Christmas Highlights Week 3

Class Parties
I have enjoyed being a room mom for Lorelei's class and it felt especially fun to plan her party this year. They played a game where they unwrapped a saran wrap ball, had a book gift exchange and then did a selfie scavenger hunt. It was so fun to plan for this age!

Selfie with someone wearing a Santa hat. 

Selfie with a reindeer

I was not at Makin's party but they made a cute snowman!

Ice Skating
After the class parties, we headed to the Galleria for some ice skating around the world's largest indoor Christmas tree! It was much more crowded this year but we still had fun!

Charlie, Makin and Ryker

Jaedynn, Lorelei and Savannah

Lorelei gets pretty nervous about falling. She would want to hold my hand or stay on the side.
Her friends encouraged her to get out in the middle. Made me thankful for her sweet friends and also proud of her for getting out of her comfort zone!

Reindeer Games
We had the biggest turn out yet for this year's Reindeer Games! I was also more behind than I had ever been...I was planning the games out the night before and the morning of, on top of running to the grocery store...but thankfully no one could tell...mostly just a stressed-out Mama! :) Hoping next year I'm more prepared...but this proves it can be lots of fun even if it isn't as stress-free as you would like! Many of the husbands/dads joined us for a low-key pizza supper with Christmas Family Feud guys vs gals and we are loving that addition on to this tradition!

The kiddos pick a number from the tree to determine the order of our games. :)

This year's line up:

Cup Tree

Toy Touchdown

Candy Cane Catch

Nutstacker

Antler Toss

North Pole Pop

These aren't my kids but it made me laugh so hard...the two smallest girls were together (balloon was to be carried back-to-back so they picked sizes similar) and they could not get their balloon to pop...finally a mom yelled...have Emma sit on you! and sure enough, it finally popped!

Jingle Bell Toss

Snowball Fight

(There was also Candy Cane Relay and Cookie Shuffle (that one is every year!) but no good pics of those!