I don’t know if you remember, but I had mentioned that it would be cute to see fairies running through the leaves in our yard. . . well, the morning of the party I looked out the window and saw this:

There was no running through leaves.  He knew about the party and I think he got out there early to clear it for us.  It was nice.

The party itself was sweet and fun.  Honey took the kids to breakfast so I could straighten the house a bit and do the final prep.  The plan was for Honey to stop and get balloons on the way home and everything would be ready when the guests arrived at 10AM.

First guests arrived at 9:30AM.  Our friends are a one car family and it turned out daddy had to go into work early.  I saw them drive up and I giggled.  I let out a long breath and just relaxed.  See, Honey wasn’t home with the birthday girl; M-fairy didn’t understand what she was doing at our house with no KB.

The next minivan drove up at 10:00AM on the dot.  It was not our minivan.  Girls poured out (all three of them) and Kitty herded G-fairy and L-fairy into the house.  10:05 AM our minivan drove up.  10:10AM everything was where it should be and Honey was walking out the door with Little and Bubba; headed for the fall festival at the park down the street and the hope for pony rides.

Earlier that morning I was pulling something down from the shelf in my closet and a pack of fairy stickers fell on my head.  Nice timing.  Would have forgotten that I purchased those! It was the perfect opening activity.  The girls created their own meadow with a fairy flittering around in it.  KB was very into it.

Then everyone came into the living room and chose an envelope.  Background info for those who have not seen the Tinkerbell movie: the fairies each have talents.  Tinkerbell doesn’t like her talent and tries to do everyone else’s job but is never successful until she is satisfied with her own talent and uses it for the benefit of the whole.  Well, our fairies picked envelopes that contained character traits.  The colors on their card let them know which tutu and wings would be theirs.

I sprinkled a little bit of pixie dust (glitter) over them and turned them into a fairy for the day.  Bet you didn’t know I had that skill!

Once everyone was dressed we headed outside and the girls went straight to the swing set.  It was as fun to watch as I had imagined.