Maggie and Doug's Wedding

On Saturday night we went to Maggie and Doug's wedding, which was also in the city. It was Katelyn's first wedding that she  attended. The wedding was at the yacht club right on Lake Michigan. It was a beautiful night for the wedding. The ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception were all in the yacht club. It was a fun filled night. The fireworks at Navy Pier were going off during the celebration, which made it very magical. The evening was packed with a lot of eating, drinking, and dancing. Congrats to Maggie and Doug, we love you guys!

The Bretz Clan

Family Shot

Outside the yacht club

 The gorgeous Bride and Katelyn

Loving Uncle Mark

Mark, Katelyn, and I

Cute!!

Soldier Field 10 mile run

On Saturday morning, Matt ran a 10 mile race starting and ending in Soldier Field. We went down to the city on Friday and stayed at Lisa's and Vinay's condo, which was across the street from Soldier Field. It was a very convenient location. Katelyn, Lisa, Barb, Joe, and I went to watch Matt finish the race. The race ended inside Soldier Field, he ran through the players tunnel and onto the field. Matt did a great job and so did Uncle Ryan who was running it as well.

Aunt Lisa and Katelyn waiting for Dad

Almost done....

On the big JUMBO- tron

Still looking for Dad

Great race Dad

Celebrating with a Chicago hot dog

Our Sweet Baby Girl is Six Months

This post is a little late, but we took the pictures when she turned six months. This past six months have been absolutely the best six months of our lives. Katelyn now weighs 15 pounds and is 28 inches long. Her height is of the charts supposedly. Maybe, we will have a giant on our hands HA! These days she now eats cereal twice a day, in the morning and evening. We have added fruits and veggies into her diet. She loves everything, she has never made a face at anything we have fed her. Katelyn still sleeps through the night. She sleeps from 7-6. She still wears size two diapers, but I think we will be moving to size 3 shortly. She LOVES her bath time and playing in the water. Sometimes, she gets mad when I take her out of the bath. She rolls around like crazy. She is able to sit up for the most part by herself. She still loves jumping in her jumper. She wants to hold and grab everything in reach. Matt and I have loved this past month, because she is so fun to interact with. Katelyn is also very happy and smiley. We said that if every baby that we have is like Katelyn, then we might be having 8 kids. We love our little Kates Magates.(that is our nickname for her)

Hanging out with Dad

Matt and Katelyn were hanging out on the hammock today. Here are a few pictures I captured.

Splashing in the water

This weekend was absolutely beautiful outside. We took full advantage of using Katelyn's little pool, both Saturday and Sunday. She loves the water so much! She usually gets mad when I take her out of her baths, because she just loves to sit and splash. I think we have a little swimmer on our hands!

The past weekend in Springfield

We were in Springfield this past weekend. Here are some pictures from the weekend............

Mother's Day

My Mother's Day was extra special, because it was my first one. Katelyn and Matt let me sleep in until 9am. I have not done that in FOREVER. Then Katelyn and Matt made me breakfast and spoiled me with gifts. I would have to say that the best gift of all is being a mom to Katelyn and a wife to Matt. After breakfast  we all went for a walk. We spent a lot of the day outside, since it was beautiful in Springfield. We were fortunate enough to spend the day with Matt's side of the family. In the afternoon we went over to Matt's grandma's house and hung out in her backyard with everyone. My first Mother's Day was extra special and I am grateful that I was able to spend it with family and the ones I love!

Katelyn waking up Mom

Almost all the Bretz's

The girls

Katelyn wearing Uncle Mark's sunglasses

The newest member OTIS

Katelyn checking out the doggie

Six month pictures

We took Katelyn to get her six month pictures last week and I picked them up today! I took these pictures from my phone of the original copies, so they are not that clear, but I loved all of them. PS I can not figure out how to turn the pictures.

Sweet Peas..........YUM

Today, Katelyn ate her first food. She has been eating rice and oatmeal cereal since she was three months. Now that she is six months, we are moving on to some veggies and fruits. Today I fed her sweet peas. She seemed to really enjoy them. She did not make any funny faces. Matt took some cute pictures of her eating.

Playing and playing

Katelyn enjoyed helping mom put together a cute house she got from her Uncle Ryan. It makes so many noises and sounds. I am sure when she starts crawling this will be a favorite toy to play with!

Hi!!!!!

Look at all that drool!

Thanks Uncle Ryan