Magical

I've been waiting for this day for over 3 years now. I know I'm a little bit crazy but I'm a total girly girl at heart and ever since I was pregnant with Ella and I found out we were having a baby girl I couldn't wait to have a girly princess birthday party for her. The day finally came where Ella was old enough to appreciate a princess party. Last week, on the 6th, all the little kids dressed up and we had a dress up box available for those that didn't have dress up. Even me and my friend Susy (who was helping me) wore my old prom dresses. Our neighbor across the street is the bishop in my brother's single's ward. He's got an imaculate back yard where he lets all the single's ward couples who get married have their receptions. There's a gazibo, ponds with fish in them, music, flowers everywhere... just perfect for a magical princess tea party. They let us use it for FREE! When the kids first got there they decorated foam crowns to use as their birthday hats. The girls had sparkly pink tiaras and the boys had king crowns. After the crowns a special surprise guess arrived and All the kids were in Awwww. She read them a story and talked to the kids about edicate and how to use proper manners at a tea party. The kids ate their cute tea treats. I had fun making the food. I went simple with pb&j sandwiches (only cut into cut flower and heart shapes), crackers and cheese (the cheese was cut into cute shapes too), carrots, truffles and chocolate dipped cupcakes. (super easy but looks like I slaved away ;) Ella got a real tea set from my parents that we used at the party and Joseph and I got Ella an Ariel costume with matching tiara to wear to the party. (Ariel is her favorite) I LOVED it....she LOVED it and so did everyone else who came. Here are some pictures for those who missed it.

The invitation...



Opening presents....






Everyone at the party....




Here is our special guest! This is a lady in our ward who I thought looked exactly like the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella. I came to her one Sunday and asked her to spend abut 20 minutes at Ella's birthday party, dressed up like the Fairy Godmother and read the Cinderella Story. She was totally cool about it and was TOTALLY in character during the whole story. Then...to make things even better... That week we were trading services in Relief Society and had this tree where you write a service on a paper leaf... you hang it on the tree and then get to pick one from someone else. I found one that said SEWING! So I got a different lady in the ward to sew the cloak for the FGM and she did an amazing job! (I totally lucked out!) We got her a wand and she completely dazzled the kids (and the parents!) Right before she left she took an individual picture with each kid.


All the kids... mesmorized!








Ella with her one on one time with the Fairy Godmother...


And of course Carly and I had to sneak in a picture... :)


The food....








Playing on of those..."sit on the balloon and pop it" games. There were necklaces and rings inside the balloons for them to find.






Ella got another dress up as a gift and wanted to wear it the other half of the day.


Here's the FGM again... this is when she said good bye to all the cute kids. (She was saying, "Bippity, Boppity, Boo!" Thanks to everyone to help make this day magical to my little princess!