December 14th, 2019. I drove up to Idaho Falls and took some pictures of Brianna and her new family in the hospital. Spent about 6 hours or so there. And then I drove all the way back home. To bad I do not do well driving long distances. Luckily enough for most of the drive on the Idaho side of the boarder the scenery kept me going. It was a very pretty drive with snow everywhere.
December 19th, 2019.
Sydney's class Christmas Party.
I was Room Mom for Ms. Schiebs 2nd grade class this year.
So I planned all the activities. I was able to have a couple other moms bring treats or other small things, but the activities I had to plan and put together. Jake was such a big help in helping me accomplish the goal.
The party went over well. We had a snowman stacking station, a blow the ball into the snowman station, and a snowman craft (where they glued circles to make a snowman and then took some of the precut papers and decorated the scene). We also had treats at the end. And I read a Christmas book that I brought while they ate.
Also this year we decided to make homemade play dough kits for all our friend gifts. So Lizzy and William gave them to their preschool class, we gave them to the neighborhood kids, and Sydney wanted to give some to her friends at school, but since I didn't want anyone to feel left out we made one for each person in her class.
On December 20th, the school had a school wide Christmas concert.
December 7th we went to Grandmas new house off of 126th South for the Christmas party. It was a little more crowded than the house was, but it was a cute place. The kids had room in the basement to play games.
Lots of food to snack on.
The older kids played a game with candy in the middle and dice. They also played unwrap the candy. (this is where candy is wrapped in a plastic wrap ball and the kids have to unwrap the candy from the ball. But they only have until the next person rolls doubles.) The younger kids played a game of basketball and then colored. They also got gifts from grandma-they were books and then we ended up reading one.
Then everyone played Bingo while we waited for Santa to show up.
When Santa showed up, we sang a couple of Christmas songs, He read a story, and then he handed out gifts to all the kids.
My kids each got a sketch and doodle tablet.
The kids had fun. I am glad we can still do an extended family Christmas party with the Arnold's.
