Elmopalooza

It was Elmopalooza at our house yesterday for Sophie’s second birthday. We had Elmo everywhere, balloons, hats, cupcakes, a poster, piñata and books. It all turned out pretty cute.

Grandma Olson and Uncle Erik were in town and got to join us for the party along with lots of Beairds and Cravens.

Even Bjorn got into the action.

For a few days we had been telling Sophie that she was going to have a birthday party and she kept walking around singing the Happy Birthday song. It was funny because she kept saying “Happy Birthday Dear Grandpa” (well really “crappa”) instead of Sophie.

Sophie blew out her candles all by herself.


Sharing some cupcake with Daddy and Mommy. Such a nice girl.





To burn off the cake we went outside and jumped on the trampoline that we bought for Sophie for her birthday. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Olson for pitching in. Sophie and her cousins had a great time.

After some time on the trampoline Sophie opened her presents. She wanted to play with each gift and not move on to open the next one. She got lots of really fun toys and dress up accessories as you can see from the pictures.

She put nearly everything on and went to her room to check it out in her mirror. As she was standing there she was naming each item to herself. “That’s my purse, my glasses, my phone…” It was so cute! Sophie you are so precious!

And then there was the piñata. This piñata was well built and after each of the kids got a few turns trying to break Elmo open he was no worse for the wear.

Mia really got into it

Lauren was not to sure about the whole thing and gave the bat right back.

So I tried to help Sophie break it open, but after beating Elmo with the plastic bat still nothing. Next Mike and I helped Sophie jump up and down on him but Sophie was not a fan of that and burst into tears.

We figured that it might be traumatic beating Elmo, but thought it would only take a few hits and it would be over. After calming down Sophie by giving Elmo a few hugs, we pulled the strings on the back of the piñata poured the candy out.

It was such a great party and thank you to everyone for coming to play with us. It is always a blast to have our family around. Happy Birthday Sophie, we love you!


This was just a funny and totally cute picture of Mike and Chelsea.