Holiday Fun

The Minnie Mouse Booth

Being a smidge of a grinch I am suprised to report that the holidays have started a bit early for us.  I think a big part of that is due to Max being in school now.  I am such a sucker for kiddie projects and it was hard throwing away his pilgrim apron, from the class lunch yesterday, this morning, (you can't keep everything right?)  The holidays here being the first Friday in November with Walmart's Toyland.  Walmart invites all the toy vendors to set up booths on the city's old timey square.  The booths include the new toys coming out to play with, visits from characters, and lots of give aways.  So ofcourse it is a MADHOUSE!  I think it would be better if they didn't give stuff away.  I think a lot less people (who don't have kids and are just greey,) would come and then there would be more space for the kids to breath and play.  The kids got to play with some Leap Frog, Transformers, and Barbie stuff before we staked out some good seats for the Minnie Mouse show that was reported in the paper and on the website.  Nope, no show.  They did have a insipid Radio Disney show, but no Minnie.  The best I can say is that Max got to compete in a hula hoop contest can came in third.  That kid is really good with a hula hoop.  The sad thing is that by the time we gave up on Minnie it was Way too crowded to go to any other stations.  The Scooby Do Bus line looked to be atleast an hour wait.  But all things considered it was a different experience for the kids and Mae came home with a pretty awesome Barbie Makeup compact. 



I let Mae look at her make-up kit on the way home.

The next weekend I was lucky enough to score an invite to a Christmas Party from a lovely lady in my ward.  The concept behind this party was pretty genius and I highly recommend it as a change up from white elephant parties.  Everyone brings 6 of the exact same item that they really like.  The price cap for this party was 5$ per item.  At the party you draw five names and give them your items.  So everyone gets five different items from 5 different people.  It was fun to see what stuff you would get, and unlike the unpredictable white elephant parites everyone got some good stuff and I don't think anyone went home dissapointed.  I know I didn't!  The last item, remember you bring 6, is put in a grand prize bag that includes one of everything.  Guess who won that!  Yup, I was the lucky winner.  I totally didn't see that coming.  I wasn't even really listening when they read my name cause I totally figured it wouldn't be me.  There was some great stuff in that bag.  I am even wearing some festive fuzzy socks as I type.  I, myself, supplied some nice finger nail polish cause I love polishing my nails.  One of my friend put in a hunting knife from our new Cabella's which is just the zany kind of thing she would do.  I am also exited to try out my new lime juicer.  There was so much stuff!!!  So much stuff that I made up a small bag and took it to a friend who couldn't come to the party cause she had to work.  I suspect that there was atleast 20 people there.  So yay me!  And thanks ladies!

P.S.  Spellcheck is not working today.