There's Life out there

This year we're determined to figure out how to make our gardens grow. We're really have no clue how to make our yard look as nice as it did when we moved into it and I was pretty sure we killed off everything that was alive in our yard but Lizzie brought me proof of life in our garden the other day. So hopefully we can get our yard to look as pretty as we would like it to. If anybody has any gardening advice please feel free to share it. We could really use the help.
This other picture of Abby makes me laugh. This is her new pose whenever we take her picture. She had just finished an entire moose bar when I took this picture but I think a good majority ended up on her face.