Santa's Boot Camp!

So Pete and I decided we wanted to do a "Santa's boot camp". My sister's sister-in-law does one with her nieces and nephews every year on the 23rd of December and we thought it would be fun to try our own out. We invited the kids that were still here for the holiday's from our ward. We had quite the turn out...22 kids!! WOW it was crazy but lots of fun! We also learned as you do the first time you try something that we need to make some changes for next year if we are celebrating Christmas here next year too. All in all I think it was fun and I hope the kids enjoyed it! We taught the kids how to catch Santa and also got to decorate some sugar cookies for Santa, although I'm sure they won't make it until Christmas eve. We though it would take about 2 hours to do the obstacle course and decorate the cookies. It actually only took an hour so for the other hour the kids watched a movie. All the kids were good, we only had a few time outs :) Here's the bunch... I got most the kids pictures with their cookies however Jack Heaton didn't want to decorate and was more interested in the Santa course! I know of a few more I missed, sorry parents of who I missed! Sorry no pictures of the course, I had to man the kitchen while Pete did the course. Enjoy the pictures!!!

Before the MESS happened! We were prepared though!! :) Don't mind the Halloween table cloth, don't have a Christmas one :)

For my mom, I'll put everyone's name down! Aiden Holman

Tommy Holman

Emma Day

Jackson

Megan Buckner

Jaxson Day

Trevor Collette

Mia Croshaw

Jackson Croshaw

Finn Shculler

Molly Yonker

Annie Call

Lucy Schuller

Nathaniel Jensen

Charlee Yonker

Dillon Yonker

Samuel Jeppson

Ashlyn and Corbin Collette

The younger group guess I missed Jacob Huxel (bottom right in camo shirt).

Doing the "boot camp" part... push ups. Tell ya what kids are funny trying to do push ups and sit ups!!