Tea Time!

Saturday we had Sadie's (much anticipated) Birthday Party! She has been so excited and has been asking every day if "when we wake up it is going to be her party." We did a "Mad Hatters Tea Party" this year and it was so much fun! My wonderful friend Rachel made the "eat me" sugar cookies, since I can't bake too well, and they turned out perfect! Out front we had a bunch of different signs (which I did not get a picture of...sorry) saying, "this way" "back up" "over here" "wrong way" etc. When they came in they had to take a bite of the cookie and then crawl through the "rabbit hole." Here is Sadie coming out of the rabbit hole! (She loved telling everyone what they needed to do!
For the most part, the party was in our back yard...which was nice. The weather was hot of course but not too bad and there was a nice wind, which I was nervous about, but it was nice!

While we waited for everyone to come, they each got to decorate a hat. The boys decorated top hats with patches and buttons, and the girls decorated these bonnets with flowers and buttons! They had fun and some turned out really cute!

Then we got to have Kiwi this princess come and paint every one's face! If you remember a few months back when I posted pictures of Sadie's face painting done at a friend's party...I got the same girl...she is AMAZING! They all had so much fun! She even brought fairy wings for the girls to play with! Sadie got to be first since it was her birthday. She would ask them their favorite colors and if they had anything in mind that they wanted. Each of them definitely had colors in mind!

Everyone was so patient and really enjoyed watching each other get their face painted! Then they LOVED running back and forth to the bathroom with each other to look and see how pretty they were! Too cute!

How cute is that!?!

Janae is too cute!!

Ellie came up to me and said, "Do you want to go look in the mirror with me!?!" Then later she said, "Do you love my face?" She is so cute and so sweet!

Evka wasn't totally finished yet, she hadn't done the flowers and glitter, but I love her expression in this picture! She is so cute! Sadie and Evka have been friends since they were tiny babies! They have so much fun together! We would even do sleep overs when they were like under 3 years old! They loved it, but the next day...grouchy! So we haven't done one for a while!
Lucy sat so still, I was so proud! She LOVED how pretty she looked and to be a part of all the big girl fun!
Colton got Spiderman! At first he wasn't too into getting his face painted but when he found out she could do Spiderman, he was game!
After they got their faces painted and finished looking at themselves in the mirror, they went outside and were "making tea." They were putting the confetti from the table in the tea pots and tea cups and stirring it around! They were having SO MUCH FUN! It was so cute!

Then it was time to bring on the food and drinks and actually have the tea party! It was so cute to watch them all do their own thing! (side note: I bought this pasta at the store that was $9 for one little box but it was too cute. It was pink and green and yellow striped bow tie! So I made a pasta salad with it that morning and totally forgot about it in the fridge! UGH! Oh well!)

So I made this outfit (well embellished) for Sadie's party. Of course she had to wear her jacket over it! Even in the 95 degree weather! She is just too funny! I had her strike a pose for me so we could actually get a picture of it! Sheesh! There is a tea cup on her hip that you can't see but whatever! And that headband, I didn't even notice she was wearing it until I started looking at the pictures. I planned on making a matching headband but never did. But she has plenty of other ones that would have looked cuter than grey! She has been SO into headbands lately! At least she is only wearing one! She normally has at least 3 on at one time! She is so funny!

They each got their own mini cakes! It was so cute and fun! They loved it!

Sadie got a "Topsy-Turvy" cake on a Topsy-Turvy stand! It was to windy to even blow out the candles! We really tried but we couldn't even light them!

Princess Kiwi made Sadie this cute balloon ballerina! It is so cute! And then each of the kids got a balloon princess wand/sword! :)

After tea, we played some games. They played toss the sugar cubes into the teapot and when they did they got a "singing" flower. Then they played flamingo croquet with hedgehogs! They had fun with it!
I LOVE these pictures of the girls with our babysitter Bekah! We absolutely LOVE Bekah at our house! She is seriously the best! She always comes to the girls parties and is such a help and so cute! We adore her and don't ever want her to grow up! :)

Sadie had so much fun opening presents, but it was over in seriously 5 minutes. My mistake I just kind of sat back and let the kids have fun with it, so I don't really know who gave her what! They were excited about it and I think everyone just kind of helped her open their own present, because they wanted to show her! The first two I saw and then it was craziness!

It was such a fun party and we were so glad so many people could come! They all had a blast! Sadie, we absolutely love you and love all that you bring into our lives! You are so full of energy and excitement! Just today we were playing out front and a pizza guy brought out neighbors some pizza and she was so excited about it! She said, "I Love pizza guys, they are so much fun!!" It was too cute! Every night she asks me what we are going to do when we wake up, so I tell her and after each activity she says, "and then what?" She never stops going, it amazes me! I love how sweet she is with Lucy! They are such sweet sisters together! I love June 27th because that was the day our sweet little Sadie came to join us and completely brighten our lives! We love you sweet pea!