Hays Celebrates Christmas

Like most American stores, Hays couldn't wait for the start of Christmas. (That's partially why we have skipped talking about Thanksgiving and gone onto Christmas!) Starting the day after Thanksgiving, Hays began showing their Christmas spirit by listening to all of their favorite holiday tunes. Among the favorites: Noisy Boise Christmas, Hanson's Snowed In, Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You, O Come O Come Emanuel, among some others...

In the weeks leading up to the 25th, effort was made to decorate every nook and craney of our house, complete with multitudes of nativity sets, reindeer, lights, stockings, etc.

      

Yule Log

Reindeer

 

Nativity set #2

Nativity Set # 1

Nativity Set #3

A couple of evenings were devoted to baking and frosting cookies. The traditional cookie cutter shapes were perhaps a bit over shadowed by some of the hand sculpted shapes like baby Jesus, the Christmas turd, and a face replica of our support person.
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An evening was spent, watching Christmas Vacation while drinking personal quarts of eggnog (a holiday spin on our gallon challenge!)
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1st Grade

The last week of school, the children put on a Christmas program (with a little help from their teachers!) Highlights from the program included a skit made up entirely by the Kindergarten class entitled "Christmas Dinosaurs" and an acrostic poem by the 1st grade (M stands for Mrs. Toe!).

 
Our holiday celebration in Hays wrapped up with a holiday staff party (because let's be honest, no holiday celebration is complete without a holiday staff party!) We tidied our place, and invited the entire Mission Grade School staff over for an evening of festivities which included a white elephant gift exchange. The hot items of the exchange: a mug full of candy, a hat and scarf set in Mission blue and gold, and pair of hand knitted hand warmers.