Vacation Highlights

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.