Brinton's school had a family party last week.  The kids decorated cookies, made reindeer from candy canes, made bracelets with jingle bells on them, visited with Santa (and got a sucker), and sang the parents a few Christmas songs. 

It was super crowded because they had all the different classes partying at the same time.  Brinton and Zander had a lot of fun with the crafts.  Brinton wanted to see Santa because he really wanted a sucker, so we waited in line.  It actually moved faster than I expected, so it wasn't too bad.  The crappy part was when all the kids were singing.  They really just had all of the kids gather in one big area, all on the same level and the parents crowded around that to try to see.  My Mom came to see Brinton and she and Steve couldn't even see him from where they were.  I luckily got to a place where I could see him (and he could see me), but I was sad that I didn't have the camera with me.  I'm glad we went, but if they do an end of the year production of some sort, I think I'll have to give them some suggestions on how to make that better :)