Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Mallory's 11th birthday party!

We had a *magical* 11th birthday party for Mallory this past weekend, with a Harry Potter theme! She has been reading the books for several months (she is currently reading book #3) and thought it would be fun to have a Hogwarts party. She scoured Pinterest and pinned some great ideas. I narrowed them down into things we could really do at our home. Everything turned out great! Rebekah had had an owl-themed party, but never Harry Potter! It was fun to plan and execute!
Since Caleb had a bonfire at his high school on that day after marching band practice, we went out to eat at a local pizza place in Fruita. Mallory opened a few small gifts there, on her birthday. She loved her Wonder Woman lego set, Harry Potter bag tag and little "tsum tsum" characters from Bethany.
On the morning of her party, we made a bunch of potion bottles and put them on a cake display tray. We also had some magic wands from Christmas a few years ago around the tray. We addressed a bunch of envelopes to Harry Potter and hung them, along with white balloons colored to look like Hedgwig, Harry's owl.
My sister-in-law, Allison made a bunch of golden snitches, and I made veggie plates that looked like owls, along with magic wands (pretzel rods) dipped in vanilla candy coating. 
After dinner (pasta salad as the main dish), we chatted and then opened presents. Mallory loved all of the clothes, DVDs, coloring books and toys that she received.


Opening more gifts....
Another DVD...
We posed on our back porch in our Harry Potter outfits, like we were in the Daily Prophet, which has moving pictures. The live photos worked well for that!

While we were posing for pictures, Joshua's mom was inside the house making "butter beer." 
Caleb and Nana squirted each other with whip cream...
 The butter beer ready to serve...
 Joshua and Nana made a cool owl cake!
Blowing out eleven candles... Happy birthday to our dear Mallory! 



Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Deuteronomy 1:3
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them. 

Matthew 28:16
[ The Great Commission ] Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.

Mark 16:14
Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

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