Kate's Princess Birthday Party

This post isn't exactly how I thought it was going to be. I have been meaning to get this post up for several days and just hadn't had a chance to sit down and do it. Kate had a really fun birthday party and I got some really cute pictures! But today, when I went to get my camera to upload the pictures, I couldn't find it. After searching the entire house, Jon and I also noticed that our laptop is gone. So, we had our new digital camera (complete with bag, lense, everything) and our laptop taken out of our house! We have a pretty good idea who did it and sadly, it was someone we invited into our home and trusted - and it was taken while we were in the house!!!

I think we're still in shock and still trying to figure out what to do, as well as trying to deal with feelings of being violated, feelings of being angry and especially feelings of being really disappointed.

Anyway...we'll see what happens with that...but, sadly, Kate's party pictures were on it. I did take 1 picture beforehand, so we'll go with that and a description of the party....

I got this idea from Kirsten....but, we took the invitation and 1 shoe to three of Kate's friends (Josie, Megan and Ava). We told them they would get the other shoe at her party and to wear their favorite princess dress. The three little girls all came and we got them all decked out. We made Fruit Loop necklaces, made crowns with jewels and gave them wands & rings. We played a game and then the Shoe Dragon came!

The Shoe Dragon was Jon. He had put on some green scrubs and we had rubber banded (is that a word?) a shoe to each of his arms and each of his ankles. Fortunately for the girls, there was a prince nearby - Jack!! He came with shield, sword, helmet and cloak to save the day! The Shoe Dragon fired rubber bands at the prince, but thankfully, the prince defeated the dragon! Once the Shoe Dragon was defeated, the prince took 1 shoe off at a time and placed it on the correct princess' foot. (Ahhh - it was so, so cute!).

Then we opened gifts, ate princess cupcakes and let the girls play. It was fun, easy and oh, so cute!