i think i have finally recovered

I ended up getting to bed at 4am after Harry Potter and have had many a late night since then. I think last night was my low point - major headache and not feeling so hot but after some Tylenol, a great neck massage and a good nights sleep I am finally feeling like I have recovered from the middle of the night festivities.

We had a great time waiting in line for Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the Hogwarts crew.  We ended up having 31 (or was it 32) of us in line to see the movie with a few other party crashers that came to hang out in line with us but left around 9:30ish because they didn't want to do the midnight movie.

Here's a shot of some of the teens that went.  What a great group of kids.  I love that my kids have good friends to hang out with.

You can see more pictures from the night here.

We loved the movie.  I wish they would have included more from the book but I knew going into it that things would be missing.  The sets were amazing (they always are)  I loved the humor in this movie - it was good to see Harry laugh a little.

16 years

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I'm moving out (at least my party posts are)  

Recently some of my parties have been getting some attention and they tell me they like it.   I tried to shelter them but the pull of the world has them running from home looking for more excitement.  So I'm cutting the apron strings and sending them off to go live over at Little Ant Design.  

This is a work in progress so if you visit the blog please be kind.  I am trying to get it all organized so that it will be easy to find party ideas and inspiration but it may take me a while.

It will be nice to not have people digging through a billion family posts just to find a party idea. It will be easier on them and lets face it - do they really all need to be up in my family business?

For those that visit here to check up on our family - keep stopping by but if it's parties you are looking for head on over to Little Ant and see if you can be inspired to throw a shindig of your own.

new blog

In an effort to keep my party jive all in one area I will be moving over party related ideas to a new blog over the next week or so.  This should be reason to celebrate for some of you that stop by just for party ideas but have to sift through a bunch of family posts.  Yes their my family and I love them but I recognize that post after post of family going-ons is not everyones idea of fun.