Tea Time...

On Saturday we went to every girls dream home for Alaina's birthday party. Its called My Secret Garden. Its a little girls' tea party place. It is really a dream world! Its an old Victorian home. The upstairs has a couple of rooms and they are completely loaded with dresses...all kinds from fairy princess to your mom's old wedding dress! And, of course, you need a pair of shoes to go along with your dress! Jewelry galore, hats, scarves, fans, purses, flowers, EVERYTHING that you need to make the "perfect" dress up outfit is here! Can you just imagine the imaginations on 10 little girls?!! It was so fun. Some were a little more glamorous than others, but they all got so into it!! I loved it! I wanted to join them and dress up, too!! They got their nails and make up done, as well. Another mom and I just laughed....they were such little ladies!

It has been raining non stop since Friday, so Saturday morning was really wet and yucky. When I got to the party the lady said that the power was out, and asked if I wanted to reschedule! Uhh....no!! That didn't matter! It was a candle lit party....I think it made everything a little more cozy and fun! It wasn't too dark, so we could still see everything. The only thing was the girls didn't get to eat their special flower-shaped pizzas! But, again, they didn't care! And, it saved me $30 for the pizzas!! :) The power did come on the last 5 minutes of the tea party, but all the girls wanted the lights off anyway!!


Annika found this Tinkerbell right away and kept it on the whole time. She just changed her shoes and accessories a few hundred times!




Did we laugh at Alli and her glasses! I would say that these are not very lady-like!


This is so Annika! I'm almost positive that is a tutu on her head!





This was a little closet set up as a tea party. The girls were calling their friends inviting them to come over. It was so cute! They even used their English accents! And, to think Taryn, you get to hear your girls talk like that all the time!!


Check out the earrings on An!!


Nikki was really getting into it while talking on the phone!


Alaina was a bride. I think I have head to goodwill and get some "new" pretty dresses!! Here she and Elizabeth are showing off their shoes!


Just a small rack of shoes! Shoes lined the walls in every room!!


The girls had their outfits PERFECT and were ready for tea!

After an hour of dressing up, all the girls were ready for tea. We then moved into the tea parlor and were served a lovely tea (sprite and pink lemonade!) with the most delicious sugar cubes (marshmallows!). The girls had to drink with their pinkies out like a true lady!! It was darling!


Cheers to the birthday girl!


More Cheers!


Blowing out her candles....


Annika, like always, just cracks me up. She couldn't get the marshmallows out of her cup! They were stuck to the bottom!! She really does need to go to princess school and learn etiquette!

Alaina LOVED her birthday party. It was so worth the money!! I know we'll be there many more times with the girls and their friends!

This morning when I went in to wake up the girls, Annika was lying on her bed with a big grin. She said, "mommy! Last night I had dreams about My Secret Garden! I want to live there!"