The Sessions Sessions

Vacation Highlights

2009-10-25T21:28:00.000-07:00

Our week long family vacation ended tonight and I wanted to share some of our highlights with you. I asked the Boys to help me remember what we did while we were on vacation and Harpers first memory was playing in the leaves.

We started our vacation by going out to dinner with Grandma Connie and Grandpa Carl to El matador in Ogden it was delicious. Then on Monday the first offical day on Vacation we cleaned the house and got Harpers big boy bed all ready for him. We pause in the middle of cleaning for a lunch break at Costa Vida next to the surfers and fat cats. Of course we had to go to Fat Cats which the kids love. Harper and mommy and daddy decided that he was done with diapers and was going to wear big kid underwear from now on and go on the potty. He has done so well and we had to leave fat cats early so he could go potty at his house.

On Tuesday Harper went to his school and Ben went shopping with mommy and Daddy to Target where we found Harpers "alligator" really its a dragon costume. We also decided because Ben bite me twice that he was going to be Stitch from Lilo and Stitch for Halloween, they are kindred souls.

Wednesday Rusty and I were able to have a day date we went to a movie which is a treat for us. We saw Couples retreat which was really good. Then we took a drive up the Canyon to go fishing and on a picnic but hunting season isn't a good time to go on a picnic in the woodenisms. So we just pulled over to the side of the road to take pictures and so I could give him his new camera a Canon 30D. I haven't seen him since. lol.

When we got back from our day date we went up to the fruit stands on the old highway in Brigham and picked out our pumpkins. They had a mini corn maze for kids. Harper had to roll his pumpkin becasue it was so big and Ben just pointed at the one he wanted. On the way home Harper saw an amazing sunset over Willard Bay and said "oh wow that sunset is beautiful I need to take a picture of that." Grandpa pulled over on the side of the road and let him take a picture of his beautiful sunset.

The rest of the vacation goes into Rusty and Bens birthdays so I am going to put them on other posts.

The Utah State Fair

2009-09-19T20:08:00.000-07:00

Rusty entered 2 16x20 photographs in the Utah state fair this year. He entered in the Professional division which he has entered and placed in before. He didn't place but it was still cool to enter. There were a lot of great entries. We went to show Harper one of Rusty's entries that was of him and he thought that was neat to have his picture on display. Really Ben was more excited he spotted Harpie from across the room and ran right over to the picture and said "That Harpie I see Harpie." We then walked through all the animals exhibits except we couldn't find the Chickens. We all got to pet a baby cow which was so cute. When we saw the dairy cows Harper says to me "Mommy see those peepees on those cows they are milk peepees." Kids are awesome. Then we let the boys ride on the "Horseys" Ben wants to buy one. We all left wanting to buy a farm. lol. like that would really ever work, but anyway I want a chicken and cow. Rusty wants a pig and goats. Ben wants horses and Harper wants a bunny. We all love fairs. The boys are all exhausted but they had an awesome time.

Happy Family Day!

2009-08-21T23:03:00.000-07:00

Happy Family Day. On August 17,2006 The Sessions became a Forever Family. We were sealed in the LDS Bountiful temple. We celebrate spending the day together as a family. This year we went to Fat Cats in Ogden played some video games and took the boys bowling. Then we drove up by the Bountiful temple and stopped for ice cream at Iceburg. We ended our family day at Lagoon but it was very crowed so we bought a funnel cake, churro and cotton candy. It was a great day.
Ben after he finished his ice cream said I eat it all gone see.

If they gave a prize for the slowest moving bowling ball Ben would be champion of he world. The boys would take the 7lb bowling ball and throw drop it into the lane then watch it for a good 2 minutes at least. We as in the Sessions should not by the way become professional bowlers. Ben got a 75 that was the high score. What does that tell ya.

Don't drink the water

2009-07-14T20:56:00.000-07:00

So both boys love Lagoon but not just because of the rides. They love the water fountain in the front of Lagoon that they can play in. Harper dances and Ben tries to catch it. I still can't figure out where Ben got tonsillitis from, oh wait maybe the aids water! Little rascals.

Yellowstone

2009-07-14T20:40:00.001-07:00

The Family at Yellowstone. It was a blast it was a fast trip we didn't decide to go until the Wednesday before but it was fun. We took over 1000 pictures because that is what we do well that and eat which we did that too. We were lucky enough to see 2 bears and an owl.

Time flys when your having fun

2009-07-14T20:20:00.000-07:00

Ok Ok its been forever since I updated this but what a crazy summer. June has always been a busy month but this year it seems was even more crazy. David my baby brother graduated from high school on June 5th my 30th birthday. We went to Yellowstone for Davids 18th birthday. Shantel bought the family Lagoon season passes and a new swimming pool for the back yard. She wants to keep us busy during her summer break from teaching 1st graders. Then we celebrated Heidi's birthday and ended the month by going to my cousin Steven's wedding. So that was our crazy June. All of the sudden we our half way through July and still just as busy. We try to go to Lagoon at least once a week. Benjamin got tonsillitis and had a severe allergic reaction to the amoxicilln resulting in 15 canker sores in his mouth and down his throat,he cried for 22 hours. That was the 4th of July. Then Rusty went on an extreme hike with the varsity scouts in the ward down to Zions national Park last week. While he was gone we went to Lagoon and spent a few hours with Jena and her family. David got a huge scholarship to Snow college. Harper's friends Mantha and Danielle both had birthdays at 2 different water parks both were so much fun the boys loved both parties. Harper and Ben have both been playing and working hard this summer helping in the garden, going to Lagoon,playing in the pool and getting in trouble the good dirty muddy boy kind of trouble. Oh ya and in the middle of all this excitement I'm still working a million hours at Ritz/Inkleys and we are trying to get Harper potty trained. Ben thinks he can go on the potty too. Ben will probably be potty trained before Harper lol. Like I said time flys when your having fun.

The Boys

2009-05-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

Rusty took both these shots and I love them. My boys are amazing. They are both growing up too fast. Harper cracks me up. His imagination is huge and he just brightens up your whole world with his personality. Benjamin is so soft spoken unless you don't respond to him then he will start yelling at you until he has your attention. Ben is funny because his latest response to everything is just a soft Ya.
This summer is going to be trouble but so much fun. Today Ben and I were playing in the van and I asked him where we were going and he simply responded Idaho. I know this is just a random blog but I just had some random thoughts about my boys an a small window to blog.

2009-05-14T17:53:00.000-07:00

This is a video of Harper swimming and chasing April like the croc off Peter Pan. It was a lot of fun and this is the first time that Harper has stood in the pool without someones help!

This is Ben blowing bubbles. Right after this he put his whole head underwater, came up and was fine with it lol. Good times.

Happy Birthday Harper from Applebees

2009-04-30T09:29:00.000-07:00

Princess Vonda got married on April 10th in Salt Lake. After the reception we went to the gateway for dinner and they sang Happy Birthday to Harper at Applebees. This is a video of them singing to Harper. My favorite is his face at the end.

Dr. appointments

2009-04-28T15:14:00.000-07:00

So we had some exciting days the last couple of days.I woke up Monday morning not being able to open my left eye so went to the doctor on Monday to get diagnosed with pink eye. Hooray NOT! IT STINKS! My eye is getting better that is one of the reasons I have been on facebook and blogging so much is because I have been home bound for the last 2 days with my gross blind eye. Harper said that I had boogies in my eye but he still likes me but not to touch him with my gooey eye.:(. Rusty went to the Doctor too for a routine check up and ask about the possibilities of having allergies which he does but can take Zyrtec and is good. Both boys went to the doctor too for their 3yr old and 18 month old Check up.

Harper weighs 34.2 pounds and is 39 inches tall 80th percentile for height and 75th for weight. He got a blood test done by sticking him in the thumb and was very brave didn't even cry but did need a hug from mommy.

Ben weighs 24.2 pounds and is 33 inches tall and has a big brain. He is still tall and skinny with a big brain.75th for height 25th for weight and 93rd fro head size. He got 2 shots today but all was ok after hugs and a sucker.

Silly Grandpa drove off with the car seat so we got to all walk to the doctors. Goodtimes. This is the last appointment with both boys at the same time. They had one together when they were 6 months and 2 yrs and now that they are 18 months and 3. Now they will get their own.

Rolling Easter Eggs Party.

2009-04-27T10:43:00.000-07:00

Last Easter we continued Rusty's family tradition of rolling Easter eggs down the hill. So For Harper's Easter birthday party we went to Bountiful and had a picnic with Grandma Connie, Aunt Brittany, and Cousins Mekenzie and Marshall. Grandma Connie made homemade fried chicken and it was so good. We then had fun rolling Easter eggs down the hill then rolling ourselves down the hill. (not recommend for adults. Ask Uncle David about that.) It was a blast. We had a jelly bean cake for Harper and Grandpa Carl that was delicious.

Mekensie taught Harper last year and Harper taught Ben this year. Before we traveled to Bountiful we died 12 dozen Easter eggs. 10 for the Easter bunny to hide and 2 to throw. By the way I know the Easter bunny personally and we are still finding Easter eggs.

First Movie in the Theater

2009-04-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

We have fallen behind because of all the happenings going on around us so I decided to try and catch up and just post from where we left off. Harpers Birthweek. We started his birthweek celebration by taking him to see his first movie in the Theater. We watched the 2D version of Monsters vs. Aliens. He watched the whole thing on the big giant screen in the loud theater and seemed to really like it. He had a straight face the whole time but didn't stop talking about after it was over for days. Now when we drive past the theater he talks about it and tells everyone that's where he went to see Monsters vs. Aliens. It was a good start to his birth week celebration.

Girls night out

2009-04-04T13:34:00.000-07:00

For Heathers 30th Birthday I decided we needed to lose our pedicure virginity. It was a blast. I surprised her with pedicures. I was nervous like it was a first date for some reason but it was awesome. We went to our traditional restaurant Applebees then I drove her to Grassroots for our pedicures. Since it was our first time I bought her some flip flops and Capri lounge shorts just in case. She picked out hot pink nail polish and I got vampire red ( really its grandma red but they lied to me and told me that it didn't look like that.). We finally have a decent picture of both of us too. Not the one we are in the room but the close up one. Heather is cute I'm a hippo but its cool. They asked on the form if we had any foot fungus's I told them that i didn't think so and I hoped not. They didn't say anything so I think everything went well. I kidnapped Heather for a little while after and we just drove around and talked like the olden days. It was a long overdue amazing girls "moms" night out. Love you Heather thank you for over 15 years of friendship.

ice skating

2009-04-04T13:21:00.000-07:00

For my Uncles Birthday he rented the Ice sheet in Ogden and let us all go ice skating. It was so much fun. Harpers favorite part was falling he looks terrified in the picture below but he really did have fun. Ben said he was stuck when we put his skates on. It was really cute. We finally found something that stops Ben. Harper and I crashed once he thought it was so funny all it did was prove that I'm old and bruised my knees all up. Shantel and I played Olympics and skated in a circle we are pretty good.

2009-03-19T21:54:00.001-07:00

Today the boys and I (Rusty) went to the park. It was a beautiful day! Harper went on the smallest slide about 100 times and Ben was a brave toaster and booked it up the playground to the highest slide well over my head and down he went. It was fun trying to not have a hart attack and hold the camera while catching him going down the slide all at the same time. Here are a few pics.

Cinnimon rolls! well frosting when mom watches us.

2009-03-03T10:54:00.000-08:00

February flew by to fast as most months do now. Rusty and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on the 17th. I was sick in bed all day boo! We were able to go to a church Valentine dance on Friday the 13th it was pretty awesome. It was fun I bought Rusty a new shirt and tie for Valentines day which I gave him a little early to wear to the dance. Rusty bless his heart tried to buy me a dress for the dance. Uh...Its good... hum... its hard to buy dresses. Gold stars for the attempt but really epic fail. On Valentines day we to the movies and watched Twilight. Its good we like bandwagons. Rusty gave me a new little laptop to do my work on and its great of course the boys think it is theirs. I gave Rusty a new lens for his camera which I don't think he likes lol he has only taken a million pictures with it since. We went to our friends house to celebrate Jovies birthday and Harper just moves in whenever we visit them. Ben was teasing Mike with the balloons. he would let them go as soon as Mike would sit back down to watch him jump back up to get them. It was a lot of fun. I have been watching the boys in the mornings for the last few days because Rusty was helping my Dad move my aunt Kay to a new house. Daddy is rules rules rules Mommy lets them eat cake. we took these pictures during our frosting I mean Cinnamon roll breakfast like that's better.

Its about time

2009-02-09T08:26:00.000-08:00

Sorry it has been so long since our last post and they have been kind of sad. January has just been crazy and February isn't slowing down either. Well it is probably slowing down for my pregnant friends. My lost my life away from work with the Twilight series. I have like 10 pages left of Breaking Dawn but Harper told me last night that he was mad at me for reading my stupid book and not playing with him so I will have to finish it later. I won't lie it is taunting me to finish but how can you resist your kids pleas for some of your time. Work has been hard my buddy tsm comes back next week so I will only have 12 stores to take care of instead of 19 so hopefully I will have a little more time. I was able to spend some time with a lot of friends this month which was great. We spend an very fun night with the Mcmerricks and some hillbillie bought us pizza that was nice. Harper just walked right in like he owned the house. Ben was a little more timid until he met the dogs. He wouldn't stop kissing them oh and feeding them. Harper was impressed by Mikes railroad truck and on our way home we were stopped by a train he said he was going to call Mike and have him drive his truck on the tracks to push that naughty train out of the way. He vented about that for the rest of the drive home. I was a brave toaster and sang Beat it on Guitar hero world tour. I epic failed but its cool. Heather was nice enough to let the no singing Bon Jovi songs ban that we have had forever lift for the night so I could try and sing living on a prayer. Anonymous still rocks!

We spent the last week of the month at our friends the Coreys house. It was a blessing for us and probably killed them but we really appreciate it. I had to work in Orem all week and seriously it helped so much not having to drive down there everyday and back. Harper had so much fun with Mantha they were glued to each other all week. We tried letting them have a bath together but Harper picked that time to go potty in the tub. That was goodtimes like every potty in the bath time is.

Thank you Heather and Kimby for playing with us this month even though I know you both are tired and pregnant. We all had so much fun. Love you guys.

Rusty has spent the last week resurrecting his van. The computer has been acting up when he plays wow. He hasn't been able to play only talk and do little things. I think it is the wow virus I have been warning him about for months. He took Harper out on a father son Photo shoot taking pics of wildlife. They both had so much fun.

Harper is a big boy and gave up the bottle. 2 1/2 thats fine. He has been clean for a week and is doing so good. I am so proud of him. Ben is getting teeth everyday so he has kind of been a bear but he is cute what can you do. Harper started eating and Ben has been feeding the dog his. Ben has the music in him and can't help but dance. He started singing the move it move it song.

Well this was a long blog I attached this awesome video of Rusty to sum up January.

The hoildays

2009-01-22T15:51:00.001-08:00

This picture is from New Years Eve. We had very quick interesting holidays this year. With Davids accident and losing our Grandma they just flew by. This year has started off rocky but hopefully will get better. Thank you to all of our friends and family for all the love and support. Here is to a new 2009. Love you all. April, Rusty, Harper, and Benjamin.

She will like it in Heaven...

2009-01-03T16:10:00.000-08:00

We found out New Years Day that Rusty's Great Grandmother that was his mom and raised him since he was 2 was dying. She ended up passing away January 3rd around 7:20 am surrounded by family. My sisters watched our boys and we were able to say goodbye. We told Harper that Grandma Stanley is sick and we were going to the hospital to visit her. He told me to get her some band aids. When we told him that she had died and went to heaven he said she will like it in heaven. Thank you to all our friends and family for their love and support. We will miss her so much but know we will see her again. Like Harper said she will like it in Heaven.

David's new helmet.

2009-01-02T08:58:00.000-08:00

The Saturday after Christmas David was in a sledding accident. He caught air and landed on his back. He had a concussion that made him suffer from short term memory loss. His friends called and said that he was asking the same questions over and over but they weren't sure if he was just joking but that we had better come and get him. When my mom and Rusty arrived he was still asking the same questions over and over and didn't know we had Christmas. We took him to the emergency room and they did a cat scan which came back normal. The doctor left to get the discharge papers and David went white then blue he reached out for us then went into a seizure. Heidi and I went screaming down the hall to get the doctor back in. They had to give him 4 doses of adavan which stops the seizure but is also supposed to sedate him. Because of his head trauma he was disoriented and scared and ripped the iv out and the oxygen mask off and was screaming not knowing what was going on. It took 4 nurses, mom, dad, the doctor, and 2 security guards to hold him down long enough to get the restraints on and the drugs in him. They ran another cat scan which came back normal again but they admitted him to the hospital. The next day he could remmeber Christmas again and wasn't repeating questions. He doesn't remember Saturday and there are still a few things that he can't remember. They ran an eeg which is a brain scan and that came back noraml as well. He is home now and I told him I never want to witness anything like that angain. Worst thing I have ever seem and I will never forget it. Now David just has a massive bite on his tongue not pictured and a new helmet for future tubing/sledding trips if he ever goes again.

He is so a 17 year old. The nurse came in and asked if he wanted to take a shower. He said yes and she then informed him that after a seizure typically a nurse or mom helps you take a shower. He goes I think I can manage. Then the nurse said someone needs to help you in case you get dizzy of go into another seizure. David again reply's I think I can manage. So I spoke up and explained it slower to him. David because of your injuries you can't shower alone you can either have this nice nurse help you or mom. It finally clicked and he chose mom. We love are David we are so thankful that he is alright and we have been blessed to have him with us still.

Gingerbread Train 2nd attempt

2009-01-02T08:38:00.000-08:00

Mommy got to help this time. I know it looks like the train is upright but really was smashed right after the picture was taken. Benjamin! It's good!

Gingerbread house 1st attempt

2008-12-17T22:30:00.001-08:00

So making gingerbread houses with a 2 year old and 1 year old went well.

Singing Christmas songs

2008-12-14T11:31:00.000-08:00

Christmas in Provo

2008-12-14T11:19:00.000-08:00

We went to Provo this weekend to have Christmas with our friends Ben, Kimby and Mantha. We had a blast they cooked a big feast of ham and Christmas potatoes and homemade rolls and jam delicious. Harper and Mantha are a couple months about and are glued to each other the whole time. Little Ben wants to play with the big kids so bad but they don't really let him. Soon Kimby will have a little boy then Ben will play with him instaed of climb up and down the stairs. We celebrated Christmas with them. Kimby made all us girls these really cool gifts I can't say what they are in case Chelsea reads this. It was great we had a lot of fun. Harper asked if he could stay at Manthas house. He already wants to move away with his friends.

Visiting Santa at "RUff Ra's" Walmart

2008-12-14T10:46:00.000-08:00

Santa came to Grandpa Clair's "Ruff Ras" Walmart. WE went to visit him and tell him what we wanted for Christmas. Harper had to show him this reindeer toy. Harper was very excited to see him and only a little scared. Benjamin was not really for it, lets just say he sat on his lap but clung to mom as tight as he could. No tears from Ben so thats good. We know him! Santa that is really well and so Mommy was a little nervous that the boys would recognize him, which they did but only as Santa. Look at my eye I'm winking. whew. So I am going to post a video but I forgot to stop it for a minute so it kind of films some ceiling for a little bit.

Thanksgiving 08'

2008-12-03T18:57:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Thanksgiving with our cousins in Evanston WY. We did the traditional olives on our fingers. The amazing picture of all 3 2-3 year olds smiling nicely with the olive hand did not work out very well so this is the best we got. Then the little cousins started a band that was pretty good. I can't teach them any Bon Jovi songs because I still have a ban on trying to cover them since nevermind I don't want to talk about it. Anonymous rocks! It was fun. The highlights besides the band was looking over the ads and deciding what sales we needed to get to. I left at 5 am and stood in line at Target and got everything I wanted and some impulse things as well.

Harper is not bad at the drums gets it from his mom. lol. Ben had a go at singing but was still too little the big kids didn't let him play hopefully next year. Ben did like going up and down the stairs which is his new trick lately.

Good helpers

2008-11-09T19:44:00.000-08:00

Aunt Shantel needed pies for church so both Harper and Ben decided to help. Harper can put them on the apple pealer all by himself. Ben was busy putting the apples into a pot and stirring them with a spoon. The pies were delicious and my mom is a saint for being able to cook with a 2 1/2 year old and a 1 year old. Thank you Grandma for teaching us how to make apple pies.

Halloween 2008

2008-11-05T08:02:00.001-08:00

Halloween was a lot of fun. Since there are not very many people home in our neighborhood to go trick or treating we met are cousins Jill, Danielle, and Chad at their church to g trunk or treating. Our friends Ben, Kimby and Mantha came up from Provo to play and spend the hoilday with us. The boys played gears of war and the girls all played a dice game called fargle after trunk or treating. Mantha and Harper played so well together all night. I asked Harper in September what he wanted to be for Halloween and he said a blue monster so I found one on ebay and other than it being a tad big and very warm he had fun scareing people with his "monser" roar. Ben was PO from Kung Fu panda beacause like PO he can climb anywhere to get food and candy. We went trick or treating at grandpas walmart and Ben pulled a fast one on one of the employees by throwing his pumpkin bucket at him to distract the guy while scooping armfuls of candy from the bowl into his lap. Ben thought it was the best day. Its funny Ben was born around Halloween and loves it and Harpers favorite hoilday was Easter which he was born around. I think that Christmas this year will become favorite however. I was supposed to be a monster mommy but when I put the blue robe on I looked huge so I still was a monsters mommy just different. Harper walking in his cotume was so funny because of his little tail following behind him.

So eye makeup on a 1 year old not going to happen. He had rubbed that all off. The head of the monster was too heavy to wear. If you look to the left or Rusty you can see the elephant pumpkin I carved. cute.

Picking out Pumpkins

2008-11-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

We went up to the Fruit stands in Willard a few days before Halloween to pick out our pumpkins. The boys loved it. Harper ran around until he found a big Indian corn which he calls rainbow corn then had to have it with him the rest of the day. Ben was smiling the whole time we were there and would drum on the pumpkins. Rusty wanted a giant pumpkin because he watched a pumpkin carving contest on the food network and was inspired. His creation turned out really pretty cool.

Part 2 Ben and Rusty's Birthday

2008-10-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

We went to Farr's Ice cream to help celebrate the boys Birthday. Both Boys were asleep when we arrived but liked waking up at the ice cream store. Ben thinks that should be the new way to wake up always. Ben's 3 tooth smile kills me.

Ben and Rusty's birthday part 1

2008-10-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

Since Ben now shares Rusty's birthday this will have to be a couple of blogs. Not to mention that Ben is so freakin' cute with his three tooth smile that we took a million pictures. I thought that I would start out with a video of Ben blowing a Birthday horn.

New kitty

2008-10-23T10:08:00.000-07:00

One thing about Grandpa Clair working at Walmart is that occasionally people give away kittens out front. Needless to say he was roped right in. So we have this new little kitten that Harper named Candy Corn Halloween Candy. He is pretty cute and Harper has been attached to him since he first saw him.

Lagoon

2008-10-20T20:52:00.000-07:00

We went to Lagoon for Ben, and Rusty's birthday and for UEA. It was a blast. Harper liked all the rides in kiddie land but his favorite was the tilt a whirl which he rode twice. Ben liked the merry go round and rode that over and over I think 5 times before he was done and out for the night. Naps do not really work at Lagoon. When we were standing in line for the kid boats the lady behind us bought a ice cream cone for her kids and Ben kept reaching for it and licking the air waiting for his turn. He was so funny trying to steal the ladys ice cream that Rusty bought him his own. That made Lagoon for Ben. He only has three little teeth and if you look close you can see his top tooth in his ice cream shot. Harper asks everyday if we can go to Lagoon. We look foward to next year at Lagoon.

Ice Cream

2008-10-11T18:26:00.000-07:00

So we took the boys to Farr's ice cream in Ogden for the first time tonight. Why would we bring a camera its not like we are both photographers and this was a first trip somewhere. So you will just have to trust us that the boys were freakin cute. Harper got playdough ice cream and loved it. They put it in a cup with a cone on top so he ate the cone first then the ice cream. Ben shared mommys rocky road ice cream and yoinked Harper's cone. Of course Harper got it back from Ben. Ben thought that ice cream was awesome. He had it all over is face but was still cute. Mommy also got a carmel apple that she shared with Harper. Harper thought it was funny that an apple was hiding under the carmel. It was fun to hang out as a family.

Rusty's water garden

2008-09-27T13:00:00.000-07:00

The boys have been very busy the last few weeks installing this really cool water feature. Harper and Ben have had so much fun playing outside by daddy as he designed and built this cool "watiefall".

Its been 6 years

2008-09-21T20:42:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone so we have fallen behind on our blog and this isn't exactly the one I wanted to get back with but I needed to talk about this for a minute. It is crazy how fast time goes by. 6 years ago today our cousin Daniel was killed. I still remember where I was when I got the call. The feeling of hopelessness. Memories of Daniel flooding through your head as the world stands still. So many great things have happened since then but I'll never forget our Daniel. To Daniel our Corny King we miss you and will be with you again. Love your friends and family.

I, I, I .. Mamma Mia!

2008-08-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

Ok, now for my review on this Movie. From the previews you see it as just your average "chick flicks.'' And I find myself really enjoying most chick flicks that come out.

April asked me yesterday if I would like to go see this "great movie" with her and I was pleased to join her and see what was so good about it. I had just seen a movie with way way way to much down time and I needed some that she said "doesn't have that down part that you hate in it." Now I understand that almost all movies need that part of the film at around 3/4 of the way through and respect that part of the "rules" of making a film. But this movie may have had one, may have not. I dont think I would have been able to notice if it did and here is why...

Ok, picture a department store... Now you see the woman's clothing section? We are going to call that, "a chick flick." Ok, now you see that bra section with-in that section? That is this movie! And guys you know that feeling you get, no matter how "mature and "in touch with your sexuality" you are, that feeling when you walk through the bra section? Well get used to it if you are watching this movie, but this time you have women all over the room and they will get more empowered as the movie goes on.

Now guys, picture your "hottest" female actress... got it? Now make her sing and take her shirt off. Nice huh? Now what if you have 20 ladies from early adult-hood to some that were here before your mothers were (needless to say the theater smelled like baby powder and lady speedstick.) Now that moment you had with your actress? They had it about 20 times in the movie, not just taking shirts off but, but, I dont know what it was but they loved it and cheered and would have gone up with one doller bills and put them in slots in the screen if there were any.

I enjoyed this movie though despite all that, but anyone would have enjoyed anything if it made them feel like they had novicane being rubbed on their brain for 108 minutes! They looked like they had sooooo much fun in making this movie and Myrel Steep does great (although I think she was required to stay on the crack pipe during filming to pull off such weird energetics) and the other main actress, her daughter in the movie, does a great job as well! And guys, if you are going to this movie with your wife/girlfriend, now worries, Amanda Seyfried (the daughter getting married) makes it all worth it :D

Go watch it! At least it will be funny even if you dont like it. I know that doesnt make sence but trust me. You will understand if you see it.

Oh and did I mention that it was a Broadway musical? Well I thought I should cause the PREVIEWS DON'T!

Ben's 9 month check

2008-08-15T08:06:00.000-07:00

We took little Ben to his 9th month check. He is really tall 30 inches and weighs 20.5 pounds. Poor kid has not been himself lately but the doctor has been so busy that when we finally made it in he had ear infections in both ears. He is on medicine now and will feel better soon. Harper picked out a toy miniature scooter for Ben as a reward for getting a shot. The boys love each other and just laugh together.

4 years together

2008-08-15T07:58:00.000-07:00

Rusty and I went out on our first date 4 years ago on August 14th. On our first date we went shooting not with guns but with our cameras. We drove all over and took pictures of wildlife and nature. Well I took pictures of more important things like my shoe and Rusty and my watch you know the good stuff. It is crazy to thing that we have been together for so long but it has been great. I love Rusty very much and I am glad that we are together forever. To celebrate our 4 year anniversary I drug him to MAMA MIA! I really liked it Rusty really likes me. It is pretty intense but I love how everyone just has fun in it. We had a lot of fun and laughed pretty hard.

graveling the driveway

2008-08-12T19:59:00.000-07:00

Today Grandpa took Harper in the truck to pick up a truckload of gravel for the driveway. Harper got to watch the tractor scoop up the dirt then dump it in the back of the truck. Both Boys liked to play in the truckload of rocks. Ben liked to eat them so he did not get to play too long there. Harper helped Grandpa shovel the rocks onto the driveway.

Weekend with Mantha

2008-08-12T19:40:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone this last weekend we surprised our friend Kimby with an early birthday party. Kimby, Mantha and Ben all came up from Provo to spend the weekend with us. Kimby and Mantha came up Thursday night and we made a weekend game plan. Friday we helped Chelsea move her parents into thier new house then went to Fat Cats. Ben came up later and we had hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill. On Saturday we went to the Watie Park again with everyone but Rusty he stayed home and decorated for Kimby's surprise party. Harper made Monny, aunt Shantel, Uncle dd and Uncle Ben jump off the high dive. It was scary for Monny but harper said, "good job monny," and ran off to play. The watie park was fun. When we came home Rusty had a big birthday sign hung up and had set up the cosco Princess cake. It was a fun weekend.

2008-08-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

Harper is probably a fish. He loves the water so does Ben. The only thing that holds Ben back is that darn it he still can't walk and he gets soo mad. Anyway His aunts Shantel and Heidi taught him how to plug his nose and go "under" the water. This is a cute video of him playing in his pool yesterday.

Rusty Interviews Falicia Day!

2008-07-30T10:35:00.001-07:00

Hey hey guys! In the past on the WoW Podcast I have had the opportunity to interview people such as Jason Hayes the Composer of the World of Warcraft soundtrack and musical score. Now on July 29th I had the pleasure of interviewing Falicia Day, creator and main actor on the web show called "The Guild". Both the Jason Hayes interview and the interview with Falicia Day as well as a few more can be found at www.wowpodcast.com! The episode with Falicai Day will not be up till Tuesday of next week so check it out then.

The Watie Park (North Ogden Pool)

2008-07-29T21:00:00.000-07:00

On Monday Monny got a pretend day off so The boys, monny and Aunts Heidi, Shantel and Chels went to the "Watie Park" Harper's 2nd favorite place next to Fat Cats. We played all afternoon. Ben likes the fire hydrant because he can stand next to it and be big. Ben also likes to crawl in the water. Harper likes to jump into the big pool and kept asking to go on the diving board. I told him that he was still to little to jump from the diving board and he said monny catch me. I said that when you jump off the diving board monny can't catch you so you will need to grow a little bit first. Harper loves it at the Watie park they have this ramp that he runs then slides into the water. The first time we went there I through him down the slide so he is not too fond of that. If you ask him if he wants to go down the slide he says blub blub blub harpie hate slide. We had ice cream after and Harper is so good to share with Ben. When they closed Harper says no take nap in watie and went and layed down in the most shallow part of the pool. We bribed him with more ice cream and said night night to the Watie park.

The Treehouse with our cousins

2008-07-26T19:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone today we went to the Childrens' treehouse in Ogden with our cousins Jill, Chad and Danielle. We had lots of fun playing dress up and with the percussion instruments they have. After the treehouse we went to Harpers favorite Fat Cats and played games. We went to lunch at the Pizza Factory and ate big breadsticks on a stick. It was very fun.

Our First Post!

2008-07-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

After having our families blog named set aside and reserved for over a year we are finally starting our Sessions family blog!

Just to start we are going to tell you the basics on our family as it is today. First we are a family of four. April Sessions, Rusty Sessions, and our two sons.. Harper (2 years) and Ben Sessions (9 months). Our family lives in Ogden UT in the second city lived in since our marriage in 2005 on February 17th. Later we were sealed in the Bountiful Utah temple on August 17th 2006 with our first born Harper.

April is working as a TSM (Technical Service Manager) for Inkleys/Ritz Camera and keeps the labs running in 13 stores from Southern Idaho to Central Utah and one store out in Elko Nevada.

Rusty currently stays home with the boys during the day and is a host on a podcast with 2 other hosts that talks about the PC game World of Warcraft and recently got added to the media group that produces the podcast as well as many others as their PR guy.

Harper loves to play with his fun aunts Heidi and the other Heidi, who he is now starting to acualay call Shantel. He looks up to his big uncle David who he calls Dee Dee, and wants to do everything David is doing. Harper can't stand being inside for two long and him and his brother who he calls Bennammin (Ben-a-min) are always hanging around there door waiting for Grandpa to go out the the garden, Heidi to go wather the flowers, Dee Dee to go mow the lawn or Grandma or Shantel to go visit them doing all that so they can snitch a ride along with them. He is growing up way to fast and already has a favorite popular hang out, Fat Cats, an arcade here in Ogden that he saves his money and everyone elses during the week to fund his growing gaming habbits.

Ben on the other hand doesnt care what he is doing as long as it is somthing and involves moving. Ben eats just about anything we can get small enough for him to eat and is quickly learing to walk. He can not walk on his own yet but is faster than the dog in his walker and walks holding onto the couch and the chairs. Right now he is following in his brothers, dads and Dee Dee's foot steps with his gaming and is turning on the Xbox 360 and starting the game Guitar Hero as we type this. Ben's most favorite person in the world is his Grandma Leavitt he will jump from one persons arms to the next until he gets to her and then will lay his head on her shoulder giving her a hug and singing himself to sleep.