A Fairy Garden Tea Party!

On Thursday, June 27th we celebrated our little Sophie's sixth birthday. She had been dreaming of having a fairy garden tea party in our very own back yard so that is exactly what we planned. Sixteen little fairies joined us for a fairy garden tea followed by fairy games and the making of their own fairy gardens to take home. Despite some earlier storms in the day that had me dumping water from our back yard tables, the party was filled with sunshine and all things enchanted and little girl. In addition to celebrating Sophie turning six, the Avery House Blog is also celebrating turning five years old. I began this blog to chronicle the happenings of our life for family and friends. My first post was to tell all about our little Sophie's first birthday. I have enjoyed writing about our life over the past five years and cherish the memories I have recorded here. I also have enjoyed the friends I have made through this blog land. My blog home is small, however, it is a place that I do enjoy and will continue over the next years to come.

 Sophie picked out her birthday invitations from Amy Adele at amyadele.com. Birthday invitations may seem like a waste of money to some, however, I enjoy doing these each year and love having the girls help me with the design and wording of their invitations. We have all invitations saved along with photos from each year of the girls birthday parties in a special Birthday Party scrapbook. I hope they will one day look back on their birthday celbrations and enjoy them with great nostalgia.

 Simple outdoor table setting complete with flower horn blower and fairy crown for each guest from a local paper store.

 Our back yard court yard. You can see that the pavers were soaked. The forecast was for possible light showers. There came a monsoon that had me dumping water off of these tables right before the party.

 We had some very special centerpiece teacups from the girl's Mimi and Nana. This one above is from Great-Grandmother Grace's china. The rose tea cup below was from Great-Grandmother Josie's.

 A view of the path to Sophie's Enchanted Garden :-)!

 We have become enthralled with all things fairy garden. We started a large fairy garden in our back yard with the help of Miss Dee at Sweet Pea, a local garden and specialty store. The party fairies each got to make their own miniature fairy gardens complete with a beautiful moss and fairy garden accessories.

 Here is our Miss Sophie Rose with all of her little friends. These friends are all so precious and we are blessed that Sophie has them in her life.

 Being quite celebratory with the flower horn blowers!

 Beautiful little fairy friends!

 The beautiful birthday girl!

 We served strawberry cupcakes, strawberry cream cheese and flower shaped cheese tea sandwiches and fairy wand fruit kabobs at the party.

 The birthday girl and fairy Mommy and Daddy!

 Singing happy birthday!

 Making a wish!

 My beautiful fairy godmother friends. They helped me so much during the party!

 Fairy Nana!

 The girls waiting patiently to plant their fairy gardens.

 Waiting to open up all of the wonderful presents on the pavilion.

 Just what every little princess needs!

 Every girl loves jewelry especially if it's monogrammed!

After the party and getting ready for bed. This was actually her last night to be five as we had her party the night before her actual birthday. Happy birthday to our sweet girl!

Good Intentions and a Family Portrait

I have had the best of intentions of posting so many, many things here on The Avery House Blog. Life has been happening at warp speed and there are so many wonderful things to share. May came and I went off to a wonderful event called The Pearl Event the Triple Strand in Nashville. It was amazing and I will share more soon! We also had an amazing end to the school year and went straight into Vacation Bible School (of which I was a co-director, yikes!) Howie and I just got back from an incredible 15 year anniversary trip to San Francisco and Napa Valley just a day ago, and the girls are full force into summer swimming and tennis. We have Miss Sophie's birthday coming up and a planned visit from Nana. Life is just awesome! For my own sake, I will be getting on here to back-post and post about the wonderful life events we have been blessed to be a part of. Until then, I received a family photo from my sister's Kelly's wedding back in April. This may just be our Christmas card, y'all. But just in case it's not, I wanted to share it here. Hope your summer is all things wonderful and fun!