I LOVE to can! Canning meat, beans, fruit, jelly's, broth, etc. etc.  So I've been wanting to go berry picking but since this summer has been insanely hot berries were to be picked earlier than normal and were done early where you couldn't go picking.  I decided to go towards the end of berry season but unfortunately when I called berries were done for the year due to the heat.  So I knew Peach season was coming up soon and so I called the Peach Farm and guess what! Peaches were ready!  They were sooo yummy and juicy that I had to stop myself from eating them because I wanted to can peaches. 


 So we went to the peach farm and I've never been peach picking before so I didn't know how big peach trees were.  Well they are short trees full of peaches.  Jaedyn was able to reach the peaches and pick them as well!  Isn't she soo cute!


And BOY were those peaches D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!!






So these are the peaches we canned! It was quite the process! I wouldn't ever recommend going to go peach picking and then can them.  Because it was pretty expensive...however...if I ever have a peach tree (which one day when I have a yard I will be planting me a peach tree or two along with a cherry tree and whatever others I want) I will be canning lots of yummy peaches!

 Luther and his siblings put together a beach volleyball team.  There were games every Friday at 8pm for 2 months to play different teams of volleyball.  Since I am sooo not athletic I just went to watch.  We would go to IHOP after games and visit.  Unfortunately, there were multiple games that Luther had to work and couldn't go but when we did go it was a lot of fun!

 Each team had to come up with a team name.  Luther's team name was Destroyers but all the other teams picked pretty perverted name, kinda comical but kinda awkward; like: Balls to the Face, or Snetty Balls.  HA! But anyways it was a fun time when we went!

 This year for the 4th we didn't do very much but what we did do was spend good time as a family.  Luther had the day off! YAY for paid holidays!  But we just hung out, went and got fireworks, and had a BBQ with Luther's family then did fireworks with the kiddos! 

 My sweet baby girls all festive in their 4th gear!


 The kiddos doing their fireworks!

 Jaedyn has always been my little fishy, from day 1.  I would bring her to the pool almost daily her first summer in the world we live in.  She still is my little fishy.  Now Hallee on the other hand, she will sit in it if the water is only 1inch deep of water.  Ya she doesn't care for it and if it's the slightest bit cool that's not even ok.

I went to the store when the pool opened and got Jaedyn a bunch of toys.  Rings, buckets, balls, squishy things...She has to have her basket of toys every time we go.  She's lost a few but it's ok but she's so smart she always remembers the things she lost and asks about it.


'Miss Hallee Poo' (ya I'm sure she'll appreciate that nickname one day...lol) She's soo sensitive she didn't want to be in the water so I'm bouncing her on my legs.  Look how super cute she is, in that floppy hat!


Every time we go to the pool I try to feed her right before we go, but make sure it's at nap time so when we're there I can put her in the stroller and Jaedyn and I can play in the water with the stroller right there while she sleeps.  This was her waking up.  Since this summer has been SUPER hot, like 100's most days I constantly will put water on her head and face so she doesn't overheat while she's sleeping, luckily she doesn't wake up from it, it must be relaxing for her.
 

Our pool is a super nice pool.  It has big slides, kiddie slides, jungle gym in the water for the kids volleyball net, diving boards, lilly pads to balance on, and a lazy river.  My sister watched Hallee so I could take Jaedyn on the lazy river.  Jae thinks it's pretty cool especially since she can kick and float.  Good thing she starts swim lessons next week...She's gonna love it!

Jaedyn's great aunt, Aunt Donna from Luther's side (there's a great Aunt Donna on both Luther and my side) came to visit from Utah and she brought presents for the kids.  One of the things Jaedyn got was a apron.  Which I was excited about because I've been wanting to get Jaedyn a apron.  Not just any apron but a super cute one so buying the aprons at hobby lobby are just plain so that would require me to make one and when I sew I have long battles with my sewing machine so I haven't done it because it would make me to mad and it probably wouldn't even turn out that cute so when Aunt Donna brought this darling apron for Jaedyn it took just another thing off the list of me eventually getting.

The first thing we made with Jaedyn's apron on was jello jigglers.  Did you know you could make jello jigglers really easily.  You know the kind of jello that you can pick up and it won't fall apart in your hands.  Ya that's pretty cool! All it is, is 4 small packages of jello with 2.5 C boiling water.  You DON'T add cold water then you put it in a 9x13 put it in the refrigerator let it set up then put the bottom of the dish under hot water for 15 sec to soften the bottom then you cut it in squares or if you want to be a super cool mom/grandma you use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.  (Wasn't planning on writing the recipe but it just kinda happened so your welcome if you didn't know how to do that :))

It was super fun doing this and she loved it!  It was really the first time I let her help me with cooking food, now she helps me all the time and always have to have her apron on.

Thank You Aunt Donna!

 Can I just say how hard it is to get/give gifts to Luther.  He is so picky and when it comes to gift giving for him he just wants something that he needs.  Ya that's great! But the problem is he gets everything he needs and wants so when it comes to gift giving it's almost impossible.  So I've seen these DAD photos going around pinterest a lot and I thought that was perfect for him especially since he has been wanting a picture of his girls for his desk at work. 

So when I went to Hobby Lobby to get the letters and there was a problem... everybody and their mom is doing the exact same project.  So all the unfinished wooden letters D and A were gone so I had to buy the finished ones.  (That's fine it was just more expensive) But that's ok :)

So I took my girls to my parents house and got them all done up with their super cute matching outfits and tried to take pictures.  Let me just say what should've taken 5 minutes took an hour.  Jaedyn 'gets her picture done' when she wants it done.  SO there was a lot of bribing involved. 

Here are some pictures that ended up being taken:


This picture is convincing Jaedyn to hold Hallee, and Hallee was screaming and Jaedyn was yelling...
                "She's FALLING! SHE'S FALLING!  SHE'S FAAAALLLIIINNNNGGG!!!
HA that was pretty funny!

This picture was trying to get them to lay in the vinery.  Let me just say the vinery is very soft but as you can tell neither one wanted or liked it.

This picture is trying them to hold the letters and since Hallee is barely 3 months and probably the chunkiest baby ever she can't sit up not even partially so we're trying to hold the back of her up by her outfit...Nope she didn't like that either...even if we could get her to sit up Jaedyn's not looking and you can't even see the letters so this one was a failure too.

In this picture we were doing the same technique with them sitting on a flower well at my parents because it's pretty but the background didn't even look as good as I had envisioned and AGAIN Hallee didn't like it.
                                           

And out of the million pictures we took we chose this one because it was the best one.  Jaedyn is half smiling and Hallee is sorta looking at the camera.  BUT guess what...This was the very first picture taken...DANG! I went through a hour of headache for nothing but on the bright side he LOVED it and it is on his desk!

Jaedyn has had her fair share of corn but This was her very first corn on the cob that she ate by herself and she LOVED it!
Doesn't she look like a pro?
Her cheesy smile :)

 Oh my heck! Hallee is getting soo big.  She's 3 months but yet it seems like she's always been here but at the same time it feels like I was just in the hospital.  Time flies by so fast but yet the days can be long.  Hallee has really bad allergies so I have to keep her inside with the air conditioning.  If she's outside her allergies act up really bad and she has trouble breathing and miserable.  She's also what I believe to be colic.  She cries a lot but it definetley teaches me patience between a baby that cries all the time and chasing a very active 2 year old.  But it's a lot of fun.  I love every stage kids have so far because there a lot of fun in there own way BUT can my babies just stay little?!?

 It's the first time this year we've gone to the park.  With me being carless, Super pregnant, and a new mom of 2, I finally took the girls to the park.  I don't know if Jaedyn really remembers going last year but now she loves it and asks all the time to go to the park. 

She also LOVED the teeter totter...She will sit on my legs and want me to lift her up and down with my legs and say teeter totter - teeter totter! Love her :)

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!