The Brown Family

More Pictures

2010-11-01T08:36:00.000-07:00

I took these pictures on our trip back to Alabama. We went to a buffalo park in Tupelo, MS. They have tons of animals and you get to go on a trolley ride where you can stop and feed the buffalo and zebras. Taylor loved seeing all the animals and getting to feed them.

Halloween Pictures

2010-11-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

We had a great Halloween this year. Taylor decided she wanted to go a SuperGirl. She loved the trick-or-treating and now has tons of candy that she wants to eat. I have also been doing a lot of sewing lately and I made her this little dress. I am currently working on some pajamas but and still trying to figure out how to put the yoke(collar) on the shirt.

Pictures

2010-09-04T07:27:00.001-07:00

Hey, I don't have much to say in this post so I thought I you put up some pictures of Taylor. She is growing so fast and is now in the why stage. No matter what you tell her she always comes back with "Why" or "Why not".

Hiatus

2010-06-02T08:37:00.000-07:00

It has been a really long time since I have posted so this post is just going to be catching up on pictures.

Halloween Costumes

2009-11-06T10:16:00.001-08:00

Here are a few pictures of our Halloween fun. Taylor dressed as a fairy this year. I was really surprised that she wore the wings all night because when I bought them for her and put the on she wanted them off immediately. We had a costume party at the Hoelscher's house with our Bible study class. Everyone dressed up and there were some amazing costumes. Taylor loved trick or treating. If you can't tell by the picture her favorite part was the suckers. She would pick them out of the bowl if people would let her. I think she had two that night along with the many other sweets she had.

Pumpkins, Football and Much More.

2009-10-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

We have been really busy around here lately so I haven't got to update in a while. Several weekends ago I got to spend a lovely weekend on a women's retreat with some of the girls from church. We stayed in Roundtop TX at the Wellspring Bed and Breakfast. It was amazing and I had a wonderful time. We took Taylor to the pumpkin patch at one of the churches to pick out a pumpkin to carve. She loved it and I think she would have tried to take home all of the pumpkins if we would let her. She was trying to carry around the one we picked out so we decided to get a smaller one for her to carry around. She carries that thing around the house all the time. We got the pumpkin carved Thursday night before being woken up in the middle of the night and having to go to the hospital to find out Taylor has croup. She is doing better now only a little wheezing and coughing.

Yesterday we headed to Reliant to watch the Texans beat the 49Er's. We had amazing seats thanks to tickets from Ryan's work. Kendra and Viet Nguyen went with us and we had tons of fun. It was military appreciation day so there was tons of military there. We got to see the army parachute team during the National Anthem parachute in with the flag. During halftime the Marine silent drill team preformed and what I got to see of it was amazing. We also got to see both George H and George W Bush there. We were so close we could have reached out and shook their hands but didn't for fear of being shot by the secret service. Taylor's favorite part of the game was the mascot Toro. She would point at him and say cow every time she would see him. She loved watching him and copying everything he did

It's Been A While

2009-08-21T17:14:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since I have posted. We have been busy around here so I usually don't have time to post very often. Taylor is getting so big. I can't leave her alone for longer then a minute because when I come back into the room she is climbing on something. We had to change her bed to a toddler bed because she figured out that she could climb out of it. I thought this would not work out to well because one I was afraid she would fall out in the middle of the night because she sleeps all over the bed. Two because I thought if she woke up in the middle of the night that she would get up and play instead of sleeping. She has done great we just put her in the bed and she doesn't move until the morning when she wakes up and crawls out of her bed and knocks on the bed room door.
This is a picture of her in her tunnel that we bought for her. She loves it.
Playing with the giant night light at the children's museum. We took her one Thursday night because they have free family night. There is so much to do there I don't think we saw everything. We were especially pleased to see they had a whole area for toddlers.Brushing the stuffed dog in the vet at the Children's museum.She liked this one because it looked like Casi.

We went to the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham TX the past weekend while Ryan's parents were in town. We really enjoyed the tour but the ice cream at the end was the best.

Busy, Busy, Busy

2009-06-10T13:29:00.000-07:00

We have been extremely busy around here lately. This weekend and Monday have been all about water. Saturday we decided to go down to Galveston for the sand castle competition. We had so much fun. Taylor was loved the water. She had some reservations at first but finally after daddy took her out in it she decided it was so much fun. We tried to take her out so she could play in the sand and she would run back in and sit down where the waves could hit her. We were not too pleased with the sand castle competition because for one you had to pay ten dollars just to see them. Don't get me wrong there were some really neat ones there, but after a couple hours on the beach we decided to go eat and then come back and finish looking at them all. When we waited in line to get back to the beach they told us we would have to pay again even though we had a ticket showing we payed. So we decided to go home and won't be paying ten dollars to see the sand castles again.

Sunday we had a event at church with water slides and a dunking booth. Unfortinantly the slides were to big for Taylor, but we did enjoy some watermelon.

Monday we went to Gillians house to play in the sprinklers with Leelah and Rebecca. Although Taylor was not a big fan of the spinkler we still had fun. She had her first pop ice popcicle and loved it.

Last night we enjoyed a Astros game with our Bible Study class. Although the Astros lost we really enjoyed the game. Taylor would dance when they played the music and would clap and say yeah when everyone else was. She was also trying to do the wave which I found really cute.She has learned how to crawl up in the rocking chair and I caught her standing up in it rocking it back and forth without holding on.

Earning Her Keep

2009-05-17T19:11:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I have posted anything. Not because I don't have time it is just that there has not been anything really interesting going on around here. Ryan has been out of town since Monday so it has just been me and the baby girl. We have been surviving but are ready for Ryan to be back home. I am sure Taylor is tired of seeing just me all day everyday and I need a little break from baby girl. As much as I love her I need a little time to myself.

Taylor has become really confident in herself lately and there isn't anything she won't attempt to do. She has decided that it is her job to walk Casey when we go for walks. She loves it. Casey on the other hand not so much. I get this look from her like why do you torture me so.
We got a new camera so we have been taking hundreds of pictures. Ryan's old camera was about to give out on us and we decided it was time to retire it and get a new one. We have been looking for a while and found a great deal that we couldn't pass.

Here are some random pictures that we have taken.I was making her breakfast and she decided she wanted to stand on the stool and wait until it was ready.
Ryan and I have this really mean game where we pour cold water on each other when we are in the shower. The other day I was taking a shower and had told him multiple times not to pour cold water on me. He didn't but decide to scare me when I got out of the shower. It was waiting on me when I opened the door to the bathroom. You can tell it is just the ironing board but when you are not expecting there to be anything there when you open the door it will scare you. I thought it was a very creative idea.

Day at the park

2009-04-20T11:30:00.000-07:00

We took advantage of the weather Thursday and decided to carry Taylor to th park. Glad we did because it rained all weekend and by the time it stopped the park was probably flooded along with everything else in Houston. Anyway, back to the park. The play ground was like a giant jungle gym Taylor loved it because she could get up on it and walk across the whole thing. This is the first time we let her go down a slide without someone holding on to her the whole time and she loved it. We tried to t ake her to play somewhere else and she decided to try and climb up the slide.

Walking across the bridge. We were not sure she would walk across it because when you do it shakes but it didn't bother her at all.The static in her hair after sliding down the slide. It was sticking up everywhere.

First Starbucks drink. Don't worry there was no coffee in this one. I don't drink coffee so Taylor didn't get coffee either. It is a strawberry drink that is really good. Taylor loved it.
Before church on Sunday. All of the pictures of her taken like this are on the changing table because that is the only place we can get her to sit still long enough to take a picture of her.

Carrying around her sock monkey Great-Grandmother made her. She has been carrying it around and giving it hugs and kisses.

Zoo and Easter

2009-04-14T09:02:00.000-07:00

We had a very busy weekend this Easter weekend. Ryan was off work so we decided to take Taylor to the zoo. We thought it would be good to take then since her birthday was Tuesday and we knew she would enjoy it. She loves animals. Ryan and I really enjoyed it too. This was the first time we had been to the Houston zoo it was really nice and very well shaded so we didn't have to worry about it getting too hot.We took her to the petting zoo part to let her pet the goats. She was not too sure about them at first but the more she saw Ryan pet them she decided she would. She would only touch them for a second and then move her hand. We think the reason she did this is because their hair was not soft like the dogs.

Saturday we took her to two Easter egg hunts. She got to hunt eggs at Vizcaya apartments where Ryan and I volunteered to help hid them with the Berkmans for their Apartment Life. We were not sure how interesed she would be in hunting them but once you showed her an egg she would pick it up. She didn't want to put them in her basket she only wanted to hold them. We would have to take one out of her hand for her to pick up another one. After that we took her to the Easter egg hunt at the church. It was crazy! There were so many people you could barely walk around. It wasn't really a hunt as much as they just scattered the eggs on the ground for the kids to pick up.
Checking out all the eggs she found.

Sunday we went to Easter service and then went over to the Hinkles to have lunch and so Ryan could play a game of Settlers of Catan (aka nerdo).
This is the only picture of her in her Easter dress we have because she got sick at church so we had to take it off of her before we could get anymore.

Taylor's Birthday

2009-04-09T07:08:00.000-07:00

As most of you know Tuesday was Taylor's birthday. We celebrated her birthday when we went back to Alabama to see family. We don't have pictures because Ryan was using the video so I will have to wait until the grandparents send them to us. I do have picutres of her cake and her playing with some of the presents when we got back to Texas.
Here is her finished cake. This took a while but I was glad with how it turned out.

She likes her bubble mower. We haven't got to play with it with the bubbles yet but when we do I am sure she will love it even more.

We finally bought her a big girl car seat on her birthday and she loves. We had to take pictures of her in it.
I am hoping the weather holds out so we can take her to the zoo tomorrow. I looks like it will rain here but not until Sunday so we will have a messy Easter Sunday.

Rodeo and Bama

2009-03-19T19:11:00.000-07:00

Last night we got invited to go to the Rodeo so of course we said yes because Ryan and I have never been. The parking was horrible so we didn't get to see all of the rodeo but we did get to see the mutton busting. That is where they put little kinds ages 4-about 6 on a sheep and let them try to ride them for eight seconds. It was so cute. Ryan and I decided that Taylor will have to try that when she gets old enough. Then we got to see Gary Allen in concert. Ryan was joking that he just won father of the year for taking his 11 month old into the concert. Taylor fell asleep during it which was suprising to me because it was so loud. I swear the child can sleep through anything.

We leave tomorrow for Alabama to see my brother get married. We will be there for about a week. While we are there we are going to throw Taylor a birthday party with the family. I will post pictures as soon as I can probably when we get back because we will probably be extremely busy while we are there.

Time Change

2009-03-11T09:21:00.000-07:00

This whole time change has really messed up our schedule. Taylor usually goes to bed around eight-thirty or nine every night but now with the time change it is more like ten before she wants to go to bed. It has really messed up Ryan 's sleeping schedule because most nights he has to put her to sleep because he has the magic touch so her don't get to bed until later and has to get up and five every morning. Why can't they leave it the same. So what if the sun is up at six in the morning and goes down earlier. I am sure she will get used to it eventually and then it will be time to change it again.

NOT THE DOG WATER!!!!!

2009-02-26T12:13:00.000-08:00

Nothing new has really been going on here. Taylor is growing more and more confident with her walking. She will walk from the couch to the door when we go out to walk the dogs. Speaking of the dogs Taylor decided that she wanted to taste the dog water yesterday. Ryan and I were cooking supper and I turn around and she has her mouth on the dog bowl which by the way looks like a toilet. She did this twice before I finally got her to stop. Ryan made that joke that it looked like she was throwing up in her own little toilet.After her path one night. She loves the camera.

Playing in the basket of socks mommy needs to put up.

Playing outside while we walk the dogs. She thinks she has to be down so she can play on the side walk .

Class Video

2009-02-25T11:17:00.001-08:00

Our class made a video for you tube so I thought I would post on here for everyone back home to see. You will have copy and past the link for it to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6R7OXos5T8

Valentine's Day

2009-02-14T13:14:00.000-08:00

I can honestly say that I wasn't expecting anything for Valentine's day but Ryan surprised me by taking me out for dinner and buying me a tulip plant (that I hope I can keep alive I don't do well with plants). He also got Taylor this cute little pink elephant that she loved. He always does a great of surprising me and this year he did an excellent job. He got one of our friends Ryan to watch Taylor while we went out to dinner.

Here is the picture of my flowers and Taylor's pink elephant.

Lasagna for lunch.

2009-02-12T11:48:00.000-08:00

Ryan and I have noticed that Taylor would rather eat what we are eating then her food sometimes. Today I decided to feed her lasagna for lunch instead of her regular boring baby food. She loved it. I couldn't take a bite without her trying screaming for a bite. We have decided that if we have something we think she would like and can eat we will feed it to her instead of her baby food. I'm thankful she is not a fussy eater, at least not yet.

This is how she fell asleep Saturday while Ryan and I were taking our showers. We couldn't stop laughing and had to take her picture before we could get her out and put her in bed. This is the only thing she has allowed me to put on her head for any amount of time. I still had to fight her to leave it on so I could take a few pictures.

She loves to walk the dogs and has now decided that she needs to be put down so she can walk and crawl along the sidewalk. I am ok with that as long and she does not get in the grass because I am sure she will find a surprise that some dog has left in there.

SHE DID IT!!!!!

2009-02-06T07:47:00.000-08:00

Taylor took her first steps last night and the good thing about it is we got it on camera. That is the reason she walked is because daddy had the camcorder and she wanted it. So Ryan and I are off to find a cord to hook the camcorder up to the computer so we can put it on here. As soon as we the cord I will put video up for everyone to see. For now it will just have to be picturesHere is one of her just standing there. I was glad she stood there long enough for me to get the camera because usually she just sits down and follows me where ever I am going.We have a glass table beside our couch and this is how I found her the other day sitting on the bottom glass. She was so proud of her self.

Ten months old and already posing for the camera.

Weekend Fun

2009-02-02T07:58:00.000-08:00

What a busy weekend it has been. We had a church BBQ Saturday and the Super Bowl party yesterday. There was tons of food,over fifty booths, at the bbq. Our claas won first plase for the best dessert with sopapilla cheese cake. Yesterday we watched the Super Bowl at the Negales house. There were tons of people and food there too. We did a soup theme and there were several excellent soups there. We had a small incident with Taylor while we were there. She broke a vase that was sittinh on the fire place and cut her finger a little bit. We thought daddy was going to have a heart attack when he realized she was bleeding. All is ok now you can't even see where see was bleeding at.

What are you thinking?

2009-01-29T11:28:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I wonder what Taylor is thinking. Today she found a glass of water sitting on the table beside the couch and poured it out all over herself. So I changed her clothes and before I got something to clean it up she was back over there playing in it. She laughed when I went to pick her up to get her out of it. She also likes to play in the dog cage and when she was playing in there the other day Nairobi decided to go in there where with her. Robi follows Taylor around the house so it is no surprise that she decided to go in the dog cage with her. She can stand up now but when she realizes that she isn't holding on to anything she will let go and crawl but she will stand there for a while before she sits down. She will also start to hand you something and when you go to take it from her she will jerk her hand back and laugh at you. She is growing and changing so much everyday. It doesn't seem like she will be a year old in 3 months.
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Very First Blog

2009-01-27T10:11:00.000-08:00

I decided to start a blog for everyone at home that way it would be easier for everyone to keep up with what is going on with us here in Texas.
Taylor is growing so fast. She is trying harder and harder to walk everyday. I believe she will have it before we go back to Alabama in March. She amazes me with all the new things she tries everyday. She is now eating food off our plate so momma and daddy can barley eat our food because she wants to eat it.
She decided that she would play in the clothes basket after Ryan and I got done folding clothes one night. She would crawl in and out of it and then laugh when she got in it.