secure place starting in December. Church and shopping are about the only activities we have outside our compound. The kids really pick up Portuguese quickly from the other kids. It is interesting how I can say something 20 times and they won't get it but put them with other kids for 15 minutes and they will pick up a bunch of words. Here a few shots of our place. Next month we will be across the street from the beach. We will have plenty of room for visitors. The house is far from a mansion (the dollar dosen't buy much internationally these days) but it has a big open area where we can put kids so everyone come down after Carnival when the rates are down.

Love Sheldon

Talley Gossip

2007-11-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

Well......we are QUITE shocked but we felt the need to share the news with all of our dear loved ones. I am PREGNANT!!! I went to a conference from Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon this last weekend and sometime Friday afternoon, I started feeling queasy and nauseated. By dinner that night NOTHING sounded good. Those feelings have not stopped since then. We didn't even really think anything of it until Sunday night when I realized I was nauseated before and after eating but...while eating I felt GREAT!! Then I woke up this morning around 5 am wide awake from my queasiness. So, Chris finally went to All a Dollar and bought a pregnancy test (which by the way he has NEVER done in all our marriage) and obviously it was positive, hence writing this post. I then spent the next several hours crying and feeling overwhelmed!! I am still trying to wrap my brain around the idea of having another baby.

We were NOT planning this at all and had been using our same form of birth control that has seemed to work for years. I am 5 weeks along and will be due around July 9th. (I have a theory about woman and strongest ovulation times of the year. Mine would be October. Dean's birthday is July 31st and Pratt is July 16th.) At this point in time, we are planning an unassisted birth. We just hope we can someday be as cool as Nate and Yulia. But....that could be subject to change depending on how my hubby feels about it.

Part of the reason I am sending this post is because I am asking for lots of LOVE and PRAYERS to be sent our way. The kids are ECSTATICALLY happy, yet concerned for my health. Chris is really excited about this baby but I feel a bit scared and apprehensive. We believe that all will go BEAUTIFULLY and I will be HEALTHY and STRONG throughout my pregnancy and birth but it would be nice just to have the added strength of my AMAZING family. We love you all!!! Thanks for being there for us!!

Update from Annette and Preston

2007-08-05T13:43:00.000-06:00

California had it's draws - the beach, Disneyland, great concerts, etc... But we've found that Warren is the ultimate paradise, so feel free to come spend your vacation with us!

Our trip to Santa Fe was wonderful. We rented a car one day and hit the Plaza! We ate some delicious grilled corn, checked out the shops, and saw more turquoise than you could possibly imagine. The rest of the week we spent our time reading, laying by the pool, going for a mini-hike, sleeping in and watching TV (which reminded us why we don't own one). We also had a wonderfully delicious meal at the on site restaurant, courtesy of bob barker. Since it was free we had an appetizer, meals, desserts and delicious lime/mint/ginger lemonades! There was also a great live jazz band.

We returned home to the whirlwind of packing, cleaning and moving. The trip across the country was a little stressful due to our lack of sleep, blown tire and the intermittent rocking of the truck (which seriously was scary). Preston drove the whole way like a champ and we made it just in time to check into our new apt. on Saturday! Sunday morning in desperation we had to make a shower curtain because we didn't own one. It was a little ghetto, but it worked great.

In the past month I've accumulated some Detroit Bling, we had our stereo installed by Tiger who we met in the Walmart parking lot, we enjoyed a trip to our local Chuck E Cheese; celebrated the 4th of July at a rockin celebration thingy that had seriously horrible bands, and celebrated my b-day at Mongolian Grill where in true Sugiyama fashion I had three helpings (not because I was hungry, but to get my money's worth)!

Preston started his rotations 2 days after we arrived here (he really hates that I always insist on taking these "first day" pictures). He has another couple weeks in his Pediatrics rotation and then it's on to OB/GYN. He doesn't work on weekends and he's off by 4:30 everyday. So far, so good.

I'm taking a night sign language class and trying to finish up some BYU online classes. I wish we had more exciting things to report on, but that's about it for us. We've had some chaos the past month or so with the move and everything, but things are finally starting to settle down. So...we're ready for guests!

24!!!!!!!!

2007-07-22T20:14:00.000-06:00

Happy 24 of July!!!!
(Actually its the 22 but who cares....)

Happy 24!!!!

2007-07-13T17:45:00.000-06:00

hi!! last week us and our cousins did a circus and here are some of the pictures

Happy 4th of July!!

2007-07-04T10:03:00.000-06:00

Hey my dear family,

We just wanted to wish everyone and EXCITING and FUN July 4th. We, of course, have NO plans but to sit around and do ABSOLUTELY nothing. Yeah for us! That is really the ONLY way to party in our minds.

We sure miss everyone who doesn't live close. You are in our thoughts and prayers! I hope everyone parties hard today. We LOVE you all!!

Much LOVE,

The Talley's

Whats goin on with Noelle! =)

2007-07-03T16:27:00.000-06:00

Alright well pretty much this summer i have just been hanging out with my friends and swimming and doin colorguard. hehe and Girls Camp was freakin amazing!! i had a really fun time there and can't wait for next year. Colorguard has been really fun so far except for today we had a marching camp thing and I've been marching for about 10 hours in the last 2 days. Today i ended up being pretty sick so i had to sit out for about the last half hour or so, it was like freakin hot and i was sick to my stomach and yeah... No good. but we are goin to be in the 4th of July parade tomorrow so i'm excited for that! well i have to go make dinner now so i gotta go!
Love you all,
Noelle

2007-07-02T19:20:00.000-06:00

Hello Everybody!

What a great idea Blaine! Thank you for doing this. I will try to read and post as often as I can. We just got back from girl's camp Friday. What a blast! We went to a new camp built by the church over by Heber City called Heber Valley. It has 8,000 acres and can house 5,000 girls. There is a lake with canoes, cabins, pavillions and kitchens and bathrooms. There are volleyball courts, horse shoe pits and amphitheaters. It is georgeous! It can also be used for family reunions and family camping. I'm thinking REUNION!? They have a challenge course which is awesome. We had a great time and you can really feel the spirit there. The whole thing is run by senior missionaries. Kevin now knows where we want to go on our mission.

We are now involved in the surprisingly painful process of planning our family vacation. We are supposed to leave on Monday and we have no idea where we are going. Oh well, at least we will all be together.

Scott how tragic for your family, but at least you were all together!

I am getting a lot of horse back riding in and loving every minute of it, but my garden is suffering badly. I planted too early and it froze and took all the enthusiasm with it, so I planted a few tomatoes and called it good. Mostly I seem to be growing a lovely crop of weeds. I figure I can always garden even when I am old and decrepit, but I can't always ride horses so I have to get it in when I am young and spry.

Well I have to go. I love you all.

Nice!!!

2007-06-29T14:11:00.000-06:00

Hay everyone!!! yesterday, we got a fish tank a mouse and we made a movie!!!!!! JUST KIDDING!!!!!! we did make a movie, although it was not yesterday. see yu,
Regan.
PS i can't get my thing to work so i had to do it on my Dad's

Alien abduction

2007-06-28T19:20:00.000-06:00

Thank you blaine for getting this blog started. We have been a little delayed in contributing to it because we have recently been abducted by strange alien creatures who tortured us. As you can tell from these photos it was a very painfull experience. I was saddened to learn that although they are an advanced society they have yet to discover anesthesia! anyway we have been returned to our usual dimension and are recovering from the trauma.

Hi......

2007-06-25T20:13:00.000-06:00

Hay!! all the cousins join... Please!!! that means you, Emmy!
last year Uncle Scott, and all of there family came for Christmas, Me and Emmy made this cake. and we built 10 and 12 foot tall snow men one was named tall pall (who was the tallest) and the other was large marge (who was the fattest but the smallest)

see you,

Regan.

Hello Everyone!

2007-06-21T20:21:00.000-06:00

Umm k so i just signed up for this thing and i don't really know what it is but yea! hows it goin guys? haha i got to go cuz i'm at my friend's house. so see ya!

Sign Up Please!

2007-06-21T11:02:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone. Most people haven't signed up with blogger. You need to do this so you can post and make comments to other people's posts. I'm going to reinvite all of you who haven't. Talk to you soon.
Blaine

I need emails

2007-06-19T16:59:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone, please send me everyone's email. We'd like to include all spouses, children, uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents that are part of the Dean Carroll Shumway family. That way everyone can post and we can stay a lot closer.
Thank you

Way to go, Blaino!!

2007-06-18T16:56:00.000-06:00

Hey GREAT job, Blaine at putting this together. It looks BEAUTIFUL!! I think it will be fun to read how everyone is doing and be able to post all of our FUN and EXCITING stories. For those of you who don't know, I have a personal blog at my website which is http://www.livingmom.net/. You can read more about my daily goings on there. It may not be that exciting but it is fun for me to post and people have commented they enjoy reading it. I have yet to figure out why but...life is NEVER boring eh?

If you look on there you can see the sweat lodge we just built in our backyard. Here is one picture but there are more on my site. If any of you want to do a family sweat, that would be AWESOME! You are all invited anytime. I can't wait until Audrey and Blaine move back to Utah County. We have sure missed them.

I will be posting more soon. I hope everyone else does too!!

I love you all,
Rachel

Hey (is for horses)

2007-06-18T08:39:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone mom said to put info down so here's the Rindlisbachers:
Address: 2265 W Saddle Back RD. Cedar City UT
Phone: (1-435)-865-1451
See you
Jonah

WELCOME!

2007-06-17T18:56:00.000-06:00

Welcome everyone! We hope everyone will visit this blog often and post events,
birthdays, announcements, parties, ordinances, and any other thing that is happening in your lives so we can all keep better tabs on one another. We love you all. Happy blogging!