The Life & Adventures of the Taylor's

So these past few weeks, Brian and I have been in Vernal watching my 3 younger siblings while my parents were gone on a cruise for their 25th anniversary. They recently got back this last monday. Needless to say, I am glad they are home. We have had an exciting and confusing ride with these kids. It was definitely a good learning opportunity for us with our future children. We realized that to be a parent, a few things are good to have: good negotiation skills, listening skills, patience, endurance, and energy. It was often a battle trying to get the kids to help clean up or get ready to go somewhere. We had to bribe and bargain with them. I think that I might have gone crazy if it were not for Brian and all the help he is. He definitely kept me sane. haha. Plus, the kids have so much energy so we had to find ways to tire them out so they wouldn't stay up all hours of the night. Thank goodness, they started school while we were here. It gave us a much needed break during the day. W...

Brian and I have been married for 4 months now. It has been so great. But it has definitely been a roller-coaster. We have had to adjust and learn more about each other. It is a different lifestyle, but I wouldn't change it for anything. We have had to learn to live with each other throughout school and homework and projects. We had to learn to share a bed and that's not an easy thing for 2 tall people, but now I cannot sleep without him. We have been through a funeral and complications with family members in hospitals. It's been emotional and confusing. But we can get through anything because of our love for each other. We just want to make the other happy. We will do everything we can. Life is great. Being married is wonderful! This past week,we bought a couple goldfish...they were super cheap. But we are proud to say, they made it past a day. They are even still alive and going on 8 days. We are quite proud of ourselves. We still haven't exactly named them(for the ...

This past weekend, Brian and I went camping near Rexburg. We were right by the river. The weather was super nice and we just got to enjoy each other. We asked others to join us, but in the end it was just Brian and I. But it was alot of fun. We didn't have any extravagant cooking stuff, just a fire. It worked out fine though and we had fun with our little adventure. We made s'mores and sat around the campfire. We played with glowsticks and fireworks. haha. We even played with a flare. It was neat. We caught a bunch of minnows with our bare hands. We brought a few home hoping that they could live in a fishbowl. But they didn't survive the day. Now we are on a fish hunt. We are looking at fish to buy to put in our fishbowl. We still aren't sure what we will get, but it will be our FHE activity. haha. Overall, we had a wonderful weekend(minus the many dead fish). It is so nice to have Brian to myself. He isn't worrying about school or any upcoming assignments. He goes ...

Last week, Brian and I left after his class on Tuesday and headed towards Colorado for Independence Day. We had to stop at a junk yard in salt lake to pick up a part for Brian's auto project. We were there for over an hour. We had called previously and they said they had what he needed. When we looked at the part it was totally different. It  was  about 20 minutes to closing and we were getting bummed not finding anything. Brian decided to look through the engine pile. He found an engine that had a similar part. It ended up matching what we needed, but the engine was a completely different make and model than what we originally had. But it ended up working out pretty well. That night we stayed in Price. We were exhausted from travelling and dealing with auto parts. 4th of July morning, we got up early and head for Colorado with Brian's Mom. We luckily beat the rush of the holiday. And we made it by noon to Brian's parents. It was so nice to be there. Sadly, we missed all fi...

So this past week, I found out that I was 6 hours short of renewing my CNA(Certified Nurse Assistant). My certification ends June 30th. And I would have to take the whole course and tests all over again without those hours. I was freaking out and just really stressed over the matter. I need my CNA to get into the nursing program. Well it will help alot atleast. So a very kind man in Vernal that owns a few care homes helped me out and said he would let me work those hours plus a few extra for safety and would sign my papers for it. I was so grateful. I found out last monday that I was short on hours. Tuesday morning, I was driving to Vernal so that I could be to work that evening. And I will tell you that it is such a long drive without my husband...not to mention very tiring. So I worked a few evening shifts to get my hours. Sadly, I didn't really get much sleep the whole time. It's funny how being married and used to sleeping with someone will do that to you. But thank goodnes...

haha so a few weeks ago, we found a ladybug in our apartment. Needless to say, it was pretty exciting compared to my everyday norm.  But then we had to go somewhere and I didn't wanna leave my ladybug friend. So Brian trapped it under a candy dish and we left to go do what we needed. When we got back, we discovered that the ladybug was gone. The candy dish wasn't flat on the table. A little wire thing was just barely holding it up. It was so sad and disappointing. We were having so much fun playing with it. Well last night, I was laying on my bed and I noticed something reddish on the ceiling by my light. I stood up and to my surprise, it was the ladybug!!! I was so excited. So we moved my ladybug to a flower that was given to me by my wonderful visiting teachers.  Yes, this is the excitement and entertainment of us. LOL. It is great. We have so much fun. Where we found our ladybug on our coffee table My ladybug on my flower!

So Brian and I had a good weekend. We slept in on saturday, helped out a friend and we even got to go to the Drive In on Saturday night for free, which is always great. The movies were pretty good too. It was Snow White and the Huntsman(kinda weird and creepy) and Men in Black 3 which was a good one. I enjoyed it. there was even deep meaning to it. That doesn't happen often. But we didn't get home until 2 am on Sunday morning. We had church at 9. We were 30 or 40 minutes late, but atleast, we made an effort to get there. Brian  even got a majority of his homework done this weekend. He wanted to get ahead a bit, but that didn't really happen. Then Sunday night, we played games with some friends. The kind of games that you could really embarrass yourself. haha. It was fun.Then we got to bed around 1 am this morning. And 8 o'clock came way too soon. I thought I had pressed the snooze button on my alarm, when in fact I turned it off. Brian woke up a quarter to 9 and hurried...