Last year we threw some pretty big parties for the girls.  (You can read about them here and here.) So with that in mind we decided to go smaller this year.  Have a few sleep over parties to celebrate the milestone but not go crazy.  And that is just what we did but to make […]

If you have been following along then you know that I set the party for 2-4:30 in the afternoon.  I set it for that time because I preferred not to come up with some sort of Harry Potter meal that kids would eat and I wanted to leave myself enough time to set everything up. […]

We love Harry Potter.  I know this is not a surprise to most of you!  So when Ellie and Kate asked for a Harry Potter party I was beyond excited.  We had already been to an amazing Harry Potter party last October and since most of those kids were going to be coming to this […]

I know the title of this post really refers to a Harry Potter spell, but it honestly is ridiculous how much time I spent planning out this Harry Potter party for Ellie and Kate.  I’m so glad they agreed to do this party together because that means I could spend double the energy on this […]

I didn’t actually throw a surprise party for Jill last Saturday because she knew she was having a party and she knew who was coming.  She just didn’t know anything else about it! This is one of those parties that I’d filed away in my brain for more than four years.  I’d heard of another […]