Party like a princess!

Even though today is Ella's birthday, we had this party last week. I just didn't want to post it until after her actual birthday. Thanks for your patience.

Remember Ella's third birthday? If not, click here. Want to see the other princess party we had and compare the two? Please do. Click here.

Ella's fourth birthday party was all princess. Here are the little girls posing for a princess portrait.

The cake was not easy for me to make. I love birthday parties and planning fun activities. The cake part? Not my thing. But, I try. If only my mom lived nearby. I would have her creating and decorating all sorts of cakes.

Ella wanted a crown cake. I went to several stores looking for pink, edible glitter. Finally, I found it at the last store I could think of, Michael's. Go figure!

We colored white chocolate, dipped pretzel sticks in it and sprinkled them with decorating sprinkles and sugars. Voila! Edible, magic, princess wands.

A sample of all the tulle that was draped through the house to help create the ambiance of a ballroom, or something like that. The menu: pink lemonade, heart shaped sandwiches, bugles, jeweled salad (cherry is ruby, green cherry is emerald, blueberries, strawberries, etc). I should mention that our friend/babysitter did a lot of the decorating (if not most of it) the night before. Arthur and I went out on a date and she did some party prep for us! Thanks SO MUCH Katie!

The table. Each girl took home a star wand filled with candy (in the vase) and a princess goblet!

As the royal guests arrived, they were given the opportunity to freshen up! A friend supplied me with Mary Kay samples. I set out some q-tips and cotton balls and some other play makeup. They loved it! It was messy and not applied properly. It was great. And yes, that is me in the Snow White costume.

While putting on makeup, each girl put on lipstick and kissed a purple, heart shaped post it note. This was for a game, Pin the Kiss on the Frog. I had them kiss the post it note rather than letting them blindly attempt kissing a frog and getting my wall instead!

Arthur drew the frog. Isn't it great? Do you see all of the little lips? A few of the girls didn't get the concept of kissing a frog to turn it into a handsome prince. Matter of fact, Ella's friend Lily said, "Are you sure about that?" when I explained why we were playing the game.

Ella...


Selma...


Aleigha...

McKenna...

After the frog game we tapped into our crafty and artsy sides. Each princess created a bookmark with foam princess stickers (some of which were sparkly!).

Thanks to Sarah for helping out!

Ipods are so much fun. Have you played with one lately? I have grown dependent on them during birthday parties. I purchased a few downloads from Itunes and we played a Guess the Princess Song game. It may have possibly been the favored game. All of the girls loved this one. A few of the girls could guess the song one bar into it. I was amazed.

Princess music calls for a little dancing, as well.

There aren't necessarily pictures to prove it but we did read a few princess stories and we did have lunch and cake!

A few of the guests....

Selma and Ella

Cora and Ella (or Chris and Arthur)

Meg

Our sweet princess!