Ava's 2nd Birthday

Yesterday we headed to Bonney Lake to celebrate Ava's 2nd Birthday(Ava's daddy and Lydia's daddy are cousins). There was Sesame Street decorations, stars and swirlys hanging from the ceiling and balloons!! Ava had a really cool birthday cake that looked like presents stacked on top of each other. Lydia had fun playing with Ava's new kitchen and her piano that was just her size. It was a nice afternoon spent with family. Happy Birthday Ava!!!

Play date with Lucy!

On thursday we were excited about picking Matt up at the airport and getting to spend some time with the Starowski/Cave family! We headed down south around 2:30 with a car FULL to the brim(5 costco sized diaper boxes to be exact)with clothes for Miss Lucy. We enjoyed a nice dinner and had fun watching Kellie go through all of the clothes that Lydia was handing down. Lucy is absolutely adorable and if there is a camera in her presence she lights up! I can't get over how cute she is! Lucy's mom(Kellie)and I have been friends for 16 years now and it's so much fun to have children so close in age...can't wait till they actually intereact with each other! Thank goodness they live so close to the airport. We were able to hang out until Matt called to tell us he had landed then all we had was a 10 minute drive to go get him! When he opened the back to put his bag in Lydia yelled "DADDY"!! It was pretty cute. We are so happy have him home!

What we've been up to...

So Matt left last sunday to go to Winona, MN for 12 day training and BOY DO WE MISS HIM!! Lydia is continually saying "Daddy! Where are you?", and "Oh No Daddy!". It's pretty cute. I asked her where Daddy was and she pointed to all the pictures she could see that had Matt in them! I miss him so much and hope this next 6 days go by quickly!

Unfortunately Lydia and I spent the first part of the week sick with a yucky bug! My wonderful Mother in law brought Lydia and I some "get well" presents...I got beautiful red satin pajamas and flowers and a crossword book. Lydia got a super cute sock monkey and a new car to play with...we also got a box of creamsicles(because you always get them when you're sick!).

We've got to spend some time with baby Maya and Aunt Angela & big cousin Addy. We also got invited to dinner at Uncle Jason & Heather's house. Heather made homemade mac'n cheese...yummy!

Please forgive the poor photo quality, they were all taken with my cell phone!
my pretty flowers! Thanks Marg!
Baby Maya...she's so cute and snuggly!

Lydia in the tub.

Meet the newest family member!!

Today was an exciting day for our family! Maya Luella Pratt was born around 11am at St. Jo's in Bellingham! She weighed 7.5lbs and is 20in. Our family has grown by 1 every year for the last four years...Addison in 06, Lydia in 07, Keegan in 08 and now Maya in 09! It is going to be so much fun to watch all of our children grow up together and for them to all be so close in age is so cool!

Congrats Joel, Angela & Addison....Maya is so beautiful and such a blessing to our family!



Maya's middle name is Luella, after our Aunt Lu!