Princess Tea Party {Part II}

{Just be warned this is my longest post ever}
So, Kate greeted her fellow princesses at the door with her dashing prince, Harry by her side. She welcomed them with big smiles, hugs and squeals of delight.

This GORGEOUS dress that Kate is wearing was sent to her by her fairy Godmother, Aunt Staci. Kate was planning on dressing up as Ariel (the Little Mermaid) until this enchanting silk gown arrived one day. Kate talked about this dress for weeks after it arrived. She simply adores it. Thank you Aunt Staci!

Harry had a good idea to start the party with "the name game" since not all of the girls knew one another. Then we moved on to Kate's favorite game~4 little buns in the bakery shoppe. She loved playing that game!

After a few games, the girls rotated through various royal activities...

Our lovely and helpful neighbor, Kyle was the royal manicurist.

The princesses also had the option to have Laura do their hair in a princess style with a tiara...

We also had two craft activities for the girls. First, Prince William assisted the young ladies in created an original painting. They each had a canvas and he supervised their creations...

The other craft acitivity was decorating little crown jewelry boxes and Harry was the helper...

I found the boxes in the unfinished wood craft section of Hobby Lobby. We painted them pale pink and modge~podged the initials on them before the party. (The princess frames on the table were also from Hobby Lobby for those who asked.)

Then, it was time to step into the royal dining room for afternoon tea. Our maitre'd, Harrison escorted the lovely ladies to their places. He even held the chair out for most of the princesses.

The princesses loved their wands and little bracelets I made. I reminded them that it was proper royal etiquette to place their napkin in their lap.

Kate told them that the "fancy" way to drink tea was with your pinky up.

After all of that yummy food we needed a way to pass some time, so Dave led a game of Duck Duck Goose.

Then, we let Kate open her gifts. She was so gracious and told everyone "Gank You so much!" with each gift. Yes, she says "gank you" and I love it.

Kate kept telling us she wanted a PINK water-gun for her b-day. I found a tiny pink squirt gun but failed to find anything else. She wants to keep up with her brothers (and their super soakers). One of my good friends managed to find this pink noodle squirter:)

All of the beautiful princesses.

Three of our princess friends were out of town and one got sick the morning of the party. We really missed them all!

After the gifts, Harry got a game of "freeze dance" going to help burn off some sugar...

And actually the little guy accompanied his older sister to the party won the freeze dance. He had quite the moves....

After freeze dance, we returned to the dining room for cake...

We sent the princesses home with their canvases, bracelets, frames, wands, tiaras, and these porcelain tea cups and saucers (which I found at the dollar store). We filled them with princess goodies and wrapped them in cellophane.

The party was so much fun. It really was a homespun family affair.

Will, Harry and Dave were all huge participants.