The Anderson Family

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Alivia's First Days

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Alivia's first days. She has just a sweet, mellow personality. All she wants to do is eat and sleep! Big sister has a cold and cough, so it's been a bummer trying to keep her away from little sister.

Weighing in at a small 9 lbs.

Alivia's first bath

Meeting Grandma Cindy

and Grandpa Andy

Bonding with sister

Snuggling with Papa

and Mimi

Uncle Kyle and Megan came to meet Alivia

Before we left the hospital, we took Alivia's picture in front of the water feature that Mark built

First car ride

When we got home, Uncle Jed stopped by

and then Uncle Kevin and Miranda came by

Today Katie, Lucas, and Jeanine came to see Alivia

Below are just a few sweet pictures of our Alivia Jo

Friday, August 10, 2012

...and Baby Makes Four!

This morning at 8:20 our little Alivia Jo joined our family. I was scheduled to be induced this morning but she decided to come on her own. She weighed 9 lbs and was 21 in long. I apparently like to have big babies! She has the calmest, sweetest personality. We couldn't be happier with the newest addition to our family.

Alivia Jo's middle name is after her daddy- Mark Joseph

Ella is the one who came up with the name "Alivia" and has insisted that we name her that ever since. Good thing we love the name Alivia too!

She looks so much like her little sister did when she was born!

Ella is really in love her new "little sister"!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Our Family of Three

As you all know, our family is about to grow by one... very soon. If little sister doesn't come tomorrow, I'm going in to be induced on Friday morning. Tonight we took some pictures in our backyard of our little family of three and a few pregnancy pictures of myself at 40 weeks.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Getting Ready For Sister!

My very first blog back in 2009 was about getting the nursery ready for Ella. It was fun to see how much our lives and family have changed since then...new house, Ella is now a busy toddler, and we have a new addition ready to join us any day..
hopefully any hour now:)

As I have been home for the summer, I've been slowly working on litttle sister's nursery and Ella's big girl room. I'm loving both rooms, especially the nursery. It might be my favorite room in the house.

Here is what we started with... dirty minty green wall and oak window castings.

Here it is today, I feel like I'm almost done. It needs a lamp, a few more accessories and of course some pictures of our newest addition.

I used a lot of the same things from Ella's room- chair, crib, mirror, side table and got a few new things- dresser, shelves and accessories.

I've also been busy crafting and creating ideas that I found on pinterest.

{Oh, I LOVE PINTEREST!}

Now on the Ella's big girl room which is just through the bathroom from little sister's nursery.

This was my parent's bed that my mom bought at a garage sale almost 40 years ago. I used it all through high school and college. I love this antique bed and knew it would be perfect for my big girl.