A Small Taste of the "Queen Bee Tea"

I am finally posting some pictures from the Queen Bee Tea. I have been a terrible blogger lately, but to be honest I am trying to keep my head above water. More pictures to come...P.s please don't copy any of these pictures. You can buy them from Kirsten from $10 and she is going to donate all of the proceeds to Project Lemonade.

My niece Marie came down to model for us from Logan. My sweet sister-in-law came so far to help out. Thanks Lisa!

My niece Chadra at the fashion show. Doesn't she look like a princess?

Kirsten is the greatest friend. She came to the tea and took pictures of everything. She is one of the most talented women that I know. I really love her. Thanks Kirsten!

Nicea from Good Things Utah came and brought her cute daughters.

Josh came and work so hard all day. I love you Josh!

My beautiful mom, sisters, sister-in-law and nieces. They were so wonderful to come to the tea.

Our model princesses.

It was so exquisite I can't even describe it.

Beautiful Miss Utah, Kayla Barclay.

La Caille did such a great job. Everything was wonderful.

The food was so good (at least the little I had was :)

ABC 4-Good Things Utah

This day was so busy. I started off on Good Things Utah, then spoke at Hunter elementary, and then went to the BYU basketball game to do a half time (fell through, long story). It was so great to be on Good Things Utah to promote our Queen Bee Tea. I watch this show all of the time so it was really fun. It was seriously the best experience. The princesses were so cute!

All of our beautiful mothers with their adorable daughters.

We decided to watch the show while we waited for our turn. It was a good one. I now have ideas for Valentines Day.

These women couldn't be nicer. They were so nice to all of the princesses after the show.

Queen Bee Tea Commercial

I recorded a commercial yesterday! It was so much fun. I did a few little blurps about the tea coming up in February. Listen for them coming soon on Cozy 106.5 and a talk radio station (I am not sure which one, but it is the one that has Glenn Beck on it) and Radio Disney. So much fun! Don't forget to get your tickets early the deadline is February 14 for tickets sales. This is 2 weeks before the actual event. Buy tickets at project-lemonade.org. We just found out that Radio Disney will be providing "swag bags" for everyone that comes. I have heard there will be really great things in these bands and there might be a princess DVD inside!

Princess Dresses

Here is a sample of some of the dresses that will be auctioned off at our Queen Bee Tea. Nancy Durrant once again has done amazing things with a sewing machine. These dresses have all been donated by different people and businesses. If you are interested in donating a dress let me know at emily.7n@gmail.com

Queen Bee Tea

This great pictures was taken by Chad from Faces Photography and put together by my amazing friend Kirsten. I am excited to announce that tickets are now on sale! Go to project-lemonade.org to purchase. We are going to have so much fun. We are being sponsored by Radio Disney and they are providing some amazing things, including the Disney dancers! This is honestly going to be so much fun! It is for everyone! You are all invited.

Queen Bee Tea

I would like to announce that I am hosting a "Queen Bee Tea" at La Caille on February 28, 2009. It is going to be so much fun! It is going to be a traditional English Tea. Of course we serving herbal tea and hot cider, but we will be having an etiquette
class, many of the Miss Utah contestants will be there some performing their talents (with crowns and evening gowns), princess fashion show and an auction of the fashion show gowns.

This is going to be a fundraiser for Project Lemonade. The tickets are going to be $25 for children, and $30 for adults.

I am in need of seamstresses that would be willing to donate the princess gowns that will be auctioned off. Please let me know if you are interested in this at emily.7n@gmail.com. I thought this could be a fun thing for a family to get together and design and donate. We will be announcing who is donating each of the dresses. I have a goal of 20 dresses. If you or someone you know would be willing to do this please let me know. If you don't sew, but would like to design one I know someone who would make whatever you want at a very good price.

The last fun thing is that this is for moms and daughters, aunts and nieces, fathers and daughters, even good friends. Each of the girls is encouraged to dress like a princess for the day-you can go all out. I think that it is going to be a lot of fun. Let me know if you would like to help out-it is coming fast!

Best Buddies Ball at Viewmont

This past Saturday I was in charge of the Best Buddies Ball fro 11 high schools in Utah. It was nuts! Our D.J. canceled at 3:00 pm that day and we had all sorts of wild happenings. The dance ended up a success in the end though. We are having another one January 17th at the U of U Student Union building if anyone would like to come or volunteer. It really is so fun!

This is Amber Wilding who was one of my roommates at USU. She is a professional wedding coordinator and has amazing taste. She was in charge of all of the decorations for this dance and is doing the college Buddy Ball in January. She is honestly one of the nicest girls I know. She did a phenomenal job. And I was in love with the dress she was wearing!

These amazing women are from the Salt Lake City School of Cosmetology. They volunteered their time to come and do hair and make up for the buddies before the dance. Those who did it looked beautiful. On of the Utah queens Sarah Pettit was so amazing to get all of the hair stylists and the photographer who was amazing. She was incredible. Unfortunately she got sick the day of and couldn't come. Thank you Sarah! I think it was fun for everyone.


So a little intimidating to take a picture standing next to the Jazz Dancers! They were so great to come and participate in our ball. One of the Utah queens that has been so great to help me with these events is Arial Larsen who also happens to be a Jazz Dancer. She arranged for them to come for a while.



It was so fun to see how all of the cute girls got their hair and make up done. I think this was a really fun part of our event.



I just had to get a picture of this guy. Amber and I casually took our picture standing a foot apart right in front of him, do you think he noticed? Okay so I am so awful, but this man was the bane of my existence for a week! He demanded that we pay him for being there...and this is what he did all night. I am so glad that he earned his dollars. At the end of the night we had to clean everything up. He watched us do everything and didn't help at all. There was tape on the walls up really high left from the dance the day before. I asked him if he wanted us to clean it up. He told me that is why he brought me a ladder! He just watched while I started climbing the ladder in my evening gown! Luckily one of the guys from our committee came and did it for me or I think I would have ended up on my head. He was such a character (in a bad way!)

The Jazz Dancers got everyone in a conga line. I hope they all had fun. The kids thought they were so great. They were really sweet to come.



Dancin' the night away (it isn't that easy dancing with a rhinestone tower on your head).

My cute friend Natalie came and was the photographer for the night.

These are all of the Miss Utah queens that helped me with the ball. I have been so impressed with each of them.

These kids really are so wonderful to be around. They are always happy and have so much enthusiasm for life. I feel privileged to be able to work with them so often.


We had a royalty and everything. The Jazz Dancers named the King, Queen, Prince and Princess. The kids got crowns and everything.

We gave away door prizes compliments of Mrs. Fields and TCBY. Everyone thought they were pretty cool.

Janna (Miss Riverton) and Lauren (Miss Sandy)were so great to help me prepare for the ball, stay the entire night dancing with the kids and helping with everything and then they stayed after and helped clean up. Amazing girls!

Project Lemonade Activity-News, Sports and Weather School

Tuesday night we had our 2nd Project Lemonade activity. We invited people to come from both Grandfamilies and Big Brothers Big Sisters. We had a great turn out. Cute Amanda Summers set this up so that we could come to Channel 4 and see how it works. I think that everyone really thought it was neat. I know I did.

Anchors Barb Smith and Terry Wood. They were so great and answered all of our questions.

We were so lucky. I guess that they usually just do "weather school", but we got to see the news, sports and weather all together. It was so neat. I think the kids really liked it.

Here are some of our group that came with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Marti Skold who is honestly amazing. She has done just about everything news related and is very good at what she does. She is honestly one of the hardest workers that I have ever seen!

Josh just had to get a picture in front of this tree. I guess channel 4 did a drawing for a BYU tree and a U of U tree and the people who won this tree hadn't picked it up yet. Josh thought it was so cool...I would have liked it better if it were the Aggies :)

Here are some of the people who make everything happen at Channel 4.