Olivia's 3rd Birthday Party

Sweet, Olivia. Your life has sped up and I'm writing this almost a whole year late. I think I should get partial credit for at least loading the photos to the post last December though! ;)

For a long time you have been obsessed with finding the moon. It's pretty precious and sweet. We even have a video of you hopping of your bike and trying to jump up to the moon once you spotted it.  Since you love the moon, we decided we'd celebrate your third birthday with a moon theme. 

We invited your family, friends, and classmates. Our original plan was to host the party at the neighborhood playground, grill food, and rent a bounce house. Unfortunately, due to the weather, we had to move the party to our home. 

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For food we served hotdogs, mac and cheese, fruit, raisins, and chips. For sweets we served beautiful star and moon cookies and, of course, cake.

We kept the decorations minimal since we were hoping to be outside, but we had some pretty balloons and things. 

 

We attempted to play some games while we waited for your special guest. Playing games with two year olds was about as successful as you would imagine it would be. But it was a nice way to pass time at the party. 

While we were playing games, your special guest arrived. To your delight it was Rapunzel!! The few months leading up to your birthday you were obsessed with Rapunzel. You were SO happy she came to your party!

Rapunzel brought lots of fun activities to your party. She gave you all makeovers with colorful makeup, made jewelry with you and your guests, and played games with her hair!

Rapunzel even sang Happy Birthday to you! You were quite delighted to be the birthday girl and center of attention. I love that it was caught on camera. 

It was so special and fun that Karis, Evan, and Charlotte came to your party all the way from Atlanta! They stayed for the night which you also thought was pretty great!

After our guests arrived we opened presents with the family. 

Safe to say you had a pretty wonderful and great day. We loved celebrating you and are always telling the Lord how thankful we are that he gave us YOU!! What a blessing you are to our family! Love you Olivia!