So Quiet...

Daddy taught them a new very valuable skill!

Checkers!

Happy Halloween

We are very lucky to have Emily help us out a couple times a week. She was there for us on Halloween so we took a quick messy family picture to remember this crazy time. (not that things aren't about to get worse)

Abbey and Marian were puppies. They all crawl on the floor and bark 50% of the time already. Halloween just made it official. Then Amelia felt like being original, a ghost. Apparently there is some Gibbs history here. I'll write more when Grammy gets home.

And you can see my baby bump if you look closely. Well, maybe you don't have to look too closely. I was so happy to be out of the house, out of my bed for that matter.

Cilantro!

I've been feeling better since this baby has made me sick.
A story for another day.
So I pretend I'm doing well and clean up my house and ignore my children while I clean up. I guess Marian was feeling hungry and all she found in the refrigerator was cilantro. I couldn't tell the extent of her love for cilantro until I rounded the corner and saw...

Classic Haunches Photo

Can I be angry with this face? If I leave her long enough she will clean up after herself. It's like having a dog.

Oh Baby!

We were excited to find out IF we were having a baby back in July. After 4 days of early testing, we skipped the dollar store tests and went for the $15 digital. It was more clear....

We were also excited to find out if we would be a family of all daughters.
Four girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby Girl Gibbs
due March 11, 2013

Graduation!

Abbey graduated from Kindergarten. here she is with Miss Cheri.
 We loved Kid's Village. She went there for 3 years and now it's time to say good bye. 

Amelia graduated from Pre-school. She loved it there too. Here she is with Miss Valerie. 

They grow up too fast!

Happy 9th Anniversary

Our anniversary fell on a Sunday this year, and lucky for me Ben fell asleep Saturday night at 8. I snuck out of the house to the balloon store. I stole an idea from Pintrest and got a balloon for every year we've been married . Then I attached a photo of us from each year at the bottom. So when he woke up 12 hours later he was surprised to see balloons all over our room. He was visibly touched. It's hard to get to him that way. I was proud. Although touched, he realized he had missed his chance to get me flowers.

His Sundays are full of meetings and visits and there was nothing he could do. He didn't even have a half hour to write a quick love poem. So at 5pm the Young Men and Young Women of our ward started to stop by with flowers. Amazing delegation skills? They had so much fun bringing me flowers from their yards. One guy didn't have flowers so he brought weeds, roots and dirt still attached. I had like 3 bouquets by the end. And a girl brought us a cake at 9. Cutest ever! I love you, Ben!

hungry?

I waited too long to get to the grocery store. She went for whatever she could get her hungry little hands on. Maybe that should be a new strategy, starve the vegetables into them.