We {heart} Harry Potter!

We were planning on having a pretty low key birthday party for Harry Potter this year... 

we had just moved and things around the house were still getting put away.

BUT when the youth at our church mentioned they would love to come again,

WELL we just couldn't turn down the possibility for another epic party ;)

THUS July 31st came, and we partied.

Harry Potter style.

We tried to transform the house...

one day I'll convert the whole place into Hogwarts.

One day.

We had some amazing characters show up!

Dumbledore

 McGonagall, Luna and Voldemort

 Hagrid

 We played some Quidditch...

Made some wands...

And played a competitive round of Harry Potter Jeopardy!

Another successful birthday party!

Happy 34th birthday Harry!

Geeked out on Harry Potter

Who throws a birthday party for someone who doesn't exist?

Umm... yeah... that would be us.

But Harry is real in my heart so that counts, right?

In case you're lame didn't know- Mr. Harry Potter celebrates his birthday on July 31st!

After the movies were over, we suffered from a Harry Potter hole in our heart and we had to fill it.

Last year we had an amazing birthday party with amazing friends (click here)

and this year we partied it up in Mississippi with a bunch of the youth!

Each year it gets more epic...

One of these years- I'll convert my whole house into Hogwarts. 

You just wait.

*ahem*

Back to the party.

The decorations...

Platform 9 3/4

 Entrance to the Gryffindor common room

 The man of the hour

 We played the first movie as peeps began to arrive.

The people

 

Get away you death eater- you!

 

The crew of wanted wizards...

House Prefects

(minus me... I was just game officiator)

 Snape and Bellatrix

The food

The games

Sorting Ceremony

Spell Casting game

Pin the Scar on Harry

Harry Potter Pictionary

And the House Cup winner IS.....

Hufflepuff?

Does Hufflepuff EVER do anything noteworthy?

I blame it on their super, ultra, crazy competitive prefect.

Happy Birthday Harry!

The Epic-ness of Harry Potter

Feeling the withdrawals that the end of the movies left in our hearts- we thought it only appropriate to celebrate Harry's birthday this year! 

(And every year- let's be honest... this may become a tradition)

The party needed to be epic...

and I think we succeeded.

We tried to make it feel as much like Hogwarts as we could...

without having a castle...

in our tiny one bedroom apartment :)

I slaved away all morning on these...

 And hung em up...

I think they turned out marvelous.

 

 

 And spent the other half of my day making this...

Welcome to Platform 9 3/4!

And the Fat Lady guarded the entrance to the bathroom :)

 Then come the people...

We had lots of wizards and witches-

 but the highlights WERE

Dobby, the house elf

Luna Lovegood

AND Bellatrix takes the cake-

she looked AWESOME!

We played a rousing game of "Wands"

 (like spoons... but with wands)...

losers had to eat Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans!

It was intense! 

You never know what flavor you'll get!

Raspberry, rotten egg, popcorn, booger?

You thought the party couldn't get any geekier?

Oh it does.

We made wands.

Oh yes we did.

 Watch out...

we just may "levicorpus" you 

;)

We also played Harry Potter "Scene It" and watched 50 greatest moments from the Harry Potter films. 

Happy Birthday Harry!

We've missed you!

Until next year ;)