UPDATE...

Make that two teeth coming in for little Taylor Jean. With her fussiness and drool, I'm expecting more than that in the near future. I'll keep you updated.

Conversations with a 2-Year Old:
Yesterday Nevaeh asked for an apple as soon as I went into her room in the morning when I heard that she was awake...

Nevaeh: Can I have an apple please Mommy?
Me: Maybe later, first you need to have breakfast.
N: Don't say later! Can I have an apple right now?
Me: You can have an apple later, or no apple.
N: Don't say "no" or "later", only "yes"!
Me: (trying not to laugh) We'll see.

I really wish I had audio of our conversations all day. It is hysterical. I can't wait for Taylor to start chiming in too...who know's what we'll hear then. :-)

New Development!!!

Guess who's first tooth poked through, just shy of 9 months?! It has caused some grumpy days (and grumpier nights) but I am thrilled that she'll soon have some teeth in that adorable smile of hers!

Trip to the Coast

This past weekend Kaleb, the girls and I went to the coast with my parents and Ally. We had a good time playing at the pool and on the beach, as you'll probably be able to tell.

Nevaeh splashing in the toddler pool.

MaMa and her granddaughters. (She's gonna kill me for posting pics of her in her bathing suit. Shhhh!)

Stylin' Baby Tay

MaMa and the Cousins: Bella, Nevaeh, and Kaiya

Daddy and Mommy

Swings at the beach.....couldn't make Nevie any happier.

Even Taylor got her first ride in a swing.

Cute girlies.

"Baby" Tay looking like such a big girl in the swing!

Always Remembered, Always Loved.

The 18th of April brought back our family's loss of my cousin Alyssa because it was her birthday. A few days before, Kaleb had been transfering all of our pictures from my computer onto his, to back them up. (Iknow, I know...we are horrible for not putting them on an external harddrive yet!) He came upon these photos that just left me with good memories of my sweet, smart cousin who we'll always remember and always love.

Nevaeh (age1) and Morgan (Alyssa's half sister, age1) getting a ride from Alyssa on the pony. This was at Morgan's first birthday.

Nevaeh, Ally, Pop-Pop, Alyssa

Tommy, Alyssa's dad with Nevaeh, Ally and Alyssa....getting ready for Nevaeh's first ride!

Cousins- Alyssa and Ally

Cousins- Jordan (Alyssa's twin), Ally, and Madison

We love and miss her dearly, but are thankful for these times with her that we can always remember.

Easter!!!

Enough with the pictures! By this time, Taylor had had ENOUGH!

Gibbs Girls

So precious!

My favorite pic of the day!

Daddy's girls looooove him.

Our little family.

Mama and Taylor

Sweet Nevie-girl.

Easter egg hunt! Can't wait for Taylor to get in on the action!

Ready, Set, Go!

Auntie Ally loves her nieces.

Nevaeh helping Mama with the cake. Yummy!!!

Easter is a very special holiday where we celebrate the resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. In addition to this, it is a time to be with family, thanking God for each other and the special time we have together and the memories we make. How blessed we are that He died for us, rose again, and lives in our hearts. And how blessed we are to have family we love so much around us!

Easter Baskets

Opening Easter baskets was really fun for Nevaeh this year. Taylor...not so much, although she did enjoy the basket grass. She scattered it all over, and tried to eat some. Nevaeh loved the gifts in her basket. She's still obsessed with wolves, and we found some little Husky figurines that look just like little plastic wolves. Guess what she's carried around with her all day today?!

See my wolf?

Candy and Gardening tools.

Oooooh paper.

Happy girl!

M&M's, Nevaeh's favorite.

Easter Eggs

This year was the first year Nevaeh was able to paint Easter eggs. We only made four, figuring that was a big enough project. Taylor was already in bed, but she got to take some pictures with her egg in the morning. Mommy decorated it for her.

Baby Tay and her egg. I just love this picture. So sweet.

Yummy. Daddy is so hilarious, huh?

Fun!

Nevaeh's egg, although she really helped with all of them.

Nevaeh just loved the eggs.

Mommy LOVES Daddy

Our pretty eggs.

Putting stickers on. So cool.

Daddy and Nevaeh, the egg artists.

Nevaeh with the eggs all lined up, ready to do work.

We're ready to play outside!

Okay, as many of you know, we bought a foreclosure with absolutely no landscaping in the backyard, and dead, weedy grass in the front. We kinda put the outside issues on the backburner while we got the inside fixed up. As the weather got nicer and nicer, however, the yards were really getting to us. We just wanted to let Nevaeh run around outside, and set Taylor on a blanket on some grass. Well, now we can! Here are some pictures of that process. I'll walk you through them, because I am not skilled enough at this blogspot stuff to get them into the right order. :-) So here it goes...

This is our side yard, no landscaping, but all cleared out. It'll stay this way until we plant some fruit trees over here.

Our first flowers in the backyard! Very pretty huh?

Our landscape team put these up for free.

This is what each one looks like, and as you'll see in another pic to come, they line the back fence.

Our back patio. There's still working on the stone mini-patio for the BBQ. We didn't want it taking up space on the actual patio and thought stone pavers would look nice. These steps lead to Moka's future Dog Run, where she'll hang out when we don't want her jumping and drooling on us.

See the flowers along the back fence? The far corner is for the Girls Garden, although Kaleb will be enlisted to help weed.

That tree straight ahead is all that was there before we moved in. Surprisingly, it never died without water or trimming!

Still in progress, but you can see how the stones will be laid out, and the stone steps to Moka's area.

Side of the garage, from the front.

Our new front yard!!!

Backyard, before it was done. Garden site.

Getting the grass put down.

Working on the front.

Pile of dirt and weeds from the back.

Garden corner, all dirt!

Yard of dirt, looks better like this than before when it was all weeds.

Front yard with old yucky grass taken out.

Pruning the plants we already had in the front. Apparently, as I've said before, the trees we had before were actually plants! :-) Just getting started...

Pruning, just the beginning

Nevaeh outside. Here's a pic of the lawn before.