Seccess!!

The garage sale last weekend was a success!! All day Friday I had people bringing over stuff for us to sale. I think we could have had a week long garage sale and we still would not have sold everything! The good news was that another couple from our church took all the leftover stuff to sell at their garage sale this weekend to help raise money for them to adopt a child overseas. The grand total was more than I was ever expecting, so the Lord really showed up!! Thanks to everyone that donated, and for all those who helped put on the event! Even though it was a lot of work and extremely hot, we had a blast doing it!!! The best new was that the electricity was finally fixed by about 6:30 Friday night right before it was time to set up!! That also meant that we got to sleep in our own bed with an air conditioned house...only to be woken up at 6:15 by happy, impatient shoppers (note: the sale started at 8:00)!!! They were eager and ready to go!!!

Setting Up

Let the sale begin!!

Working hard!!!
Displaying the furniture!

The delicious bake sale

Three years ago...

That's right, three years ago today I married my best friend and the best husband EVER (I'm a bit biased, so I'll just say the best for me!). In someways I can't believe we have already been married for three years and in others I feel like we have been married forever! These years have been a fun adventure of learning about each other and growing closer each day. The Lord blesses me each and every day through my husband. Whether its through laughing, working together around the house, or just sitting together doing nothing! I love you Sammy and I can't wait for what year number four has in store for us!!!

Wedding Day- June 2006

Honeymoon - June 2006

1st Annivesary - June 2007

2nd Anniversary - 2008

AND NOW HERE WE ARE TODAY!!

GARAGE & BAKE SALE

We will be having a garage & bake sale at our house tomorrow, June 13th starting at 8am!!! All proceeds will be donated to a very deserving family. This is a multi-family sale with lots of fun stuff. We'll have furniture, clothes, kitchen items, golf clubs, TVs, home decor, etc...if you don't need anything, come for a fun homemade treat!! Who knows, if the tree is still laying on our house, we might be selling fire wood too. Just bring your own saw and cut away!!!

Electricity or no electricity (that's right, still no power) the SALE WILL GO ON!!!

Front Door meet the Tree!

The meteorologists predicted a 30% chance of RAIN yesterday and today...well it seems that they missed the HUGE stormS that passed through last night and continue this morning. The first one hit right when everyone was getting home from work. A tornado hit right by our house and the winds were atrocious (I would probably know the speed except we have had no power for over 12 hours! Thank God for the invention of the iPhone!). Sam happened to be home and once he came out of hiding in the hall closet, he went to the front door to find this.... (sorry for the bad quality!)

That's right, half of our tree in the front yard fell on the front of our house. You can't even open the front door because the tree is on it. I can only imagine Sam's face when he opened the door!! We were pretty bummed, but knew there was not much we could do about that. THEN another huge storm came through around 4:00 in the morning and lasted hours. It is probably one of, if not the, worst storms I have ever heard. After taking a shower this morning in the dark, I went to the kitchen to find something to eat and saw this....

Another one bites the dust! So this should be fun to clean up and fix!!! Oh, did I mention that we just paid a pretty penny to have these trees trimmed nice and pretty this spring! I guess now we'll be paying to have them FULLY trimmed!

Cross your fingers that the electricity comes back on soon; I'm not sure how long the ice on all our food will last!

Reed turns 4!!

I am still trying to catch up with my blogging, but honestly I don't think I am doing a very good job!!! We have been so blessed to have family here in the area. Sam's cousin and his family moved to Texas a few years ago, and it has been so fun getting to know them and hang out. They have two precious kids that we just can't get enough of. Their little boy, Reed, turned 4 in April and we got to join in the party! Reed also asked me to make him some cupcakes for the party!! He requested green cupcakes with blue stars! So green cupcakes with blue stars it was! I had a recipe I had been saving for Mountain Dew cupcakes and just made some blue buttercream frosting! I thought they turned out pretty cute. Here are a few pictures of the party and the cupcakes!!!

Reed opening Sam's baseball gift (he's not trying to push baseball at all! :)

Sam and miss Quinci

Say Hello to....

MIA CLAIRE THOMAS!!!

That's right, our niece, Mia, decided to surprise everyone and come a few weeks early on Friday night! She is just beautiful and we were so happy to get to meet her. Please keep her and her new parents in your prayers as they all transition!! Here's a peek at our precious niece.

Mia and her Grancy
Mia and Pops

Mia and her daddy

Sprinkle & Cookies

I tend to keep saying that I have been a bad blogger, but I have! I am way behind on stuff, so hopefully I can find some time to get all caught up! A few weekends ago we had a "Sprinkle" for my sister-in-law and my soon to be niece Mia! It was a smaller shower with some close friends and family. Richard and Jennifer are trying to go green (all organic) with Mia, so as hostesses we stuck to theme and had a "Green" Tea Shower! She got some really cute stuff that I know Mia will love! One of her sweet friends also put together a prayer box for Richard and Jennifer for when Mia comes. It is a box filled with devotionals for each day of her first year written by over 80 people that have offered to be in prayer for them. What am amazing gift for them to have. I know this will be such a glorious time for them, but there will also be days when these devotionals and knowing people are in constant prayer will really be needed. Mia will be here in less than a month and I know they are so ready to meet her!!

I of course also made some cookies, so here are a few pictures from the shower and a glimpse of some of the cookies!!

Carnival Fun!!!

It has been way too long since I posted last, and I apologize! Over the Easter break Sam and I traveled home to be with our families. It was a short visit, but a much enjoyed and much needed one. While we were there we got to go to my best friend Ashely's little boy's 3rd birthday party! It was a crazy, fun carnival themed party - full of bounce houses, basketball goals, mini roller coasters, presents, cotton candy, popcorn and other goodies. It was so funny watching all the kids run from one activity to another!!! Noah really scored in the new toys department, he just couldn't decide which one to play with first! I got the privilege to make some cookies for the party. I was so excited because Ashley said that I could do anything I wanted to as long as they were colorful. This was my first fun boy party, so I went all out! N's for NOAH, 3's, airplanes, balloons, football helmets, footballs, baseballs, baseball gloves, and party hats! I think I ended up making between 4 and 5 dozen and really because I was having so much fun doing something different! Thanks Noah for inviting us to your party and thanks for letting me make you fun cookies! (I wish I had pictures of the party, but I ran out of the house too fast. Maybe Ashley will post some soon!) I'm sorry for the large amount of pictures to follow, but like I said I went crazy!

Spring is officially here!!!

Spring has sprung at the Sessler House!!! We worked very hard this past week and weekend to get our gardens in shape!! I should really say that Sam worked REALLY hard and I just worked! Like I said in my previous post, he really was out there every single night last week preparing for the weekend so that we could get everything finished. Here are some of the final pictures. We still plan to line the beds with stone, but here it what it looks like now. It may not look like anything special, but you must see the last picture...that is what we started with. Sam shoveled all of the horrible lava rock out, tilled the beds, cleaned the beds, added good soul, trimmed the trees, trimmed the bushes, carried and layed the mulch, and planted all of the flowers. I helped pick out the flowers (50% at Lowe's!!), put the solar lights together, and potted the plants. I'd say that's pretty even!! Thanks to my garden man - your the best!!!

Night view

I was trying to get the lights, but you can't even tell they are on here!

I know this is horribly fuzzy, but this is the only

before picture that we had from Sam's phone.

Note: I promise it didn't always look this bad...winter was hard!!

Happy April Fools Day!!!

No, I don't have a good April Fools joke to share with you and yes everything I am writing about today is 100% true. I did try to come up with something today to trick Sam, but I just couldn't come up with anything. I told him this morning what I was brewing up since I couldn't bring anything together; I have never been good at April Fools Day! If you need someone to fall for a good trick, come to me; I'm a gullible as them come!

So I get home yesterday to find a box on our porch from Amazon. I didn't remember ordering anything so I assumed it was something for Sam. I had to go to a meeting and when I got back I realized that he hadn't opened the box yet and was already outside working on the yard. *Please recall my past posts about my husbands interest/obsession with our yard here and here. Since spring has arrived this year things have gotten even crazier. For example since Saturday if he is at home and the sun is out (or the porch light can light the work area enough) he has been out in the yard!* So back to the box. Since there is no way I could continue to let the box just sit there, I opened it to find this....

Let's take a closer look!

That's right, these are GREEN GIANT SPIKED SHOES that Sam will wear on the bottom of his feet while working in the yard!!! He told me at first that they were his new golf shoes, and then said something about helping the yard. I can't remember the exact benefit, but what I can tell you is that when he is out there with these on, I WILL NOT BE!!!