The Walnut Room

Uncle Mark, Katelyn, and Dad

Grammie, Katelyn and Oma

The crew standing in front of the tree in  the Walnut Room!

Family Picture

Katelyn in her snowsuit.....not to happy!

The Girls

My mom wanted to start a new tradition with Katelyn around Christmas and take her to the Walnut Room, let her pick out an ornament, and visit Santa. So we decided to go last Thursday. Grammie, Oma, Matt, Katelyn, and I headed down to the city around 11. We walked around the Kris Kringle Market. It was very packed and hard to push a stroller around the market, so after 15 mins. we decided to head over to Macy's. When we arrived in Macy's we went and got our pager, the wait was only a half hour. During the wait we went ornament shopping. Katelyn picked out (really mom picked them out) two ornaments. We were then met by Uncle Mark,  and we headed to the Walnut Room to eat. It was decorated so festive for Christmas! We had a really delicious lunch and got dessert. The Frango Mint pie was YUMMY!!! After lunch we headed downstairs to take a picture with Santa. There was no line and it was like a Disney ride to get to see Santa. We walked through his workshop and then found him at the end. The pictures did not turn out too great, but Katelyn's  first visit to Santa was a success. We can not wait to keep this tradition going every year!

Katelyn is One Month Old

I can not believe that Katelyn is already one month old. This has been the best month of our lives. Katelyn has brought us so much love and joy. We can not imagine life without her now! Over the past month a lot of things have happened. She now weighs 8 pounds 12 ounces. She is 21 1/2 inches long. She sleeps for 5-6 hours a night and now is sleeping in her nursery. Katelyn LOVES to eat, and her mom loves to feed her! When she is awake which is mostly in the evening, she grunts a lot and makes funny facial expressions. Her eyes are big, blue, and wide open when she is awake. Katelyn was born with black hair, she still has black hair but some of it is falling out.  She turns her head when she hears her mom or dad's voices. She is a very strong little girl, she lifts her head all the time when trying to look around. We have enjoyed all the love and support that we have received in the past four weeks. Katelyn is one lucky little girl.  We took some one month pictures for family and friends to enjoy!

Katelyn's First Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to my parent's house (Grammie and Papa's). We were surrounded by lots of family and Matt's family as well. Some of the relatives got to meet Katelyn for the first time. She was an angel all day/night. She slept for almost the whole time as everyone passed her around and held her. We ate a delicious meal thanks to my mom. We also played a game called, Truth be Told...this was a crack up. We ended the night  with watching, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving!

Katelyn's First Thanksgiving

Katelyn with her cousin Maggie

Great Grandma and Papa

Four Generations 

Grammie, Oma, and Auntie Sandy 

Grammie and Uncle Kevin

Kyle with Marley (who knows)

Teddy Bear Monthly Picture

Every month I am going to take a picture of Katelyn with her GIANT teddy bear! This will be a fun way to see how much she has grown over the months. These first pictures were taken when she was four days old. 

Napping in her bears lap!

Four Days old

Precious Little Katelyn

Carrie's Baby Shower

Katelyn's first time out of the house was to Carrie's baby shower today! Carrie's baby shower was at Biaggi's in Naperville. The food and company were great.  Katelyn was wonderful the whole time. She slept while everyone held her. She was held by a lot of different people that had not seen her yet. Katelyn can not wait to meet her new friend Cameron, when he is born in January. 

Carrie and Katelyn

Grammie and Katelyn

Carrie, Lisa, Leigh, Britt, and Katelyn

Sleeping Princess

Katelyn's First Week

Matt and I in the hospital waiting for the contractions to start

Grammie and Papa with Katelyn

Oma (Grandma Bretz) with Katelyn

Uncle Mark came to visit Katelyn in the hospital

Uncle Ryan visiting with Katelyn

Daddy and Katelyn

Princess Katelyn

Katelyn and her HUGE bear from Uncle Ryan

Katelyn and Dad just hanging out

Oma and Opa with Katelyn

Mom and Katelyn....look at that black hair!!!

Katelyn Emma Bretz

On November 5th at 11:57pm Katelyn Emma Bretz joined the world. This is one of the best moments that has happened to Matt and I. We are very blessed with a precious little girl. It all started on Saturday morning of the fifth of November. I was doing the usual house cleaning and I felt some pains and I had some leakage. I called Matt at work and told him and then he told me to call the doctor to make sure. After I talked to the doctor she said to go into the hospital to have them check me out. When I got to the hospital they knew right away that my water had broke. I then was admitted into the hospital. I was not having contractions so they put me on pitocin and man did the contractions start coming! Around 4pm I was in a lot of pain so I asked to have my epidural. After the epidural I was very relaxed and was hanging out with Matt, my mom and dad until 10pm. Then I was fully dilated and I started pushing. I pushed for two hours and at 11:57pm Katelyn was born. She is perfect and we love her so much! She weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. The first week has been pretty good. We are all doing well and sleeping as much as possible.