The Evil Prince Party

Tonight we took Sophie to The Ritzy Pixie, one of our most favorite spots here in Georgia for The Evil Prince Party, a Halloween tradition we began with Soph last year. (The Ritzy Pixie is a beautiful gift shop, tea room, and birthday party spot, and they host one of our favorite annual events, The Glass Slipper Ball!

The party begins with the girls hearing the story of the pixie that lives in the ceiling of the tea room and the Evil Prince who tries to capture her each October and turn Ms. Alicia (the hostess and owner) into a vampire. The girls dress in gorgeous Halloween princess costumes, feast on swamp water and pizza with bat's brains and boogers for toppings, plant magic beans that grow into prizes in a magic garden, and go on an exciting hunt to capture the Evil Prince and save the Ritzy Pixie! Sophie takes all this very seriously, and she is already planning on new ways to catch the prince next year! (The girls saved the pixie, but the Evil Prince escaped at the very end of the night!) Sophie had a blast at the party!


Sophie getting really excited hearing the story of the Ritzy Pixie and the Evil Prince!
This shot does not do the tea room at the Ritzy Pixie justice. You have to see it to believe it! The ceiling is absolutely gorgeous!




Poor Sophie couldn't eat her pizza when they told about the bat's brains and boogers! (I couldn't have either!




Sophie and the girls on the hunt in the courtyard for the Evil Prince!


Sophie found the "messhage" (as she calls it) from the Evil Prince!




Sophie loved her Halloween princess dress!









Meanwhile...
Will hung out with Matt, reading his beloved Cars coloring book, attempting to hide in one of the shelves of the gift shop, and falling down and busting his lip!


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