Olive's 4th Birthday

Olive had a great 4th Birthday. I wanted to make the day as special as possible because now that she is 4 she knows what birthdays are supposed to be about!

We started off the day by opening a few presents like her new dress. Then it was yummy pancakes with whipped cream and strawberries, as per her special request. 

Then we headed for a little outing to this Children's Garden.

It was cool to see all the koi fish so close up.

Olive climbed to the very top of this play set and then got stuck. 

They had some cool hands on stuff to explore, and we would have explored more if it hadn't been so blasted hot!

So of course we needed to cool off with some birthday ice cream!

Then it was home for some cake....

and presents...

I love that her birthday is right before the start of school so we can get some school stuff and wrap it up!

Then it was off to our special date! We decided to go bowling and mini golfing. Olive was into the bowling but got really bored during the golfing. She kinda just laid on the floor and crawled around as we went from hole to hole. 

We of course had to get her favorite dinner of pizza to celebrate!

Olive bowled her first strike! She was so proud of herself!

Ready to golf!

Lots of Olive's cute friends dropped of gifts and her cousins made a special visit. It was a really great day and very surreal to think that it has already been 4 years with our sweet Olive. These years have flown by, probably because she is such a joy to have in our lives. This is going to be such an exciting year for her and we are so proud of her. Yay for our 4 year old!