Calling All Fairies!

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I love being the mom of girls. Look at all the fun girly stuff I get to do! I was excited when Natalie decided she wanted a fairy party. I had so many ideas. I think this turned out to be one of the cutest parties I've done, if I do say so myself. With a lot of fun ideas from Family Fun and the internet.

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I got a little crafty. For one of the fun party favors, I took these . . .

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Plus these . . .

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Added a little of this . . .

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Like this . . .

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Add some fake flower petals and pipe cleaner hair and you've got a slew of adorable little fairies.

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These tiny cakes were so easy. Seriously. They are two oreo cookies stacked/glued with frosting and then frosted on the outside to look like mini cakes. I put them on our little Ikea tea party plates.

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Some of our cute guests coloring Melissa and Doug fairy pictures (FYI these are the best coloring books I've ever found.)

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We had a little fairy scavenger hunt to find things like smooth stones, feathers, a spool, sea glass and sea shells.

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Natalie on the hunt with her fairy friends.

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Some of the decor . . .

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The highlight of the party, was taking the found items from the scavenger hunt and using them to decorate a little fairy house. Each of the girls got a saucer with floral Styrofoam covered with grass for their blank canvas. Their little homes turned out so cute. The girls put these in the foyer when they were done and while they were eating cake a fairy magically appeared in each of their fairy homes which they got to take home.

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The girls were meticulous about their fairy decor.

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Sage continued to work even during the fairy storytime.

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Natalie liked her mini cakes

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Jayda likes her itty bitty ice cream cone made with a Bugle! These were so simple, but a huge hit!

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Rachel was adorable in her fairy costume! I love the colors. What a sweetie.

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I didn't get any pictures of the girls making these at the beginning - things got a little busy during that time. They turned out adorable! We set them out to dry on the porch and some fairies came by and filled them with tiny treasures!

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. . . little tiny rock candy, sunflower candies and glass treasures. As usual, the house was a disaster after everyone left - but that's just an indication of a successful party! (O:

She Did it Again!

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Sarah got selected again to take her science fair project to the district fair at Liberty High. She was so excited the day she brought home the letter from Mrs. Elliott. She was not as nervous this time as she knew what to expect. This is such great practice for her learning how to interview and discuss scientific findings with adults. She had to be judged by two of the judges and tell them all about her experiment. They asked her questions about it and they gave her marks for how well it was presented, etc. She was excited to get all 4's and 5's. Natalie and Angela were troopers. It's important to us that they come and support each other for things. This event is pretty boring for bystanders, but Nat and Ang did great. We cheered on our Sarah!

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Skater Girls

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When I went to pick up Britlee for young women's on this particular Wednesday night - I got a surprise! Britlee was going all out for our skate night! I laughed my head off. I love this girl - talk about spunk!

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Ellie, Tylin, Heidi, Tana and Britlee

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Melanie was a little nervous and clung to the side at first. Here's Britlee giving her a friendly push - I think she ended up falling down after receiving this "help".

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Ohhh - my girls can do some pretty awesome tricks.

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Wow - that takes coordination! Our skate night was a little funny at first - as you can see it's totally dead - we practically had the rink to ourselves. It was Christian Rock night. Every single song was a religious song - but not even upbeat ones. Apparently, there was a youth group from a different church with a very strict leader. The DJ said she put on a Hannah Montana song and heard about it from this particular leader. So for about an hour, until that group left - the music was BORING. Nice to listen to when you're not skating, I'm sure, but come on - there's a time for everything and skating means time for Phil Collins, Michael Jackson and, yes, Hannah Montana! (o:

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Penny was a pretty rockin' skater - especially for being one of the "old" ladies! (O: She is an 80's girl too.

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Getting a photo of Heidi and Tana getting a photo in the photo booth.

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Kristi and Melanie being silly.

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Whoa! Check out those moves! Seriously - if I did that, I would never get back up.

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Synchronized roller skating.

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I love this - Ellie's skates exaggerate the already big difference in height between these two. (o:

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Wow! The girls were getting good at playing the "claw" game! Look at their spoils!

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I love Tylin's expressions!

A Girls' Night on the Town!

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Towards the beginning of the year Heidi - one of my YW and Natalie's violin teacher, told us her school was doing "Alice in Wonderland" and she was going to try out for the lead. She is such an outgoing and spunky girl, we weren't surprised to find out that she got the part! For weeks, we saw her at violin practice after her play practices and got the run down on how things were going. When the time finally came - we wouldn't have missed it for anything. Tana got one of the flower parts too! WE couldn't wait to see their performance. We invited Lydia along for the fun.

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And I let Sarah bring Jensen since we had one more seat in the van. I always thought it would be fun to have five girls - so I had my five girls for the night. We had a great time!

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My buddy Angela!

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This outfit is quite the ensemble. Angela is turning out to like making her own fashion statements along with Nat. I think her shirt is even backwards. What kind of mother am I? (o;

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The play was fantastic! We had such a fun time. It was a Disney (Jr.) "broadway" play and it was so well done. The costumes were incredible and the script and "special effects" were quite clever! Like the part where the caterpillar is moving around. He led in the front and several students walked behind him - connected together with green fabric and wearing green gloves on their hands. They were his many legs. I didn't explain it very well - it was just really neat. When Alice shrunk down - they had a little girl that looked like Heidi do those parts. Again, clever! The girls were so excited to see Heidi after. She was like a celebrity to them! Heidi really did a fantastic job - she is definitely a performer.

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Tana did fantastic as well. She got so into her part and got to do a lot of singing, which she loves.

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The Mad Hatter was my friend Stephanie's son. He was tons of fun - his scenes were very entertaining.

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We didn't know the girl playing the Queen of Hearts, but the girls really wanted a picture with her. They loved her dress.

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These two are so fabulous. Best friends. Not many best friends could both go for the lead in the play (for the record, I think Tana would have done amazing as well - I could really see her doing it) and not have any hurt feelings or bitterness when only one was chosen. I am proud of Tana for "Blooming" where she was planted. She put her whole heart into her flower role and you could tell she was having a blast. Rather than moping and being mad at Heidi. Instead she was genuinely happy for Heidi. I am proud of her for that - there aren't many adults who could have handled that half as well.