Cleveland Rocks!

So for any of you who also read my brother and sister-in-law's blog (Cameron and Hillary) feel free to go ahead and skip this post. Seeing as all the pictures are stolen straight from their blog you have seen it all already. :) Otherwise there are some great pictures so continue on! Tyler, Katelyn and I recently made the big move from Boston to Arizona and we were lucky enough to get to stop in Cleveland. Tyler only got to stay for a night before he and his dad (who flew to Cleveland the night we got there) drove on to Arizona and made it in two days! Katelyn and I got to stay for the weekend and we had so much fun. We were sad to leave. Luckily Hillary is a much better picture taker than I am so this trip is more documented than most.

Katelyn just loves her aunt and uncle and smiled at them all the time. Here she is snuggling with Cam. :)

Hillary was skilled enough to even catch one of her smiles. So fun!


The Sunday I was there was Mothers' Day and not only was Cameron sweet enough to make breakfast but even got flowers and wrote nice notes for both me and Hillary.
I love that Katelyn found her way in to both pictures. :)


We made pizzas one night for dinner. They were delicious and super fun to make. Here are the finished products.


Hillary and I with our pizzas.


Cameron rolling out the pizza dough.


Cam and Hillary also took us their local rec center which is awesome. We took Katelyn in the pool and had a really fun time.


Here is Katelyn in her giant inner tube having a good time. :)


Uncle Cam and Katelyn dancing!


One day we went to Little Italy and had lunch. Afterwords we went to a bakery and had the most amazing desserts. They both looked beautiful and tasted delicious!


Katelyn at the restaurant in Little Italy. She had carrots for lunch but the color makes it looks like she shared some of the spaghetti or something.


Here is Cameron at the same restaurant having a very traditional spaghetti and meatballs which he said were very good.


Thank you Cameron and Hillary for such a fun time! We are so excited to come back and see you again!

A Day at the Beach

So about a week ago or so we had 85 degree weather here which is crazy but so nice especially after all of the rain. So Katelyn and I, along with some friends headed up to Revere Beach to enjoy the sunshine. Sadly the water was still ice cold so Katelyn was none too appreciative when I stuck her feet in to wash off some sand. :) We will be headed to Arizona in just a couple of weeks so there should be many more sunny days in our future. :)

She fell over immediately following this picture- thus her leg up in the air. :)


Looking so cute in her little beach outfit. I also love that her little friend is in the background eating as much sand as he can fit in his mouth.


And just for fun a cute picture of Katelyn in the tub. Though she does looked a little shocked that I would be taking her picture at such a time. :)

Happy Easter from our 6 month old!

Happy Easter! It's hard to believe but our little Katelyn is 6 months old! She is getting big so fast but we are having so much fun with her. Especially because her tummy problems get better everyday and she is all the time becoming such a happier baby. She loves to be tickled and to sing Itsy Bitsy Spider (or at least watch Tyler and I sing it). She can roll from her front to her back and back to her front but hasn't yet connected that the two together will get her from one place to another. :) (I'm not sure I'm ready for her to be that mobile anyway). She can also sit up on her own and even has a tiny little tooth bud. :) She also has started some solids and discovered very quickly that while she likes applesauce and pears she is not a fan of squash. She is so much fun and we are so grateful to have her in our family.


Here she is in her cute little Easter dress with all her Easter toys. She loves her bunny and chick but was a little sad that she couldn't chew on the Easter eggs very well. :)

So Katelyn got this super cute bunny from her Grandmama and Grandpapa Green and she will often just sit her in seat and hold it while she watches me doing dishes and such. I was barely able to catch the moment though because as soon and I got the camera out all the wanted to do was figure out what in the world I was doing.

I'm sure many of you saw the ridiculous amounts of rain we got here in Massachusetts recently and luckily we didn't have to deal with any flooding ourselves but we were stuck inside for many days and so the first day the Sun came out we headed down to Boston Common and the Public Garden to enjoy it.


One other thing Katelyn loves, and I mean loves, is hanging upside down. If she could I imagine she would spend the majority of her time that way and only be right side up when it was absolutely necessary. :)

Katelyn also loves to spend time in her jumper. Her feet are just long enough that she can bounce on her own and she loves to spin around and play with all of the toys.

This last one is from a trip we took down to Cape Cod during Tyler's Spring Break a couple of weeks ago. We had a fun time, though it was definitely the off season and so we didn't spend much time on the beach. But we did dress Katelyn up in this swimsuit and take her to our hotel pool. She was okay with it but was much happier when we finally brought her back to our room and put her the warm bathtub. :) Oh well, at least she looked adorable in her little suit right?

Our Adorable Little Girl

So lately Katelyn has been all smiles and giggles, which is so nice after a few months straight of her being fussy. But almost any time we break out the camera or video camera she looks either bored or mad. This is one of the few times we've been able to capture her happy on camera, and we love it! Hope you enjoy it.

Our Spokane Trip

So this is pretty late but I wanted to post a few pictures from the trip we took to Spokane in January. It was supposed to be just Katelyn and I, but luckily Tyler was able to come for a few days and share in the fun, it was great to have him there. I was especially grateful to have him on the plane ride out there when Katelyn decided she was not happy to be traveling. Three hours in to our six hour flight after just about non-stop screaming, the flight attendants ended up offering free alcoholic beverages to all the passengers sitting around us. :) I'm guessing that is not standard practice for your average crying baby. Anyway, other than the flight out there we had a great time and got to see everybody, even Cameron and Hillary who were home for a couple months and Sean who got to come home for the weekend. Scott had his Eagle court of honor while we were all there so Sean, Cam and Tyler all got to sit in his eagle's nest which was pretty neat. Thanks mom and dad for bringing us out we had a great time!


Despite the fact that it looks like I am forcing the binky in Katelyn's mouth she really did pretty well. She just likes me to hold it in for her so she doesn't have to do all that work. ;)

Here is one of the four generation pictures we took while we are there. Katelyn and I are lucky to have such great women to follow after.


Our other four generation picture we were so lucky that (Great :) Grandma Carole and Keith could come see us.


And I most definitely had to share this great picture that my Grandma Carole got of Katelyn. Tyler and I are never skilled enough to catch these moments so I think this is still her only documented smile. :)

Happy Valentines Day from Katelyn!

Katelyn, the Bib Queen

Our beautiful little Katelyn has some pretty bad reflux. But she does not like getting dressed. So in order to keep from having to change her clothes she wears a bib 24/7. This first picture shows her first set of cute Winnie-the-Pooh bibs that her Grandma and Grandpa Rapier got for her.


Lately, however they were starting to get a bit tight so on our recent trip to Spokane Grandma and Grandpa Lovinger got her some new cute ones.

First, here is Katelyn with her Uncle Scott (aka Tio Loco) and Uncle Cam in her "I love my Uncle" bib. (Sadly, Uncle Sean was already back in Utah when we got the bib)




She also has an "I love my Aunt" bib but we ran out of time to take a picture with her Aunt Hillary- sorry Hillary! Here she is in her "My heart belongs to Grandma" bib. :)



And finally, here is her "I love my Grandpa" bib. It was Grandpa Lovinger's idea in the first place to get these bibs and we were glad to discover them. She definitely does love all her uncles, aunts, grandmas and grandpas and it was so fun to get to see them.


Katelyn just recently started seeing a chiropractor so hopefully between him, the GI specialist and her pediatrician we can help her get ove her reflux and maybe not need a bib quite so often. :)