Christmas Parties

Since we had a family cruise planned for the end of December, I was so paranoid we'd get sick right before or during the trip because of all of the sugar and lack of sleep during the month of December.  Luckily we did not!  The first Christmas party was at Hazel's school.  It was super cold that night.  There was a train and hay ride outside, and hot chocolate, ice cream, Santa, snacks and crafts inside.

I didn't take a picture of it, but they also decorated graham cracker houses one day, so we picked that up the night of the winter party as well.  A few days later, they had a Polar Express party.  I helped put up some of the black paper in the hallway earlier in the week, and I have to say that at the time, I thought, "What a waste of paper."  Ha!  Then the morning of, we punched the kids' tickets, and we all boarded the Polar Express.  With the sound of a real train going, it really felt like we weren't in a school anymore.  It was so fun.  They passed out hot chocolate with candy canes and listened to the actual story of the Polar Express. 

Next up was the Christmas party at Highland.  The kids have been looking forward to this all year because they looved the animals last year.  Thank goodness they decided to bring animals again!  The kids were thrilled.  Plus there were yummy snacks, crafts, goodie bags, and Santa.

We didn't win the family ugly sweater competition, but we did get to use our $5 sweaters twice.  The Otts had an ugly sweater party, and it was super fun.  

Last but not least, we had Hazel's class party.  Grayson loves all of these Kindergarten parties because he gets all of the fun with none of the school work!  Do you spy Jada in the back?  She gets a lot of attention every time we go to the school.  Love these little cuties.