April

Awww I miss those beautiful April days of 80 degrees... we are baking in some 100+ weather.... not my cup of tea! April was a good month for us, Ryans mom came to visit and we had a blast eating yummy food, relaxing and catching some rays at the beach! We discovered Taylor is NOT a fan of the beach, turns out it absolutely terrifies her. Ryan stared playing softball with his co-workers and it is super entertaining to watch, at least Taylor and I think it is. We also busted out our bikes! Ryan had the brilliant idea on Easter to load them in the car to take a ride down the bay front, it was a fabulous little family outing we all enjoyed and definitely will do again once the weather cools down a bit!

Hey there bloggers it's about time you heard from me, I figured I would give a shot at this whole blogging thing Whittney really seams to like. And she has not updated in two months, okay okay she has been really busy with Ryan's mom coming in town, then going to Idaho, Ryan went out of town for-ev-er, my Aunt Allyx came to visit, then Ryan and Whittney both had birthdays... Oh I am sorry how terribly rude I should probably introduce myself, I am Taylor. I just turned 6 months old so I am like super independent and stuff now. Whittney adores me and takes me with her everywhere, yep even to work! I am the greeter, I have a whole fan club and everything! Ryan and I hang out after work and on the weekends I love to race that guy (I usually win) he is a fine fellow. Oh another thing you should know about me I have a British accent. Anyways I will leave you with a few glamor shots of my fine self during my favorite time of the day. Nothing beats four o'clock when the sun starts coming in the window and I can sunbathe! Ta ta for now!

Taylor Evans

Spring has Sprung!

First things first, I am so excited it's Spring!!! I flipped through my InStyle Mag today while laying out and there where SO many fun colors and prints it just made me absolute giddy!!!

Its been an exciting two weeks over here, having a new little puppy definitely makes for a
lot of entertainment and work! Here are a few shots of our sweet little Taylor, we just adore her...

A few other highlights...
Ryan was sick.
Then I got sick.... boring.
Then Ryan went hunting somewhere in the middle of texas and murdered a hog.

Proof.

Taylor got her second set of puppy shots and was such a champ!
I like the rest of the world wanted to see the Hunger Games last night... I loved it, and Ryan liked it!
We bought our 3rd Beach Pass... I can't believe this will be our 3rd summer living in Texas, crazy.
And we enjoyed our first trip of the year to the beach. (I have been waiting patiently for all of the spring break madness to die down). It was well worth the wait and a perfect 80 degrees out today!

Happy Spring Bloggers!!!

Taylor

We got a puppy...

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Meet Taylor

(Tay-Tay, baby girl, Taylor girl, Taylor Goose)

She loves cuddling, sleeping, cuddling, getting kisses, cuddling, 

making new friends, being held, short walks in the park, and her blankies!!!

A week ago we were not even thinking about getting a dog but here is her story! Last Friday I get to work and hear about these 11 teeny tiny 6 week old puppies that were abandoned and left all crammed in a flea infested box. The local animal shelter was looking for people to foster the pups until they could be adopted into homes. Well this of coarse broke my heart and I thought, I can handle a puppy for a weekend, I can't be more than a few days before someone will want to adopt this cute little face! Which was true...  I feel in love with that sweet face and could not let anyone else take her! So she is an Evans now :) I could not be more happy about it!!! Because of the whole situation we are not 100% sure on her age and breed but the vet told us she is more than likely she 6-7 weeks old and a Chiweenie, a cross between a Chihuahua and the Dashshund. Tiny and cute forever <3

Enchanted Rock

I have been dying for some good old outdoors time lately, I just feel like am indoors so so much. So when I found out both Ryan AND I had a three day weekend for MLK Day I jumped on the chance! We headed up to the "hill country" of Texas to check out Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock. Fredericksburg is this quaint little town that we had a great time wandering around all the different shops, restaurants and antique stores! I few of our finds where a German bakery that we picked up some pastries at for breakfast, Sweet German pretzel equals life changing yumm! Also that super old badge pictured below Ryan found at an antique store, he was ecstatic, it is pretty awesome! We also tried "The Best Burger in Texas" it was pretty delish! AND I am almost 99% sure I saw Tim Riggins ranch from FNL I need to re-watch the last episode to be sure but it look identical! We camped out that night at Enchanted Rock and in the morning we hiked up/down, all around and even into Enchanted Rock, we had a blast!

Also good news! Turns out that I took more than 2 pictures on my last Idaho trip, not many more but a few!

Kaylee two weeks over due and still looking beautiful!

Me, Emily & Kaylee again!
I don't know where Mom, Dad & Aaron where hiding out!
I also got to see my sweet Grandma Potter, Aunt Lesia, Aunt Su and some of the boys cousins while I was home at lunches and game nights! Fun times, but no pictures!

I got to see Grandpa & Grandma Price while I was home, I am so lucky to have these two amazing people in my life!

Evans girls! This is a good time to announce that there will be 3 new Evans babies this summer, yep 3!!! Shelby, Jessica and Janae are all pregnant! Yay! It was so fun to see all the girls and littleBlaze while I was home, I miss them all!

Azlynn and Grandma Debbie

Cute Anistion!

NY, NY

My hilarious, awesome, sweet little brother Aaron Potter opened his mission call tonight! He will be serving a two year mission for the LDS church in the New York, New York North Mission, speaking Portuguese! I am so excited for him and a very proud big sissy! I know that he will be an amazing missionary and will touch so many lives! I may have been secretly dreading this day/looking forward to it his whole life, not having my little brother around or at the other end of the phone for a whole two years will be tough but I know that it will be worth it and that this will be such an amazing time in his life! Plus there are always letters :) A saying I saw on pintrest put it best I think...
"Missionary (noun): Someone who leaves their family for a short period of time so that others may be with their families for eternity."
Congratulations Bubba!!!

"24601"

I am back to the blogging world! Just needed a little break, I thought about not backtracking clear to October but I have the worst memory ever and I don't want to forget about the last three months of 2011! So I will start where I left off... October. (With a lot of help from Instagram)

It was a great month for us full of pumpkin deserts, gypsy costumes, pumpkin carving, carmel apple making, 0 scary movies and a road trip to San Antonio....

I love weekend getaways!

Next was a trip {home} to Idaho at the start of November, where I managed to capture a whole 2 pictures, go me! I planned the trip to arrive a few days after my sisters due date and to be there for all the baby excitement. But little baby Charlotte was a little too comfortable in there and came on her own time, which happened to be two weeks late. She arrived the day before Thanksgiving happy and heathy! Sadly I was already back home in Texas.

Even though I did not get to meet this little bundle of joy as planned, it still was a wonderful much needed trip home with lots of family time! Charlotte is already growing up to fast, luckily Kaylee is the best and sends me LOTS of pics :)

Thanksgiving we got to skype the fam...

 and fry a turkey! I was a bit skeptical but it turned out to be super yummy-o! We had a delicious dinner with friends!

Of coarse right after Thanksgiving comes one of my favorite things to do, decorate for Christmas! Which I got to do twice this year. Once at the store...

 and then at home!

December was full of work parties, treat making, sugar plum fairies, light watching, dinner parities, holiday music.... mostly just spreading Christmas cheer!!! (I tend to become even more cheesier, if that's even possible, around the holidays! I can't help myself)

It was just Ryan and I this Christmas and just like last year we caved and opened all our prezzies Christmas Eve... I don't regret it, it was too much fun! We were absolutely spoiled rotten.

We rang in the New Year at our friends new house and I finally got to see the much talked about "secret room" it is just what it sounds like, hidden behind a bookcase and all. Ryan is convinced we need one...someday, we need a house to put it in first :) We partied into the wee hours of the morning and then it took us a whole week to recover, well worth it. For my New Years Resolutions this year I am making a "lifetime" list, a bucket list of sorts. I have made lists here and there but this one is going to be official and it WILL have 100 things on it, so it may take me the whole year to prefect it. Feel free to join me, it is going to be AWESOME!

As far as the new year goes we have just been playing with Christmas presents, recovering from strep throat (me..boo) and had a another little day trip to San Antonio. I have been looking forward to this for months, we went to see Les Miserables!

I love it, and I have been walking around singing "24601" all week long. It was not as magical as the first time I saw it in London two years ago it was still amazing, and this time I got to share it with ^ that cute face this time! 

Happy 2012 friends!