made X modern

Up until Olivia was 2 she really didn’t care much about TV or movies. That all changed when the world shutdown and we were forced to all stay home and pull out alllllll the stops to try and keep her busy while we both worked from home. Enter: Frozen. Frozen 2 had just come out, but we hadn’t seen the OG yet, and we heard so many kids her age were obsessed with it, but we had our doubts. And were oh so wrong. What is it about this movie that just captivates everyone? Derek and I are even obsessed with it and I always have the songs in my head.

Anyway, ever since last spring Olivia has requested an “Anna Elsa” (that’s what she calls it) birthday party. The party planner in my cringed a bit picturing all of the Disney branded plates and napkins and everything cheesy. So I decided that I would embrace her theme, but make it modern and more my style ha. Even though we couldn’t have a full blown party with all of her friends (it’s okay she had one with her class at school), we still wanted to make her day special. And you know I don’t hold back when it comes to parties. So we kept it to immediate family only, which for two only children our immediate family is 5 people lol. We also required that everyone wear masks the whole time and everyone was always socially distant throughout the party. And honestly who knows isolation better than Anna and Elsa? This whole party was so on brand.

Once again it all started with the invitation. I threw in lots of inside jokes from both movies for all of the true Frozen fans out there. I couldn’t help myself.

In true form I stayed up allllll night baking and getting everything setup. And Olivia slept until 10am and honestly would have kept sleeping but Geoffrey woke her up with his barking.

I’ve tagged all of the sources at the end of the post in case you’re curious about where anything is from. I mostly focused on the large blank wall in our living room where I hung lots of iridescent streamers, balloons, stars, you name it. Part of her gift from Derek and I were the Anna and Elsa dresses, so I had Derek build a small dress up rack for her to hang everything on in her playroom. What’s nice is it can fold up when not in use, and we can always lengthen it as her dress up wardrobe increases.

Obviously all of the snacks had to follow the theme so I made snowflake cookies, a very magical Elsa cake, the most delish rice crispy treats, and even included carrots for Sven! I even cut the cheese into snowflakes because I’m crazy.

Olivia was just beside herself and immediately hugged Olaf and then just bopped balloons around for a very long time. All while wearing one glove just like Elsa. There was even a bowl of snowballs for a snowball fight, which she was all about getting to throw things in the house without getting in trouble.

THEN! A surprise guest arrived!

Sidenote: Olivia has loved Anna from the first time she saw her. I mean lets face it. She’s the real hero of both movies, why does Elsa get all the credit? Anyway. I was super pumped because my friend at work looks EXACTLY like Anna and this was going to be a huge hit until about a month before her party when Olivia wouldn’t stop raving about Elsa and how Anna was old news. Shoot! Considering I didn’t have any blonde friends (and the wigs totally look so fake, Olivia wouldn’t buy it) I stuck with the original plan and I was so nervous that she’d be like “not you! where is Elsa??” But boy was I wrong.

Olivia wasn’t shy or scared or mad it wasn’t Elsa, she was just smitten that Anna would come all the way from Arendelle for her birthday party. She was such a good little hostess and immediately made sure Anna had a plate of snacks, and lots of balloons to play with. Then promptly asked her if she wanted to color.

Olaf had to color too ha.

Then it was time for cake and presents! I was very impressed that Olivia blew out all of her candles in one puff.

When you love Anna, but love tools a little bit more.

Then it was more dancing with balloons and Anna recounting her adventures as we watched them on the big screen. Which was just cracking everyone up. “Oh man I remember that! Don’t worry I’m really fast, see the snow monster can’t catch me!”