Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Halle's Princess Party

Welcome to Halle's Castle!


Halle has been dreaming of her 5th birthday party since she turned 4 years old. So the pressure was on to make sure she had the party of her dreams and had lots of fun with all her friends.


Halle dressed as her princess of the day - "Princess Courtney" from the Twelve Dancing Princesses.




Eight beautiful princesses all in a row.


We turned our house into Halle's Castle by adding balloons, princess decorations, and plenty of pink crape paper. Halle and all her guests dressed up as thier favorite princess. We played plenty of princess games: 1) Create Sleeping Beauty's Tiara; 2) Bell's Ballroom Freeze Dance; 3) Pin the crown on the princess; 4) Princess, princess, ogre; 5) Cinderella's Slipper; 6) Snow White's poison apple; 7) Jasmine's magic carpets; and 8) Ariel's wishing well.

Creating fancy tiaras.



Playing the game of "Princess, Princess, Ogre."



Freeze Dance was a big hit.



Every one was excited for opening presents but the girls were most excited by the birthday cake - and upon announcement that eating cake was the next activity the decibel and pitch level abundantly elevated to a deafening roar. The girls then had fun playing with Halle's fun presents, other princess games and anything they found in Halle's room to play with.

Everyone is excited to open presents.


Halle makes her birthday wish and blows out the candles.



Princess Courtney or Princess Fiona? (notice the green teeth)


I usually stress so much over having so many kids over and having parties. But for some reason this year it was just a lot of fun (and it certainly helped to have my mom around!). It was also fun to have 8 little princesses parading around the house - they were all so adorably cute.

Halle and Anna.



Halle and Aria.


Halle and Celeste.


Halle and Kaitlyn.


Halle and Leighton.


Halle and Lily.


Halle and Natalie.

5 comments:

andrea said...

You certainly were the picture of calm when I picked up my girls. They had a great time. Thanks for putting on such a great party.

Rebecca said...

Hannah would still love a party like that. She hasn't grown out of her princess stage even though many of her seven year old friends have. That cake was gorgeous! I can see why the girls couldn't wait to dig into it!

KariAnn said...

Halle is such a cute little princess! I can't believe she's five. You're party looks adorable.

Carolyn said...

It's so amazing that all the girls dressed up as different princesses! Natalie had a great time. Thank you so much for inviting her.

Lucy said...

Adorable pictures! What a sweet princess. I always wanted to be older too but just know that it goes away. I pretty much stopped wanting it by eighteen:)

Happy Birthday Halle!