Olivia's birthday party-fun 6th gymnastics birthday party at Westside!

Olivia decided to her have her birthday party at Westside Gymnastics this year.  She had a lot of fun at her friend Avery's birthday party there earlier in the year.   I was worried about people not being able to come due to her summer birthday and vacations that people like to have after school gets out but we got lucky and almost everyone we could invite could come.  We could have up to 20 kids and I wanted to make sure we had as close to that as possible as it was a bit spendy.  Olivia's best friends Addie and Lauren from Rocking Horse were able to come and her friend Kennedy from Rocking Horse.  The rest of the girls were from her kindergarten class and her friend Amelia and Elise from her soccer team.  It was super hard trying to track down e-mail addresses to send the Evite but luckily one of the moms had some of the e-mail addresses.  We ended up choosing to have Olivia's birthday party a week before her actual birthday as her birthday fell on a Saturday this year and we were worried about people being out of town for a long 4th of July weekend.  Olivia has been obsessed with these little dolls called LOL Dolls where you unpackage them and get a doll and an outfit.  She decided pretty early on she wanted to have an LOL themed birthday party.  Luckily, Westside does most of the decorations and I were able to get a few extras at Walmart. I was also able to re-use some of the same decorations she had used the past few birthdays.  I let Olivia get a birthday shirt on Etsy and she choose a cute Uni LOL doll.  I also let her pick out a birthday leotard and she chose a sparkly rainbow one she had been eyeing.

We had Olivia's party from 2-3:30 PM.  There was a bit of a scheduling issue as one of the boys in Olivia's class scheduled his party after we sent out our evites for the same time.  I contacted his mother and she was able to reschedule his party for earlier in the day.  His party was at Plumper Farms and it was a lot of fun.  Olivia and I went from his party home for an hour and got dressed and everything ready and then headed to Westside with Sean and Brandon.  It was super easy to set up and I made her cupcakes that morning (Olivia's favorite Funfetti cupcakes) and got LOL toppers on Amazon so that was pretty easy.

Having fun on the hayride at Plumper Farm

Having fun at her friend Josh's birthday party at Plumper Farms

Birthday girl next to her cupcakes ready for her party!

The kids were broken up into 2 groups led by 2 instructors.  Each group got to do all of the stations they just rotated around.  Olivia's group started with zip lining.  All of the kids did it despite it being quite high up (although some of them did not go quite so high).

Lining up from the party room to go down to do gymnastics 

Stretching!

Warming up!

Waiting for the zip line

Sibling fun!

Brandon getting ready to go on the zip line

He went really high!

Zip lining down!

Getting down the zip line

Birthday girl getting strapped in

Going back 

So high!

There she goes!

Waiting in line for the zip line

The next activity they did was the trampoline track.  The kids loved jumping on that and doing various kinds of jumps.  After that they went into the foam pit.  Olivia went off for a bit and did some rope climbing.  The kids liked the foam pit.

Tumbling track fun!

Laughing with Brandon and Logan

Jumping away

Foam pit fu 

Climbing the rope

Doing a fun jump! 

Brandon having fun in the foam pit

They ended the gymnastics part of the party with the bounce house.  The kids all joined hands and were jumping around crazily in the bounce house.  I got a group photo of all the kids with the birthday girl and then we headed upstairs to do cupcakes, snacks, and presents.

Bounce house fun 

Jumping all together

Olivia had a blast in the bounce house

Brandon bouncing with Logan

Happy birthday Olivia!

Waiting in line to get photos

First birthday photo attempt

2nd birthday photo attempt  

Best shot I could get of everyone-Trevin, Mikayla, Vivian, Amina, Avery,  Addie, Olivia, Lauren, Elise,  Claire on top, bottom-Lauren, Grace, Brighton, Amelia, Logan, and Brandon

Silly shot!

Olivia really wanted to open up all of her presents in front of her friends.  She had so many friends come that we had to rush a bit to get through all of them but she was able to.  The kids had snacks that I brought-Olivia's favorite cheddar pretzels and apple sauce pouches and juice boxes.  Then we sang happy birthday to Olivia and she blew out her candle.  She started opening presents then while her friends ate so we could get through all of them (we only had 30 minutes in the party room).  She managed to get through all of them and got some really cute presents this year including a Rainbacorns from Lauren that came in a giant egg and she got to open up and it was a lioncorn (a lion unicorn with a flippy heart).  She got several LOL dolls and pets, some craft items including a pottery maker, bow maker, pom purse, and quilt making set, and a fun unicorn Barbie backpack doctor kit.  Olivia loved seeing all her friends again and having fun with them.

Getting sung Happy Birthday to

Getting ready to blow the candles out

Happy Birthday Olivia!

Making a wish and blowing the candles out

Showing me her LOL doll on her cupcake

Opening presents

Getting a fun princess candy land game

She got a bow making kit from Trevin and Mikayla! 

She got a cool raincorn from Lauren!

Hugging Lauren for her gift! 

Reading her cards

Finally getting to eat her cupcake once she opened up all those presents!

After her party she got to come home to Just Dance set up on Daddy's Xbox 360 downstairs and she got to have Addie and Logan over to play for a bit and to open up all of her new presents.  The kids had fun trying out Just Dance and Logan and Addie liked it too!  We went out to dinner after Logan and Addie left for an early birthday celebration.  Olivia chose to go to her favorite restaurant Old Market Pub and get her beloved "Buttered Noodles" dish.  It was a perfect way to end such a fun celebration.  As Olivia said, this was her best birthday party ever!

Dancing with friends! 

Hugs from Daddy at Old Market Pub

She loves her buttered noodles and got a birthday sundae 

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