Belt Ceremony and Annual Christmas Party

Today was an insanely long, tiring, and fun day!

We had belt ceremony and Isabelle got her orange belt!

This was a pretty big testing group! 

We had 48 people in total test.

She seems a little dazed by the large amounts of people watching.

Here's looking at you kid...

After ceremony we had breakfast and then played games. 

I think there were around 200 people at this party.

Do you know how much food 200 people can eat in the morning?

I do.  ALOT!!!

I was scared for a few minutes this morning.

I felt like some of them hadn't eaten for over a week,

especially the 11 year old boys.

I don't have pictures of the food or the games,

I was way too busy doing other things!

You will just have to believe me when I say it was completely loud and chaotic!

I think everyone had tons of fun though!

It wouldn't be a Christmas party without a visit from Santa.

Isabelle has been very excited about seeing him!

I asked her if Santa asked her what she wanted.

She said "Nope, he said he's going to suprise me!"

I think she likes the idea of a suprise.

After the party she went into the office and saw that Santa

"forgot" his big red bag.  She was almost in tears!

Being the genius that I am, the red bag is now under our tree

waiting for Santa to pick it up on Christmas Eve.

We had to convince Isabelle that he has a different bag for toys!

Now William on the other hand...

NOT so excited about Santa.

What's the matter Santa?

Can't you handle a teeny, tiny, 1 year old?!?

And what's a party without an after party?

It was nice that there wasn't 100 kids running around yelling.

William wasn't crying, I think he was just officially pooped out!

Later in the evening we took Isabelle to see

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

She loved it except for about 15 minutes at the

end that got a little scary.

She got on my lap and covered her eyes and said

 "tell me when its over"!

She also ate almost a half of a large bucket of popcorn.

Piggy, piggy, piggy. 

I hope we can rest good tonight after the long day and get

ready for Isabelle's birthday tomorrow!