Olivia's Birthday Party Part II

After presents we sang to the birthday girl and then ate cupcakes!! I made Olivia's favorite- chocolate cupcakes:) I dyed the frosting and used icing bags to get them just right. I also made all of the cupcake toppers from the book of comics that I purchased.

I couldn't believe I actually found this little Lucy figurine on E Bay, which made the perfect cake topper.

Olivia obviously enjoyed her cupcake!

Olivia with our friend Bill:)

I bought blowers and made star-shaped covers for them out of the comics too!

Uncle Denton teaching Olivia how to use her blower.
Annalynn won the "Where is Lucy?" game!
Bounce house time....

After the party ended all of us got in the bounce house-including the adults!!Brooklyn didn't make it through the whole party:)
All of the kids went home with a treat bag of star-shaped glasses, candy necklaces, & Peanuts gang fruit snacks.

Olivia's Birthday Party Part I

Here goes a very long post....

On September 12, we celebrated Olivia's 3rd Birthday by throwing her a "Lucy party"!! For those of you who don't already know, Olivia loves the Peanuts gang and is especially fond of Lucy. So, it was no surprise to me when I asked her a couple months before her birthday what type of party she wanted to have and her reply was "A Lucy party!". Of course it wasn't exactly easy to throw together a Lucy party, but I did it!! The party was a success (although I am not too fond of outdoor parties because you never know what the weather is going to be like and it was a bit windy). We had the party at a picnic area down by the beach. The centerpieces were vases filled with peanuts and star wands. We rented a bounce house for the kids and played games. As for the menu, we served S&T hot dogs (brought all the way from Chicago by my wonderful father-in-law) complete with a hot dog bar made up of tons of delicious toppings! Olivia loved her party and we had a wonderful time celebrating along with our friends and family.

I ordered the party invitations to match the shirt I bought for Olivia to wear & I made envelope liners out of actual comics from a comic book that I purchased off of Etsy.

I made almost all of the decorations including these banners from the book of comics.

I bought this book, which is all of Lucy's comics & everyone signed different pages with a special Birthday message to Olivia.

I have to say that I think Olivia's favorite thing at the party was this Lucy Mylar balloon that I bought from a specialty store off EBay.

And a Lucy party wouldn't be complete without a Psychiatric booth!

The Birthday girl

Pictures with the family....

Brooklyn fell asleep on the way to the party so she missed family pictures.

Some party pictures....

Olivia is so funny! She bit this pretzel into a number 3!

Olivia opening her presents with her girlfriends.

Modeling her vintage birthday crown that one of our friends bought her to play dress-up with!

Brooklyn learns how to dance!!

While our families were visiting from Chicago Brooklyn learned how to dance!! She is so funny!! Whenever we say "dance" she does this....

(I apologize that its sideways and I can't figure out how to flip it.)

Some time with family

In the middle of September we had both of our families visiting from Chicago. My mom, sister, and brother came out along with Brian's parents:) They came out to attend Olivia's 3rd Birthday party and spend time with us. We had such a great week doing all sorts of fun things! One of Olivia's favorite things to do is going to the park so we decided to make a group trip to the park down the street from our house. We also did a lot of shopping, hanging out, and just catching up with each other.

Olivia couldn't wait to get Papa outside to play some baseball!!

Aunt Kate's blue sunglasses were a big hit with Brookie.

Olivia turns 3!!!!

On September 7th we celebrated Olivia's 3rd Birthday!! She is growing up so fast!! We can't believe it has been three years since we were driving to the hospital while I was having contractions thinking they were going to send us home because it was a month before my due date. Instead, Olivia Joy Giaretta entered the world @ 5:56pm that evening!! I remember holding her for the first time and being so excited that God chose me to be her mother. It was one of the best moments of my life:-) She is becoming so independent and wanting to do everything "all by myself" as she puts it. She has come a long way from being that tiny little 4Lb 13Oz peanut:)

Blowing out her Birthday candle @ dinner....

and she really enjoyed her dessert!

Opening up her Birthday gifts.

We bought her a tea set for her Birthday because one of her favorite things to do is have a tea party.

We always buy her a book for her Birthday & this year it was "Fancy Nancy" because we rented it from the library months ago and she always talks about how much she loved reading it and reciting parts of it that she remembers!