How to have a Princess Party

1. Invite all the princesses around the land to the royal castle.

Alexis, Daisy, Rylen, Morgan, Lenna, Megan, Lindsay, Kaitlyn, and...Ben

2. Organize the centers.

A. Princess Face: make-up, hair supplies, hair color spray

B. Royal Spa: cucumbers for eyes, wet cloths for face, soft music, massaging tools

C. Nail Salon: polish, stickers for nails, foot bath

D. Princess Past-times: beads, string for jewelry making (never got to)

E. Dinner Party: Crystal wear, pink cloth napkins, golden tablecloth, goblets, tea pots, pink flower center piece, place settings with after dinner mints, pink soda, fruit, petite cookies, a castle cake and...pizza.

3. Add some games

A. Princess and the Pea- Who is the REAL princess and who is telling the queen a story?

If the pea is found under your pillow, you may wear the tiarra and pick a card for the "fake

princesses" to perform. Things a REAL princess would NEVER do! (Burp, scream really

loud, eat a marshmellow in one bite, run around the house crazy, etc)

C. Kiss the frog-pucker up and put some bright lipstick on. Whoever can get the closest to the frog's mouth is quite the princess.

D. Princess Trivia- get your little bells ready. If you know the answer, ring your bell. Be the first to summon the queen with a correct answer and she will reward you with a lovely gift (nail polish, lipgloss, ring pop)

E. Who knows Princess Alexis best?- pick a partner and go across the board to reach Alexis 6th birthday. Answer a question about her correctly and you get to move 2 ahead. Be careful of the things she doesn't like (rest time, lightening, getting her hair brushed) or you will have to move back. (Never got to)

4. And finally, make sure you tell a bedtime story for the almost sleep-over...

PRINCESS ALEXIS AND THE OGRE (cliff notes version)

Once there was a beautiful princess named Alexis. She loved to keep all her treasures in her special box. Everytime she had a present, she would take her jewels and put them safely away in her treasure box, for she knew an ugly ogre was greedy and wanted all the treasure in the land. She hid her box under the bed, and then moved it to the closet. Finally, she knew exactly where to hide it where the ogre would NEVER look...in her underwear drawer. That ogre came looking many times to find her treasure, but could never figure out where her hiding place was. One day when he was mad that once again he couldn't find her treasure, he stomped out of her room. The maidens and cooks heard a noise, and looked to see who it was. Terrified at seeing an ogre in the castle, they threw the water pitcher all over him. The ogre hated water and rushed back into the princess' room. He didn't know what to do, but couldn't stand the water all over him. Grumbling and mumbling he went to the closet and tried to find the least pink and lacey dress he could and put it on. Again grumbling and mumbling, he had to find some underwear. He opened the panty drawer, and to his delight found the treasure box he had been searching so long for. He picked it up and ran out the castle. [At which point, our very own ogre scared ALL of us and screamed, running with a "treasure box" out into the front yard.]

Once the princess found out what happened, she asked the queen what she could do to get her treasure back. The only thing that could stop the ogre was a special potion made of turtle's blood, pig eyeballs, syrup, and salt. The problem was that the ogre could smell this potion from two miles away. The princess thought and thought, and came up with a plan. She put the potion in a balloon so that the ogre wouldn't be able to smell it and rushed to get the ogre. [The girls then grabbed water balloons and ran in the front yard to peg the ogre. None of the princesses were too keen on throwing, so luckily the queen tagged the ogre and he dropped all the treasures] One of Alexis' presents from the family was...underwear.

The princesses had a BLAST! I thought 3 1/2 hours would be over-kill, but we actually didn't have time for everything. It was the talk of the town at church and little miss Alexis was glowing. Granted, I had a Relief Society event the next morning that I never made it to, the queen was asleep in her bed till the late morning!