the final pick!

we did the final pick from our garden the other day! 

ain't going to lie. i'm a little ready for everything to freeze. i loved having my own garden but my goodness by the end of the season i'm totally warn out! 

we got so many good things this year from it. 

corn, tomatoes galore, peppers, zucchini, squash and pumpkins. 

we put most of that away. 

(canned most of it, freeze some of it.) that way in the winter and spring when we don't have a garden we can still enjoy all the goodness from it. 

it was such a treat to share a garden with my lover. it was always so fun to go outside together to go pick things for dinner or hey look at the squash now or even babe we have a pumpkin! 

super proud of our first garden. it grew like no other. it was a BEAST. 

i would say we're pros now in the gardening department. 

^^we had two huge squashes this year and my goodness HUGE.^^

^^i'm gunna frame this photo. it makes my heart go pitter patter.^^

^^to my hip!^^

^^i'm sorry but he really is the cutest thing.^^

thanks hubby for all the hard work you put into the garden this year. 

oh and thanks mama for your help too. 

can't wait to see next's years! 

i'm feeling 22!

i'm feeling 22! 

everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like were 22 oooooooo. 

my birthday was a couple weeks ago and i'm finally getting around to sharing it. 

i love birthdays. seriously. they're so fun and so special. i mean they're once a year and its a special day all to that person. i hope my love for birthdays never change. i hope when i'm 74 i still am rocking a awesome birthday party. 

it was a good day. 

husband woke up and cooked me breakfast, brandons sweet aunts and grandma came over and sang happy birthday to me and after that i went with my sisters and mamas to gardner village and we shopped around and had yummy lunch there. it was such a treat. 

after that brandon got off work early and we went shopping and went to dinner just as us. 

spending time with him is my favorite thing ever. 

after that we had all the family come over for cake and ice cream! 

it was such a lovely day. 

^^the morning walking out to see presents and the breakfast!^^

^^cutest i-phone case! thanks hubby!^^

^^my new shoes that i love!^^

^^brandons grandma and aunts and mama so sweet of them!^^

^^all my girls at gardner village. it was so fun to go there. 

thanks mama for the idea!^^

^^later that night when everyone was coming over for the party i heard a knock and my sweet primary girl came over and brought me a little present. tell me that's not the sweetest thing EVER. 

seriously these kids i love so much!^^

^^this was my birthday cake my mama made me. she always does the cutest ones!^^

^^thanks for these MIL. has anyone read these before?^^

^^my sweet mother made me this for our kitchen table. isn't it such a beauty? i love it.^^

^^she's such a good helper when it comes to blowing out the candles!^^

this birthday was extra great. lot of memories made! 

i'm so feeling 22. 

LAST YEARS BIRTHDAY HERE.

{before i end this i want to write 22 things i love while being the age of 22}

1. husband

2. taylor swift

3. my nieces and nephews 

4. the vampire diaries

5. sweaters

6. austenland 

7. instagram 

8. pretty little liars 

9. cooking 

10. chevrons ice cream

11. the other women 

12. camping with family 

13. hart of dixie 

14. crafting 

15. nail polish 

16. taking pictures 

17. going out to eat 

18. the color mint 

19. one tree hill 

20. watching movies with hubby

21. my family 

22. shopping 

my life according to my i-phone!

hey hey hey! 

soooo when my camera roll gets to be close to 1000 i start stressing out so i empty my camera roll to make more for the new. here is all my iphone pictures through the summer! what a great summer it was. lots of babies and lots of ice cream. 

most of these photos found here. insta {jenniegrange} 

if you made it through this whole thing give yourself a high-five. seriously though. 

**last iphone photos found HERE.**

my mother is a gem.

my mother is a gem.

i don't know what i did to get so blessed with an amazing mama but i sure am thanking my lucky stars that i did. i hope that i can become like the mom that she is one day.  the cook that she is. the helper and selfless person that she is. 

last week i was stressed out about not having enough time to can the rest of the tomatoes from my garden and i was honestly disappointed that i wouldn't be doing anything with them. 

my mother the awesome person that she is noticed i needed help and one morning came over and picked all my tomatoes and went home and canned them and also canned some tomato soup for me. 

this was such a blessing to me. 

canning isn't the easiest and fastest thing in the world. 

i had no idea what she done until i went over to her house that night 

and noticed jars on the counter. 

i asked if all my garden tomatoes would make that many?

and she replied back saying those are your tomatoes.

me.... wait what? 

mom: those came from your garden. 

i could have cried such happy and thankful tears. 

that was such a relief and such a big thing off my try to-do list. 

mama thank you for your act of love and selfless to do that for me and brandon. 

we appreciated it more than you'll ever know. 

we love you.