Bri's Holiday Party At School

Friday at 11:30 was Briana's holiday party at school. She was so excited that me and Daddy were able to come. Here she is all dolled up for school...

When Doug and I showed up, the kids were not in the classroom yet. They came in a few minutes later and started looking for where they needed to sit...

They put on their Santa faces (I volunteered on the Monday of that week, as well as a few other moms, to help the kids with this project and a few other Christmas crafts)...

The kids recited two poems and sang a song before the pizza party...

Briana asking her teacher for more pizza...

Mmmm, this is good!

The girls had a book exchange and then the boys did one. This is the girl book swap. Bri's teacher would read a page of the book and then the girls would rotate the packages...

Jackpot!!!

Briana and her friend I...

Briana and her friend P...

After the book swap was cookie decorating. Doug said that the first thing Briana would say to me when she was done decorating would be "Mommy, take a picture please." She totally did...

 

And Bri's teachers had wonderful gifts for the parents. The first was a bulb of Bri's hand print...

The second was this amazing calendar...

 

The night before the party, Briana recited the poems to us that she was going to say in school the next day. Here they are...





Right after the party, we checked Briana out of school (there was like an hour left - no reason to sit in car line). It was a wonderful way to end the first half of the school year. Now Briana has two whole weeks off for Christmas vacation. I wonder what super fun things we can squeeze into two weeks! ;)