Happy 94th Birthday to Grandma Occhipinti

Today, at my parents house, we celebrated my grandma Occhipinti's 94th birthday. WOW....I hope I got those good genes. She looks great for 94 and is still with it. It was extra special, because both of her great granddaughters were there to celebrate with her. It was a great way to end the week, by spending time with family and celebrating a birthday.

Happy Birthday Great Grandma

Playing with Grammie

I-phone friends

Hanging out

Sophia and Katelyn playing in the pool

8 Months

Katelyn is now 8 months old!!! This past month has been an exciting one. She now is crawling around and getting into EVERYTHING. She also likes to pull herself up on tables or chairs. We had to lower her crib all the way down, because she was pulling herself up. She still is an awesome eater. She loves everything and her food is now a bit more chunkier. Katelyn is still drooling like crazy, but no teeth. She enjoys the water and her swim lessons at the YMCA. I think she would stay in the water all day, if we let her. She is very observant and needs to see and watch everything going on around her. She responses to songs and little games that we play with her. Matt and I can read books to her and she will sit and listen for about ten minutes. The teacher in me, loves this!! Since, she is so active these days, it was hard to take a picture of her sitting still. We managed with a few.

Crawling and Crawling

I feel like Katelyn went from rolling around to crawling everywhere overnight. She has been crawling for the past month, but recently she has been crawling to everything she is not suppose to. This means no more sitting on the couch while she plays on the floor in one spot. Her top three favorite items to crawl to are.....the outlets, the cords, and the tables. Do not get me wrong, we are having fun with this stage, but this is when your whole life changes!!

Happy 4th of July

I thought this was funny...not happy

Mom and Katelyn...still not to happy

Michigan Lake House

Our first summer vacation was taken this past week. We went up to Elk Rapids, Michigan, which is about 6 hours away. Matt's aunt and uncle have a beautiful lake house on Elk Lake. We met up there..... Matt's parents, his aunt and uncle, and Mark. Our week consisted of A LOT of fun in the sun. We swam, boated, fished, ate and drank. It was such a relaxing vacation and wonderful to spend the week with Matt's family.

All packed in!

That picture is of the lake house from the dock...can you see it?

Matt fishing in Lake Michigan...Yes, I took that cool picture

Loving hanging out in the sun

Family Pic

Katelyn hanging out with Oma

Chillin with my dad in the lake

Grandpa, Matt, and Katelyn

Me water skiing!!!

Mark showing off

Beautiful sunset...that is the view we saw from their deck every evening! 

Matt fishing

Matt tubing

Party at the Bretz's

This Friday Jen, Henry, and Ryne were in town visiting from Denver. We do not see Jen as often as we would like, so we decided to have a little party at my house. A bunch of my high school friends and their cute kids came over to hang out. It was so great catching up and leaving off like we had never left each other. The kids are all so cute and had fun playing and running around. It was a house full, but we would have not had it any other way. 

Henry and Katelyn meeting for the first time and it won't be the last!

Cameron and Katelyn

Cameron getting frisky with Katelyn

The girls...not the best picture but the only one I got.

Playing around

Happy Father's Day

Matt had a great first father's day. It was spent with family. I was playing around with the camera when we got home and here are some shots I took!

Happy Father's Day to my dad