Silly Videos....

Ahhhh.... I have been slacking on my blog lately.. Sorry.. We have had a lot going on the past couple of weeks. Jacob was gone for a week and I was trying to get in the groove of being home alone with LA and trying to keep up on house work.. Man was it hard. Jacob is leaving on Wednesday until mid January so he will be gone for a long time... We have been trying to get as much family time in as possible! Jacob will be missing LA's first birthday(which is next Sat. Can you believe it!?!) so we are going to have a little party for her on Monday with her Godparents, Scott and Michelle. Jacob doesn't want to miss out on anything so we decided this was the best. Then her big party will be next weekend with our family. Both sets of Grandparents are coming in on Thursday which we are soooo excited for!! Please keep us in your prayers as we go through these next few months!

Sooo to the good stuff.. We have taken a few videos of LA.. They are too funny!! Hope you enjoy!!


Michelle came down last week to stay the night while Jacob was gone and we took LA out to play with the kids in the neighborhood.. She took this video of LA in her walker.. She only goes backwards.. it's tooo funny!!

I took these videos of LA last night after she finished her dinner.. Apparently she wanted more..LOL!! This little girl keeps us laughing!!

We are finally moved in!!

Well we have finally settled in to our new home!! It is a bit smaller than our houses in the past! (Let's say it's a whole lot smaller!! :)) The movers came last Thursday and the house was covered in boxes. LA did great I put her in the kitchen with me while I unloaded all the boxes and she was just playing and laughing. Michelle and Scott kept Amber which was great because I don't think I could have handled her and the baby while trying to unpack. We got the whole house unpacked, except for our clothes, by Thursday night.. It was a long day but I'm glad we finished so quickly. We love it here! The weather is absolutely beautiful! In the mornings and at when the sun sets the weather is nice and cool.. Not like the muggy Florida weather.. We have had to actually update LA's wardrobe a little because all she had was summer Florida clothes! The only downfall, so far, is the traffic.. I have never seen anything like it before.. We decided to go to Farfield the other day to eat lunch and go to the Jelly Belly Factory. Now mind you it's only 12 miles away.. We sat in traffic for over an hour! I couldn't believe it! But we made it and had fun!! Here's a video of LA with me unpacking the kitchen!!

Lily Ann at Chili's

Jacob, LA, and I went out to Chili's for dinner last night.. LA had mac and cheese and fruit.. Jacob and I decided to order the Molten Lava Cake and LA wanted some but she couldn't have it.. She threw the biggest fit and I just had to take a video of it.. Here it is... Oh how she is getting this down to a T!! LOL!!

Thanks to the man who saved my daughters life!!

Well we finally made it to California on Wednesday afternoon! WOW!! What a drive I would like to think that we would never have to drive that again but the possibility is very slim..LOL!! LA did as good as could be expected, especially since we have our first tooth coming in! LA and I rode in the back and watch Baby Einstein the WHOLE TIME!! As long as she was happy We all were happy! We stopped in Arkansas for a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends before heading out here! We had a great time. LA was very spoiled in every way!!

I am also writing this to the man who saved my daughters life! Brian Beckham from Station 8 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. LA went to lunch with her Mimi(Aunt Emily) while I had a hair appointment. They were sitting eating lunch and Emily had giving LA a Biter Biscuit. She loves those things and we usually give her one while we eat so she won't feel left out! Emily did just as we have always done. Some how LA bit off a big piece and the little girl who was with Emily saw her do it. Emily didn't realize that is was that big of a piece until she saw LA try and swallow it. Emily immediately raised up her arms and said "She's choking". As she raised her arms the piece got lodged farther in her throat. There just happened to be some firefighters sitting right next to them and Brian heard Emily and jumped up and ran over pulled LA up from her seat, turned her upside down hit her on the back and a little piece fell out and then hit her again and the rest came out! It amazes me how God works in weird ways. The guys had actually been called out and left for something and then came back and sat down just about the time that she choked! We did not get by to thank him in person as we headed out to California the next day. We plan on sending him something but haven't figured out what just yet!! I do not know how to thank this man enough for saving our baby's life. If any of you know him or happen to run into them please give him a big hug and a thank you from us! Needless to say the Biter Bars are in the trash!! LA is great and we are so thankful and thank God everyday for Brian!!

Okay so now I know that I missed putting LA's 10 months posting..She's doing soooo much now crawling all over the place, dancing, pulling up and cruising on everything! She has been great through this whole transition. She has stayed on her schedule the whole time even with the time difference. This was the one thing that I thought that we would struggle with but she has proved us wrong!! LA also has her first tooth coming through and is doing great!! I will post pictures later. We won't be moving into our house until Aug. 6 or 7th so I won't have access to pictures until then!!

Tummy-Tickler Tuesday...

So I had to take my truck into the shop today to get the airbag switch fixed and find out why my check engine light was coming on.. Lily Ann and I got up early this morning and had the truck there by 8:30!(Which is very early for us!) Jacob was on duty and had called and said that it should only take an hour or so so I figured LA and I would hang out there until it was done. Well when we got there it was going to be a couple of hours and I knew better than to wait with her so they offered to bring us home and we could come back later to pick it up.. (Great because I really needed to get the house cleaned before Erika and her friends arrive tomorrow!) This nice gentleman took out her car seat and put it in the van.. I watched him as he latched it in and I put her in and away we went..

So as we get in the van I'm telling him how to get to the house, which was about 2 miles down the road! (Thank goodness!) We start beebopping through the parking lot and all of a sudden he accelerates as he's turning and I hear a "Woooo" and I look behind and LA is leaned over to the side.. I about died.. I was trying not to laugh as the guy was telling me how he had worked for the dealership for over 35 years and he was going on and on and as I'm holding the car seat up..(She wasn't going to tip all the way over she was just sliding along the back seat!) "Okay", I'm thinking," it's a straight shot to the house from here we can make it!" Well every time we hit a stop light and as we would start to go he would gun it so no one would get in front of him.. and every time he gunned it you would hear a "Wooooooo" coming from the back seat.. I thought I was going to pee my pants from holding in my laughter.. He would say "Wow, that baby sure is talkative and loves to ride in the car!" I'm thinking you are making her tummy tickle silly!! If I had a video of it I'm sure we would have won $10,000!!

Have I told you...

How much I love this baby!!!! Just look at those blue eyes!!

We are moving!!!

Yes we finally heard on Friday(Sorry I'm just now getting around to posting!) that we will be moving next month to California! I can't believe we are moving to California. Jacob and I have always said that we could never imagine ourselves living there. Never say never right!?! We are excited though. Lily Ann's Godparents are going to be less than 45 minutes away from us and Jacob's old boss is going to be his boss again..(Which we are excited about!) I'm starting to freak out a little because that is a very long way to California with a dog and a baby! No worries though we are going to make 2 trips out of it.. We will be leaving Florida and driving to Arkansas for a couple of weeks then we will head out to California. This next station is going to be very different from this one. Jacob is going to actually be on the new Homeland Security Cutter out of Alameda. At this station he stands duty 2 on and 2 off with duty every other weekend . Going out to California he can be gone as long as 4 months at a time! It is going to be very hard on him having to leave LA behind and I am not looking forward to this. We are going to miss him so much but we will make it through! I know God has a plan for us and this is what He wanted for our family! I mean seriously who can say that they lived in Florida and California..Not too many people! Please keep our family in your prayers as we start this new transition in our lives!!

We took a video of LA earlier Jacob was asking her if she wanted to be a California baby and here is her response..HAHAHA!! (I think we may be in trouble!!) She did say no to the boat and ended up loving every minute of it!!