Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

We got home from our trip to Utah on Wednesday night really late, well technically it was Thursday. We slept in till almost noon, which was wonderful. And then after talking to a couple of Becca’s friends we decided the only time we could do her birthday party so everyone could come was to do it on Friday, yes the next day. So we quickly threw together a party. And as it turned out it was probably the best birthday party we have had. It was really alot of fun for all of us. Becca wanted to do a Harry Potter Party. So we had a costume party. On such short notice we were worried about everyone having a costume, well smart little Becca pointed out that if they don’t have one they could always come as Muggles! Perfect!!! So we had 3 Muggles (Susie, Marjarie and Abigail), 3 Witches (Becca, Casey and Sophie), 2 Professor McGonagalls (Brooke was definately better than I was, she won the costume contest!) 1 Dementor (Katie), 1 Harry Potter (Xander, and he was dang cute!) and Jason was, well not sure who he was but he was magical… 🙂

Katie and Sophie are not in this photo…Sophie came late and Katie got in trouble (big surprise!).

We started out the party with the sorting hat, that was a hoot, Casey had to go find the voice of the sorting hat because she didn’t even get a chance to sit down on the stool before the ‘hat’ hollered “Griffindor!” It was very cute. Then we went into the ‘Great Hall’ for the ‘feast’. We had candles and lots of food, roast chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas, rolls, plums, and of course pumpkin juice (ok so I substituted peach nectar for it, but it looked good!) and goodies like cake, doughnut holes, ‘Treacle Tarts’ and I made fudge and forgot to set it out along with the jello – opps! Becca’s cake was fun, we put sparkler candles on it. She had to really work at getting them blown out, and then they would light back up and she would have to keep blowing. It was great!

They had a chess tournament and then Harry Potter movie marathon. They watched one and two that night (didn’t fall asleep until 2:30 am) and then started number three the next morning. It was a huge success, the kids had a great time! Oh I forgot to tell about her gifts for her guests. We put together a bag with Sorceror’s Stone (red glassy stone), golden snitch (wrapped golden Lindt candy), Bertti Botts Every Flavor Beans (jelly belly’s), Droobles Best Blowing Gum (bubble gum), and of course a licorice wand! It was a hit!

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