A Birthday to Remember

So this year my dear hubby is turning 25 and I decided to do a party for him. I first started thinking about his birthday in late August when I realized his birthday was coming up rather quickly. So being the wonderful woman I am, I figured a surprise party was in order. Nothing too big, just a gathering of his friends and some food. One day while browsing on Pinerest.com I found a tutorial for making wands. From that moment on this surprise party took on a whole new vector--direction and magnitude! It very quickly became a Harry Potter Party! (To completely understand why this was such an amazing plan you have to understand that Elijah is always "accio-ing," things to him around the house. It has yet to work but if it did ever happen the shock would not last very long for me!)

 So the Harry Potter Party Plotting began! I already had the materials needed to make the wands, so my apprenticeship to Mr. Ollivander began almost immediately. I also have some very good friends that I bounced ideas off of. Because of these friends we added winged keys, Snape's potion cabinet, horcruxes and costumes to this amazing party. As the weeks progressed and brought us closer and closer to the party I realized there was no way we were going to get my house decorated in one day especially if Elijah was here. Then inspiration struck!! We would move the party into our barn attic, it looked more Harry Potterish anyway. It would also give us time to decorate without Elijah being the wiser!

 All parties are in need of food, and since this was a Harry Potter party the food had to be from the books or movies somehow. Well lets just say my friends and I had a lot of fun picking out the menu! We had Ollivander's Original Wands (pretzel sticks), Hogs Head Cornish Balls (meat balls), Polyjuice Potion (creamy cheesy bacon dip), Potatoronium Roots (little smokies) Herbology Bites (sour patch kids) Chocolate Frogs (gummy frogs-didn't have time to make them chocolate), Pumpkin Pasties (Pumpkin muffins), Cockroach Clusters (no bake cookies) Lemon Drops, Moaning Myrtle's Friends (goldfish crackers) Moldy Peanuts (roasted peanuts) Dragon Breath Peanuts (hot and spicy peanuts), Whomping Willow Bark (Beef Jerky) Jelly Slugs (gummy worms), Grindelow Eggs (Pizza Bites). For Drinks we had Butter Beer, Pumpkin Juice and Elixir of Life. I think the absolute best part of the whole party is that I was able to keep it a secret and Elijah was extremely surprised and had no idea what I was doing all month. To help with all of the sneakiness, I banned him from my craft room telling him I was working on something for his birthday. It also helped being pregnant, I had several odd cravings this past month, but really it was all for the party.

 To get him up in the attic I sent him up there to get my decorations for Autumn. Then he was surprised by a lot of his friends, I think he was a little confused at first but I guess it truly was a surprise. I had a Harry Potter Costume all ready for him up there, and I proceeded to put on my Professor Trelawny costume. Then it was food and chatting and spin the bottle for the wands. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures from the actual party like I should have but here are some of the ones I did get, I also had Griffith bring his camera so some of these are his.