Happy Valentine's Day

Today the Simpson's celebrated Valentine's Day......celebrating is one of our favorite things to do. Olivia and I went to church this morning and David stayed home with Abby and Emily since Emily was sick. David had already called in an order to go at Hasta La Pasta, that I was to pick up on the way home from church.
While we were gone David and Abby went and rummaged through all my valentine stuff and found lots of things to spiff up the dining room with. The set out the china and decorated the table beautifully. David said Abby had a great time digging through all my stuff finding more and more things to decorate with. David had gifts sitting at each girls place at the table and flowers and a card for me. When I sat down, Olivia asked, "mommy, did you forget about Daddy?" since I didn't have a card for him. I assured her I did not forget. We had a great Valentine lunch....Celebrating with the four loves of my life.....what a great Valentine's Day!

She Got The Part!

Olivia got the part of Taylor in the children's choir spring production. She came home so excited. See video below. ( Also notice in the video the voice of another child wanting to make sure she is recognized as well, I believe my mom recently pointed this out to me, if one child is momentarily getting all the attention this one particular child has to interject herself)I had to stay home with Emily last night since she was sick. I told David to call as soon as he found out. He was telling me all about it and I thought, I should have sent him with the Flip to capture her excitement. Oh well, I just Flipped it when she got home. She had to call both grandparents and share the good news with them.

Olivia completes her first 5K

Yesterday morning (Saturday) Olivia and I got up before the crack of dawn to make our way downtown to walk with Team Curtis and raise money for Mitochondrial Disease.
Curtis Jackson is a 3rd grader at our church and though we don't know him personally we were both excited to be apart of Team Curtis.
It was a quite a cold morning for Houston but we weathered the cold. We walked with Uncle Mark and Aunt JeanAnn and all their girls so that made it more fun for Olivia. Her an Allison were both dying after mile one and the last half mile you would have thought they had been lost in the desert for weeks. Silly girls, but I still think they had a great time.
To cap off the perfect morning we ate breakfast at my faaavorite place Goode Co Taqueria! Mark, JeanAnn and the girls joined us so it was an especially good time.

Olivia's First Audition

Yesterday afternoon Olivia tried out for a part in the Children's Choir spring musical at church. This was the first year she was old enough to try out. She has been waiting for the opportunity to try out since she was in Kindergarten. Of course she has been talking about this for the past two weeks, praying about it and asking all her teachers at school to pray that she gets the part. Her dad and I have tried to prepare her for a happy and no so happy outcome. In all her drama she says, " I will be soooooooooo sad if I don't get the part....I will want to cry"....and so on and so on!
So yesterday afternoon we pull up to the church with all excitement.....as we get out of the car Olivia says, " momma, can we say a prayer?" Just what her momma wanted to hear. I was going to ask to pray with her but I was hoping she would ask first. We knelt down on the ground beside our car, Olivia, Emily and I and we held hands and prayed for Olivia's audition. Such a sweet memory for me...wished someone was there to click a pic!
Olivia didn't seem nervous at all, full of confidence and excitement! WOW! I wouldn't have been like that when I was little. I would have been a bundle of nerves. I am very curious how she was in the audition....did she act nervous or confident? I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall!
Well, we find out next Wednesday what the verdict is......I will keep you posted!

Time to dig out the scrapbook stuff.......

I started scrapbooking when Olivia was born and loved it..... I did one book per year for her first 3 years. Then Abby was born and I struggled to get her first year book done by her first birthday, but I got it done and that was the only one she got. Then along came Emily....I started her first book and got 5 pages finished. When it got close to her first birthday I realized this book wasn't going to be completed anytime soon, so I made her a book on Shutterfly....which was very cute.
Fast forward three years....two nights ago Abby and I started looking at her first year scrapbook and then Olivia wanted to get hers out, so of course Emily wanted hers. I figured there was going to be a bit of a problem but I did not except little doodles to completely lose it. And that is just what she did. The tears were pouring from her eyes and she cried, " Where is my book, where is my book, I want one like theirs!" Daddy went and got her book that had 5 pages done and that calmed her down, but she quickly informed me once she got to the last page that I needed to finish her book.
I don't think I have it any me anymore, but how can a mother ignore the sweet tears her three year old baby. I will have to dig up by creative juices somewhere and get to it done! Just wish I had it in me to finish it before her 4th birthday which is only a month away.