Mya's Tea Party

This is going to be quick. We all just got back from Dominican, so we're wading through piles and piles of laundry, the baby has been up 4 times already since I put her to bed just over two hours ago, and I'm wiped.

So with few words and a lot of pictures, here is our girls big day. She turned 7 last month, and a tea party was her request. So before I forget to actually place these pictures here for her to look at in years to come, I figured late was better than never.

So, a tea party. A cute girly tea party. I got a little excited about the details...because a tea party with a bunch of kids is pretty fun to organize. 

So we made treats for the kids to take home,

and borrowed the most adorable perfect set of tea cups from a friend (thanks Sarah!).

We welcomed all of her friends with cute signs that my dad had printed for us and encouraged all of the guests to wear their favourite dress or outfit (because a tea party needs to be fancy, of course).

And as I carefully iced every last one of those cupcakes for her pull apart cake and sprinkled hot pink sprinkles all over it, she was absolutely thrilled. 

So, here's the thing...

somehow our guest list turned into 18 kids--like a full classroom of kids in our house. So I literally had to run the party like my kindergarten classroom...with a variety of centres where the kids could flow from one to the next. 

And it actually worked like a charm. 

So we filled the table with little tea party food

and tiny heart shaped sandwiches, because, well it just felt appropriate...

and as kids piled into our house, we set them up with ribbons and Froot Loops and they made beautiful necklaces that they could wear to tea. 

and then we sent them off to their centres, where they continued to prep for the tea party by making beautiful bracelets for themselves out of gorgeous beads and charms...

 



and then sent them off to make cute bonnets (made simply by gluing paper plates and bowls together and adding ribbon)--and we had special black hats for Carter and Oliver to decorate since they were the only boys in the mix.

and then we had a Shopkins centre, where there were Shopkins galore for the kids to play with--just because, well these little Shopkins are all the rage right now (and I have no idea why). 

And then...just as they finished tying the last of their bonnets on and finished showing off their new necklaces and bracelets to eachother, they all sat down to a cute little tea party where they were served hot tea (or lemonade for those who prefered it) and they ate, and laughed, and giggled the whole way through it.   

 
And we taught them how to hold up their little pinky finger while sipping their tea...because, well, that's just how the fancy people do it apparently.

And then, just as they were jammed full of tea and sugar, we pulled out the piniata that was full to the rim with candy and let them go nuts.

and we played a little game of pin the tea cup on the tea pot...

and this new 7yr old was thrilled with all of her gifts.

And then, just as I was about to fall over from party exhaustion...I made her a candy drip cake, dripping in pink ganache and covered in her favourite candy for her actual birthday with our family--because I like to run myself ragged apparently.



So, there it is. Another birthday passed by. Another year older. Another party in the books.

Happy (late) 7th birthday Mya, to the sweet girl who made me a mom.

Erica xo