Click here to read about Emery's Sweet Shoppe third birthday party!
A few weeks ago, we celebrated our sweet Emery turning FOUR {what?!} with a fun little tea party.
Emery absolutely loves having tea parties at home and especially at Nana's house. In fact, Nana was the one who started doing tea parties with Emery and she's been hooked ever since. š
Everything fell into place pretty easily! I found some adorable party supplies from Oriental Trading and went from there with the rest of the party decor and colors. I bought the tea party dress for Emery last summer and it just happened to be the same colors I was using for the party! I love it when things work out like that! š
Once I had the party supplies ordered and the colors picked out, I was ready to design her invitation. I love how this one turned out. I think it's my favorite one yet!
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| This invitation design is available in my Etsy shop! Click here if you're interested! Click here for a matching thank you card! |
Once again this year, the sweet people at this Etsy shop sent us a huge box with a tons of fun balloons to use for the party! Emery *loves * balloons so much! They were definitely a highlight for her, as always! I just adore these confetti balloons! They are so fun and you can choose the confetti colors to match your party perfectly! The light purple, pale pink, and green confetti looked so cute with all of the other party decorations!
The Etsy shop that generously provided all of the balloons for Emery's party is offering all of my readers a coupon code for 10% off a purchase of $10 or more. The code is BLESSED10 and it is valid through January 31, 2020. Yay! I promise you will love these balloons!! Click here to visit their shop.
{You can click on any of the pictures to see them larger.}
They also sent us some giant number balloons. We used one inside and then put one on the mailbox. Emery always loves these and always talks about what number it will be for her next birthday!
I just *love* how these confetti balloons look!
The balloon shop also included these pretty pearlized balloons in our party colors and this really cool "ballon decorating strip" that we used to do a balloon garland on the dining room buffet. This was our first time using it, so I'm excited to try some new stuff with it for Sadie's birthday {which is coming up way too fast!}.
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| "Tea Time" DIY printable banner is available in my Etsy shop. |
We also used the balloon decorating strip to make a garland for the mantle. We added a banner, some balloons on the floor, wrapping paper to cover the fireplace, and some photo props and had this cute little picture spot!
We ended up doing two parties this year. Emery wanted to have some of her sweet friends from church and school come over so we did a cute little girly tea party on Saturday and then had all of our family come over on Sunday.
For the party on Saturday with the little girls, we had peanut butter sandwiches cut in the shape of teacups and hearts, cheese cubes, crackers, pretzels, and fruit cups.
I used party candy cups that I found at Hobby Lobby to put the fruit in and then put them all in my cupcake tower. It worked perfectly!
For desserts, we had chocolate cake, teapot sugar cookies, mini vanilla rosette cupcakes, M&M's {we picked through Easter ones and kept all the pink, purple, and green!}, and white chocolate rosette mints.
We had pink lemonade punch to drink and all of the girls got to pick a teacup for the party and to take home. I made little name cards to attach to each teacup. I also used my chalk art method to make the lettering on the drink dispenser cute. It's crazy the things I end up doing at 11:30 p.m. the night before the party! š
When the all the girls got there, they spent some time coloring a teapot coloring page and doing tea party stickers.
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| For a full-size version of this coloring page, click on the image, then right-click and save. |
After they colored, they had some snacks, and then it was time to make tea party hats! It was kind of a whirlwind and I don't have any pictures of the girls actually making the hats, but it was super easy. I bought white Easter hats and lots of pink and purple fake flowers at the Dollar Tree. I got some pretty pink and purple ribbon from Hobby Lobby for the girls to wrap around their hat and then they got to pick some flowers to add. {The adults hot glued the flowers. Also, a quick note for the flowers...they tend to fall apart when you cut them off the stem, so I had to hot glue most of them back together ahead of time so they didn't fall apart once they were on the girls' hats.}
A couple of the girls decided to add a flower right on top! š After the hats were finished, it was time for cake and presents!
We wanted to get a picture of all the girls, but it was no easy task! Emery was making this face in pretty much all of the group pictures!! Must have been those glasses! š
Then we got to do another party on Sunday with our family! We had a few more of these confetti balloons filled to put with the dessert table.
Emery wanted a purple cake for Sunday and we used the same cake topper. One of my friends at church is so talented and made this teapot cake topper to match the party plates I ordered!
The cake was chocolate, so I made vanilla rosette cupcakes for the cupcake tower.
And we had more teapot cookies and white chocolate rosette mints.
The sweet people at this shop also sent us some of these number balloons that you inflate with air and hang on a string. Emery had fun playing with these for several days after the party!
Emery was so excited for everyone to get there! She pretends that people are coming over for parties all the time! š
Nana and a very happy Sadie!
Nana, Poppa, and the girls!
Aunt Allie, Uncle DJ, Vanna, and the girls!
Sadie was obsessed with my necklace!
Uncle Steve, Aunt Char, Marah, Cole, and the girls! Emery got new PJs for her birthday and wanted to change into them. She *loves* wearing PJs!
We had Zaxby's chicken fingers, mac and cheese {Emery's favorite!}, green beans, and fruit for dinner and then it was time open presents!
She got some scented nail polish from Uncle Steve and Aunt Char. They also got her the movie Spirit which was Marah's favorite when she was little! Emery has loved watching it!
Nana and Poppa got her a "paflingo" {I hope she never learns how to say it right! š} lovey and she thought it was so funny how she could hang it on her arm!
Aunt Allie, Uncle DJ, and Vanna got her a Pinkalicious book with a whole bunch of stories in it. She loves watching the new Pinkalicious show on PBS and was so excited. Her favorite story right now is called "Tu-Tu-Riffic".
After presents, it was time for cake. Emery put her candles in all by herself.
I love this picture!
This is one of my favorites!
After cake, we had some fun with the photo props. There's that face again... š
She put glasses on the flamingo!
It was such a fun weekend of parties! We're so thankful for sweet friends and precious family that celebrated with us!
On Tuesday, Emery got to take a special treat to school to celebrate her birthday. She picked chocolate cupcakes with purple frosting and sprinkles. Her sweet teacher sent me this picture and I love it so much, except that she looks really grown up.
Wednesday was her actual birthday and Daniel took the day off so we could all spend the day together. We had her favorite breakfast...pancakes and orange juice!
We had saved a couple of presents to give her so she could open them on her actual birthday.
She loves this little cupcake set and has had several tea parties with it already!
Sadie liked all the paper and bows!
We told Emery she could pick whatever she wanted for dinner and she shocked us when she said, "Baziki's!" We haven't been to Taziki's in several months, so we're not sure where that came from. We were sure she was going to pick "Don Peppa" so she could have cheese dip. But we went to Taziki's and she loved it. Sadie loved the chicken, rice, and pita, too!
We gave Emery her big birthday gift a couple of weeks late because we had several weeks of cold, rainy days. Sadie has pretty much taken over the pink swing and since that's about all she can do outside since she can't walk yet, we thought Emery needed a big girl swing since she still *loves* to swing, too. Let me tell you, she absolutely *loves* this swing and is asking all the time to go out and swing on her "big girl swing"! It was definitely a great birthday gift that I know she'll play with for a long time!
I think Sadie likes that they can swing together! š
I didn't do a stats poster for Emery this year like I've done for her other birthdays, so I wanted to include some of that kind of stuff in this blog post...just sweet little things about her right now that I don't want to forget.
Emery loves...
- listening to songs on Spotify, especially Lauren Daigle songs and songs from Moana, Trolls, and Frozen
- going to dance class
- having treats...she's always asking for treats!!
- her big girl bed and all her loveys
- baking treats with Mommy
- playing with Sadie and helping feed her and give her baths
- playing dress up
- having parties {pool parties, birthday parties, tea parties, any kind of party!}
- looking at pictures and videos on Mommy's phone
- going to Lowe's and Home Depot with Daddy
- bouncing on her bouncy ball
- playing outside on the trampoline and her big girl swing
Favorite songs...
- How Far I'll Go {Moana}
- Let It Go
- Happy
- Trust in You {Lauren Daigle}
Favorite books...
- Ten Little Teddies
- Pinkalicious
Favorite foods...
- cheese quesadillas, mac and cheese, grilled cheese, cheese dip and chips, cheesy tacos...anything cheese!
- pancakes and waffles {with whipped cream!}
- anything sweet!
We had such a fun birthday week for our sweet Emery! And now it's time for me to get busy getting ready for Sadie's FIRST birthday! š„
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