The Myhre Family: For Artie

This post is for Artie. For those of you who don't know, Sara moved in January 2008 and had full hopes of being called "Tia", which is Spanish for aunt. Well, Ava had other ideas, and starting called her "Artie". We still don't know how she came up with it, but we went with it. Now we still call her Artie and it doesn't sound so strange to us anymore. :) Artie lived with us for almost 2 years! I don't think any of us expected her to stay that long, but it was so fun having her here. She was here for some very big moments in my life and I miss her. It was funny, because having an Artie in the house was all that Ava and Annabelle ever really knew. I think Ava thought that all families have a mommy, a daddy, and an Artie. Because we miss her and because Saturday is her birthday, I decided to make a little tribute to Artie.

This was the day Sara arrived. After a 2 day (18 hour drive), she was happy to be here.

Ava was only 11 months when Sara moved in, and I was 5 months pregnant.

She was here for Ava's 1st birthday.

With all the fun we were having, Miss Annabelle decided to join us 2 1/2 months early. Thank God Sara was here to watch Ava when Annabelle was born. This picture was the first time Artie met Annabelle. We had to get special permission for someone other than me and Jason to visit in the NICU.

Sara got Ava all dressed up for Easter. I drove home from Denver on Easter day to pack some things up and to see Ava. Sara had cleaned our entire dirty house.