Time to get FANCY!

We had a fantastic time this morning for Sofia's Fancy Nancy birthday party with her schoolgirls and their mommies (and daddies) and siblings. 20 friends got together to help celebrate my little girl turning 5 and it was lots of fun from start to finish. Mommy gets a little carried away in the details but it was a lot of fun for me and Sofia and Olivia loved everything so that's ok.

Since it was a Fancy Nancy party of course we had to up the ante and bring a little of our own fancy flair...silver platters, flowers here and there around the house, snacks in cute little white cups served on trays, lots of pretty pink sugar sprinkles for the cupcakes, white little paper doilies to dress up our seats at the table, and of course our guests all dressed to the nines in their fanciest! So much fun!

Cute little cupcake toppers that literally took me a second to make and stick together and our favor bags for the girls. Fun little bags from Target for $1/each filled with bubbles (who doesn't love bubbles!), fancy little bracelets and a baggie of nail polish and toe separator.

And the younger brothers received a bag too just with bubbles.

We had coloring of Fancy Nancy pictures I printed out from online...

a lot of fancy cooking by adorable little fancy dressed girls...

Cutest baby award went to Bennett who loved being with the big kids...

and our activity was to make necklaces. A fun little activity for little fingers and everyone got to take their own creation home.

Time for lunch! Mommies served the guests from trays and the little girls loved their fancy wrapped napkins tied with a pretty pink ribbon. Tea sandwiches, veggie straws in fancy little cups, a snack mix of goldfish and pretzels and a fruit tray.

After lunch we had some more play time while we cleaned the table to get ready for cupcakes. The girls serenaded us on the piano (seriously every kid that comes in our house loves this thing!).

Time to sing to Sofia! She was so cute while her friends sang to her with her shy little smile.

Love this picture. A big GRAZIE to my hubby for staying home today and spending the wonderful morning with Sofia's friends. She loved having her daddy as part of her party and I'm so glad he was there to snap a few pictures for me.

Sofia handed out the favor bags to her guests and after hugs and thank you's, everyone was gone. Such a whirlwind of 3 hours but so worth it. Just goes to show that simple little things (even if a lot of simple little things) add up to lots of fun and huge smiles.

My big 5 year old! Love her so much!!!