Best Letter Came in the Mail about a week after our anniversary and guess what it was?!?!
It was the letter saying Luther and his ex-wife Rachael are no longer sealed!!!
YES!!! It's official!!
BEST LETTER EVER!!
Congragulations to Rachael and getting sealed to her new husband! We wish you the best of luck!
We're actually getting ready to start the process of us getting sealed together and to our 2 beautiful girls. Hopefully we will be doing this the end of the summer beginning fall!
People say the hardest year of marriage is the 1st year then it gets easier. I always thought no it'll be easy, I'll be with the person I love how hard could it really be?! Well the truth of it is...Marriage wasn't really easy until the end of the 2nd year. It's definetley had great, and amazing times and I wouldn't trade my hubby for another hubby, but it is hard work. Getting to know each other for their faults, their habits, their lifestyle, and getting to know who they really are (not that they hide it but because you get to know the true person by living with them.) And I will be the first to admit, I'm not always the easiest person to live with. So I'm so grateful Luther is super patient with me.
In April we celebrated our 3 year anniversary! YAY for us :) I love my hubby so much and I appreciate all his hard work for us! Even though our anniversary is on the 18th we ended up celebrating on the 13th since our anniversary landed on a Wednesday. So we celebrated the weekend before. Luther took off work that Friday and we had a good time. My parents watched Jaedyn which was nice but we did have Hallee since I nurse her and she couldn't be away from me more than and hour or two.
In January I sold my Durango to Luther's sister, which put me carless for about 4 months and let me tell ya, It's not easy being stranded at home with 2 kids and carless, luckily my mom lives like 5 minutes away so it wasn't horrible but not exactly the funnest so for our anniversary we bought me a 2011 Chevrolet Traverse! MAN - DO I LOVE IT!!
We spent the weekend shopping and enjoying each others company since Luther is SuPeR busy with his 2 jobs. (His full time and his own company) So he works about 60-80 hours a week. But this weekend was no working at all! YAY!
On our actual anniversary the 18th we were just going to sit home and hang out since we celebrated the weekend before but Luther put his name in a drawing at work for free tickets to the Royals game and guess what....It is our lucky day! We went to the Royals game. It was fun! We took Hallee with us since like I said before, I do nurse. I wanted to get her a Royals outfit but I didn't have much time so I went to Walmart hoping they would have something but they didn't so I quickly put together this tutu and I already had her bow made from Jaedyn so this is Hallee sporting the Royals. Isn't she cute?!
These tickets were pretty amazing! They were practically front row seats right behind the dugout. We were maybe 6 or 7 rows up on the lowest level. These were GREAT seats!
This is us! I hate this picture of me but I had to put a picture of us up since we celebrate our anniversary! Ya Luther is wearing a KU shirt and I'm just wearing a baseball shirt. We don't have any Royals clothes so we atleast wore there colors ;)
I can't wait to spend many more years with this man! I'm pretty lucky :)
On Monday, April 9th Hallee turned 1 month old and went in for her 1 month check up. Since Hallee was born in this short month she gained 4 pounds! Holy Smokes..So I looked in Jaedyn's baby book and Jaedyn only gained 1.5 lbs. Yep, let's just say Hallee is a Mega-Chunk!
We were at Nana's h0use and Jaedyn disappeared...So we went to find her and she made her way upstairs into Aunt Shelby's room and decided to put on Aunt Shelby's make-up.
I first wanted to say, How grateful I am to know that my Savior died for me and atoned for my sins and to know that He Lives! I'm grateful to know he is there for me still and is my friend and loves me and my family so much that he was resurrected for us so we can be an eternal family one day.
Something that is exciting news! Luther and I started our 1st temple class today. What better day to start than on Easter! We're so close and I can't wait to be an eternal family!
Now on to our Easter Day! I wanted my girls to have matching dresses and let's just say I went everywhere! I kept running into the problem that there is matching dresses from 0-24 mo and there's matching dresses for 2t and up. The sizes I needed was 3 mo and 2t. So I went to JcPenny's, Target, Walmart, Carters, Children's Place, Gymboree, Macy's Dillards, Crazy 8 and I'm sure I'm forgetting some places but I finally found something at Burlington Coat Factory and the thing is, this was the ONLY dress in those sizes that matched. But after all the searching, I am happy with my purchase.
Aren't they SUPER CUTE!?!?!
Jaedyn totally cheesing it up
My Chunka-Chunk!
Dada and his Girls <3
Momma and her babies
Went to Nana and Pappy's house for Easter dinner and the egg hunt. Last year when we had the egg hunt we had to help Jaedyn a lot she was barely 1 but this year it was like Jaedyn was a pro and had been doing this on a regular basis. We didn't even have to tell her what to do, she just took off collecting her eggs putting them in her basket. She was so dang cute! She's growing up WAY to fast..(several tears coming down momma's face)
Getting her Easter Baskets
Jaedyn LOVES her little sister!
One day I was making dinner and turned around for 2 seconds and in the corner of my eye I saw Jaedyn running with Hallee in her hands across the room. Can I say heart attack of a life time! Now I try to keep a REAL close eye on her because she knows when and how to be sneaky. Let's just say that's not the last time she's tried to pick Hallee up. She is still even sometimes successful. AAHH! But at least Jaedyn loves her baby sister. Jaedyn loves giving her kisses, getting sister's diapers, tries to share her food with her (which is SCARY), and always holding her.
Jaedyn loves it so much she is a "momma" t0 her babies. So cute! She get's wipes to change her babies diapers, feed her bottles, dress them, wrap them in blankets and do what momma's do.
The picture of Jaedyn and Hallee is mid-kiss! Love them!
On Thursday night I was scheduled to go to the hospital to do a cervadill so that Friday morning I could be induced to have our baby.
Friday - March 9 2012 at 5:19 pm
Hallee Ann Hargrove was born
7lbs 2 oz and 19 in long.
(Hallee is pronounced with a short 'a' so it's not Haley it's Hallee - hope that makes since)
She's been such a joy to our family. And she's beautiful and we can't imagine life without her.
We've been asked a lot if Jaedyn had as much hair as Hallee has and the answer is
Yes - She did have as much hair and just as dark the only difference is Hallee's hair is more thick than Jaedyn's hair was/is.
It's weird how having 2 kids seems so natural. Yes, getting everyone ready is a lot of work maybe more time consuming but at the same time it seems like I've been doing it forever.
It's kind of funny how we always thought Jaedyn was so little and our baby but you forget how small newborns are. When we came home and saw Jaedyn and Hallee both Luther and I were like wow Jaedyn is a toddler. She's so big. She instantly looked differently in our eyes as far as features goes.
Jaedyn has been doing pretty good with Hallee. She was so excited when we got home and there was a baby! She quickly realized that having a baby takes a lot of time and attention so Jaedyn has gotten a little jealous where she doesn't want to 'share her blankets' anymore and she has started to act like a baby. She's funny! Luther has taken off work this whole week. So we're trying to give Jaedyn is getting a lot of extra attention so Jaedyn doesn't feel replaced or abandoned. That's the last thing I want - is for her to feel those things. Luckily this week is in the 70's and 80's so we're playing outside a lot.
I was telling Luther how natural it feels and how I feel much older than I am. 2 kids at 22. I don't feel young. I feel like a more mature family. I don't know how to really describe this feeling but I love the feeling. I love my family and I can't wait to continue to mother my children and to do it with my best friend, my love, my companion, my husband!
Some pics of our Hallee:
Right after delivery
Weighing 7lbs 2 oz
Our whole family
Jaedyn meeting Hallee for the first time
Hallee Ann Hargrove
So Jaedyn has started this demanding yelling NOW. And when she demands NOW I try to correct her with what she is asking by replacing the NOW with a please. Here's a few examples...
- Jaedyn is taking a bath and the bubbles has disappeared because she was in there for a while and she runs out of the bathtub and covers herself and I said 'are you done Jaedyn' she said 'no' then I said 'what are you doing' she replies with 'MORE BUBBLES NOW!'
- DORA NOW!
- BUBBLES NOW!
- PINK MILK NOW!
- And we joke around with her calling her a turd when she's onery (which I now regret) So she asked me to do something (don't remember what) and she yells, 'NOW TURD!'
So even though I don't want her saying NOW and I always correct her and explain how that's not nice and we don't talk like that, it is and can be secretly funny!
I'll do a quick update on everything that's happened but then I would like to start being more current and up to date with everything. I'm really bad at keeping a journal but Jaedyn is just so funny and there's things I want to remember so I'm going to start putting stories, pictures, and reminders for my self and maybe one day I'll go back and record everything down or turn my blog into a book. But this post will be just an update on where life has been the last several months.
Well Jaedyn is growing like crazy! She is now 2. Oh man how time flies by: Here's a picture update :)
Johnson County Fair riding the Merry Go Round and she loved it! She was 19 mo.
She loves to help Pappy (grandpa) fix up his house
She's in the big girl bed
One of her favorite things to do is to color
For Halloween she was a cowgirl..Wasn't too crazy about the hat
Decorating the tree
Making our yearly gingerbread house
Sitting on Santa's lap. She HATES guys so that's why she was upset
For Jaedyn's birthday Dada and Mama took Jaedyn to Monkey Buizness and she LOVED it. It was her first time ever going and she threw the biggest fit of a life time when we left
This was a picture of Jaedyn at her birthday party. She LOVES Dora so it was a Dora themed party. She's wearing 'Dora's outfit'
We also did Family Pics
As you can see I'm very pregnant. We're about to welcome baby #2. Actually she's coming this next Friday. I'm going to the hospital on Thursday night and starting the induction. We're pretty excited we're having another girl!
Luther has been super busy with work. He has his full time business and in November he started his own business and it has been blowing up. We had no idea it would be so successful so fast! He's doing internet marketing for other businesses. He expected about 2 clients a month but just in January he got 9 new clients. He's got about 16 clients now and still getting calls like crazy. I'm so proud of him and his dedication to providing for our family.
He is also such an amazing dad and husband. With this pregnancy he has really stepped up and helped out with Jaedyn and house responsibilities. (I have really rough pregnancies)
So that's just a small update on our family! I'm going to try really hard to be better at updating! Mainly for myself so I can hold on tight to these memories and stories that are just too funny/cute/memorable :)
Today is Jonathan's 3rd Birthday! We may not be able to celebrate his birthday with him but we still celebrated his birthday together as a family! We got a cake and decorated it with a car and we sang the traditional song, Happy Birthday!!
We're going to make it a tradition from here on out to celebrate Luther's son's birthday!
Happy Birthday, Jonathan!!!
We love you!!
Love,
Dad, Selena and your sissy Jaedyn
This last weekend we went to Oklahoma to celebrate my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party and I got to make the cake. I'm really excited about it because one day I would like to sell cakes. This is my VERY 1st CAKE (tier'd) EVER!
I'm super excited about it. I think I did a really good job for being my first! It definately could be better but I did learn a lot and it was A LOT of fun!
I tried to smooth it out but I have an idea for next time I make a tier'd cake :) Or a cake for that matter that needs some smoothing out :)
Playing a little 'Catch Up'
I know I haven't updated in a while so I'm putting pictures of up over the last several months.
Beginning of April it was one of the nice days! And Jae was so excited to play outside and play with some bubbles
Jaedyn giving her dada kisses! She loves him!
Easter! This was actually pretty funny! In Jaedyn's Easter basket there were toys and candy and different items. She immediately saw the mini m&m's and grabbed them right away and that was the only thing she cared about. LOL
We colored eggs the night before Easter and she had a blast until....
We were done and she cried!
In April we also celebrated our 2 year anniversary. We decided to go to coco keys water resort and take Jae with us. It was a lot of fun!
She loved the goats!
For my birthday Luther bought me a puppy. Her name is Bella and Jaedyn loves her. She's always playing with her and trying pick her up, and if she can't find her she says, "Bewa! Bewa!" looking for her. It's so cute!
Jaedyn is always doing something crazy but she's soo cute!! And she never keeps her hair in, (drives me crazy) I literally do her hair ATLEAST 3x a day
I love this picture!! Doesn't she look sweet!
Jaedyn and Luther just being silly :)
I love them tons!
