The Life & Adventures of the Taylor's

Today is Brian and my 4th anniversary. Time sure has flown. We have both finished school, moved multiple times, had 2 children, and purchased our first home. We are more in love now than we have ever been. Brian's job is going really well and we are happy. We are loving the warmer weather, especially Brexdon. He loves being outside. Haddley is crawling, Brexdon is saying more complete sentences. It is so exciting to see them learn and figure things out for themselves. We are happily settling in Southwest Colorado. We are working on a garden this year and Brian made a firepit that we can certainly enjoy in the summertime. I am applying for part time nursing jobs to keep my skills up and enjoying being a stay-at-home mom. I am working on having a fit and healthy body by exercising daily and I feel much better. Life is good. We are happy and our marriage couldn't be better.

I'll be honest...I am depressed this week. Normally, Brian and I would be spending Thanksgiving with my family this year... But unfortunately that doesn't get to happen due to Brian having to work today and Friday. He gets Thanksgiving day off, but we cannot really travel because of it. So I am depressed because all of my family will be together and I don't get to be there. In the great scheme of things, it is minor but I love my family and I love when we can all be together which is not very often. Since Brian just started his job in August, he doesn't have any days off yet so we are learning how real life works. We don't really get holidays off. We have to work until 5 and sometimes later. We have to pay bills, and we have to be responsible. It isn't like we weren't responsible before, but we have more freedom to go and do things whenever we wanted in a sense. It is hard being a full-time mother, wife and student. It is hard trying to get healthy and sta...

It's been a while since I have posted but a lot has happened. We had our baby girl Haddley Grace on July 17th at 2:07 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and was 22 inches long. On Sunday, July 26th, we blessed her in my parents ward in Vernal, Utah. That day was also Brexdon's 2nd birthday along with my little brother, Devin's mission homecoming. Then Brian and his parents went up to Rexburg to pack up all of our belongings there and I stayed in Vernal for a few days. On Tuesday, I met Brian and his parents in Price and we moved down to Redmesa, Colorado. Currently, we are living with Brian's parents. But we have found a house and we are working on getting financing for it. We should hopefully be able to move into our new home the beginning of September. I will be excited for when that day arrives. There is nothing like having your own place. I have definitely enjoyed living here and having all the help with Brexdon and Haddley. It has certainly helped reduce some of my stress...

I feel like with each pregnancy, I am ready to be done with it sooner. It is hard to wait it out especially when so much is so supposed to be happening around the due date. I am down to 3 weeks until this little one's due date and I felt done with this pregnancy a few weeks ago. I have had an especially rough third trimester between lower back pain, pulling abdominal muscles, and extremely loose ligaments and joints that makes walking truly hurt. I do not mean to complain either. It just shows how different each pregnancy can be. So my goal lately is learning to be patient. My baby girl will come when she is ready. I have been doing all I can to prepare my body for labor, but it is up to her in the end. I guess what has me stuck right now is that life is hard to plan when you do not know when your baby will decide to be born. Brian and I have been working on planning (to the best of our abilities) the next few months of our lives which will include having a baby, moving, and star...

Brian and I have received some answers and have made some decisions to get us through the next few months, As of right now, we are planning on staying in Rexburg until after we have the baby then we will most likely be moving within a few weeks after she is born. So that is a relief to not have to worry about finding a new doctor at this point since I am down to 6 weeks left. Brian has received a few job offers. It seems that they are willing to wait until we get there after they heard our situation. So that is definitely good and quite a blessing. Also I am happy to announce that I passed my NCLEX so now I am a registered nurse. To say that is such a wonderful feeling after all I did to work to get to this point. So grateful to have that out of the way so that I can focus on nesting and preparing for another baby. On top of that, we are attempting to potty train Brexdon in hopes that he will be potty trained by the time this little girl arrives. I must say it is quite stressful bu...

So it has been a while since I have been on. Well Brexdon McCoy Taylor was born on Friday, July 26th at 2:44 pm. He ended up being a C-section which was a surprise for us but it ended up working out. He is now 10 weeks old and so much fun. He is smiling all the time and will making funny faces and noises at us. He is quite the chatter box. Which is why we moved him into his crib in his room when he was a month old. He is just such a noisy sleeper.

My mind has been soaring through all the possibilities of life lately. It never seems to stop. And sleep becomes harder to find. I have noticed and learned a few things on this little journey (aka trial) though. I have learned that the Lord keeps us waiting because there is something better in store for us. I have learned that we are kept waiting because we are being more adequately prepared for things (aka NCLEX). The Lord knows and loves us. He has special plans for us even if we do not see it yet. We have not yet received any job offers, but we have received peace. Brian has applied to multiple companies and he plans on visiting some of them this next week. We have decided that if no job offer is received within the first week of June that we are supposed to stay in Rexburg until after our baby girl comes. That deadline is oddly quite the peace of mind. I have been so worried about trying to move being extremely pregnant and finding a new doctor and well everything that comes with...