olive is five!

olive is five! it's hard to believe our cute black haired baby is so grown up

we started the day opening presents before michael went to work

i love eleanor's excited face about elsa

 for breakfast olive wanted pancakes

with blueberry eyes, a strawberry nose and smile, whipped cream cheeks and syrup hair

and orange juice

 after breakfast the kids played with olive's new toys 

and watched frozen to gear up for olive's elsa birthday party

we went to mcdonald's for lunch per olive's request

olive asks for mcdonalds all the time and i never give in 

so it was a special birthday treat

all the kids got happy meals and we went to one near michael's work so he could be with us

when we got home from lunch i let olive put on the elsa dress i made her

and we took a few pictures

 right before her party my sister and her family stopped by on their way traveling through

it was so good to see them! 

then it was party time! this was olive's first friend party and she was so excited

she decided on an elsa theme almost a year ago and never changed 

here are a few decorations

 i made her cake and we bought her these figurines as a present and a cake topper 

 sugar cookies the girls helped me make

 chocolate covered oreos

we also had a veggie tray, watermelon, lemonade and pizza

but i didn't get a picture of the whole set up somehow

when her friends showed up we started off by playing pin the nose on olaf

and "anna, anna, elsa" like duck duck goose

and musical chairs
olive was especially excited about this one

we also did freeze dance to frozen music and the girls loved it

now that ballet ended for their older sisters, 

eleanor and carter haven't seen each other

so it was super fun for them to play

then olive opened her presents

then it was time for cake

 at first she blew out her candles before we sang to her so we tried it again

making a wish

we saved the pinata for last

i love how happy olive was to hit it

olive thought her first party with friends was super awesome

michael and i were shocked how trashed our house got from 7 little girls

and we were wiped out (that might have something to do with eleanor's surgery)

so we let the kids stay up watching a few movies olive picked from the redbox

 and eat popcorn until bedtime

they were pretty happy about it

it was a pretty great day

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olive is a really fun, energetic, loud, active, smart girl

she loves to play outside, ride her bike, jump off of everything

 she's a little bit of a daredevil

she loves it when i tickle her back

possible careers she'd like as an adult are mom, hairstylist, fashion designer, rock star, or doctor

she is really looking forward to kindergarten

she loves animals, loves them

and wanted a kitten for her birthday but we aren't quite ready for a pet

her favorite foods include ranch chicken, watermelon, frozen corn dogs (gross),

bagels and cream cheese, orange juice, grilled cheese, honey sandwiches, broccoli

we love our olive

and we're so happy she's in our family