Our Family

This past week we had Mike's Mom in town, so we hit her up to babysit Kate so we could celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary. Here is a family picture we took before our night out.

Mike & I had a great night out! We went to the round rock outlets, to Olive garden for dinner, then ice cream and we laughed so much at a comedy club. Thanks to Gram for watching Kate!

Kate is still trying to get into everything! She started to fed herself puffs this past week and LOVES them!!

We are super excited that we will be going to the river this weekend!! We can't wait to see everyone!

Kate has lots of FIRSTs this month

So May has been full of Firsts for Kate!
May 6-had first accident (she was on Sammy, and Sammy moves and she busted her lip on the leg of Mike's office chair--we were lucky there was no blood)
May 7-first time to pull up onto things, got on her hands and toes.
May 10-starting crawling
may 11-starting getting toys out of her toy box and starting to splash in the bathtub
May 15-starting to stand after pulling herself up!! First ride on a bus.
May 18-starting to clap by herself
May 20-first trip to state capital
May 21-8 mth old!! First time in her turtle pool.
May 22-now clapping all the time!!!
May 23--pulling up on everything--even tiring to use other kids to pull herself up to stand! Also wants to crawl over everything!!

Also, she has had visits from both her grandparents! She is also super excited that her Aunt Jes and Uncle Brian are going to buy a house only 15 minutes away!! Be sure to check out the new videos of her in the pool and clapping!

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Kate's 7 mth photos

Here are our 7 mth photos from JCPenneys when she would not smile for anything!!

Wow what a difference a week makes!

Here is her new trickTrudy and Sammy knocked her over with kisses!
This is the dress she wore to her Aunt Kristin and Uncle Blake's Wedding. I took her to get some pictures taken as Jc Pennys and she wouldn't smile at all!!

Oh my goodness! Kate has changed soo much this week! Not only has she started to crawl, but she has started to pull up on things!! And she can get into a sitting up position all by herself!

Oh and man is she going to be into everything!

Be sure to check out the new videos of her crawling and hating bananas!

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May 2, 2009

Due to the fact that I am always the one taking the pictures, there are hardly any pictures of Kate and I. So here are some:



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Also, be sure to look at the new video!

It's May already??

Can you believe that it is MAY??? So crazy! Can you believe that our little KatieBug is 7 months old?? I can't believe it! She is almost crawling, still using rolling over to get everywhere! She reaches for everything and her favorite toys seem to be water bottles amd anything that makes noise! And she still has no teeth! She also loves to bang everything! She laughs alot and is sitting up by herself really well!

Click Here are Kate's pictures from April


Well, as some of you know, we were considering spending some time in Italy this summer, but due to the high cost of apartments (we couldn't find anything less than $4000!!) I think we will be here for the summer. But we are still working on it . . .

Trip to the east coast!

So we have returned from our first airplane trip with Kate. I have to say that flying is such a different experience with a child! The week we were leaving Mike came down with a cold and then Kate started to cough! So we took her to the doctor to make sure she was ok and if there was anything we could do if she got worse on our trip. Well, turned out that she just had a cold, just like Mike. But the doctor said her ears looked beautiful and I shouldn't worry! So Friday morning we all wake up at 3:30AM and start our day of travel. Oh if only we had known that 12 hours later we would still be in the airport!! Yes, so Kate and I were supposed to be on a flight at 5:30 but it was overbooked so we got on the flight that Mike was taking. So we went back home only to turn around a few hours later and go back to the airport. Unfortunately, a storm rolled into town and didn't leave so our flight was delayed until 6pm so we decided instead of getting stuck in Atlanta with a baby, we would just try to make it out on a flight the next day. So on Saturday we woke up at 3:30am again and finally made it!! That is without our car seat!! What a mess (we had a use a loaner car seat, but we did get our car seat back) We went from the airport to a old friend of Mike's from high school. We had a nice visit with them and found out that Mike's friend's wife, knew Kristin's soon to be husband, Blake, from college!! Such a small world that we live in!! We spent a few days at Mike's parents and then headed to DC on Wednesday. Poor Kristin and Blake, they found out Tuesday night that the place they were having their rehearsal dinner was closed and had to find another place by Friday night! Luckily they were able to find one on Wednesday! So Mike and I went to Mount Vernon on Wednesday. It rained and even hailed on us!!

On Thursday we went to the DC Zoo. Mike also went to the National Cathedral. Thursday night we had a great big family dinner! It was fun to visit with everyone before all the wedding stuff. Friday the guys went golfing and the girls went to have mans/pedis. Friday afternoon was the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner. Saturday was the BIG day! The wedding!


It was a busy day, that was followed by a beautiful wedding and super fun reception! On Sunday we meet up with my high school friend Amanda and a friend of Mike's from college and headed back to Mike's parents house. We returned home on Tuesday. Kate was great on the way home and luckily we had no problems on the way home!

Pictures of the wedding

pictures of time in DC