Long Time

Well I know that it has been awhile since my last post and in that post I mentioned trying to get caught up,  I don't think that I will be doing that since more than 6 months have past.  I am really bad at this blog thing apparently.  I don't know if there is much that I can update on in the past 6 months besides Lance turning 1 and the fact that Taylor got a job for when he graduates in May and we will be moving to Vegas.  I am a little excited about the move but nervous at the same time.  I don't know how I will handle it being away from all of my family and everything I have known for well my whole life.  We have had a few ups and downs getting to this point.  We have both realized that packing up everything in our house is our least favorite activity.  I am so worn out by the time I get home from work that I don't want to do it and well we are both lazy.  Hopefully the unpacking will be a little bit more exciting.  Let's hope.  

Well I decided I will talk a little bit about the things that I haven't shared from the past 6 months.  Lance's 1st birthday was pretty hectic.  We wanted my family and Taylor's family to enjoy the experience but we knew how hard it is to coordinate things and since Lance's birthday is two days after my nephew Luke we decided for my family we would do his birthday and Luke's birthday at the same time with my family.  Knowing how big my brother-in-law's family is we thought it best to do a party in Soda with Taylor's family.  We were lucky enough to have Muga and Papa Lynn (Mitch's parents) there.  We were very excited because Taylor and I don't get to see them very often.  It was a really small party since it only ended up being Taylor's parents, his dad's parents and Skyler, but it was way fun.  Lance of course didn't care much about what he got, but it is a great experience remembering him and the day he arrived to our little family. Maybe I will post these pictures when I get a little bit more time (more like after I get settled into our new place).

Halloween.  Lance was a monkey this year and he made a pretty cute monkey.  He was really excited to find out that People would just give him candy.  He is a Brown through and through, he loves his sweets.  We also spent Halloween with some friends and played games.  It was a very long night if I remember correctly.

Between Halloween and Thanksgiving I believe was the time that we found out that Taylor would be working for JT3 a company down in Vegas area that works with the Air Force.  This job offer also meant that we would have to move.

I guess the next thing would be Thanksgiving.  For Thanksgiving we spent that with Taylor's family at Bear Lake.  It was fun like always.  I love to spend time with them.  My parents decided that they would ditch us for Thanksgiving and go to Disneyland with my sister and her family.  I of course was really jealous of this because that made it twice that I haven't been able to go.  

Next is Christmas.  We spent Christmas Eve and morning at Taylor's parents house with all of Taylor's siblings.  We woke up at about 7:00 to open presents.  Lance and his cousin Carter had a lot of fun playing the boxes of the presents.  Lance even enjoyed playing in the popcorn container with the little bit of popcorn that we didn't eat.  We have some pictures of this that I will have to post if I can find them.  Taylor's parents and sister-in-law tried to get the boys to stay in a room so that we could try and do other things but of course if you know Lance he doesn't like TV and he must have figured that we were all doing other things so he of course and to go and find some trouble to get into.  I believe at some point this was the day that he played with Taylor's phone in the toilet.  For some reason no matter how many times we have told Taylor's family you have to make sure that the doors to the bathroom were closed they didn't. 

New Year's Eve.  For New Year's Eve we spend another night playing games with friends again.  We have enjoyed playing games with friends, it is a good thing that we have some friends that are moving to Vegas for work too.  Of course like most times Lance feels the need to be into everything even when it isn't our house.  We were trying to play a game and he kept pulling things off of our friends' pantry shelves and then finally when I was about to tell Taylor that we should go Lance decided to fall asleep.  Thank heavens.

On to February.  I can't really think of much that happened in February.  There was Valentine's Day that we spent with some friends that invited us over to have fish and crab.  I was more excited about the crab, for all those that know me know that I don't like fish too much.  We also celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary (well not quite our anniversary, we have our actual anniversary next year.  What do you expect when you get married on leap day).  This was also probably the saddest month that we have had as a married couple.  We announced to our family the weekend before Valentine's Day that we were expecting our second child.  Come a few weeks after that when I went in for my first appointment with the doctor we found out that there wasn't a heartbeat.  It took Taylor and I a minute to let this sink in and then began the hardest day that we have had.  By the end of the day we had accepted that God wasn't ready for us to have this child yet.

March.  Well this was the actual month that we found out that we had a child that wasn't quite ready for us to have yet.

April.  This is the month that we had our trip to Vegas to find a place to live and for Taylor and his class to go to NAB (big electronic convention,  I like to call it the Nerd Convention).  We looked at a lot of places with our friends who are moving down and Taylor and I couldn't seem to agree on a place until finally we walked into a place and we both said that it was it.  So we signed the papers and sent money for the townhouse that will be our house.  We are excited for this new adventure but nervous at the same time.

Well I think I am all caught up.  I will try to add photos of these things when I can.