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April 29, 2011

                                              
ROYAL WEDDING DAY

                          the event of the century for true royal watchers

            
   
My oh my, us girls have been waiting

{for months} for this day with great anticipation...

All week the excitement grew as we watched 

many of the royal shows that TLC was airing 

for their royal wedding week programing. 

Hannah and I were so enthralled watching footage 

and commentary of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding 

from thirty years ago.  

 I have a vague memory watching that as an eight yr old.

Thursday night the four older girls and I had a sleepover, 

camped out in the front room. 

Amongst our better judgement with school the next morning 

{and CRT tests even!}, we set the alarm for 2:00 A.M. 

when the NBC coverage started here.  

I suppose we could have just taped it and watched it at a 

normal hour but watching it LIVE was so much more fun. 

Had to fly the freak flag ya know. 

Wouldn't have missed this for noth'in. 

And what a lasting memory for my girls as we 

watched history in the making.

                                To celebrate we had donuts and chocolate milk 
from little tea cups....

  Kyleigh couldn't quite come to an awake state 

for much of the 4 + hour spectacle. 

Brie woke up to have a donut and then was out for the count. 

Emma, Hannah and I were troopers watching 

the majority of it with a few doze offs here and there. 

I crawled in bed about 6:30. 
Totally worth the lack of sleep. 
I thoroughly enjoyed THE pageantry, pomp 

and circumstance of it all....
the unveiling of THAT wedding dress...

so regal and classic and the plethora of English hats. 
Loved it all!  

For those in the family that couldn't watch it live 

we threw a Royal Wedding viewing Party 

later that afternoon...

These were the invites I made thanks to a free download 

from Women's Day...

An event steeped in tradition with a tea bag! Get it?

Ya know how the current Royal family 

is the House of Windsor? 

Well the best part of those invites is the address 

where the party was held. 

My sister actually lives on Windsor Manor Court. 

Too good I tell ya!

We had quite a British inspired spread

I was so tickled when I found these paper plates...

how stink'in cute are they? 

My friend made the best tea cucumber sandwiches 

and English scones. 

Delightful.

I found a recipe on line to make a chocolate biscuit cake, 

it was inspired by the cake Prince William chose 

as the groom's cake for the wedding reception.

It is a dense, ultra rich dessert with Lyle's English Golden Syrup, 

crushed tea biscuits with a chocolate ganache.

 I used McVitie's English Digestive Biscuits. 

They sound horrible, but seriously they are so dang good. 

My girls love them too. They are definitely our favorite treat 

at the London Market. 

And Hannah swears they are her favorite cookie. 

Anyhow,  I think we would have rather of had just the cookies alone. 

If you are not a fan of bitter sweet chocolate or rich desserts, 

this is not for you. 

Fun to try though. 

I monogrammed it with Kate {Catherine's} and William's initials.

THE RING! 

I snatched the last fake one from Micheal's. 

They were going like hot cakes. 

My sister makes the best party drink...

we tied sparkly rings to the goblets. 

There was a "princess" tiara for everyone.

A friend of my sisters brought some English clotted cream. 

I tried it for the first time. 

Oh my goodness..heavenly. 

Is there anything more British than 

strawberries and cream?...

Good old English trifle.

petite chicken wraps and quiches 

These are English Ginger, Lemon Tea Cookies 

that I found at Costco...

those ones covered in chocolate are the Digestive Biscuits 

I was talking about earlier..

I raided my mom's china cabinet and my friends house 

for most of the dish ware.

I found these little Bath and Body Works hand sanitizers 

inspired by the Royal Wedding.. with sayings such as... 

"Princess in Training", "If the Tiara fits"...and "Royal Pucker". 

How cute!  

I asked some Kate and William questions and 

whomever answered first received one. 

I have one left. 

If you want one and can be the first to tell me 

Prince William's full first name and last, I'll send it to you. 

Awe...didn't she look stunning?

Here are the girls in their Union Jack colors...

Poor Kyleigh couldn't come as she had dance. darn it.  

                                                           Kate was real pleased with the festivities...

We were all about TEAM KATE this week...
heres our little Kate at the London Market on Thursday. 

          The Royal Wedding was brilliant!