Brooklyn's Enchanted Fairy Party in Seattle

So, yes, we had another party for Brooklyn. So that makes 4, one in Montana with her GG and Papa, one on her birthday with her friend Linus, one in Durango with her cousins, and now one here in Seattle with two of her little friends. The fairy party was so fun to put together for Durango, we wanted to do one here too with her friends.

We live a mile down the road from a place called Camp Long. It's a preserved forest that has 10 little cabins and trails, a lodge, climbing rock, and open fields to play in. We go walking there every now and then and decided to look into what the cabins were like. They are only $40 a night and sleep up to 12 people.....of course there are no bathrooms...you have to go to a community bathroom, but for $40 to camp and have a bed and fire pit, grill and tables, you can't beat that.

So anyway, on with the story. Last Friday night, we rented cabin #8 at camp long and it was so fun. We were secluded by a little pond that had a few little bridges, beautiful trees, and lots of space for playing. Chris got off work early and we went down to set up. Brooklyn was so excited because we told her we were staying in Snow White's cottage....she couldn't wait and when we got in the cabin got the broom out and started cleaning just like Snow White did for the dwarfs. She even brought her Snow White costume to wear over her pajamas. She loved the cabin, it had 3 double sized bunk beds and she loved her "ladder" bed and had so much fun climbing up it and playing around.

We decorated around our cabin with fairy wings, toole, butterflies, seashells, gems, and feathers and set up the table cute with her tinkerbell cake and fairies. Brooklyn got into her fairy costume and we put on her makeup and she was ready to party. When Tallulah and Fiona arrived, they were wearing their fairy dresses and also got to have their makeup done with fairy tattoos too! They couldn't wait to go on their fairy treasure hunt. They all ran down by the little pond with their baskets and collected the gems, seashells, etc and really had fun. Kian and Sawyer even had fun finding things on the ground. Beckham stayed back with his daddy and helped grill the hamburgers and hot dogs and drank root beer. The girls brought back their loot and checked it all out and we all had dinner. The regular camping food along with star-shaped marshmallow fairy wands and frozen star-shaped watermelon sticks. Brooklyn opened her gifts and then the girls were off to play.

They all held hands and ran around the trails, it was a perfect photography moment as you can see from the pictures. The sat on the bridges and sang songs and acted silly. They danced and twirled and giggled, it was so fun! We came back and sang Happy Birthday and had cake and made s'mores around the fire. All the kids loved that, especially Beckham, he really gets into what we are doing. He really wanted to play with the big boys and was checking out how Sawyer did this walking thing and how Kian ran around with the girls.

We were so busy having fun that I totally forgot to have the girls make their fairy wands.....luckily I had two that were already made and gave them to them. Everyone would have stayed longer if the sun hadn't gone down, but it was getting late and the fairies had to get their beauty rest. Brooklyn and Beckham both went to sleep in the cabin and Chris and I took the portable DVD player and watched a movie out by the fire and made more s'mores. It was a really fun date for us!!

The next morning, it was beautiful out, we played and ran and hiked around. Brooklyn ran around as snow white and we decided that we would make it a tradition to come stay at the snow white cottage once a summer. It was a fun memory to make and Brooklyn still tells me every day, "Hey mom, remember when i went and stayed at Snow White's house and had the fairy party!" And she tells everyone about it too, so cute!!