The Birthday Party

We had Olivia a birthday/going away party yesterday at a local park (I only teared up twice!). This particular park has a splash pad, an actual park area, and a little wading river. Some of her little friends stayed in the water almost the entire time! It turned out great- not one drop of rain (like last year), although we did have some wind. Here's Olivia walking towards the wading river:



Her theme was Frog Princess:





Her cake turned out really cute (aside from mis-spelling her name!):



The wind was blowing a little too hard to get a good picture of her banner:



Blowing out the candles:



Everybody loves presents!





This is when I got a little teary eyed- first when Olivia opened the sweetest card from Liza (next door) and then when she opened this:



Lindsay made this for her- hand prints from all her daycare friends! It is so cute! As excited as we are to be moving closer to family, we are leaving friends here that have been like our family. It's hard to say good-bye!

We moved on to the pinata. In hindsight, a pinata probably wasn't the best idea for a 3 year old's birthday:



We made it through almost all the kids before Rohen got whacked with the stick. Poor guy had a red knot on the side of his head, but no serious trauma (luckily!). Michael finally broke it open and the kids dived onto the candy.

Sarah and I:



Liza, Landon, and Olivia:



Lindsay and I (we're laughing, because Rohen had just came over crying. It seems our entire friendship we have been surrounded by crying children!):



Her friend Reygan:



Trying to get a family photo (practically impossible):



I have a few more pictures from her party that I will share later. The movers arrived bright and early this morning and I'm typing this from our hotel room! We thought we would be able to stay at our house tonight, but you can't really walk through it with all the boxes. We ended up checking in a night early. We fly to TN Friday, hard to believe!