It's Official...

Princess is officially 6!

I have had the hardest time with this, I'm not quite sure why. Is it because that means that I have to admit I'm 25 now? Is it because I have to admit that I need to let her grow up? Or is it secretly because I still wish she was my baby? Does this mean that she won't be my baby girl forever? GASP I hope not! I will raise all kinds of hell at her wedding, I will bring embarrassing baby pictures to the hospital when she gives birth to her first, and I will be that momma standing at the front door when some little boy shows up to pick her up telling him "pull up your pants, that's not cute, tighten that belt and it had better stay that tight ALL night long- or you will get a free sex change!" Just sayin, I'm not afraid to use my big mouth to tell some kid off over my baby girl!

Anyways, so we had her party on Saturday the 10th. It went fairly well, though we didn't do everything I wanted to do. My nieces are lazy and didn't want to play or do really anything I had planned so therefore nothing really got done. On top of that my mother forgot some things she was suppose to bring to help me out. The "tower bean bag toss" I made didn't get played with AT ALL, go figure, I took time to make it, why would it get played with? My mother forgot the big piece of paper to have them "paint the walls" like Rapunzel does in the movie "Tangled" and even though I had paint for each kid, it didn't get used. Go figure- money wasted! On the bright side though... she had a great time and got lots of great gifts that she thoroughly loves!

Let me start with the basic decor, Party City loved me because that's where a lot of her stuff come from...

Square plates for the food, and the smaller round plates for the cake. Also that's a Tangled tablecloth that isn't pictured very well. 

What's a Rapunzel birthday party without a Rapunzel Birthday Banner?? 

We laid out a "royal" feast for her guests. (the tray with just grapes- yeah that was all the birthday girl- that's how she wanted it!)

There ended up being honey butter and french bread here as well- it was a HUGE hit!

RECIPE TIME! 

Honey Butter

1 1/2 cup softened butter

2/3 cup honey

Beat together and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes before serving

THAT WAS SO FREAKIN SIMPLE!

This is the Princess's snow cone cup that my hubs & I worked SO hard on! They loved them to, the girls thought these were great!

THE CAKE! I LOVED HOW PRETTY IT WAS! A friend of mine made it- here's her website: Amber Morgan Cakes It was kinda rich, but I think that's most fondant cakes really. IT was awesome, the girls liked being able to pick between rice krispy treats or cake.

I just needed to share her fave gift from her Aunt Kat & Aunt Britty! She's so pretty! 

Now one more thing, on her actual birthday (well the day before) the Family Resource Center woman from her school called and told me that a local business had made her a cake. This cake was made by Sweet Blessings and they make birthday cakes for children on their birthdays who meet a specific income requirement that the resource center feels is worthy of such a thing- so she signed her up and I went and picked up this...

I mean how adorable is that?!

She really liked this cake, it was FOUR layers thick!

LOOK! geez!

Anyways, now that I have bragged about my munchkin's party- I guess I should move on to the next topic at hand... another blog post... yesterday was September 11th, I posted my rememberance blog early for that one- so I will just redirect you to that post instead of posting another one about it (lol). 

I Will Never Forget

Princess is turning 6!

In about 26 days (not that I'm counting) my Princess will be turning 6 years old! It's a mess how I feel about this right now, I'm sure over time it will get easier but right now my baby girl is growing up. Moving on... this is my baby girl on her first day of 1st grade...

She's so beautiful! 

Anyway... she's hooked on Tangled right now (the Disney version of Rapunzel). This was what she picked as her birthday theme, and as most little girls, she's going to get her way. She's spoiled and I'm not too ashamed to admit that to anyone. I have lots of birthday ideas and I'd like to share them with everyone, I'm open to input and suggestions if you have any feel free to leave it in a comment and I will take all things into consideration. 

This is something I want to do...

This is yarn that has been braided together and strung around the door to look like Rapunzel's hair. I love this idea! I think Princess would love this as well. I only have one adjustment I want to make to it, I think at the end of the hair I will have it going "inside" of a tower window that will be hung up near the birthday cake itself. In that tower window I hope to have a picture of Rapunzel overlooking the cake area. (Clearly since it's still in my head I don't have a picture of it)

Her cake is being made by a friend of mine named Amber- THANKS A TON GIRL! The cake will resemble this... 

The doll will be real though and the cake will have my daughter's name on it. It's not going to be this exact cake. I also plan on having a dozen or so cupcakes around it in case there isn't enough cake. 

For food we usually do pizza. but this time I think we will do a small "spread" and have variations instead. I think I like the idea of having a fruit tray and a veggie tray (or a couple of each), with some homemade bread and honey butter, crackers and cheese ball would be good too. Again of course this is all in my head so I don't have a picture of it to share just yet.

I also like the idea of having paper lanterns hung up around the party area to make it look like when the lanterns were released into the sky in the movie. I bought paper lanterns from a website for my wedding and they were great, loved them, so many options in the area of color. Here it is!

I also have little plastic margarita glasses that I'm going to take art pens and write the girls names on them and tie pretty ribbon around the handle of it and make them "Princess Glasses." My Princess is very excited for that, after the party I'm going to dry the glasses out and put their goodie bag stuff in them.The glasses look something like this right now...

I am also going to take a BIG piece of white paper and hang it on our fence in the back yard. I'm going to let the kids have smocks and paint brushes and have at it with some washable paints that they will get to take home with them and then take the picture and hang it up in my Princess's room as a reminder of her birthday party with maybe some pictures of her & the party guests painting it hung up around it. 

I also might have a few coloring sheets on a table with some crayons in case it rains or in case some want to color instead of paint. 

A few of my ideas came from Super Mom! Check her out Here!

I am hoping this goes off without a hitch- I really think she'll enjoy it! 

Any suggestions??