Vienna's 6th Birthday Party

Vienna has wanted to have a "friend" party for quite a while and as a way to say goodbye and to give her some closure before we move. So I began asking her what kind of theme she would like. WE talking about another rainbow party from her 4th B-day, but when she said "Harry Potter" I thought that was brilliant and so we ran with it and boy was it so much fun! We had watched the first few movies and we had started the book, so she was aware of many things..despite having our house in boxes we made it work and all 10 kindergarteners had a blast.

Here is the Birthday girl in her crazy Birthday dress she bought with Grandma on her B-day date...all dressed up like Harry Potter with her glasses, scar and wand.

I couldn't get these all in order n a quick way, so things are going to be all over the place.

After diagon alley we went to Hogwarts and took a few wizard classes. 

Here we are in charms class where we learned the "reducto" spell and turned our shrinky dinky into a  tiny charm.

Streamers

We had a scar maker and our Honeydukes Candy Shop wizard

everyone started out by going to Gringotts bank to get their money to buy their supplies at diagon alley. It was a fun site to see.

Vienna was very lucky to have so many friends join in the fun and was lucky enough to get some great and very thoughtful gifts.

Here are the Harry Potter Glasses

Waiting to go into HOgwarts

Here is Gringotts Bank

We had Bertie Bott's every flavour beans, Jelly slugs and white bellied toads to purchase

HEre are all our sweet guests all Harry Potter-ified. So cute!

Vienna's ice cream cake was a huge hit! I may always do this from now on.

Peggy did such a great job with the scars, I'm so glad she was there to help!

The wand shop, Mike was amazing and made all of these wands. They turned out pretty amazing!

Running right through Platform 9 and 3/4 was quite the hit, we had to do it a few times.

Oh how I love the magic!

I'd say Potions was the biggest hit and prefessor Snape (Mike) did a great job!

So many gross ingredients...

The kids loved the reactions and their reactions were quite hilarious as well.

We did 2 very fun and very messy ones and the kids got to do their own

Wouldn't it be fun to attend a real potions class

The 'elephant toothpaste' was by far the best reaction

After classes we headed outside to play some games of quidditch and that was perfect while I cleaned up and got ready to do cake. The weather was lovely!

The Treat Bags..

I wish I would have taken a picture of each item inside because they were so cute. There was a chocolate frog, shimmery golden snitches (gold gumballs), test tubes of Bertie Botts Beans, jelly slugs and all their other goodies from throughout the party.

Vienna absolutely adores her teacher Miss Brantley and will miss her terribly. She wanted her to come to the party so I told her and mostly did it just to let her know Vienna's sentiment, but she said she would stop in and I asked her specifically to NOT bring a gift and of course she thought of the best gift ever...it was a cute little Beanie Boo Leopard because she wanted her to always remember her friends at Ruth Livingston Leopards. She has slept with it everynight since and even wanted to get another one with her birthday money and so she got a boy one to go with her girl one. So sweet!

It was a treat to have a party for her. She was so thrilled and excited I dare say more than Christmas and that made it more than worth it. We had a really fun time with all her sweet friends. I'm grateful for Grandma and Grandpa who came to help and Bree last minute who took on the roll of photographer all on her own, to which I am incredibly grateful.

We are looking forward to having a 6 year old around the house! 

She is quite something special and we hope that we instill in her just how special and loved she is.