A Very Harry Birthday

For Ella's 11th birthday we decided to celebrate in a magical fashion.  Ella has read (and loved!) the series and has been working her way through the movies.  We (Frank parents and I) thought that she would love to celebrate her birthday with the Harry Potter theme.  Thanks to my insane love for Harry, Dan and Reb's creativity and inspiration from my friend Kelly, the party was starting to come together.  It was a surprise and the week before, a letter was delivered to the fireplace inviting Ella to attend Hogwarts and to attend a party to celebrate her acceptance.  There are a lot of pictures, so sit back and enjoy!

After Ella arrived, the first thing that needed to be done was the house sorting, receive her class schedule (had the list of things to do at the party) and get her wand.  Ella was excited to be placed in Gryffindor and look at her class schedule.

 I played the role of DumbleKenzie!

 Checking out the class schedule

 The wands

 The happy Gryffindor

We first needed to attend Potions class.  Our teacher was Professor Vaniverus Severus.  She was a good teacher, although she had a hard time teaching and doing the potions herself!

After potions class, we visited Weasley's Wizard Wheezes run by Fred Weasley.

We played with exploding canisters

Next we went to Honeydukes and The Three Broomsticks for some refreshments.  All of my food pictures turned out really bad, but Rebekah did a great job making food from Harry Potter!  We had cauldron cakes, chocolate frogs, Botts jelly beans and cockroach clusters.

 
We finished our time with cake, presents, the Harry Potter Scene It game and a Harry Potter movie.

 Ella "lit" the candles on her cauldron cakes

Thank you Ella for letting me be a part of your birthday party.  

I think it was as much fun for me as it was for Ella!