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Magical Sprite that turned colors as it was poured into glasses!

Our house elves are a bit bigger than the normal ones.

Hooche's revenge!

Josh figuring it out.

Dumbledore had taken off his robes and beard at this point.

They had a mummy wrap contest, with Grandma Audrey leading the way, and me pooped out and sitting on the couch.

And we ended on a wet note.

The real magic of this whole day was how Grandma Audrey was able to find the time to put this all together between business trips to India and a two week trip to the Netherlands.  Thank you, Mom!  You've come a long way from paying your boys to stay home on Halloween night, haha!



Would it be weird if I displayed these jars all year round at my place?  Love!






Headmistress Audrey handing out the candy.




Griffindor!  I'm so proud...




Slytherin?  What the..?




And another one... Noooooooo!



We are happy to accept magical abilities of any kind at the Ross Hogworts Halloween party.  Griffin of course was placed in Griffindor, even if he is a house elf.

And I score another Griffindor!  Yeah!  I went to help at Ethan's class party and his teacher handed me this awesome Potter robe and said she brought it so Ethan could wear it to our Harry Potter party!  I was so surprised!  Thank you Mrs.York!

We had a special guest appearance by Nearly Headless Bob.

These custom wands by Grandpa and Uncle Josh are still a huge hit.



Headmistress Audrey teaching levitation.  Wingardium Leviosa!




Ethan and I have read the HP series together for 22 months and finished the last book just a few days before this party.  I can't say how much fun it was reading with him.  I'm sad it's over already.



Madam Hooch teaching Quidditch.  Uncle Josh had lots of fun yelling things like, "Hootch!  Griffin needs you!"  But Hootch, I mean Madam Hootch, got her revenge in the end.

Meanwhile, back at the Three Broom Sticks, we had the house elves prepare a feast for them.

Continued in the post above...

I just gave birth to you, you can't possibly be three.



I'm sorry it had to be fast food, patooie, but we didn't have enough time!



You seemed to enjoy it though.



This and the next picture are awesome because she started to eat into her cupcake, decided she needed to take her jacket off to do it right, and then took her bite.





These little white pearls were perfection!  Lils had so much fun helping put them on.






Really, Ethan is such a typical boy.



Me and my baby!

We love our lil bum so much!  She's the sweetest, tender hearted girl.  Lately she's been having fun showing off her color identifying skills, lol, she's so funny.  Oh, and she claims that she is going to high school to anyone who will listen, no idea why.  Today she walked around all day asking people to sing happy birthday to her and saying, "I'm three!"  or "I'm fwreee!"  as it sounds when said by her.
I was so sad that I had to go to class right after we had her open her presents, but I couldn't miss it.  We are now excited for her big family party and the cake I'm going to make for her this weekend.

This year for Halloween we had party after party to attend.

There was the Young Men and Young Women Halloween carnival:


There were individual class parties at school:

There was a huge party and trick-or-treating downtown:


There was Ethan's teacher dressed up as his principal Dr. Harmon in the big school parade.  Yes, he looks exactly like this, I laughed pretty hard when I saw Mrs. York:

We had plenty of crafting going on:

Then our family consisted of a cat, ghost pirate, Sherlock Holmes, a pumpkin, and a couple of zombies at the ward Halloween party.
Tomorrow I will put up pictures from the highlight of our Halloween festivities.  I'll give you a hint, look at what an owl delivered to our house down below: