Taresa Update

Ok, so here is the long awaited update about Taresa's health.

Last year at the end of January Taresa went into the hospital for abdominal pain. She had her gallbladder removed and didn't get better. Then she was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitus. After several months of in and out of the hospital, a month long fast, and several doctor appointments later, in June she was diagnosed with Crohn's. After 4 months of heavy a prescription regiment Taresa's GI told us that her body wasn't responding to his diagnoses and his system to cure people with her condition so he could nothing else for us and told us to go to the MAYO Clinic, in which our insurance didn't pay for. We sought out answers from up above and came to feel a second opinion was our best option. Our new GI took her off almost all of the medication, and wasn't convinced she even had Crohn's. So after a few months of tests and a recent surgery, she for sure doesn't have Crohn's. She has sever IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) in connection with some auto-immune disease connected to the liver, which we are now in the process of pin pointing this disease.

Thank you, isn't enough nor can explain the magnitude of our gratitude for those of you who have loved us, supported us, cried with us, visited us, emailed, called, prayed, fasted and offered your concern heaven wards for us. For Taresa's health and our families happiness and strength. For your faith and prayers though not answered in the way we have all wanted, blessings have come to us. Friendships have been strengthened, our faith in God and what's most importantin this life and the next has been fortified even more. Gratitude and love does seem very cliche' but it is from our hearts and makes us cry for how much has been done and said in our behalf.

Saturday Cool

So this past Saturday we went to the new out door mall. And both boys playing at the childrens play place, we had an incredibly fun day. Playing, going to the pupply store. Mom bought these two cool dudes sunglasses to make them, if it were possible, even more cooler. These are the best boys in the world!!!!!

THE BOYS

These were taken back in December. I know I'm horrible at updating this. I'll do it again soon with some info about Taresa. I promise!

PLAY DAY!

While Taresa is busy in the hospital getting better Reed and Court get to go play at different friends houses while dad is at work. Here is yesterdays play day.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!

So Court was Mickey Mouse and Reed was Woody from Toy Story. Reed's first experience tick or treating was at our churches trunk or treat Friday night and it was a riot. He was super excited cause there were lots of people running around. But with everyone dressed up he wasn't so sure if he liked these people anymore. A few times he would stop and stare at the adults dressed all ghoulish. But came time to actually do the trick or treating. The first man went to put some candy in Reed's bucket and Reed flipped out. He did not want anyone messing with his trick or treat bucket. After a few times of flipping out and still getting candy he kind of picked up on the fact that people weren't trying to mess with his bucket. So he started taking the candy from their hands and putting it into his own bucket himself. Then after a few stops later he realized they will put the candy in his bucket for him. Then after a few people more, while they were putting candy in his bucket Reed helped himself to some more candy to put in his bucket.

Reed ended the night playing with Frankenstein aka Braden Dale, in the bed of the Dale's pick up truck

Court was just happy to see people and have people come up to him and oogle over how cute he is. And really can you blame the public for cooing over this little man. He is so adorable.

Taresa and Aunt Kele spent the night chasing Reed and helping him play the games. While Mike was working at Costco. Mom didn't dress up she figured she was already a beautiful queen and anything she wore exudes that. And yes Taresa, you are beautiful.

But Halloween wasn't going to pass by Mike despite his 2 jobs. At Mike's work, University of Phoenix. Mike went dressed up like the Wendy's commercial character. There was a Halloween costume contest I didn't even make the preliminaries. BUT Mike had lots of fun and tons of people said he was their favorite costume. Mike really is Big and Juice!!!! Even Costco liked his costume.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!

It's been forever I know.....

So here is an updated picture of THE BOYS!!! They are hanging out at our favorite place, Wal-Mart, only cause we go there atleast twice a day it seems like.

But we as the family are doing surviving. Taresa is having more and more doctor visits and as of last week she is leagally blind. Which means she can't drive, she sees everything in blurred images. She is looking for moral support so anyone wanting to call her during the day or pick her up and the boys and take them outside and away from the four walls of Emelita, she'd appriciate it. But you're going to have to make the iniative cause she isn't going to call, ps by the way. The doctors right now are trying to find out if her vison issues are connected to her Crohn's or not. Also on the Taresa side of life, her GI doctor has passed us off to the MAYO clinic. Many prayers are needed as modern medicine has failed and we are going to try more aggressive approaches, however there is a battle raging between us, the insurance company on trying to get the Mayo clinic approved so prayers are needed there as well.

The boys are doing good, Reed is being a total boy. He loves the movie Sandlot and will run the bases with the boys on the movie and loves to through anything when the boys through the baseball. Reed is also into stripping and streaking. Reed will be 2 years old next in October. Court, is now crawling on all fours, he stopped his wounded soldier army crawl a little while ago. Court is a chubby chubby big boy and eats everything you give him, except grapes. Meat, veggies, bread, pasta, sweets, etc. are his favorites. Even if it's old or finishing up Reed's plate he'll still eat it. Court has 0 teeth and still eats as much as Reed. If you don't feed him fast enough he'll let you know by panting like a dog. Basically, if a bear ever crossed Courts path the bear would lose and Court would eat him before the bear got a swipe. Court will be 1 in December.

Work is good for me. I have 2 jobs right now to help out with all the extra expences. I still work at University of Phoenix and then I have a night job putting up housing development directional signs on the weekends. I got to get out and do some guy stuff this past weekend. I went shooting with some buddies of mine and also I'm training to run a half marathon. I can already run about 4 miles straight.

So that's the family. We appricate your prayers and would love to get your phone calls. Don't feel like your imposing or incoviencing us. If we don't answer leave a message we'd love to talk to ya and hear from you all.

Much love the Sessions

Boy's Picture Day!!!!

We took Reed and Court down to Target to get there pictures done. Reed only was able to smile while we sang "Rolling down the sandhill" from the TV show THE WIGGLES. He thought the song was so funny. Court however, loves any attention so all we had to do was just say his name and he'd light up. We never really thought pictures would be hard to do with two kids. GUESSED WRONG!!!!!! Reed wouldn't sit still longer than 5 seconds, wanted to explore the studio more than sit and smile. But we did get Reed to show us how old he is. Let us know what you think.

New Family Pics.

So we took these pics the other night while playing around for family night. Finally, some pics of mom and dad, Court still needed some attention so he stuck his hand in there at the last minute. Happy and in LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!! That's what's getting us through these hard times. More on that later! Court wanted to go swimming and Reed loves to play on the slide at the near by park. He's daring to go down the big slide by himself. It's totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!

These are from MAY 2007
Reed's favorite thing to do lately is climb into Courts crib and play with him aka take his pacifer.
Court learning the army crawl.
Captain Colinder to the rescue!!!!!!!!!!