(You can click on this photo to enlarge and read the invitation)
Precious Isabelle,
Indeed, you are a Princess. A daughter of the Most High King, and we hope you never, ever forget your true identity. He is a Good King and a Good Father, and you are His. He has crafted your heart after his own. Filled you with mystery, beauty, compassion, love. It is our great privilege as your daddy & mommy to help you understand this as we raise you.
You are loved extravagently, sweet girl, not only by us, but by God. He moved heaven and earth to love you, to call you His own child. We hope we have given you a glimpse of this Love. You don't understand now, but one day you will. You may only be 3, but indeed He has written eternity on your young heart as you are already enchanted by princesses and kings and adventures bigger than yourself. One day you will understand that your life is a small piece of an epic story our King is telling. But what a story to be swept into!
We love you & Happy Birthday Sweet Fairy Princess Isabelle Rose,
Daddy & Mommy
Bernadette holding Judah. Thank you so much Bernie for helping me with Judah and the food! You were a life-saver!
And THANK YOU to this crew for all of your help setting up, cleaning up, & holding Judah!!! Aaron D., Shauna, & Amanda, you guys rock! 
The Royal Lineup: Rachel, Marissa, Brooke, Samantha, Isabelle, Evelyn, & Hattie
Big Sisters Julia & Nicole - such beautiful girls inside & out!
Fairy Princesses Rachel, Hattie, & Sophie enjoying the fine cuisine!
Big Brothers Kyle & Brayden (who later played the roll of Trolls for us) & Fairy Princesses Brooke & Rachel enjoying their dinner.
Simply divine! (Isabelle wanted a blue princess party...so I did my best to incorporate 'blue' touches wherever I could)
An absolutely perfect night for a bonfire
Opening gifts from all the sweet fairies.
Round the fire we gathered...
Fairy Princess Freeze Tag...with magic pixy dust to 'unfreeze' the fairies that the big ugly trolls (the boys) had frozen.
The Fairies decided to take the offensive approah and attack the trolls with their fairy dust. Here is one troll "melting" from all of the fairy dust!
Simply divine! (Isabelle wanted a blue princess party...so I did my best to incorporate 'blue' touches wherever I could)
An absolutely perfect night for a bonfireBelle roasting her first weiner
Opening gifts from all the sweet fairies.
Round the fire we gathered...
Fairy Princess Freeze Tag...with magic pixy dust to 'unfreeze' the fairies that the big ugly trolls (the boys) had frozen.
The Fairies decided to take the offensive approah and attack the trolls with their fairy dust. Here is one troll "melting" from all of the fairy dust!
Princess Rachel, Belle, & Marissa have a dance party under the canopy of lights!
Princess Belle is distorted by the heat waves from the fire...the science nerd in me loves that you can capture pure energy on film.
Fairy Princesses Belle and Brooke roasting marshmallows
Thank you everyone for joining us in celebrating our baby girl! We love you!
Fairy Princesses Belle and Brooke roasting marshmallows
Thank you everyone for joining us in celebrating our baby girl! We love you!ejk
6 comments:
It was a fabulous party - Hattie even thanked God for Belle's party in her prayers tonight! SO sweet!
That looks like something out of a storybook! Love the picture of the just the table and all those twinkly lights. Great idea.
The pictures did a good job of capturing the wonder of the party. Great job mom! We had a great time. Thanks for letting us spend Belle's special night with her.
It was such an enchanting evening indeed. The photos look great...loved and appreciated every creative detail. Simply lovely and fit for a princess! Great planning Mom and Dad...and love your letter to Belle in the beginning of this post...you guys are doing a great job raising her as a daughter of the King!
Erica,
I don't know if you'll remember me, but I graduated with Aron as a leadership major and got to hear the news when you guys were first expecting little Isabelle (also, one of my favorite little girl names).
Kayla Weaver referred me onto your blog, and this is honestly the sweetest thing I've seen. I have a little boy and we just celebrated his first birthday, on which I wrote him a letter as well. What a sweet precious time this is! I hope you had a wonderful birthday with your little one.
Erica, I worked with your at Brown in the ER like one time! You are such a sweet person and you left a lasting impression on me. Your blogs are so wonderful and sweet.
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