Ella was so excited about her fancy tea party that she was ready to get dressed when her feet hit the floor that morning. We had breakfast, finished prepping for the party and took a nice bubble bath. Ella was so anxious that she convinced her daddy to get her dressed while I got ready – even though I told her to wait. I laughed because apparently she told Josh “mommy said to get me ready”! Well, if you’re that excited, we’ll go with it. K got here a little early so we had a little photoshoot on the front porch. Isn’t the picture above adorable? She’s making a funny face in almost every picture. Something about telling her to “look fancy” tickled her funny bone.
Most of the girls and their mommies dressed really fancy and it was so funny to see how they all looked. The little girls were so excited to see each other’s outfits and thought it was hilarious that we were dressed up, too. As the party began, Fancy Garan began reading the original Fancy Nancy book and the girls were enthralled.
We open presents first around our house because cake and lemonade are messy when it comes to toddlers. Big Ella really enjoyed handing the presents out and all of the girls loved playing with the tissue paper. Fancy Ella got lots of wonderful gifts and they were all Fancy! She got dress up clothes, hair salon supplies, a new purse, makeup and feather boas. It was so much fun.
Aunt K was sweet enough to come early and set up a photo booth and it was hilarious to see the kids play for the camera. Ella and I even managed to get a few cute pictures together. I love these and can’t wait to have some framed.
Before blowing out the candles, each guest at the party got a pink cupcake with white icing, but no decorations! We handed out cups of chocolate chips, candy letters, melt-away mints and sprinkles so that girls could create their own masterpieces. They ate at much candy as they put on the cupcakes, but it was too fun. Once the cupcakes were ready, we sang Happy Birthday and Ella blew out the candles. The food was so yummy – we had cucumber sandwiches, pb&j, iced sugar cookies, cupcakes and pink lemonade.
Thanks for coming, fancy friends. It was so much fun!
