Catch Up!

Sorry, I haven't posted anything in awhile.  I think about it but by the time I remember a lot of time has pasted.  I need to try and be better.  I think that is going to be a new goal of mine.

Well, I guess it is time for an update since July Taylor received all of his clearance(s) to finally get to work.  He loves working down here.  The only thing he doesn't like is the travel time to and from work but he says being at work makes it worth it.  He actually just received his review of his progress and all of his co-workers said that he got an excellent review so that makes us happy, especially him that his hard work is being recognized.  I am often asked if it is hard for me to not know what he does at work, I just have to say I am used to it because my Dad's company has a government contract too, so it doesn't bother me.  Taylor and I have talked about it a few times and he says it is nice because when he is at work it is all about work and then when he comes home he doesn't have to think about anything and it is just his family.  So it is good to know that he gets to enjoy us when he is home.

Lance has gotten very big.  Since July he has learned a lot and the scar on his head looks a lot better.  He celebrated his 2nd birthday in October with some friends of ours that lived here.  We are so glad that our friends were able to come and Lance enjoys playing with their kids.  He received a tent and tunnel from his Nana, Papa, and Uncle Skyler and he loved it.  Since then he has just been a busy little boy.  He loves to test our patience I have decided.  He loves to sit and have books read to him.

For me nothing new has really happened for me.  I am a stay at home mom and for me it is hard because I like to stay busy and I get tired of having to stay busy by cleaning the house all the time.  We found out in August that we were expecting another baby.

In September we found out that we would be able to go back to Idaho for Thanksgiving, we decided that we would not tell my mom and surprise her for her birthday since it was that week.  Surprisingly enough we actually pulled it off and my mom was really shocked to see us.  We were also able to surprise my Grandma June.  The weeks leading up to our trip our families asked us several time, mostly mine, when we would be able to find out what we were having and we told them that we wouldn't be able to get an ultrasound until after Thanksgiving week.  We actually found out the day before we left that we would be expecting a little girl.  We saved this information to surprise everyone else.  They were all excited to find out that we would have a girl.

For Christmas Taylor, Lance, and I celebrated by ourselves.  It was different not having family.  My parents were able to come see us the day after Christmas for a couple days.  Then a few days after my parents left Taylor's parents and Skyler came to visit us.  With Taylor's parents and Skyler we went to Tournament of the Kings, Everyone seemed to really enjoy it, but Skyler wasn't very happy that we were in the bad guys section, he was not going to cheer for the bad guy.

Now with the new year started we are working on potty training Lance.  Hopefully we can get that done before the baby comes in April.  I guess we will see.