Guard Dogs!

I had this vision that the dogs would end up be super protective of Bethany and what not. It hasn't really been that way per say. They mostly just lay beside her and lick her face. She really has started to "notice" the dogs and want to be around them. She watches them a lot when they wrestle and run around.Sometimes she laughs at them when they are being crazy. It's pretty cute. When they are in arms reach she tries to touch them. She loves them. It's pretty neat to see. I'm glad they all get along. She likes to "hug" them. Really she's just pulling out their fur. HaHa. But they don't seem to mind.

The first video is kinda long. It's of her trying to touch Sage and then at the end she gets a hold of Rusty. He just gives in and licks her face.

Later on  that night Nathan is holding on to Bethany and letting her pet the dogs...well they end up not wanting to be near her. Haha, she plays to rough apparently.

                                            “It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
                                                                        ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

To PA and back

Well we took our first trip back to Pennsylvania as a family. Bethany did really well on the plane. Slept both ways w/ a tad bit of fussiness on the way back to Arizona. We saw almost every single family member possible on this trip. It was like a family overload for Bethany. So many photos were taken its just crazy. I took approx. 300 photos. I took quite a few videos too. Once i can figure out how to scale some of the videos ill add them later. But for now here are some videos from when we were home.

               “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

First video is Bethany "learning to crawl" with Grandma J. I wouldn't say it worked all that well. Haha, but a valiant effort. Ending in hanging out with Grandpa J. 6/12/12

 While we were home Bethanys BFF turned one...Kennedy Grace. We weren't able to make her party so we went over a few days early to give her our gifts. Here is a snipet of it. 6/14/12

Gma Law got Bethany building blocks....however, she is a little too small to build thing. So i built small towers and had Bethany knock them over. She was WAY better at doing that. 6/15/12

Bethany laughs at random things all the time. When she does you have to get a video quick. Because if you try to reinact it....it aint happening. She will think one thing is funny one moment, but not the next. Short attention span....Here she is laughing at her Aunt NeeNee making a funny noise. 6/19/12

        

            “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

Daddy and B

I am a part of a military family now. It doesn't make me who i am but it has help shape me to who i am. It's a part of my life that has lots of up, downs and time together and time apart. Way too many times apart. Well i was able to handle it one deployment at a time. Now that we have Bethany and are starting a family...these times apart will def. become more difficult. Well i take lots of photos and videos so heaven forbid something happens Bethany will have some memories. Its a crazy way of thinking, but it's how i think. It's better to be safe than sorry.  Here  is a video of Bethany w Nathan!!

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

- Dr. Seuss

Here is a video of Nathan reading to Bethany....it's kinda long, but its pretty funny. So if you have nothing to do, why not watch the whole thing. 4/20/12

This one is of Nathan and Bethany watching learning videos together. 5/17/12

A little behind

Seeing how i started this blog way late, 6 months late, I have loads of videos to share. I decided to put a few in this blog all at once. Some are a little long...i have yet to figure out how to cut them into smaller ones. So i don't blame you if you end it early. No hurt feelings.

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” - Dr. Seuss

This is Bethany when she first started smiling.
as well as the first time she rolled from stomach to back.(this one is pretty funny because the dogs distracted me. also a little like the blair witch project...haha super shakey) 2/22/12

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” - Dr. Seuss



We like to let her be a part of family dinner time....so instead of leaving her in the living room in her swing, we put her in her bumbo and sit at the table. Well....towards the end of dinner she started to fall asleep. It was pretty funny. 4/11/12

This next video just cracks me up. She was in this scooting phase where whenever i sat her on the couch to prop her up and wanted to scoot on down. Silly girl. 4/25/12

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” - Dr. Seuss

Something New

Hello All.

So i've decided to share a little of our lives with you all. I've never done anything like this before. So bare with me until i figure it all out. I decided to start a blog to share our lives and the growth of Bethany w family and friends. We live all the way out in Arizona and our families live all the way in Pennsylvania. That's a whole 32hrs driving time. Way too far for my likings. 

I wanted to do a sort of video blog. I couldn't really figure that out in how to download the videos and such. I decided to write a little and then insert the videos here. I have tons of videos so i'm a little behind and i wish i would have started this a while ago. Some you may have seen, but heck, they are so cute why not watch them twice. 

I hope you enjoy my "video blog" and like i said, bare with me. It's a new start.

Here is my first video...this is when Bethany was 1month 1day old. She looks so tiny compared to how big she is now. It's crazy.

"“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss