My Sweet Olivia

Olivia is such a sweet little girl. I was looking through my photos and feeling guilty about neglecting my blog, and I found a few random pictures of my little princess.

Crazy sock day at preschool. These socks came in a two pack that we split up for crazy sock day. She now wears them as her soccer socks.

Rock climing at our YMCA. She was very brave.

Olivia has wanted curly hair for a long time now. I finally bought some foam curlers and a hair net to give it a try. She slept in these curlers all night long and sure enough, she had curly hair in the morning.

Unfortunately, it only stayed in for about an hour. Any advice??

I Guess I am Getting Old

Yesterday Olivia asked me how old I was. I told her I was 37. She said, "37 is in the 30's." I said, "Why yes it is." I was feeling a little closer to 30 that 40 at that point. Then, she said, "That means you are almost 100." Then I didn't feel closer to 30 anymore. Mark thought it was hilarious.

We went sledding!!

 

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As part of the “Festival of Angels”, a city nearby made a snow hill for the kids to sled on.  The festival is in the evening but Mark got an email from the city inviting us to enjoy the snow in the afternoon.  There were only two other families there and we played on the snow hill for over an hour.  It was about 78 degrees out which I think is perfect sledding weather.  I think we will have to make it a tradition.

Grandma and Grandpa are Coming for Christmas!

My kids are starting to get excited about Christmas. They are studying the toy catalogs that come in the mail and asking "how long until Christmas?" They are especially excited that Grandma and Grandpa Taylor are coming for Christmas. They other night, Olivia was saying her prayers. After she had blessed all of the regulars she said, "And Jesus, please tell Santa that Grandma and Grandpa will be at our house for Christmas." It was so sweet, I almost cried. I hope she keeps this innocence for as long as possible.

October Fun!

This year we bought season tickets to the Magik Theater, a children's theater downtown. The first play was "Petite Rouge", a Cajun version of "Little Red Riding Hood". It was hilarious and kids loved it!

Another weekend, we took the kids to a local pumpkin patch. There was a small hay bale maze that they had fun playing hide a seek in, we had our faces painted and I think the kids had the most fun on this hay fort they could climb on and leap from one side to the other.

For Halloween we were a Super Hero family. Luke was Batman, Olivia was Supergirl, Mark and I had super hero t-shirts. We went to a Trunk-or-Treat at the church then to a party at a friends house.

At the party, there was a small haunted house built in a tree house. At the end, my friend Teressa was dressed as a witch stirring a cauldron of homemade root beer. She was having fun telling the kids all of the gross things she put in her cauldron like lizard blood and rat tails and then she said that it tastes better with some spit in it. She told the kids to spit in it so it would taste better. We later found out that when she turned her head, Luke really did spit into the cauldron. Thankfully only one person saw him do it and everyone who drank it has survived. It makes a mom proud :)

Luke is very talented!

Last Sunday at church, Luke's Sunday School teacher was teaching a lesson about talents. She asked the kids if they had any talents. Luke raised his hand and said, "I have a talent, I can do the Luke." He then stood up and talked through each step in a dance move which is apparently called the Luke. What a ham! I think he should have raised his hand and said "I have a talent, I have charisma."

We had to see the Dinosaurs before they left

The Witte Museum has had a traveling exhibit with animated dinosaurs for the last few months.   I don’t know if I have mentioned this but I have been a little busy for the last few months.  Well this is the last weekend of the exhibit so we had to go and see the dinosaurs.  Luke is very into dinosaurs and can name about 25 different types.

   

One last picture with my sweetie.  Anyone who knows him knows that he is hard to catch on film.

 

One last for this post of me and my sweetie.  Anyone who knows him, knows that he is hard to catch in a picture.