Addison's Birthday.

Addison is 8 years old!

Her birthday is just 5 days after Ava's.

She was SO HAPPY to have a new baby sister on her birthday.

We celebrated with an outdoor party with thirteen of her darling little friends. It was so much fun!

Addison is such a sweetie. We love her so much!

First Day of School

Addison and Olivia have started school this year and they absolutely LOVE it. They are so happy about their school, teachers, bus driver (Brad and his fast truck) and all of their new friends. We are so glad that they have adjusted so well to our new home in Colorado and that they are having such a good experience at school. I am loving the time that I have at home with Ella and Ava. We are looking forward to a great new school year!

Sweet little Ava-1 week old.

She's here.

Ava Claire Daybell
Born: Tuesday, August 10th @ 1:30 a.m.
6 lbs 8 oz 19.5 inches
We could not be happier!

It's time.

Baby Ava will be arriving this week! We are SO EXCITED to finally meet her. I am scheduled for induction on Wednesday. We have had so much fun this month preparing for our new

BABY GIRL!

Olivia has been busy drawing pictures for her new baby sister.

This is a picture of Ava in her cradle. :)

Our new rocking chair.
Our girls really wanted a rocking chair to rock their new sister.
I found this on craigslist.
It needed some clean up and paint, but it will do the job.

Sweet Ella is very anxious to be a big sister.
She goes through all of the baby clothes every morning.
She is so excited to dress and take care of a new baby.
She will be the best little helper!

A few days ago, Addison made us a cute candy countdown chain...

3 days to go!

My girls love to help in the kitchen. We have had a lot of fun preparing food from this great recipe book for kids by Williams-Sonoma. Addison can prepare some of the recipes by herself. Here is one of our new favorite summer recipes that our whole family loves. We make them almost every day.

Fruity Morning Shakes:
1 container (8 oz) low fat vanilla yogurt
1 cup of fresh fruit. We usually use peaches, strawberries, mango, bananas or blueberries.
ice cubes

Simple, healthy and so YUMMY.