Emery Lucia

Olivia goes Britney Spears on us!

If we have a quiet week, you know something major's coming. Late Sunday afternoon Olivia walks into the kitchen and announces to her dad that she cut her hair. Mom saw the pile of curls (pictured) and freaked out. She is certainly old enough to know better, however, I'm sure it's my fault the scissors were left out. We will be practicing much stricter scissor control in this house from now on. So here are some photos pre- and post- haircut. It's sort of a mullet with a couple of major chunks missing right now. We'll get it cut short tomorrow so it can hopefully grow back out into those beautiful curls soon. I also included a couple of pre-haircut pics so you can see just how pretty the hair was before she channeled her inner "Britney." Olivia loved going to the Prom to see everyone all dressed up. Here she is with Craig and Jonathan, two of her favorite buddies. And just do you don't think I've forgotten Em, there's a picture of her too.

You know that Vanessa Williams song "Saved the Best for Last" where she sings "Sometimes the snow comes down in June." Because that would be so unusual and crazy and unexpected, just like falling in love?? Well, she's obviously never lived in Kansas or she wouldn't be making jokes about it. I mean, if snow can fall in the middle of a thunderstorm, I'm not going to assume that it won't come down in June. Olivia and I braved the flakes to go out to the BBQ competition here in town and get dinner. I don't know if the food we got was that great, but it's better than cereal. Tonight we're watching "Flushed Away" - I hope it's funny 'cuz I could use a laugh. Emery has a runny nose and is not very happy about anything tonight.

I'm really late getting Easter pics posted but here's some of my faves. Olivia and her cousins got to dye eggs at Grammy and Grampy's, did some karaoke, and we participated in a walk for the American Heart Association. The kids liked throwing snow balls at each other while we walked. On Sunday, we went to church in Salina with Grandma Jo, Sarhan and Liam and did an egg hunt. Mom and Dad slipped out to go see "Blades of Glory" and then we headed back to the OC. Here's some photos from the Easter weekend. Hope you enjoy! (top - Olivia and Emery Easter morning; Emery and her cousin Liam; Emery on her first egg hunt; Cousins Brady, Mykiah, and Chesney dying eggs with Olivia)

Martin City Melodrama

On Olivia's birthday, we took her and Emery to Martin City Melodrama (which used to be located in MO but is now in Overland Park which is a lot more convenient for us.) My mom introduced the family to MCM when I was in college and we went several times to shows there. They were usually gut-splitting laugh out loud funny and when I found out they had kids' shows, I really wanted to take Olivia. We were escorted to our table by Goldilocks and settled in for "The True Story of Goldilocks or Grin and Bear It." Olivia watched the whole show and Emery was pretty interested too. Olivia really enjoyed all the singing and silliness, but the best part of the show was when they called her up on stage at the end to celebrate her 5th birthday!! Here's some pictures of Olivia with the cast and up onstage with Mama Bear when they sang to her (Baby Bear played piano.)