The Sessler's

Monday, April 20, 2009

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!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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!!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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!!!

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

More baby cookies!

Out of anything that has been ordered from me since I started making cookies, I have done A LOT of baby showers! Its one of my favorite things to decorate though b/c they always seem to come out so cute. This is an order that I made for a friend from high school. The colors were bright pink, black, and white. I also got to make some cake balls - red velvet and german chocolate!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Sam's 25th Birthday BASH!!!

I know you have all been waiting anxiously on the edge of your chairs to hear about Sam's big 25th birthday! (by "all" I mean the 10 friends and our mom's that actually read this blog!) Like any other 25 year old we went bowling! Sam might have said as we were pulling up to Main Event that he felt like a 5 year old going bowling for his birthday with his mom (aka: me) bring in the cupcakes!!! Despite those feeling we ended up having a really good time. Who knew it would be DISCO bowl night! And it was smoke free, so we did not get smoke inhalation while bowling and that is unheard of!! I can't remember the exact scores but I can tell you that my first game I ended up with a whopping 42! Let's just say it had been awhile! Don't worry I redeemed myself when we were competing and it actually counted; yes my team beat birthday boy's team...is that mean?

Side note: My last sentence reminded me of a funny story. Sam's birthday was actually on Friday and we went to eat with my brother and sister-in-law. I woke him up on Saturday though and told him that I was going to treat Saturday like it was his birthday since he had to work on Friday. Later in the day we were arguing about something (i'm sure it was really important) and he said...you can't be mad at me it's my birthday! Then I came back and said...it's not really your birthday and I CAN be mad at you b/ it was yesterday!!! Kinda like Indian giving!!!

So here are some pictures of the birthday BASH!!! Oh, I should say that yes I did bring cupcakes for Sam's party...any one that knows Sam knows that he is a BIG fan of Mrs. Little Debbie! So what more would he want on his birthday than homemade Little Mandy snacks! That's right, cream filled and everything! I also made red velvet and german chocolate cake balls. (I had an order last week, which I will share later, and had many cake balls left, so I made them fun and colorful for his birthday!)

Let the Games BEGIN!

Bring it on BOYS!! (attempt at mean faces)

Monday, March 16, 2009

Arizona Family Vacation - Picture Overload!!!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Sam. We had a great weekend celebrating with friends and family. I am a little behind on things I want to blog about though, so I am going to do them in order. I will post about Sam's birthday later this week! But first, a few weeks ago we took a family vacation with my family to the Phoenix area to play some golf, get pampered at the spa, shop, and just hang out. We had a great time! Since my family loves to play golf, we did a lot of golfing! The first place we stayed was called Gold Canyon which has the #1 and #2 ranked golf courses in AZ. They were gorgeous! I have no idea how they keep the grass so green in the dessert! Speaking of desert, this was the first time that I experienced the desert. I was amazed at the landscape. I have never seen anything like it before! Rock yards with cactus, rock gardens with more cactus, desert flowers...it was all very pretty in its own way. For some odd reason though every time I came near a cactus I had a strong urge to touch it!!! That is until our starter one day told us about "jumping cactus"...I was done with that and stayed away! We also had a small scorpion in our room...that too was my first experience with that and needless to say, not a good experience!!! After a few days, we then went to stay in the Phoenix area. There we went to see a spring training game at the Goodyear field (Cubs vs. Indians), ate at some fun restaurants, shopped, played tennis, and golfed some more! The guys played a beautiful course, The Phoenician, and the girls took advantage of the many outdoor shopping areas that Phoenix has to offer!

All in all it was a great trip with lots of much needed family time! We even ended the trip with a game of Thomas Family trivia that my mom made; I might not have won, but it was still really fun to try to remember all of the old memories! Thanks mom and dad for a great trip!