My Allie Cat is 3 Years Old!

Last Saturday we celebrated one of the greatest blessing the Lord has ever given me. My precious, sweet, loving, and totally strong-willed little princess turned 3 years-old. Her party has been a working in progress since before the Christmas tree was even put up. One of my many pleasures in life is planning parties. Especially if they are for someone I love. Allie is all about the Dinsey Princesses so I knew that this was going to be "The" princess party. I say "the" because I think that the princess theme can be over used, so I have steered clear of using it until I could really do it right. I live by the party-planning motto "Go Big or Go Home!" However, my husband tneds to have to rein me in a little and remind me that this is her 3rd Birthday, not her wedding. So I decided to scratch the huge white tent with streamers and lights in the back yard and attempted to scale down just a little bit.

I am so thankful that my mom has a beautiful new house so that I can throw parties there. I really am happy for her for other reasons, but I thought her foyer was perfect to turn into a make-shift tent for the princess tea party. The thing about my party planning ability is that I have no original ideas. However, thanks to the internet, I can borrow ideas from other great minds and make them my own. Like the Birthday Banner that I borrowed from my totally creative friend Rachel

And the idea of having one of my beautiful friends dress-up as the "Real Deal," which I borrowed from my sister-in-law who, herself, once dressed up in this very costume for a little girls birthday party. It totally helps to have beautiful friends!

But perhaps the icing on the cake, or in this case, the Teapot on the Cake, is finding the right person to create the grand center piece!

This cake was done by an incredibly talented woman in Bryant named Tracie Rich. This cake tasted even better than it looked. The total package.....the Wow Factor! And what party would be complete without the Grand Finale?

What kind of Princess Party would it be if the Princess didn't get a Castle? In this case, an inflatable bounce castle! I love this picture of when she first saw the bounce castle.....

What a wonderful weekend! Celebrating with the people we love the most about the Gift from God we treasure so much! It was surely a Wow God Weekend! Here are a few others from the party.

 The Magic Wands.... Thanks Amy for this idea!

  My Baby Girl is all grown up!

 Blowing out the candles. Funny...but I think she was just as excited about the candles as she was the cake!

Our friend Abigail who was so taken by Cinderella! Precious