MOTHER OF THREE: One Tangled Birthday

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

One Tangled Birthday

For some time now, JennaBeth has been enamored with "Ms Punzel" (Rapunzel) and the movie Tangled. I mean like watch it multiple times a day enamored! She loves the girl with the long golden hair. Ever since her brother's birthday last September, she has been planning her "tangled bertday". We finally got to celebrate her turning 3 this past Saturday with a party at our house.

We had little princesses everywhere!

JennaBeth wore her Ms Punzel dress she got for Christmas. Our little princesses cooked for a little, while we waited for everybody to arrive. JennaBeth was so excited! After all, she'd been planning this for only about five months!

Each little princess got to make their own tiara. I was so glad to have Cecily and two other older girls from church help at the party. They really helped things go smoothly and everybody had a fun time. One of the little girls that attended the party was Gianna. She just turned two in January, so she was more interested in playing with all the toys and was so cute!

Her daddy was a good sport and made her tiara for her...

Princess Gianna...

Princess Morgan...

Princess JennaBeth...

Princess Tabitha...

Princess Anna...

I found these cute little teacups at Oriental Trading for the princess tea party and of course we had pink lemonade...

Princess JennaBeth's daddy even drank from one!

For the tea party, we had heart shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cocktail sausages in bar-b-que and apples with caramel sauce.

During the five months of JennaBeth's planning, she never wavered from the fact that she wanted "pink coocakes" (cupcakes) for her party. So, that's exactly what we had! I baked strawberry cupcakes and Cecily iced them with cream cheese icing dyed lavender to keep with the Tangled color scheme. She also used fondant dyed yellow to make the sun emblem from the movie to go on top of the cupcakes. One of the little girls attending the party has a severe egg allergy, so the cupcakes were baked using one cup of 7 Up which replaced the egg and oil in the package directions. They turned out really good!

JennaBeth and her best big girl friend, Darci...

Christina and Morgan...

After cake and ice cream was present time. JennaBeth was blessed with cards before hand from grandparents. Her granny and pops sent a copy of the movie Tangled so now if NetFlix is on the blink, I don't have to deal with weeping and knashing of teeth from JennaBeth! Thank you Granny and Pops! That's as much a present for me as it is for JennaBeth!

After JennaBeth opened presents, the girls all got their fingernails and toenails painted! Gianna's dad jumped in again and painted her nails for her! It was encouraging and sweet to see a dad so involved...

Christina painting Tabitha's toes. She wanted each toe a different color!

Darci giving JennaBeth hot pink fingernails with sparkle on top! JennaBeth wanted fingernails the same color as Darci's...

"Oh, it's so exhausting getting beautiful"!!!!

Morgan wanted blue toes!

Tabitha and Morgan showing off their nails!

We had planned for every one to get their hair braided like Rapunzel's in the movie, but we ran out of time. I guess it was better to have too much planned rather than not enough! My brother's wife makes amazing hair bows for little girls back in MS. I had asked her to make some "Tangled bows" for the party for each little girl to take home...

Is that not the cutest bow??? Thank you Aunt Julie for the hair bows! The little girls were all tickled to have their own custom made Tangled bows to take home! They were a huge hit with the mamas as well!

After everyone left, we had a fun time with JennaBeth's new Tangled wig she got as one of her gifts...