Julia's Winter Wonderland Party

Julia's birthday lands in the middle of the crazy Christmas Season.  To not add to the craziness we had her party on January 19th.  She wanted a Winter snowflake theme.  I had fun getting stuff together to decorate and use for the party.  We hung snowflakes through out the house.  In their take home goodies the kids got a pail with bubble bath, bubbles, a fun straw, and a snowflake ornament.  I was able to find a pinata that kind of looked like a snowflake.

We played some winter themed games.  They had a race of dressing up a snowman.  They used toilet paper to wrap a team member up and put on a hat, scarf, and gloves. 

They also had a relay race of balancing a cotton ball on a spoon and they had a snowball fight.  They had to try and get all the snowballs on the other teams side.  They had a lot of fun throwing them.  

Those that attended the party from left right:

Brayden, Brant Jensen, Blake, Katie Mason, Cameron Jensen, Brienz Dahlke, Julia, Brooke Ball, Kylee, Andrew Mason, and Ryan Jensen

Since Matt had made a pretty fancy cake on Julia's birthday, we decided to go the easy route for her party.  We bought a rainbow cake that was pretty fun.  

Career day round #3

This year Career Day at Bob Lewis ended up being in January instead of at the end of the school year.  I was able to take the day off to participate.  I requested Julia's class since I had done Kylee's and Brayden's classes in previous years.  

It was fun talking about eyes with Julia's class and the other two classes that rotated through the room.  Both of the other two presenters Julia heard from were military, one of them in the medical field.  He brought blue gloves for the kids, which was a hit.   

Having taken the day off from work, I was able to pick the kids up after school and I saw a bunch of first graders sporting their new roll up sunglasses I had handed out to the classes along with their fancy blue gloves.

Brayden's favorite was a parent who worked at a radio station.

A week afterward I got a nice certificate of appreciation and a manilla envelope full of thank you notes from the kids.

My favorite one was Julia's.