More pictures I say!

I have all these pictures I want to post and frankly I am too busy to post all the time and finally have the time to do more. I hope you all enjoy the pictures and I know Brooklyn will enjoy them too. She loves to look on our blog and go through all the pictures. Its like a photo album for her only its online. We are loving it here in Rochester and enjoy the ward and all our friends. Spring is here and green is all around us. We are enjoying the parks, walks and all the playing time there is outside!  

Grandma Kelsch came to visit us when Taylor was born. Brooklyn wanted to post this picture and I love it too!

For Valentines Daddy made us yummy baby back ribs and gave Brooklyn a rose. She was excited can you tell? She gave Daddy a bunch of her toys for Valentines hahaha. 

Brooklyn at a tea cup birthday party and she got her picture taken on this cute chair! It was a fun party where the girls wore their best dress and got cute small purses. Brooklyn has been having so much fun going to many birthday parties! She loves it!

We finally got some snow, lots of snow back in February.  We had been waiting for the big storms Rochester is known for but this winter was pretty mild. I guess we got lucky! It was still cold though!

The snow kept coming and coming Daddy and Brooklyn were out in the snow all afternoon til dark shoveling snow. They had such a great time. Matt's crazy shoveling in his shorts!

We found this snowman right in front of our door! Our friend, Greg, who is the University of Rochester diving coach and lives a few doors from us, secretly made this snowman and ran off! Brooklyn ran out in her bare feet and had fun playing with her new friend!

Brooklyn has been such big help around the house. In fact she loves to help me clean and in this picture we loaded her up with stuff to take upstairs and see how much she could carry. She sure did pretty good!

Before we flew to Utah back in March Brooklyn kept asking me if today was the day we were going to Utah so I thought it would be fun to make a countdown chain for her. She loved it and would run down the stairs each morning to cut one off! 

We didn't tell Brooklyn that the Grandparents were going to be at the airport to pick us up. She was so surprised and ran right to them! This was Grandma Bailey's first time she had seen baby Taylor!

We love you guys!

This was the first time they had seen baby Taylor.... such a sweet moment.

Brooklyn and cousin Jaxson being silly! They had so much fun together and really play well together too!

This is such a cute picture of Taylor! She smiles a lot and we love it! A friend of ours gave Taylor this blanket with her name monogramed on it. We love it!

While in Utah we celebrated Matt's birthday. He had two birthday dinners and they were yummy! This one was at my parents house and it was fun to have the family there!

We had Matt's other birthday dinner at his parents house the day before the blessing of baby Taylor and planned on using half the cake to serve at the blessing. Hence the candles on half the cake! Grandma and Grandpa Bailey made one of Matt's favorite food, tacos!

Matt invited a few of his good friends (they all swam at the U of U). 

Larsen, Matt, AJ, Cody and Andrew.

We had baby Taylor's blessing on March 14th and we were so grateful we were able to do it in Utah with all the family there. It was a special day and appreciate everyone who came. 

Brooklyn and Taylor look so much alike... This one is Taylor and the one below is Brooklyn... I wish I had a close up picture of Taylor in her blessing dress to easily compare how identical the sisters look but they are!

Brooklyn when she blessed.

I asked my Aunt Andrea to make some booties for Taylor for her blessing and she did such a wonderful job. I love them! It makes me want to learn how to crochet!  Thank you so much Andrea! I sure love you!

Grandpa Kelsch and baby Taylor... priceless...

Thanks to my brother in law Danny he caught a picture of this cake before we cut out Taylor's name! Thanks Danny! The cake was yummy! Costco cake is the best I tell ya!

Mom... I love this picture of you with baby Taylor.... I think you'll like this picture too!

What can I say... ADORABLE!

The crazy Bailey family! Thanks Danny, Loni, Jaxson and Grandma and Grandpa Bailey for coming to celebrate this special day with us! We sure love you all and love how silly we all are!

My brothers and sister! I love you all! I can't believe how much we have grown and how far we have all come! I thank my parents for raising us and for the things they have taught us... We are blessed with such wonderful parents who love the Lord!

The Kelsch girls! 

Brooklyn was able to hang out with her best friend Hailey! They had such a good time together. I felt so bad when they had to part again.... Brooklyn often calls Hailey from her play phone and its so cute... Hailey's mom recently had twin boys! Congrats Stacey!

I love sister, she loves me....

We love Jesus Yesiree!

He loves us and so you see...

We are a happy family!

Catching some zzzzzz.....

Taylor is starting to get the hang of taking baths... for the longest time she did not like getting wet!

Just beautiful!

Happy as can be!

I just love all these pictures of baby Taylor....

Pretty funny.... this happens quite often...

Finally updating... Its about time I get into the groove of things!

Life has been so busy since our sweet daughter, Taylor, joined our family 3 months ago.  It boggles my mind that 3 months has gone by and Taylor is growing so quickly. We are having so much fun with her and love her smiling face! She may smile a lot but she also cries a lot... Well mostly when mommy is not around her is when she cries. She is a mommy's girl and to tell you the truth I LOVE IT! I love feeling that she needs me and I just want to do all I can for her. She truly has a wonderful family who loves her so much. Brooklyn is so sweet to Taylor and is always trying to help her not cry and make her laugh. She is a already a mother at heart... There is something so special about little girls. They have an innate motherly instinct from birth and have the desire to love and to make sure others are okay. It's so neat to watch how Brooklyn develops and grows using that motherly instinct. As my friends' daughters have been around Taylor they all just love her so much and always want to hug her and say baby, baby... they are still quite the babies themselves and how would they know to be so gentle and soft when they are the firstborns in their family? Amazing really...  

I am posting pictures from 2 months ago and really in no particular order. You know how sometimes you just need to get all your butterflies out of your tummy when you are nervous or get all your energy out when feel cooped up, well I feel I need to get all my pictures out because I haven't had the chance to share! So here you go! I will be doing several post to get all the pictures up!

Oh so precious... She attended her first birthday tea party and pictures were taken upon arrival on this cute piece of furniture. 

Just love this picture!

Can you tell its Valentines?

Definitely not happy!

Brooklyn loves to get her nails painted, we had fun doing Valentine nails!

Her Valentine Rose from Daddy... Doesn't she look like an angel?

Brooklyn wanted Daddy to hold all this stuff he is holding and wearing... can't remember why exactly.

Finally had a good snow storm in February! Brooklyn was loving it!

Brooklyn and Daddy shoveling all the snow... they were out there for several hours having so much fun!

I had to get something out of the car and open the door to this snowman! Our neighbor and good friend, Greg, made a snowman right in front of our door!

Brooklyn loooves to help me clean around the house. We were trying to see how much stuff she could put away in one trip up the stairs. 

We love Brooklyn!

I have such a sweet and caring daughter! Brooklyn continues to surprise me with all of her love and desire to be a good person and sister.  I have so much to improve on because of her sweet example. 

The other day Matt was telling me about a situation where a group of people were having a hard time with someone and no one really wanted to be around this person.  Brooklyn was playing near us and I didn't know she was even listening but she turned to Matt and said, "Daddy, if no one wants to be her friend, then I will be her friend"... Matt and I were so tickled she said that and it made our week knowing our daughter has this sweet spirit inside of her. It makes us, as parents, feel like we are teaching her something good and want to take all the credit but we can't take the credit (we'll take a little bit of it...) its something she was born with and we truly love it! 

Just today Brooklyn did something that made my heart melt...  We were in the car and I looked back in the rear view mirror to see Brooklyn waving her arm at me. She had pulled her beanie over her face and was trying to get my attention. She then signed, "I love you more!" How sweet is that? She knows I can't understand her unless I can read her lips and since her mouth was covered she signed it for me. I am still oohing and aahing over it... 

Brooklyn has been so amazing ever since her little sister arrived. I have been amazed at her love for Taylor and always willing to help and ALWAYS wanting to hold her and oh holding her by herself... I can't have any part of my hand on Taylor to help! haha She does have her moments at times but for the most part she is just adorable.  She has become the feeding monitor and tells me when Taylor is hungry, "Mommy you need to come and feed her because she is crying... she wants some milk".  She helps me by throwing away all the dirty diapers, bringing me things I may need while I am nursing, giving Taylor and I kisses while I am nursing and rocking Taylor in her car seat when she is crying. Brooklyn is going to be a wonderful mother (50 years down the road... don't want to think about that because time is going by too fast!)

Enjoy the pictures!

I just love this picture! It has some character!

Brooklyn loves to dress up! She looks like a real princess!

Dressed up again and in Grandma's shoes!

This is a plus! I found her cleaning the bathroom the other day! She loves to help clean and I guess I am a great model for her as I always clean the bathroom when she takes a bath. I can get two things done at once and Brooklyn can play in the tub while I scrub!

Hard at work!

Brooklyn made her own Valentines and wrote her name in each card all by herself! She is becoming crafty like me!

I love her "k's" right now haha they look an upside down F. 

Copying what Daddy does often! Look at those muscles!

Helping me put up the Valentine Decorations.

Ready for her date with Daddy... Ice skating!

Waiting to get their skates sitting by the warm fire.... 

All decked out and ready to go!

The future Couples Figure Skaters!

I had to post this... what a cute outfit! She comes up with all funky styles!

I love this!

The best Big sister!

Handling Taylor like a pro!

Taylor's first bottle... and possibly last bottle... haha She is a sucker for nursing!

I love this outfit and had to take a picture! Narrtjie is such a darling store!

Post baby picture! Hiding my belly! 

WE LOVE YOU TAYLOR!