Pilot/And So The Day Begins

    The last thing on Ava Gregory's (Lori Loughlin) mind was settling down and starting a family. As an ambitious woman with a close-knit circle of friends, a great house in a beautiful California beach town and a growing career as a fashion designer, her life was in full swing. But everything changed the day she learned that her sister and brother-in-law were killed in an accident, leaving Ava to raise their three children, 16-year-old Bradin (Jesse McCartney), 13-year-old Nikki (Kay Panabaker) and 9-year-old Derrick (Nick Benson). Ava and her three best friends - Johnny (Shawn Christian), Jay (Ryan Kwanten) and Susannah (Merrin Dungey) - all pitch in to help Ava provide the ultimate surrogate family for her sister's children.