Double Digits

Hi people! So wasn't that awesome? I mean that was. . .  Wait, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. This is Chloe, if you hadn't already guessed. As you probably know, my birthday was about 16 days ago. Wow! (Man, it's closer to the actual day than I thought!) Anyway, I'm here to give you kind of, like, the whole agenda. Here we go:

Okay, so the first actually good or exciting thing that happened was we had pancakes. With M&Ms, of course! The next thing was Ali came over! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!! She gave me my present (which wasn't wrapped but that was fine because the wrapping doesn't matter). You'll never believe what it was--an Easy Bake Oven! :D So anyway, Ali and her friend Robin came over, and we chatted for a while, and then we went on a drive to Dallas. I got a little carsick (but I didn't throw up which was good because that would've been horrible), but we got there soon enough. Where did we go? To Eatzi's! Yay! So we ate there and went to look at fancy houses (which were very fancy, mind you.) Then we went shoe shopping. UGH! But by the end, I didn't want to leave! But we did, and we went to Razoo's for dinner.  We ate dinner, and we were going to leave, but the people who worked here came over and made me do a couple of humiliating things while they sang "Happy Birthday" to me. (See pictures.) As a reward they gave me a free ice-cream sundae. Yum! After that, we went home and ate cake and sung "Happy Birthday" again. Then I opened my presents. I got a grown-up journal from Daddy, a Littlest Pet Shop car, a Littlest Pet Shop house (with included Littlest Pet Shop animals), American Girl doll clothes, a stencil book, jelly beans, and more. It was great! After that we went night swimming. We turned the pool light on and swam a lot. Then it was time for bed. Yawn! I was SO tired! I went to sleep right away.

Didn't I tell you that was awesome? Anyway, I have to leave so I can't write (or type) anymore, but I will leave you with some pictures. Here, NOW LEAVE ME ALONE! Just kidding. Bye! See ya later!

Recital Time for Olivia

On June 5 I had my dance recital. I was so excited! We do it once every two years in a huge theater called Texas Hall. For the recital I had to wear stage makeup and wear three different costumes, which I loved. I had two rehearsals in Texas Hall in the two days before the recital. They each took about four hours. And all year long we have been practicing in class, two days a week. So it was a lot of hard work to get ready for the recital. I did a tap dance to "All That Jazz," a ballet dance to "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," and a jazz dance to "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and "Hoedown Throwdown." I did great, and I wasn't nervous at all. After the recital, Mom gave me a beautiful bouquet of pink roses to put in a vase. Here are some pictures from that day:

 

Olivia's Long-Overdue Baptism Post

My baptism was the best day of my life! Later, after the baptism, it started to snow and it was the first day of spring, too. We were eating dinner at Joe's Crab Shack, and I looked out the window and saw snow starting to fall. I was excited that it snowed on my baptism day. Almost everyone in my family came, even Ali and Mo. I wish I could get baptized again!