Celebrating Olive

We had a really great time celebrating Olive's 11th birthday with our families.  

We hosted Kevin's family one night and my family the next.  She was surrounded by the people she loves all weekend long!

Olive requested an arctic animal theme with her favorite pastel colors.  Penguins are her current favoirte thing.  She was cute making me tons of lists - menus, guest lists, favor ideas and more to make sure the parties went perfectly.  Olive made her own invitations on Canva, shared them with me and then I texted it out to everyone.  She blew up all the balloons for the balloon garland which saved me so much time, helped me decorate and was so excited for her birthday weekend.

Olive is lucky to have the sweetest great grandmas!  They are always so interested in the kids asking lots of questions and chatting with the kids.

Olive picked out her favorite candies for favors for all of her cousins.  Nerd Ropes & Blue Raspberry Laffy Taffy.  Everyone loved them!

Olive recently decided that she loves bundt cakes so she picked out her flavors and I got busy baking.

Funfetti with vanilla frosting.

Yellow cake with vanilla and chocolate frosting.

Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

Everyone loved picking out their cake and ice cream flavors.

Everything came together perfectly!  Nice weather and great evenings.

I served two different dinners:

Chicken nuggets, tots and lots of yummy sides.

Pasta bar and sides.

Both were yummy!

These cute cousins are all 11 now!

The cousin crew on my side are all growign up so fast!

Olive loved all of her fun gifts.  Everything from new stuffed animals, Owala water bottles, penguins, accessories and cash.  She was so excited about all ofher gifts!

It was the perfect weekend - great weather for her parties, great Indy 500 race, great food and great times with family.

It's so fun to plan a party with Olive!