There was a time when I was,at least in my opinion,the hostess with the mostess. Perhaps I have just gotten old. It used to be when I set a time everything was ready and I could be gracious,welcoming and unhurried. WHAT HAPPENED!!! I have no idea. This year for Princesspie's 4th birthday I took a week of vacation both before and after but nothing worked as intended. First and foremost Chantmeister couldn't get out of working some irritating mandatory thing. I had purchased a couple paper iridescent tablecloths that I had intended to use as the canopy of my sun shelter but too small so the old canvas canopy was used effective but not festive. I tried to make an amazing cake in the shape of Rapunzel's tower but it collapsed upon itself I stayed up till 3am trying to resuscitate this unfortunate confection all to no avail. So as a result I ended up having to go buy a sheet cake lovely but not impressive. I spent the better part of the week trying to find the ever elusive Ink jet printer shrink film because there were these great Tangled shrinky dinks I had downloaded from Disney family.com 2 days before the party I found it and went home and made a bunch of these little suckers so the little princesses and knights could make some crafts with them unfortunately during the shrinking process the holes into which you put the jump rings, so little ones can string them easily, became too small for the jump rings and last but not least I bought 24 balloons three of which popped before I even got them home and the other 21 were so hopelessly tangled none of the kiddos could have any of them. Once the party was over the entire bunch was given to a delightful girl who accompanied her little brother. Well hat was a tiresome list of things that ran amok.
Now to get to the good parts.
The theme of the party was Tangled a recent Disney movie and to entertain the munchkins I thought that it would be great fun for all the little girls to get princess dresses and crowns and all the little boys swords shields ans suits of armor
OMG OMG !!! It was sooooo cute !!! Not all the kiddos knew each other for the first hour they just ran around the yard playing and getting to know each other. After an hour or so they were all invited to come and play dress up the little girls put on their dresses and crowns and pranced around for a few minutes all the little boys had these felt gladiator hats and I made chest plates out of craft foam for there suits of armor. After a few minutes the girls realised they did not have weapons like the boys did and as such were unarmed. A couple of them were able "obtain" some as a couple of boys were really good at sharing. The ever balanced princesspie was seen bolting about the yard in a princess gown and armed with a sword and shield there was little or no real fighting the kiddos really played hard and got on really well.
Everyone was very generous and the gifts were very thoughtful.
Ma and Pa Kettle came this year at my insistence One of the really fun parts of this was three little knights attacking Pa him fending them off and them regrouping and back on the attack I couldn't tell who enjoyed it more Pa or the kiddos it was all in fun and no "accidentally" too hard attacks when pa did finally say enough all the kiddos found new dragons to conquer I had some difficulty with my camera so I only got a couple of pictures but they are included
