We love Christmas Parties! We must anyway because we go to a lot of them during the month of December. The first party/field trip we went on was to the Mountain Crest High School Christmas Fantasy production.
Each year the high school puts on a Christmas show with all of the music and theater departments taking part in the production. It is always fun to see and the kids love it. I love listening to the band music especially the jazz band and the percussion group. The music was really good this year. The kids especially loved the end when Santa came and gave everyone a candy cane. It was chaos!
The high school does a special showing for the elementary kids and Russell and I like to go and help with the kids so that we can see the show as well. All of the kids walk to the high school with their classes. It is definitely a feat for the teachers to herd 700 kids a half mile down the street to the high school but we manage to do it without losing anyone. This year, we got to do all that herding in a blizzard:
This was really the first big snow we have had this year and it just happened to be on the day that we were walking to the high school. The lucky kindergartners got to take a bus while the rest of us trudged through the snow. The kids loved it and didn't seem to even notice the cold or snow. The rest of us adults were thinking "Is this really worth it??" Well we made it safe and sound and we all had a good time so I guess it was worth it after all. Next time though I think we will put skis on the stroller so that it will be easier to push...
Our next fun Christmas party was Russell's work party.
This year the theme was "Ugly Christmas Sweater" so Russell and I went out and bought us some ugly sweaters. Russell's is pretty bad with the llama but our sweaters turned out to be pretty decent and actually stylish compared to some of the ones the other guys were wearing that night. I actually like mine and think it is kind of cute. I wore it a couple other time this month. Anyway the party was really fun and some of the other sweaters were quite hilarious. Russell was one of the people in charge of the party so he got to MC the whole thing. He even cracked a few jokes that had the whole department rolling on the ground. The funny thing about it though was that he didn't even realize he was making the jokes, he was just talking. One of the guys won a trampoline in the raffle. Russell yells over the mic, "Casey's got a new tramp!" We all just bust up laughing especially knowing who Casey is! Russell had no idea until I told him afterward and then he started laughing too. There were some other things like that as well. It was a good time. At the end, awards were given for the ugliest sweaters. We didn't win because like I said before, our sweaters were actually good looking compared to the others. Oh well, we did come home with a pretty nice prize though from the raffle. We won a nice backpack full of goodies from Mountain Star Hospital. It ended up having quite a few nice gifts inside that will be very useful.
We are the room parents for our kids classes at school so we got to help with the class Christmas parties this month. The first party we participated in was Colby's class.
All of the games were fun and the kids had a great time. We played the Candy Bar game and all of the kids in the class really got into it and were passing the dice so fast and trying to rip into that paper with the wooden spoon so quickly. It was quite funny to watch them. The class also made an ornament at the craft table, played "Pin the Nose on Olaf," listened to a Christmas story, and made doughnut snowmen at the treat station. It was a fun party.
The next party I helped with was Logan's class. This class had a blast making gingerbread houses.
Logan loved decorating his house with a ton of icing and candy. We even found a chocolate Santa to put on his roof. There was so much candy and treats for the houses because the afternoon class got all of the leftovers from the morning class as well. At the end Logan's teacher was handing the kids bags so that they could fill up on candy to take home because she did not want anything left over. The kids definitely loved that. All of the houses turned out so good.
Finally we helped plan Emily's class party. During this party we played four fun games and then ended with a treat. We played a few Christmas edition Minute To Win It games including candy cane races. Then we played the candy bar game again with this class. It was funny to see how much better at this game 4th graders are than 2nd graders. These kids had these gifts open within minutes whereas the 2nd graders took up the whole time. We also played a Christmas edition Telestrations but I don't think the girl in charge of this station really knew how to play so really they just talked and drew pictures which I guess turned out just fine. The final station was a snowman building contest:
The kids had to pick two kids from their group and turn them into a snowman using toilet paper. As you can see, Emily was the lucky one chosen to be the snowman. It was so funny to watch the kids go crazy with the toilet paper but they sure had fun and they did clean up after themselves so that was a plus. This was also a great party. It is fun to be involved in the kids' classrooms and help where we can. Now bring on Christmas Break!
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